Help needed with "where to hang" on Tulum beach

woodr35 · 11-19-2003

Hi all - wife and I will be in the Playa area (leaving the kids at home!) in a couple of weeks, staying at one of the Mega AI's. For our "day out", we're thinking Tulum. Plan on taking the collectivo to the Pueblo, checking that out, then Taxi to the beach. Here's the question - where should the Taxi take us??? We're looking for a cool beach bar (drinks, lunch) WITH (or close walking distance to) a nice, empty/secluded/deserted beach - the kind of place you can walk lunch off for several hundred yards - heck even a mile - and kinda feel like you have the beach to yourself. I've read where the "secret" beach is but that requires a car (don't want to do that). I've read up on Gringo Dave's (all positive!) but appears beach is small (?). Seems anything north of El Paraiso might have a lot of beach traffic (?). I have the Can-Do map and seems best choices might be Zamas (taxi fare?), Copal/Azulik (can you use the beach if you don't stay there?), or aforementioned Gringo Dave's, Vita Bella, or El Paraiso. Oh, and we might be going on a Sat or Sun. Help! Thanks!

-Randy

justine · 11-19-2003

Hi,

I just came back from a week in Tulum area (Azulik) and my vote for beach area would be El Paraiso. Lovely beach, great little bar and no one in sight!! Well maybe a few, but I could count them on my hands! We walked from the Tulum ruins, stopped at El Paraiso for drinks and a swim and then walked to Gringo Daves and then back along the road to Azulik. The beach around Gringo Daves was quite rocky, and contrary to what most others have found (we had dinner there) we found them less than welcoming. However I've previously heard great things about them..so maybe an off day?

Anyhow, no doubt you'll have a great time where ever you go!

Justine

**sctx** · 11-19-2003

I would suggest checking out Casa Cenote in Tankah, just a couple of miles North of Tulum... fairly quiet and secluded, except for Casa Cenote and 1 small hotel, there are only villas along beach. Gary serves up really good food and you can rent a kayak and snorkel gear if you need it...pretty cool cenote to swim in behind the restaraunt also...it feeds into the ocean in front of the restaruant via a cave, thousands of fish to see just 50 feet off the beach. Gary generally does a Texas BBQ buffet on Sunday afternoons. If you go another mile or so north, you can check out my amigo Lalo's place
(Oscar y Lalos restaruant)....not much of a beach (maybe 100 yards of sand) there but it is drop dead gorgeous and you can't get any more secluded since it is the only place on the whole bay... youv'e probably already seen this bay, 3 Corona commercials have been filmed there. Lalo jacked the prices on his food this year so a full day w/ dinner may cost you $$$'s but I would suggest at least stopping there for a couple of Modelo Especials and taquitos. The secret beach is cool but it is uninhabited and there tends to be alot of trash/debris there... the ultra top secret beach is more of a drive but there is less trash and the fishing is great. You can hammer on James for the location of the secret beach but I cannot divulge the location of the ultra top secret beach w/o authrization from my president!
The locals in Tulum are very nice to talk with but they tend to think alot of there wares and you can find better deals in Playa or in the villages on the way to Coba

11-19-2003	#1 (permalink)
woodr35 lost on fifth Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 19	Help needed with "where to hang" on Tulum beach Hi all - wife and I will be in the Playa area (leaving the kids at home!) in a couple of weeks, staying at one of the Mega AI's. For our "day out", we're thinking Tulum. Plan on taking the collectivo to the Pueblo, checking that out, then Taxi to the beach. Here's the question - where should the Taxi take us??? We're looking for a cool beach bar (drinks, lunch) WITH (or close walking distance to) a nice, empty/secluded/deserted beach - the kind of place you can walk lunch off for several hundred yards - heck even a mile - and kinda feel like you have the beach to yourself. I've read where the "secret" beach is but that requires a car (don't want to do that). I've read up on Gringo Dave's (all positive!) but appears beach is small (?). Seems anything north of El Paraiso might have a lot of beach traffic (?). I have the Can-Do map and seems best choices might be Zamas (taxi fare?), Copal/Azulik (can you use the beach if you don't stay there?), or aforementioned Gringo Dave's, Vita Bella, or El Paraiso. Oh, and we might be going on a Sat or Sun. Help! Thanks! -Randy

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11-19-2003	#2 (permalink)
justine lost on fifth Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15	Hi, I just came back from a week in Tulum area (Azulik) and my vote for beach area would be El Paraiso. Lovely beach, great little bar and no one in sight!! Well maybe a few, but I could count them on my hands! We walked from the Tulum ruins, stopped at El Paraiso for drinks and a swim and then walked to Gringo Daves and then back along the road to Azulik. The beach around Gringo Daves was quite rocky, and contrary to what most others have found (we had dinner there) we found them less than welcoming. However I've previously heard great things about them..so maybe an off day? Anyhow, no doubt you'll have a great time where ever you go! Justine

11-19-2003	#3 (permalink)
sctx political anarchist Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Body in San Marcos Tx....Tankah in my mind Posts: 27,099	I would suggest checking out Casa Cenote in Tankah, just a couple of miles North of Tulum... fairly quiet and secluded, except for Casa Cenote and 1 small hotel, there are only villas along beach. Gary serves up really good food and you can rent a kayak and snorkel gear if you need it...pretty cool cenote to swim in behind the restaraunt also...it feeds into the ocean in front of the restaruant via a cave, thousands of fish to see just 50 feet off the beach. Gary generally does a Texas BBQ buffet on Sunday afternoons. If you go another mile or so north, you can check out my amigo Lalo's place (Oscar y Lalos restaruant)....not much of a beach (maybe 100 yards of sand) there but it is drop dead gorgeous and you can't get any more secluded since it is the only place on the whole bay... youv'e probably already seen this bay, 3 Corona commercials have been filmed there. Lalo jacked the prices on his food this year so a full day w/ dinner may cost you $$$'s but I would suggest at least stopping there for a couple of Modelo Especials and taquitos. The secret beach is cool but it is uninhabited and there tends to be alot of trash/debris there... the ultra top secret beach is more of a drive but there is less trash and the fishing is great. You can hammer on James for the location of the secret beach but I cannot divulge the location of the ultra top secret beach w/o authrization from my president! The locals in Tulum are very nice to talk with but they tend to think alot of there wares and you can find better deals in Playa or in the villages on the way to Coba

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