Posts Tagged ‘ Cancun ’

Susannah Cery, founder of Our Tribe Travels – an online community for families who love independent travel – shares her travel highs and lows with JAT readers

Its National Tea Day so Adrian settles down with a few tea varieties, (including Russian Caravan) cakes, scones and sandwiches to enjoy himself!

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now

Irene describes Puerto Morales in Mexico as being like Cancun – before it became the Cancun many of us now know!.

Reminding us that APD has been reduced from April 1st, Adrian looks at where we have visited in greater numbers and condems the fact that train disruption hits day-trippers and holidaymakers at one of the busiest holiday periods of the year.

Kaye Holland discovers that there’s more to Cancun – the Mother of all Mexican resorts – than first meets the eye

Thanks to its sparkling coastline, fabulous food and blue sky climate, the Mayan Riveria has charm by the bucketload. Kaye Holland visits the hottest destination in Mexico

Group travel sounds like a great idea in theory – who doesn’t want to see the world (or at least some of it) with their friends and family? In practice, travelling with your nearest and dearest isn’t always a walk in the park – something I can attest to. I recently returned from a fortnight backpacking around Mexico with three friends. What should have been a dream trip turned out to be a disaster as we fell out over food, finance and almost everything under the sun. After seven patience testing days, I decided to salvage the trip by splitting from my ‘friends’ and going solo.

Irene re-visits a favourite British resort in Mexico – Cancun – where, as a 21 year old, she looked after the public relations for a local hotel

Don’t miss out on a visit to the gloriously beautiful and fascinating Riviera Maya, stretching south of there along the Caribbean, says Irene Middleman Thomas

Twenty five miles away from Cancun, the most popular destination for British and Irish tourists is Ethos, a rather strange sounding name for a farm. What’s stranger still is the way a resort chain – Sunset World – has developed what could be a significant Mexican tourist attraction

Over the next week, Adrian will reveal some places in Mexico you may not know but which are well worth considering if you want a holiday in almost guaranteed sunshine. He starts with an overview of the the practicalities, how much it costs and what you need when you´re there

Unless you have spent the past year living on another planet, you’ll know that times are tough and money is tight. Happily, however, you can still get some winter sun without having to remortage your house.

The Mexican government and its tourist board are concerned about the amount of publicity being given to the drug and violence situation in the country. The image is one that they think is deterring tourists.

After all the stories about the impact of the euro and how it was reducing the number of us holidaying in the euro countries comes the news that it looks as though visits to the Canaries have bounced back by a staggering amount. In Lanzarote visits are up by a third over 2009 and holidays to Gran Canaria and Tenerife are up as well. Some are saying that numbers are nearly back to those pre-recession days. In July alone 450,554 of us just went to Tenerife