Mexico 2025

[Lorenzoid]

Tulum is where the caves are, though after my last trip a couple of months ago, I am tempted to give Puerto Aventuras, where I had based myself a couple of times before, another go. Tulum has changed a lot in the 22 years since I first visited. It's pretty crazy now. As a dive shop owner put it, "Tulum is the only place I've lived where it's easier to get your chakra fixed than your boiler."

 

[trimixdiver]

Puerto Aventuras

How far is this place to cave sites not familiar with this place will look into it tho where to stay need a house or place to stay there are 2 of us only so 2 beds

 

[halocline]

How far is this place to cave sites not familiar with this place will look into it tho where to stay need a house or place to stay there are 2 of us only so 2 beds

You should look up the location, it’s about halfway between Playa and Tulum, maybe a little closer to playa. It’s a big mixed use gated community, tons of condos for rent via airbnb, some bigger hotels, lots of restaurants and a marina. Lots of ex pats and wealthier Mexicans live there.

It’s convenient for me to stay there because I dive with Under the Jungle, which is located at the entrance to the Tajma Ha cenote, a few miles south of P.A. There are cave sites all up and down the highway from just south of Playa to south of Tulum.

If you are pretty certain you want to focus on the caves near Tulum, then maybe stay down there. My comments about Tulum are based on what it used to be like vs what it’s like now. I stayed at a nice little beach place about 15 years ago and it was not much more than a funky, cool little town. Now it’s just very, very different.

 

[Lorenzoid]

If you are pretty certain you want to focus on the caves near Tulum, then maybe stay down there. My comments about Tulum are based on what it used to be like vs what it’s like now. I stayed at a nice little beach place about 15 years ago and it was not much more than a funky, cool little town. Now it’s just very, very different.

Same thoughts and experiences for me, though in the Puerto Aventuras area I dived with Zero Gravity, not Under the Jungle (I hear Nat is great, though). As for my first adventure in Tulum 20+ years ago, the little beach palapa guesthouses I stayed in are no longer there.