Cancún, Cozumel & The Riviera Maya Alive! [Paperback]

Bruce Conord (Author), June Conord (Author)

Book Description

Series: Cancun, Cozumel, & the Riviera Maya | Publication Date: April 2002

A holiday guide to Cancun, Cozumel and the Riviera Maya region. It offers hundreds of hotel and restaurant profiles, highlighting the best places to stay and eat. It describes the features that make the destination unique, including local celebrations that take place throughout the year and the contact numbers for different groups. "Sunup to Sundown" sections cover hiking, watersports, organized excursions and beaches, all accompanied by town and regional maps. "After Dark" sections provide details on night clubs, casinos and bars.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Up-to-the-minute Alive Guides cover every aspect of travel in each exciting destination - places rarely covered by other

guidebooks! Alive Guides focus on hotels and restaurants, with descriptions based on repeat visits by well-traveled authors.

Establishments are rated with the unique Alive rating system, so you can find one to suit your taste and pocketbook. Particular

attention is given to shopping in the exotic regions, with details on local artists, cut-price designer clothing and the best values on

duty-free goods. Tips on what to do from sunup to sundown include tours, sightseeing, sunning, watersports and the best beaches.

Piano bars, jazz clubs, places to meet people and even gay clubs are listed for nightlife. Transportation to, from, and around the

area is also covered. Maps and indexes.

About the Author

Bruce & June Conord are great lovers of Mexico and things Mexican. They collaborate on a monthly travel column for a major magazine and have written several guides to Central America. Bruse is American, June is English, born in Plymouth and brought up In Cornwall.

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing; 2 edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588431231
• ISBN-13: 978-1588431233
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,819,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most in-depth, intelligent and helpful guide to Cancun, December 31, 2001

By 

Charles Cutler ([e-mail]) (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cancún, Cozumel & The Riviera Maya Alive! (Paperback)

What a joy after reading some of the other guides to Cancun! This book covers almost everything, and is obviously written by someone with an intimate familiarity with the region. It offers helpful hints on each page, rather than just pointing out lists of places to visit (although it does this also). The Mexican to U.S. clothing size conversion chart is particularly helpful. The book dedicates 12 pages to shopping in Cancun, a topic restricted to 3/4 page in the other guidebook I purchased at the same time (and sent back). The coverage of places to stay, places to eat, and what to do is very objective and frank, unlike some of the guides which seem to be produced by the local chamber of commerce. As a lover of travel (and travel guides), I can't say enough about this one - it's as good a guide to a city as I have read.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The authors have friends here!!, April 8, 2004

By 

D. Berry "amazon junkie" (Trailerpark USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cancún, Cozumel & The Riviera Maya Alive! (Paperback)

Even though this book has SOMEWHAT helped me with my travel to the Yucatan (ummmm... probably because it was the ONLY book I brought?? Stupid Me!!), I was very disturbed with some of the restaurant choices. "Tell the owners, "so-and-so" that Bruce and June says HELLO and that we sent you!!" Auuuuugh!!

Can we say that they probably get free food for mentioning their names?

I was also quite disturbed how they described the airport's bus stop to CanCun. There are Terminal 1 or Terminal 2 (totally separated). They said that if you are on a chartered flight, you're at the "main terminal and the bus stop is across the street from it". Well, I was on a Chartered flight and flew into Terminal One. Which one is MAIN? 1 or 2?? Assuming 1 is ALWAYS MAIN, I winded up walking more or less of a mile in the 90 degree heat to Terminal 2 to get to the bus stop. SCARY!!!

I backpacked there and was on a budget and they did not list not even 1/4 of the budget hotels. When I stayed @ a hostel, I browsed through a bunkmate's Lonely Planet book and it had WAY MORE INFORMATION than this book!!

This book may seem to be "somewhat big", but the fonts are large... thus taking up more space. I did find some wrong information and the book says to "Please e-mail them."

WHAT?? E-MAIL THEM FOR THE RIGHT INFORMATION SO THEY CAN PROFIT FROM A MORE UPDATED EDITION?? Ripley's!!!

Lonely Planet has the same info that they have... PLUS MORE! This book is very VAGUE for anyone.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gets right to the point, June 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cancún, Cozumel & The Riviera Maya Alive! (Paperback)

"We had a wonderful vacation using this guide book. Unlike another one that starts with "F," the Alive! guide is not full of upfront stuff that nobody reads.
It gets right to the point in telling what hotels have to offer, the best places to eat (it arranges them by cuisine and gives sample dishes) and devotes many
pages to shopping - in the malls as well as downtown. We got some good bargains as a result." Reader, East Coast USA