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<\/a><\/p>\nBooking.com outdid itself with my Canc\u00fan stay. In fact, I’ve found my “spot” in Canc\u00fan where I can escape M\u00e9rida for working breaks, and I already have one planned for June! I stayed at Sina Suites<\/a>, which offers the perfect combo of apartment and luxury hotel at a two-star price. Located in a residential neighbourhood on the lagoon, the hotel is very quiet, but just a quick walk from a bus stop to take you to the action of the hotel zone or centro. I had a one-bedroom apartment for my three nights, with a private balcony overlooking the lagoon, the basic kitchenette allowing me to enjoy breakfast at my pace, but the pool zone offering poolside drink service and food from a decent restaurant if I wanted to be pampered.<\/p>\n My plan in Canc\u00fan was to hang out with my bestie and go out for meals, plus to enjoy my hotel. I had thought to do a day getaway to Isla Mujeres, but just never got the oomph to get up and go. But I have an idea of a few things I’ll want to do on future trips to Canc\u00fan.<\/p>\n I ended up at two fancy restaurants during my time in Canc\u00fan. The first was Harry’s Grill, a steakhouse, definitely not my first choice since beef isn’t my favourite. I had a great pork chop, though, and split a crab claw appetizer with my friend’s husband, since she doesn’t like seafood.<\/p>\n The next night, we went to Fred’s, a seafood spot. My friend wasn’t happy with her meal there, but her husband and I went all out, sharing a huge platter of grilled fish, octopus, crab, lobster, and shrimp. Everything was so good, the best seafood I’ve had on this side of Mexico!<\/p>\n The last night, I took them for tacos at a local-recommended Taquer\u00eda Los Chachalacos, which was excellent even being in the heart of the tourist zone.<\/p>\n Now, some random pictures of my Canc\u00fan stay.<\/p>\n View of the lagoon from my terrace.<\/p><\/div>\n I loved having breakfast at this table every morning. Those chairs were so cosy.<\/p><\/div>\n Enjoying the poolside area at Sina.<\/p><\/div>\n Excellent enchiladas from the Sina restaurant. I complimented them on the fried onions, a detail they remembered when making my burger the next day! The burger and fries was also good. There are a few restaurants close-ish to the hotel, but having one on site with good options was so convenient.<\/p><\/div>\n The Caribbean Sea was a stunning shade of turquoise the afternoon I spent at my friends’ resort.<\/p><\/div>\n Much as I enjoyed my pool and sea side time, I’m really not much of a vacationing type of gal. I’d generally rather go out and do activities. Two more days and I would have made it to Isla Mujeres. Thank you to my stylist for my purple toes — she gave me a free pedicure spa as a Christmas present (!), and I saved it ahead of vacation.<\/p><\/div>\n My ridiculous but delicious cardamon-based cocktail at Fred’s.<\/p><\/div>\n It was so hard to drink out of that thing!<\/p><\/div>\n Sunset over the lagoon at Fred’s<\/p><\/div>\n Amazing super buttery chocolate cake at Fred’s.<\/p><\/div>\n One the best parts of the Canc\u00fan hotel zone is the bus service! There’s so many buses, with some routes running 24 hours a day, and all for $12 pesos! From where I was at Sina, it was faster to walk to a bus stop and get on a bus than to wait for a taxi to pick me up. It would have been close to $160 to Uber or taxi each way between Sina and my friends’ resort, so the convenient and generally comfortable buses were extra appreciated. This was the buzzer to get off the bus I took home from Fred’s, LOL!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>