Night-time tours of the Tulum ruins recently started. I haven’t been yet, but the reports sound good–this isn’t a standard sound-and-light situation where you sit and watch. There’s an audio component, but you get to walk around. The cost is M$220, which includes the audio headsets, and the ruins are open from 8pm to 10pm.
These three hotels–one at Uxmal, one at Coba and one at Chichen Itza–are no longer run by Club Med, as the book says. They’re now run by the Islander Collection, and the contact information is 987/872-9300 ext. 8101, www.islandercollection.com. Rates and all facilities are basically still the same.
This great little hotel (p. 151) and cafe (the Cafe del Mar) in Xpu-Ha have closed.
They’ve rearranged the entrance to the place again, so the map (p. 157) is no longer accurate. You now enter through a break in the wall halfway along the north side of the site. The plan is to have the exit on the south side, but this was closed when I was there (Nov 07), and everyone was still exiting through the wall in the middle of the west (inland) side.
The really nice change is that it’s possible to walk to the site from the top end of the beach road–there’s even a little parking area there now (mostly for taxis). It’s a shorter walk from the end of the beach road to the ticket booth than it is from the parking area on the highway.
Los Cantaros (p. 158) is shut.
Tuti Fruti (p. 158) is shut.
Hola Primo (p. 159) has been rebuilt in cinderblock. Maybe I’m just nostalgic, but it doesn’t seem as tasty…
Cetli (p. 159) had been closed, but now it has reopened, on Calle Polar near Calle Beta. Great food, sweet owner.
These cheap cabanas in Tulum (p. 156) are closed. (As a consolation, the Mar Caribe beach club–now signed “Don Cafeto”–to the south has some very basic cabanas.)
