Plan your trip to Cancun
Flights, where you stay and what it all costs, for one person or ten. Free, no sign-up.
Ideas for Cancun
Beaches along the Hotel Zone, ferries to Isla Mujeres and day trips to Maya ruins, all close to the region's biggest airport.
- Playa Delfines a public beach on the Hotel Zone with a lookout over the Caribbean.
- Isla Mujeres a short ferry ride across the bay; many visitors rent a golf cart to go round the island.
- MUSA the underwater museum: sculptures on the sea floor, seen snorkeling, diving or from a glass-bottom boat.
- El Rey a small Maya site in the middle of the Hotel Zone.
- Mercado 28 the downtown market for crafts, souvenirs and a cheap lunch.
- Chichen Itza the best-known Maya city on the peninsula, a long day trip inland.
Getting there
Fly into Cancun (CUN).
- CUN: About 30 min by road to Punta Cancun in the Hotel Zone, with no traffic (15 mi).
Drive times: OpenStreetMap routing, with no traffic.
Planning somewhere else?
- TulumTQO · CUNMaya ruins above the sea, cenotes for swimming and the Sian Ka'an reserve to the south.
- Cabo San LucasSJDThe arch at Land's End, beaches on the bay and whale season in winter, at the tip of the Baja California peninsula.
- Puerto VallartaPVRA seafront walk, the old town and boat trips around Banderas Bay on the Pacific coast.
- Mexico CityMEX · NLUMuseums, markets and some of the country's best food, with the pyramids of Teotihuacan a day trip away.
- OaxacaOAXA colonial center, Zapotec ruins, mezcal and markets in the valleys of southern Mexico.
- Playa del CarmenCUN · CZM · TQOFifth Avenue, Mamitas Beach and the Cozumel ferry. This planner adds the airport van, the ferry and the penthouse we rent out.
- Somewhere elseAny city, any airport: type them in.
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