How is Tulum / Playa Del Carmen recently?

[wildchild11]

Seaweed supposed to be worse this year there than ever, reports I’ve seen have been really nasty/bad

Was looking to go to an AI in June but I’ve already been so many times that with the news about the seaweed I just decided to skip this vacation.

Lol, maybe so, but not bothered by it.

[wildchild11]

Chit stinks and attracts these nasty little freeloading bloodsucking flies that produce nothing of value

Nvm, perfect fit for blm types

Thx 4 the thread bump

[wildchild11]

You’re welcome sweetheart

Even gave you a rep in return for your neg because I got a full chuckle out of your butthurt

Rustled salty tears are the best tears brah

[Beast92]

targeting going in july if everything works out

a hurricane is probably going to kill u, gg

[DoYouEvenNEM]

Seaweed supposed to be worse this year there than ever, reports I’ve seen have been really nasty/bad

Was looking to go to an AI in June but I’ve already been so many times that with the news about the seaweed I just decided to skip this vacation. Take like four trips per year anyways so whatever, probably doing Turks and Caicos‘s next

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Yeah I saw the photos of it piled up on beaches and stuff. Looks awful.

Reminded me one Mexico trip when I came and the water was all mud colored, wtf. It seems like Mexican beaches are unreliable but I guess during covid restrictions people got no choice except Mexico, DR and Costa Rica

[wildchild11]

Boss approved the trip.

hnnnngh

[wildchild11]

Plane ticket booked for this saturday

LFG!!!

[wildchild11]

1 week in playa del carmen
1 week in tulum
1 week in mexico city
1 week in Puerto escondido

[LittleLexodus]

Spent 6 days in Tulum in mid May. Weather is pretty amazing and it was great seeing the cenotes and trying the taco places in the town area.

The women are stacked in the hotel/beach strip (even though they seemed to be European/American women). Only issue I had was my gf got pulled over for headlights being off. We paid the cops 1500 pesos. yikes.

[cool-beans]

Tulum is beautiful. Deserves a visit. Had fun staying in hostels.

Mexico City is where its at though.

[suave2000]

June - August are the worst times to visit either Playa del Carmen or tulum. For the last two or three years the coast has been ravaged by sargassum blooms In the summer. So you won't be able to swim on most of the beaches since they're covered in a brown putrid smelling crust of rotting seaweed. The actual beaches are also infested by mounds of rotting seaweed.

Google "sargazo Mexico" to see some pics. There are a few beaches in the area that are unaffected by the sargazo problem (Isla mujeres or holbox) having said that there are also many attractive things over there other than the beach.

There's hundreds of cenotes (fresh water sinkholes) lots of cool Mayan ruins and you can still go diving in the coral reef since sargazo affects only the direct shoreline. Summer is low season over there so you could get nice deals in flights and acomodation)

WiFi does suck but Americans exaggerate on their claims they want 10/10 internet the time. There's wifi everywhere just don't expect San Francisco speeds.

Also checkout bacalar which is down south 2 hours away from tulum. A nice little town that sits right next to a turquoise fresh water lagoon. It's nice quiet and cheaper Than tulum. Tulum is cool but it's also overpriced, but it sits in an ideal location for a base since your in the middle of the place, so you can go easily north to PDC or down south to bacalar or west to Yucatan.

If you like warm weather (it hot as phuck over there) Mexican food ( the food there is unique to the rest of the country) and ancient history and archeological sites you'll have plenty of fun.

Dont mind the weird guy saying how it's boring and there are no hot women over there because he watched a couple YouTube videos (lol) plenty of people over there having fun so it's easy to socialize and meet people in general.

Ps don't buy drugs there since the cartels are evil scumbags and they shouldn't be encouraged

[suave2000]

1 week in playa del carmen
1 week in tulum
1 week in mexico city
1 week in Puerto escondido

Checkout muyil which is 15 minutes down south of tulum. You can do a day trip while staying in Tulum. There's a really Cool archeological site there with smaller but cooler pyramids than the main tulum ones. Also you can take a boat tour over there to go to the biosphere reserve down there and see dolphins / manatees and such. Worth a visit for sure

[suave2000]

I just checked out #Tulum on instagram. Popular (upvoted) and recent.


Wasn't that easy to find any hot young chicks. Only woman I found attractive was some 30-something Black American women.


Pretty sure the foreign chicks dropped in numbers ever since Biden mandated a PCR test to return home...

Come on bro you sound like an autist teenager. There more to traveling than "looking for hot chicks" you're even taking the time to scout for hot women on insta to make irl extrapolations?

Lmao

[LittleLexodus]

June - August are the worst times to visit either Playa del Carmen or tulum. For the last two or three years the coast has been ravaged by sargassum blooms In the summer. So you won't be able to swim on most of the beaches since they're covered in a brown putrid smelling crust of rotting seaweed. The actual beaches are also infested by mounds of rotting seaweed.

Google "sargazo Mexico" to see some pics. There are a few beaches in the area that are unaffected by the sargazo problem (Isla mujeres or holbox) having said that there are also many attractive things over there other than the beach.

There's hundreds of cenotes (fresh water sinkholes) lots of cool Mayan ruins and you can still go diving in the coral reef since sargazo affects only the direct shoreline. Summer is low season over there so you could get nice deals in flights and acomodation)

WiFi does suck but Americans exaggerate on their claims they want 10/10 internet the time. There's wifi everywhere just don't expect San Francisco speeds.

Also checkout bacalar which is down south 2 hours away from tulum. A nice little town that sits right next to a turquoise fresh water lagoon. It's nice quiet and cheaper Than tulum. Tulum is cool but it's also overpriced, but it sits in an ideal location for a base since your in the middle of the place, so you can go easily north to PDC or down south to bacalar or west to Yucatan.

If you like warm weather (it hot as phuck over there) Mexican food ( the food there is unique to the rest of the country) and ancient history and archeological sites you'll have plenty of fun.

Dont mind the weird guy saying how it's boring and there are no hot women over there because he watched a couple YouTube videos (lol) plenty of people over there having fun so it's easy to socialize and meet people in general.

Ps don't buy drugs there since the cartels are evil scumbags and they shouldn't be encouraged

Good point about the sargasso seaweed. It was pretty bad but some hotels/restaurants clean them up in the morning.

I would second staying somewhere away from Tulum/downtown to save money and see more of the culture.

Don't mess with drugs or you can find yourself in trouble I'm sure

Some places that I visited while there



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[IMG]https://mk0absoluteadvecrhc2.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kaan-luum-lagoon-tulum.jpg[\IMG]

[suave2000]

Good point about the sargasso seaweed. It was pretty bad but some hotels/restaurants clean them up in the morning.

I would second staying somewhere away from Tulum/downtown to save money and see more of the culture.

Don't mess with drugs or you can find yourself in trouble I'm sure

Some places that I visited while there



[IMG]https://d1y7kerpdff7pl.cloudfront.net/LabnaHa.jpg[\IMG]

[IMG]https://mk0absoluteadvecrhc2.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kaan-luum-lagoon-tulum.jpg[\IMG]

That's quite a nice cenote m8

This is the town south of tulum with the lagoon, it's called Bacalar and that's all fresh water, it even has an old anti pirate fort.

[Mj-drewfan32]

Nice OP. Love this thread srs. Hope you have a lot of fun. Update us regularly want to hear your thoughts on it. I was thinking of doing the same thing and may go to Colombia, Mexico, or somewhere in Latin America in a couple of months and WFH there srs.

I went to Tulum before COVID and it was amazing! had the most fun, enjoyed it way more than Cancun. Went to a bunch of local spots where some of the people dont speak english but they are super friendly. I look Latin so a lot of people would speak Spanish to me lol this area is by hostel che (party hostel). Lots of locals, chill af, safe, loved the bars there. Lots of house music there if your into that.

Went to a beach in Tulum (i wish i can remember whats it called) we asked a taxi driver to drive us to the beach and he did. I swear I never seen a more attractive foreign woman in my life and I been to miami. Majority are from Europe. They have cool day clubs and stuff. Very relaxing. Very lit But expensive to get a hotel on that beach. If i go there next time may get that since the nightlife there looked nice but we dident go at night.

This was a few months before COVID hit and now i feel like tulum is not lowkey anymore since too many wanna be insta influencers srs but still it should be fun.

[5x10]

Just a little advice op, don’t drink the water
Make sure it’s bottled

[wildchild11]

Spent 6 days in Tulum in mid May. Weather is pretty amazing and it was great seeing the cenotes and trying the taco places in the town area.

The women are stacked in the hotel/beach strip (even though they seemed to be European/American women). Only issue I had was my gf got pulled over for headlights being off. We paid the cops 1500 pesos. yikes.

Lol.

Did you feel unsafe or anything? One of my best friends is mexican and hes given me the run down. But I just want to chill, party, make friends and check out sloots. Not going to do anything risky.

Tulum is beautiful. Deserves a visit. Had fun staying in hostels.

Mexico City is where its at though.

Thx bruh. Going to hit up both.

If there's not a sargassum problem which basically ruins the beaches, both places are awesome


Mexico City is a GOAT level city though. Just watch out for manlets wearing blue luchador masks who try to creep up on you and touch you inappropriately

Thx bruh, i only have a week to spend there but ill take it.

June - August are the worst times to visit either Playa del Carmen or tulum. For the last two or three years the coast has been ravaged by sargassum blooms In the summer. So you won't be able to swim on most of the beaches since they're covered in a brown putrid smelling crust of rotting seaweed. The actual beaches are also infested by mounds of rotting seaweed.

Google "sargazo Mexico" to see some pics. There are a few beaches in the area that are unaffected by the sargazo problem (Isla mujeres or holbox) having said that there are also many attractive things over there other than the beach.

There's hundreds of cenotes (fresh water sinkholes) lots of cool Mayan ruins and you can still go diving in the coral reef since sargazo affects only the direct shoreline. Summer is low season over there so you could get nice deals in flights and acomodation)

WiFi does suck but Americans exaggerate on their claims they want 10/10 internet the time. There's wifi everywhere just don't expect San Francisco speeds.

Also checkout bacalar which is down south 2 hours away from tulum. A nice little town that sits right next to a turquoise fresh water lagoon. It's nice quiet and cheaper Than tulum. Tulum is cool but it's also overpriced, but it sits in an ideal location for a base since your in the middle of the place, so you can go easily north to PDC or down south to bacalar or west to Yucatan.

If you like warm weather (it hot as phuck over there) Mexican food ( the food there is unique to the rest of the country) and ancient history and archeological sites you'll have plenty of fun.

Dont mind the weird guy saying how it's boring and there are no hot women over there because he watched a couple YouTube videos (lol) plenty of people over there having fun so it's easy to socialize and meet people in general.

Ps don't buy drugs there since the cartels are evil scumbags and they shouldn't be encouraged

Thx for the recomemndations srs. Yeah, i know the seaweed problems are terrible. Maybe Ill do a day trip to cozumel to get some acutal swimming in.

Wrote down the recommendations. Ill swim in the cenotes as well.

Checkout muyil which is 15 minutes down south of tulum. You can do a day trip while staying in Tulum. There's a really Cool archeological site there with smaller but cooler pyramids than the main tulum ones. Also you can take a boat tour over there to go to the biosphere reserve down there and see dolphins / manatees and such. Worth a visit for sure

Tx, added this to my to do list. Wish I could stay longer.

[wildchild11]

Good point about the sargasso seaweed. It was pretty bad but some hotels/restaurants clean them up in the morning.

I would second staying somewhere away from Tulum/downtown to save money and see more of the culture.

Don't mess with drugs or you can find yourself in trouble I'm sure

Some places that I visited while there



[IMG]https://d1y7kerpdff7pl.cloudfront.net/LabnaHa.jpg[\IMG]

[IMG]https://mk0absoluteadvecrhc2.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kaan-luum-lagoon-tulum.jpg[\IMG]

Sweet....the hostel I am looking at is more in the hotel zone...hostels are a little pricy rn.

Ill check these out.

Nice OP. Love this thread srs. Hope you have a lot of fun. Update us regularly want to hear your thoughts on it. I was thinking of doing the same thing and may go to Colombia, Mexico, or somewhere in Latin America in a couple of months and WFH there srs.

I went to Tulum before COVID and it was amazing! had the most fun, enjoyed it way more than Cancun. Went to a bunch of local spots where some of the people dont speak english but they are super friendly. I look Latin so a lot of people would speak Spanish to me lol this area is by hostel che (party hostel). Lots of locals, chill af, safe, loved the bars there. Lots of house music there if your into that.

Went to a beach in Tulum (i wish i can remember whats it called) we asked a taxi driver to drive us to the beach and he did. I swear I never seen a more attractive foreign woman in my life and I been to miami. Majority are from Europe. They have cool day clubs and stuff. Very relaxing. Very lit But expensive to get a hotel on that beach. If i go there next time may get that since the nightlife there looked nice but we dident go at night.

This was a few months before COVID hit and now i feel like tulum is not lowkey anymore since too many wanna be insta influencers srs but still it should be fun.

Thx for the recos mane. Did you move to miami? lol

I am going to do exactly this. Hoping to meet some sloots and pick up a wife lol. Love me some house music and a good time on certain substances that make you want to dance all night....if you get my drift.

Ill update the thread

Just a little advice op, don’t drink the water
Make sure it’s bottled

Will do, not trying to get that diarreha.

[freshnevafrozen]

4 weeks in chithole Mexico? See you on r/narcofootage OP.

[Mj-drewfan32]

Sweet....the hostel I am looking at is more in the hotel zone...hostels are a little pricy rn.

Ill check these out.



Thx for the recos mane. Did you move to miami? lol

I am going to do exactly this. Hoping to meet some sloots and pick up a wife lol. Love me some house music and a good time on certain substances that make you want to dance all night....if you get my drift.

Ill update the thread



Will do, not trying to get that diarreha.

Lit brotha! not yet hoping by this fall so in a couple of months srs. Cant wait LFG!

Yeah Tulum is good vibes. Have fun!

[suave2000]

Lol.

Did you feel unsafe or anything? One of my best friends is mexican and hes given me the run down. But I just want to chill, party, make friends and check out sloots. Not going to do anything risky.




Thx bruh. Going to hit up both.



Thx bruh, i only have a week to spend there but ill take it.




Thx for the recomemndations srs. Yeah, i know the seaweed problems are terrible. Maybe Ill do a day trip to cozumel to get some acutal swimming in.

Wrote down the recommendations. Ill swim in the cenotes as well.




Tx, added this to my to do list. Wish I could stay longer.

If you want to see pristine beaches free of sargazo go to isla mujeres instead of cozumel. The beaches on the "no sargasum" side of cozumel are very rocky and have little to no sand. They're cool for snorkeling or diving but they wont give you the postal view of white sand beaches and pristine turqoise.

That's Isla mujeres and there is no sargaso year round because of the currents and its geographic location






beaches in Cozumel are more "rocky" like this:

[suave2000]

4 weeks in chithole Mexico? See you on r/narcofootage OP.

Unless he's planning on openly selling drugs infront of other dealers he should be fine. You're more at risk of getting scammed by taxi drivers/tour vendors/etc than cartel violence, If you rent a car do not leave valuables in the trunk ever, since it's common for cars to get opened and looted over there that Is a more common thing. Also if you rent an airbnb ret one that is not located at the ground floor, because daytime break ins are a thing as well but units above ground level are safer and easier to keep protected

[CanardMedic]

You're going to have a blast. I usually do not travel to the place I've already visited because I have a list of places I want to check out but Cancun is a place I'd definitely go back to.

[Reliance012]

Don’t go to Tulum. I was there a few weeks ago. Playa is better and far cheaper.

[suave2000]

Bacalar is like a sewer now from years of hotels dumping wastewater into the lake, and tourists chucking garbage in there. Also from deforesting the area that protects the lagoon during storms/hurricanes. Last major storm flooded the lagoon with dirty water now it's ugly

Hopefully Bacalar is recovering its colors and they enforce stricter regulations. I saw it years ago when it was spectacular

That's a gross overexageration. The colors changed in late 2019 early 2020 not so much because of human activity directly but because there was abnormal flooding caused by excessive rain in late 2019. There colors have been coming back and they're almost back to normal now, srs.

Those pollution and deforestation problems are real and very sad tho

[suave2000]

Don’t go to Tulum. I was there a few weeks ago. Playa is better and far cheaper.

What didn't you like about Tulum? Or what did you like more about Playa?

[Ravishing_Rick]

The beaches are fuked

[Wheyvid]

How is it being black and going to Tulum?

[Beast92]

How is it being black and going to Tulum?

black people do ok in Tulum, u just have to make it clear to other tourists that you are also one and not working for them

Plenty of Mexicans might get you mixed with waiters or hotel staff but not in a rude way