There are about 150 hotels in Cancun with more than 24,000 rooms and 380 restaurants. Four million visitors arrive each year in an average of 190 flights daily. The Hotel Zone of Cancun is shaped like a 7 with bridges on each end connecting to the mainland. Hotels on the vertical or long side of the 7 tend to have rougher beaches and beach erosion can be a problem.

Resorts on the horizontal or short end of the seven tend to have more gentle surf because the waves here are blocked by the island of Isla Mujeres which lies just off shore. The Hotel Zone offers a broad range of accommodations, ranging from relatively inexpensive motel-style facilities in the older section closest to the mainland, to high-priced luxury hotels in the later sections, great malls, theme parks and swimming with dolphins activity.

If you would prefer an intimate beachside ...

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Are you afraid to travel right now with all of the hype about the N1H1 flu virus? We here at tropicaltravel.net would like to give you the facts and not the hype! The reality is that we, as Americans are more scared of a possible scenario and not about what is actually happening. There have been about 247 cases of the H1N1 flu documented in the states, and sadly one death. This is compared to the 35,000 documented deaths annually attributed to the common "winter flu". The virus is primarily dangerous to small children and older adults that have comprised or developing immune systems. While healthy adults can indeed get sick from this virus it is nothing that cannot be avoided with some basic health precautions that we all learned in kindergarten. The CDC recommends us to take these steps to stop the spread of N1H1:

-Wash your ...

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