Mexico in Brief - Popular resorts in Mexico

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The Popular Tourist Spots

Mexico, sun, sand, excitement, relaxations, sophistication, history, nightlife and shopping  it has it all and more; this is really a short visitors guide to Mexico and outlines the more popular places to visit and resorts to stay in.  

Mexico's Pacific Resorts

Mexico's Pacific seaboard encompasses The Baja Peninsula,  with San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo,  collectively this area is Los Cabos, and is definitely a good place to go for excellent golf Sport Fishing and magnificent sunsets, perhaps even a little whale watching.

Over the Gulf of California and east of the Baja Peninsula lies the Resort of Mazatlan, perhaps a little more industrial than others as it is a large sea port, and only recently realising its own potential as a tourist resort, it has some great beaches.

Further down the Pacific Coast are Puerto Vallarta Ixtapa and Zihuatenejo and Acapulco one of the more well known and popular destinations.  

Puerto Vallarta is very popular and has a good mix of the old Mexico as well as the tourist side you would expect, visit the old town for a glimpse into its past, as well as taking advantage of the beauty of the Bandaras bay and its beaches

Ixtapa is really the older part of Zihuatenejo, and is still to some extent relatively unspoiled, whilst Zihuatenejo is a purpose built resort area, offering all and everything you would expect from a beach vacation in Mexico, whilst still not being as commercial as Acapulco, on which it is modelled.

Mexico's Caribbean Resorts 

On the Caribbean side of this country the Yucatan Peninsula and Quintana Roo have the best places to stay once again the most popular are Cancun Cozumel and the Riviera Maya resorts

Cancun and the Riviera Maya are on the Peninsula whilst Cozumel is really and Island sitting around 12 miles out to sea.

If you get tired of the beaches of Cozumel or require more of an historical side to your vacation as well as sun and sand then head to the mainland and visit the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza and Tulum, but no matter where you stay in this area you will find excellent hotels, an exciting nightlife and good food.

Mexico City could become a book in itself, and we will not try to expand on the culture and history of this Capital City  

Each have something different to offer, and we suggest you visit our individual pages for a little more detail and hotel listings.   There is a lot to do for the visitor in Mexico, we list below some of the more popular ones, for full lists of tours and shows, take the links by destination in right hand panel