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Playa Del Carmen: Playa del Carmen
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    • IIGUANA
  • By IIGUANA on November 10, 2003
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    • Downtown Playa del Carmen - Cancún
    Downtown Playa del Carmen
    by IIGUANA
    Nice beach town close to Cancun. If you want to rest, or if you go with your gilfriend, then Playa del Carmen is much better than Cancun. Go to the handcraft shops down in the Fifth ave. They sell nice things, but as all tourist shops, they're quite expensive. Try to bargain. You might get a discount.

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    Playa Del Carmen: Wish we saw it earlier!
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    • patatina
  • Updated By patatina on July 18, 2006
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    • Playa Del Carmen - Cancún
    by patatina, 4 more photos
    How we wish we found this place earlier during our stay in Cancun - we would have come down another time or possibly stayed overnight. It's beautiful and a great place for couples. We only saw the beach that's by where the ferries depart to Cozumel (that was the main part of our day) and Fifth Avenue, looking at the shops of jewelry and crafts. There was such a more authentic, unique selection than what we found in Cancun.

    From the Cancun Downtown bus station, which is on Tulum Avenue, it's only 70 Pesos (US $7) per person (round trip) to go to Playa del Carmen. You can only pay for the ticket of the one way trip, so you'll need to pay for the return trip on your way back from the Playa del Carmen station. The trip is only about 45 minutes to 1 hour, very quick, there's a little TV playing a movie, and went by very quickly.

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    Playa Del Carmen: Enjoy this Lovely town~
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  • By chicka_explorer on August 31, 2005
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    • Playa del Carmen street - Cancún
    Playa del Carmen street
    by chicka_explorer
    Playa del Carmen is ~42 miles south of Cancun, lined up with small arts & crafts shops, and restaurants with abudant seafood (yum!).

    Don Emilione Restaurant & Bar is known for its delicious dessert, coffee, and fresh fruit drinks - http://www.donemilione.com/

    Allow about 2 hours to stroll around and people-watch. Then, take a ferry to Cozumel island to catch the sunset~ (Pier is only one block from the main street. You can't miss it!) The Ferry runs every hour. If you get onto the ferry an hour before sunset, you'll catch it while onboard~

  • Directions: ~42 miles south of Cancun (about an hr drive)
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    Playa Del Carmen: Check Out The Water
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    • jag17
  • By jag17 on June 27, 2004
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    • Playa Del Carmen - Cancún
    by jag17
    I know Playa Del Carmen has become much more popular than when I was there last. I'm sure there is much more to see and do, but if nothing else...it's worth a trip just to see the color of this water!

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    Playa Del Carmen: Playa de Carmen.
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    • bryan_baker
  • By bryan_baker on August 25, 2002
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    • Playa Del Carmen - Cancún
    by bryan_baker
    Great mix of old Mexico, 'touristy' Mexico and international 'free spirit'. You can walk outside the small core of the town or go down the main drag that is 'chock a block' with stalls, stores and restaurants. If you go shopping there, find out what days the cruise ships are in and go a different day. When the cruise ships are in the prices go up. Expect to pay about half of whatever is initially quoted on most goods.

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  • Address: About an hour and a half south of Cancun.
  • Other Contact: If you're into topless bathing,
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    Playa Del Carmen: Every day we climbed into that...
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    • Radiomom
  • By Radiomom on August 25, 2002
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    • Playa Del Carmen - Cancún
    by Radiomom
    Every day we climbed into that VW, heading for Tulum and the famous ruins. But we kept turning off to investigate pretty beaches or towns we'd heard about, and never made it to Tulum! Guess that will be another trip some day. This is the beach at Playa del Carmen. We enjoyed this town so much, we called the airline to extend our stay by a couple of days, so we could stay in PDC. While we didn't stay at the Blue Parrot (pictured on the beach) that is where we plan to go some day. The beach was fabulous, the people friendly, the pace relaxed.

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    Playa Del Carmen: Forget Cancun City and try a...
  • Updated By noctem on August 26, 2002
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    • Forget Cancun City and try a trip to Playa del Carmen.
    Beautiful little town in front of sea, lovely market place, good and cheap 'posadas' and restaurants, night life...

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  • Address: South coast of Cancun.
  • Other Contact: Take the bus to get there!
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    Playa Del Carmen: cancun
  • By griego26 on May 9, 2008
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    • i was in cancun 2 weeks before the place is amazing very tropic exotic
    37 degrees and the sun very hot
    i prefer playa de carmen more cancun cause its more calm with nice people nice bars a lot of things to buy cheap and of curse better beatches for sure u must go to tulum and enjoy the heart of caribbean the sun and the beatches there its a dream with the car from playa de carmen until tulum is 30 minutes or 40 u must take care with the policia are litle strange never drink and drive be carefull. of curse u must go to xcaret place u cann see stange animals really nice there litle expencive but for one day its ok the mexican people en genera are very kind and cancun is safe.......

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    Playa Del Carmen: PLAYA DEL CARMEN
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  • By Jazzigirl85 on August 15, 2005
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    • MY SISTER AND FRIENDS - Cancún
    MY SISTER AND FRIENDS
    by Jazzigirl85
    PLAYA DEL CARMEN IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACE TO GO BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE OVER THERE ARE GREAT DANCERS. THEY ARE REALLY REALLY GOOD AT SALSA WHICH I ENJOY DANCING TOO. I WISH I LIVED THERE.

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    Playa Del Carmen: playa del carmen - touristic center
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  • By hanspeter_W. on December 16, 2002
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    • Playa Del Carmen - Cancún
    by hanspeter_W.
    Playa's pedestrian walkway is lined with shops, boutiques and a wide variety of restaurants

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