Fishing in Cancun

Visitors come to Cancun for all sorts of reasons. Some come to enjoy the water, other to enjoy the nightlife and many others com to enjoy the history and culture of Cancun and the surrounding areas. Some of our guests at the hotel try to squeeze in a half or full day of fishing while they are here.

In truth, sport fishing in Mexico and in the Cancun area is pretty popular. Our waters are teeming with kingfish, sailfish, wahoo, dorado, blue and white marlin, tuna, grouper, and many other types of fish throughout most of the year. Since many of our guests are fairly ocean-deprived where they come from, a Cancun fishing trip usually ends up making their vacation.

To be helpful, I’ve pulled together information on a few fishing charters in the area:

AquaWorld – Offering several charter options including half day, full day and shared charters.

Phone: 011-52-998-848-8327

Email: info@aquaworld.com.mx

Cancun Aquasports - ‘All inclusive’ fishing charter located in the middle of the Hotel Zone.

Phone: 011-52-998-898-4312

Email: Information@Cancun-Aquasports.com

Scuba Cancun – Offering several charter options including half day, full day and shared charters.

Phone: 011-52-998-849-7508

Email: info@scubacancun.com.mx

A Photo Tour of Cancun

I’ve been living and working in Cancun for long enough now to know that the only real way to experience Cancun is come and see for yourself. Still, through this blog, I do the best I to tell future visitors all about this Mexican paradise. Today, I’d like to take you on a tour of Mexico, in pictures.

To begin with, you’ll need a place to stay in Cancun. Cancun has a number of hotels and resorts which cater to everyone from the spring break partier to the luxury traveler. No matter what you’re looking for, you’ll find it here.

The first stop on our tour is really one of the main reasons that so many visitors come to Cancun. The reason; the many beautiful Cancun beaches and the near perfect Cancun weather.

As your day at the beach winds to an end, you’ll probably want to rinse off in a one of the many beautiful Cancun resort pools.

Next, as the sun sets on another perfect day, it’s time to head out for a night on the town. Now, Cancun is a well known destination with some of the best nightlife in the world. From the resort bars and clubs to the nightlife on the strip, there’s always a great party going on somewhere.

After a late night out and a good night’s sleep, you may be interested in seeing a little bit of history at Ruinas Del Rey.

Or perhaps you’d prefer a day of Cancun fishing.

No matter what you’re taste or style, Cancun has something for you. I hope you’ve enjoyed our brief tour and also hope you get to experience it for yourself in person. In closing, I’ll leave you with a few photos of my own personal favorite place in Cancun, ME by Melia.

-Raul

Air-travel- Fighting Back, and other Tips

If you’ve been keeping current with this blog, the you’re already familiar with the venomous concern I’ve given commercial air-flight recently—it’s nothing pretty. The relationship turned acrid when they swapped my meals for snacks. The rows became tighter, as to shovel more passengers into the cabin. And checking luggage—I can expect to pay for those as well. Instead of making air travel work for me, I’ve learned to work around air travel, and all of its shortcomings.

More connections = More savings. Connections prevent you from getting to your destination, faster. Connections also prevent you from paying more for the same trip. On a recent flight, I saved 200 U.S. dollars to et to a destination 450 miles away, just by agreeing to two connections. Both overshot where I was going by hundreds upon hundreds of miles, but I was able to use those savings toward other areas of the trip.

Book early. This one is like saying, “If you brush your teeth twice a day, you won’t get cavities.” You may still encounter a cavity or two in your lifetime, but you certainly made your own odds against a future of orthodontic surgery and dentures. The same applies to booking early; chances are good you’ll get the lowest fairs, but it isn’t until airlines under-book a flight that you’ll find the greatest savings.

Avoid checking baggage. It gets lost; it costs extra; what good is it? Sure, you get to tote along more unnecessary clutter, but why? Do you really need that sitar? Could you survive the two-day trip without an entire wardrobe? If you can manage, nix the third bag and carry on what you can get away with.

Don’t plan your air flight around a hotel stay and don’t plan your hotel stay around your flight reservations. Instead, make them work together. This step may require a bit of additional research, but if you can pull it off, you will undoubtedly save money and some heartache.

First, find your preferred Cancun resort. Second, determine whether they are offering any specials or discounted rates. Finally, attempt to synchronize your stay at that hotel with any of the slower days for air travel—Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Or, if you happen to be a Monarch butterfly in Ohio, a class of six year olds will take you all the way to Mexico for free. Nice.

- Raul Petraglia

New Vacation-expectations & Cancun-luxuries

ME Cancun Property Update:

• Restaurants Salt and Silk are both receiving new menus, decor, and day/night ambiance features.

•The 8th SKYY Mixology party was apocalyptic, drawing in over 300 people to ME Cancun.

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Hotels define themselves in one of two ways.

1. Offer the cheapest prices, offer the bare necessities (bed, bath, utilities)
2. Go all out, don’t hold back, shower your guests with any and every conceivable perk so that maybe, just maybe, they will book your hotel over your neighbor’s. Some do it with finesse, and others are just kitsch and sloppy.

These two classes of hotel are best summarized in my last post, ‘Where to stay, hotel or hostel‘; one of them is inhabitable, the other is inhabitable only by reptoids.

In what might have passed for journalism back in a high school weekly, Forbes.com’s ‘World’s Decadent Hotel Amenities’ quotes Stephanie Rica, editor of Luxury Hotelier, as stating, “Having a similar-looking property in different cities around the world isn’t going to work anymore, they [hoteliers] have to keep things fresh…”

She continues by identifying ME Cabo, ME Cancun, and ME Madrid as hotel archetypes by which other brands need take note from. That’s not entirely true, but who would have faulted her if she had?

I’ll go ahead and condense the rest of the article into bullet-points for the sake of brevity. These pedigree of experience-centric hotel offers:

A home away from home
Flat-screen TVs and DVD players
Docking stations
A staff of personal butlers
Room service for pets (Pet ME)
Terraces

- Raul Petraglia

Cancun – Where to stay, hostel or hotel?

First, a response to last week’s blog about the trainwreck that is commercial airflight. American Airlines announced today that they will waive the 3rd-bag fee for the military. In other news, the rest of us are still getting hosed.

Now, on to the hostel/hotel debate…

There’s this great travel lore that states the only way for students to visit other countries and now throw away their meager savings is by staying in a hostel.

For the sake of clarity, the difference between a hostel and a hotel is

Even with the price of gas and the state of the economy and monsters washing up on American shores and whatnot, would you really want your first impression of Cancun to be one where you share a toilet with an entire floor of people? Or would you prefer a Cancun with an oversized bed and a plasma TV?

In Kimberly Chow’s AP article ‘Feeble dollar sends Americans to European hostels’, she quotes a 21 year old Californian as saying, “We chose hostels because I think we wanted a more authentic backpacking experience.”

The guacamole in Mexico—that’s authentic. Sugar-sand beaches and lapping waves—that’s authentic. Corralling our youth into something that resembles a boxcar and forcing them into the lives of complete strangers—there’s another name for that, prison.

Authenticity would be materializing thatched hut on the beach and broiling turtles for sustenance. Because Cancun authenticity is only an unobtainable concept, why not concede and live it in unconditional luxury?

I’m just sayin’…

- Raul