 Over New Year's of 2005 I made a short, three-day trip to Mexico to see Mayan ruins. Since I avoided the hotel strip along the beach in Cancun (known as the Zona Hotelera), I was able to avoid American tourists for the most part. I saw hundreds of them in the Cancun airport, along with planes from every major U.S. carrier. I took a local bus filled with Mexicans to my hotel, speaking Spanish to a Spanish-speaker for the first time in buying my bus ticket.
The Hotel Rey del Caribe was comfortable, staffed by friendly Mexican
women, and, most importantly, located across the street from the main
bus terminal in the gritty Centro area of Cancun.
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