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I'm jealous now. Do you have room in your suitcase for me?
Have you ever been to Chichen Itza or swam in cenotes?
I haven't been there in years and I'm sure it is built up much more now.
I'm a big Mayan history buff. We've been to Chichen Itza, Coba, Tikal Tulum and smaller sites in Isla Mujeres and Cozumel.
I'm all about cheap vacations and we could go there for much less money and better water than a trip to Florida.
We used to go to either the Yucatan or the Nayarit/Jalisco area of the Pacific coast a couple times a year.
There was a charter company that would fly out of St. Louis to Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Cozumel, Cabo and several Caribbean destinations. When the date came close and there were still seats available they would dramatically drop the price to fill the seats. I would check for sales all the time and we'd fly at the drop of a hat. We would never have been able to make the trips otherwise. Sometimes we would stay some nice places using the savings in airfare but sometimes we'd just go the whole trip on the cheap.
Once we got flights to Cancun for $25 each and I rented a Mayan hut on the beach with no electricity or running water for $50 per night. Then we'd go to Mayan towns inland or to Tulum for very cheap meals.
Usually we'd rent a house. One of our favorite places was Tankah Bay. That's where the Mayan hut was but also nicer houses just steps from the water and uncrowded is an understatement.
https://www.locogringo.com/mexico/vacation-destinations/riviera-maya/tankah-bay/
If you get there, try dinner at Casa Cenote. It's a huge, breezy, thatched roof open air restaurant right on the water.
My son and I went deep sea fishing there and they cooked the fish for us for dinner.
It's across the road from a cenote where you can scuba dive and go under ground all the way into the sea.
El Gran Cenote is awesome too.
Are they in a sunny spot? Did you have a lot of cloudy weather?