Cancun, Mexico for Easter - flight only - from £174 inc taxes from Gatwick

gron1979

My parents hve retired early and doing lots of travelling, let them know about this yesterday and they were really interested until they realised they are going to Australia beginning of May, they got cheap flights there through another money saver! £315 each for flights to aus, they were gutted that they couldn't go to cancun too! maybe next time, always keeping an eye out for them.
At least it puts me in their good books again, hope i can find them another holiday bargain for when they get back!

Woby_Tide

Cardew wrote:

I'll go along with the don't go to Cancun brigade! I wouldn't go back even if the hurricane hadn't hit.

How anyone can call a strip of land with wall to wall hotels "amazingly beautiful" is beyond me.

Cancun is also an airport, it's not obligatory to stop in the first hotel you see.....I mean after such a long flight a bit more of a journey won't be that much of an issue. I wouldn't recommend Heathrow or Gatwick as a holiday destination either, but using it as an arrival point I'd have no qualms

tomS_4

While its true that the hotel strip is pretty commercial and full of americans, i thought the main town was fine. I was in a nice hostel with hammocks on the roof, there were some nice, if slightly touristy restaurants and if you avoided the strip there were even a few decent bars. The water and beaches are glorious, and the chance for day trips to nearby temples or islands is great. Isla de Mujeres was much cooler and more chilled out (though the hostel i tried there wasn't as nice) and a bus ride down the cost takes you to the much less touristy bits.

If you avoid the strip its great, and if luxury package holidays or parties are your thing (not really mine) then the strip is great too.

Cardew

Woby_Tide wrote:

Cancun is also an airport, it's not obligatory to stop in the first hotel you see.....I mean after such a long flight a bit more of a journey won't be that much of an issue. I wouldn't recommend Heathrow or Gatwick as a holiday destination either, but using it as an arrival point I'd have no qualms

I am not clear why you have quoted me? Or do I take it you are agreeing with me?

I was merely commenting on the statement that Cancun is "amazingly beautiful." I certainly wasn't recommending that anyone stayed there; just the opposite.

Woby_Tide

Cardew wrote:

I am not clear why you have quoted me? Or do I take it you are agreeing with me?

I was merely commenting on the statement that Cancun is "amazingly beautiful." I certainly wasn't recommending that anyone stayed there; just the opposite.

It was you who incorrectly attributed the quote of 'amazingly beautiful' to being about Cancun when the poster was saying that you could avoid Cancun and go elsewhere instead using Cancun as an arrival point.

Cardew

Woby_Tide wrote:

It was you who incorrectly attributed the quote of 'amazingly beautiful' to being about Cancun when the poster was saying that you could avoid Cancun and go elsewhere instead using Cancun as an arrival point.

This was the quote I was referring to:

There are loads of amazing places nearby that will be amazing. I have never wanted to go to Cancun. It's an amazingly beautiful place spoiled by too much tourism

Would you not agree that quote is describing Cancun as an amazingly beautiful place?