Customer Reviews

Adventure Guide to the Yucatan: Including Cancun & Cozumel

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This is a great all around tour book of the Yucatan but I would not call it an adventure book. It has the usual tour information of the Fodor's and Frommer's style with only a few actual "adventures" mentioned. The biggest flaw to this book is that sites and museums opening/closing times as well as prices are sometimes omitted or out-of-date. However, the helpful hints, humor, and narative qualities do make an enjoyable read and worth buying if you plan to visit the area. Not many pictures are included and they are all black & white.

A friend and I travelled in Yucatan last year with this book and the Lonely Planet "Ruta Maya" guide. LP was better for the basic information and town maps but the Adventure Guide had waaaaay more detail on little places that turned out to be a real treat. We would never have gone swimming in the Cenote at Motul with LP, or had about the best meal of our whole stay at the palapa restaurant above -- the town isn't even on the map in LP. No one book can do everything for you, but this one combined with another, such as LP or Rough Guides Mexico, will really help you get around. I'm looking forward to their new edition.

I have taken several trips to the Yucatan, and I found this book to be accurate, up-to-date and an all-around good read! I must say, however, that, although it provides quite a bit of information on "adventure travel," it is more of an all-around guidebook (the authors make it clear that they want to provide information for those travelers who may be making their first visit and for whom just being in the Yucatan is an adventure).

We were nervous about our first time traveling in the Yucatan but having this book was like having a real live guide in the backseat pointing us to all the best places to stay and eat, and not the glitzy tourists traps either. We saved ourselves lots of time and money and got to see places and things that few other tourists find. Plus the funny quotes scattered throughout made it fun to read as well. Kudos all around for a great guidebook.

In all of my travels over the past 20 years, this is among the most useful guides I've found. It is detailed, accurate, honest and fun. We have just returned from a 10-day visit to the Yucatan and found Bruce and June Conord's guide indispensable throughout.

(From Planeta magazine): Highly-recommended guidebook to this fascinating corner of Mexico, which the authors describe as a land mass resembling "a big hitch-hiking thumb." Their interest and hard work has paid off. It's loaded with hotel and transportation info, great maps and interesting art work.

We bought this book anticipating that we would take any advice from a guidebook with a grain of salt. With this book, you need a salt lick. It gave us terrible advice on everything from restaurants to hotels

THIS IS PERHAPS THE MOST THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED BOOK ON THE SUBJECT, A MUST FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN TRAVELLING TO MEXICO.BRAVO!