Why not just stay in Cancun?
Most of us who come frequently to the Akumal area spent our first vacations in Cancun. When Dave and I spent our honeymoon in Cancun in 1987, we enjoyed the tours to snorkel and to the ruins, the beautiful beaches and the shopping. It was a more relaxed Cancun then – believe it or not it was hard to find a place to give you ice cubes in your drink! Many of the large hotels on the strip werent even built yet. Then Cancun went through a “boom”. When we returned four years later, it was turning into a metropolis! The traffic was deafening, the beaches crowded, and all of the restaurant chains such as Dennys, Pizza Hut and Hard Rock Caf had moved in. Cancun was becoming a popular spring break area, and it no longer felt like Mexico to us. We needed to find a new vacation haven and had always been impressed with the Tulum Corridor. The Riviera Maya is the area of coastline that weaves its way south from the city of Cancun to the Mayan Ruins of Tulum and then down to Belize. We had taken man
