b5co | Don’ts while traveling in/to/around Mexico

Last update: 2024-11-12. Mexico City and Yucatán Península/Rivera Maya edition.

Avoid Cancún for any other thing than connecting to another flight or rent a car. Cancún has a good and pretty well connected airport (iata: CUN), but everything between the airport and the beach (Cancún City) is mostly super overpriced shit.
1. Not just “avoid when possible”, no: do not use Cancun Airport taxis, “overpriced” is quite an understatement. Instead, rent a car (see next bullet points) or get a shuttle, Super Shuttle, for instance.
2. If renting a car, be very careful of small print, specially there, they tend to be really misleading on insurance costs.
3. You’ll find a –kind of honest– service with America Car Rental, with shuttles from all Cancún Airport’s Terminals.
4. If you land in Cancún and have a shuttle service pre-arranged, do not follow any random guy instructions at the airport indicating you –under a lot of believable reasons– to use a taxi instead and “the hotel will refund such payment”, it’s plain shit.

Do NOT use “Tren Maya”, their schedules and services are completely unreliable, instead try buses, for example ADO who offers a decent service.

The best option to fly around Mexico (and abroad), by far, is Aeroméxico, although, not necessarily cheap.

If flying with Volaris or Viva Aerobus, read carefully all the small print, specially baggage conditions, they stand for every single comma. Also, beware the airports where you land or take off are the main ones of each city.

When planning to land 🛬 in Mexico City make sure you land in Mexico City’s Airport/AICM (iata: MEX), avoid as if was the plague a nearby airport called Santa Lucía/AIFA/Felipe Ángeles (iata: NLU), just don’t.

For any other tip, you know how to find me.

Don’ts while traveling in/to/around Mexico