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I Love Mexican Vacations
Vacations in Mexico remain one of the best travel deals available.
Which are the best cities to take vacations in mexico?
Which are the best cities to take vacations in mexico? And what places do you recommend to visit?
Good answers, thanks, but i have read too much about beaches. Please giveme more options.
It definitely depends on your own interests.
Mexico City is simply fabulous for anybody with an interest in culture, the arts, history, or urban sophistication. The city boasts more than 100 excellent museums and they have hundreds of hotels in every price and level. I love long weekends in Mexico City because I can eat like a king, see masterpieces of the art world, and stay in 5-star hotels like the Four Seasons for less than the cost of a Holiday Inn Express in New York City.
Puerto Vallarta is one of my favorite beach resort cities. I love its sense of tradition and heritage and I love its enormous variety of resort styles, with big mega hotels for the folks who like that and intimate boutique hotels in the old city for people with particular tastes. You can even totally escape the package vacation tourist mentality by throwing your duffel in a panga launch and motoring across the bay to Yelapa where there’s funky little open air hotels and a mellow “anything goes” attitude.
Cancun has the best beach in Mexico though, no doubt about it. Powdery white sand, brilliantly clear turquoise waters, a huge range of resort hotels, and an infinite variety of activities keep people coming back.
Morelia is a fabulous choice for the traveler who wants to experience “the real Mexico”. It’s a small city, so it’s not intimidating to the first time visitor, but it’s got some wonderful colonial-era architecture downtown and a wealth of history and culture (far more than such a small city has a right to). There are excellent hotels downtown as cheap as $30 a night, and plenty charging more, if you want to pay more.
Veracruz is one of the many urban gems that most American visitors don’t seem to even really know about (though it’s popular with Mexican tourists). They have a wonderful downtown area with a lively waterfront scene and a magnificent old Spanish fort that once protected the city from marauding pirates (and that served as the set for the scenes at the end of “Romancing the Stone”, which wasn’t actually shot in Colombia).
Guadalajara can be a wonderful urban adventure as well and it too has a remarkable colonial-era downtown, a great arts tradition, mariachi music, and train trips every weekend out to the town of Tequila (gee, wonder what folks would go there to drink…)
These are just the tip of the iceberg. For every one I named, I overlooked 10 magnificent places.
Have fun!
Mark
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October 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Cnacun, Los Cabos, San Miguel de Allende
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October 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Definitely Cancun and Cabo San Lucas. I have been to Cancun twice and Cabo once. Cancun has a lot of fun clubs, great beaches, and lots of things to do! In Cancun I have done snorkeling trips, the day trip to Mayan ruins, and zip lines in the jungle. If you are into the clubs, Cancun does this thing called bar hopping where you pay like $50 and they take you to 3-4 clubs. The price includes all your drinks, tips, and entrance prices! So much fun!
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October 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Best Cities:
Cancun
Playa Del Carmen
Mexico City
Los Cabos
Acapulco
Puerto Escondido.
Cancun - PARTY EVERY FREAKIN NIGHT! also you have the Chichen Itza ruins and Xelha/Cozumel about an hour away.
Playa Del Carmen - Almost the same as cancun but without being so noisy. More calm and beautiful sea. Closer to Xcaret and a ferry ride to Cozumel too.
Mexico City - If your interested in culture this is the place to go. Museums, buildings, and cheap stuff!
Los Cabos - Think about it as an Acapulco #2 but just a bit more north and a bit cleaner.
Acapulco - It’s cheaper than Cancun and offers basically the same stuff (excluding the crystal clear water and powdery white sand). It’s clean, but really not as clean as you might find Cancun or Los Cabos.
Puerto Escondido - If you’re looking onto finding virgin isolated beaches, surfing, and basically an adventure that you will never forget. from the towns of Puerto Angel, nudist beach of Zipolite, and the Turtle Museum in Mazunte.
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Experience.
October 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
It depends on your interests.
I have traveled extensively in Mexico and have been to 19 states and Mexico City. I have not been to Cancun and have no interest in doing so.
For photos of the kind of places that interest me click:
http://www.pbase.com/larpman
A good itinerary places with colonial charm would be Querétaro, San Miguel and Guanajuato. They are close to each other and among the most interesting towns in Mexico.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
It definitely depends on your own interests.
Mexico City is simply fabulous for anybody with an interest in culture, the arts, history, or urban sophistication. The city boasts more than 100 excellent museums and they have hundreds of hotels in every price and level. I love long weekends in Mexico City because I can eat like a king, see masterpieces of the art world, and stay in 5-star hotels like the Four Seasons for less than the cost of a Holiday Inn Express in New York City.
Puerto Vallarta is one of my favorite beach resort cities. I love its sense of tradition and heritage and I love its enormous variety of resort styles, with big mega hotels for the folks who like that and intimate boutique hotels in the old city for people with particular tastes. You can even totally escape the package vacation tourist mentality by throwing your duffel in a panga launch and motoring across the bay to Yelapa where there’s funky little open air hotels and a mellow “anything goes” attitude.
Cancun has the best beach in Mexico though, no doubt about it. Powdery white sand, brilliantly clear turquoise waters, a huge range of resort hotels, and an infinite variety of activities keep people coming back.
Morelia is a fabulous choice for the traveler who wants to experience “the real Mexico”. It’s a small city, so it’s not intimidating to the first time visitor, but it’s got some wonderful colonial-era architecture downtown and a wealth of history and culture (far more than such a small city has a right to). There are excellent hotels downtown as cheap as $30 a night, and plenty charging more, if you want to pay more.
Veracruz is one of the many urban gems that most American visitors don’t seem to even really know about (though it’s popular with Mexican tourists). They have a wonderful downtown area with a lively waterfront scene and a magnificent old Spanish fort that once protected the city from marauding pirates (and that served as the set for the scenes at the end of “Romancing the Stone”, which wasn’t actually shot in Colombia).
Guadalajara can be a wonderful urban adventure as well and it too has a remarkable colonial-era downtown, a great arts tradition, mariachi music, and train trips every weekend out to the town of Tequila (gee, wonder what folks would go there to drink…)
These are just the tip of the iceberg. For every one I named, I overlooked 10 magnificent places.
Have fun!
Mark
References :
http://www.visitmexico.com/