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16 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Culture
Liked: Centers
Disliked: No
13 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Visit Progreso beach
Liked: The culture
Disliked: Nope
13 May 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Spend at least 2 nights there.
Liked: Great food, nice town, convenient location for sightseeing excursions, wish I had spent more time there.
Disliked: Nope
09 May 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Not a "magical city" in itself but a great base for regional day trips.
Liked: The food!
Disliked: The heat!
28 Apr 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: get out and explore the surrounding areas by yourself
Liked: a good variety of day trips available and accessible without the need to book a tour, Plenty of eating options.
Disliked: no
14 Apr 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Speaking a little Spanish will help.
Liked: The streets are easy to navigate around being numbered and all. Close enough to do a day trip out to Chichen Itza.
Disliked: No.
05 Apr 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: check out the back streets for gallerys and cafes
Liked: cultural
Disliked: not really
06 Mar 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Plan to stay at least four days and save at least two days for just exploring the city.
Liked: It was safe and beautiful
Disliked: Nothing
11 Feb 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: I would recommend staying Merida for a few days to really enjoy all Merida has to offer. The market and music in the Grand Plaza on Sundays was fun and the street in front of the plaza was closed so people could dance in the streets. On Tuesday nights from 8:30 to 10pm, there was live music in a smaller square called Santiago. On Thursday night, there are live trova performance in a small square near the main plaza. And if you want some good local food, the Chaya Maya had excellent food for a good price. My favorite was the pollo pibil. It can actually be shared by two people.
Liked: Merida was one of my favorite destinations in the Yucatan area. It had so many cultural activities for free or at a minimal cost. You could also take many day tours from the city center. The public transportation was inexpensive and convenient and the city was easily walkable. Super clean and friendly. I stayed for two weeks and was never bored.
Disliked: There was nothing I disliked about Merida!
30 Jan 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Pick a different city to base yourself in.
Liked: Good base for day trips in the region.
Disliked: The town was very intense, noisy and hectic, not as pretty or historic as described to me.
09 Jan 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Get your accommodation few blocks out of the city centre and you will find some peace while visiting Merida. 3-4 days is long enough stay to explore the essential sights in Merida. Progreso is a good day trip destination.
Liked: Easy to get in by bus and seems quite safe. Yucatan food is great!
Disliked: Very heavy traffic with pollution and smog. Not relaxed city at all. Narrow side walks often in terrible state. Not very clean city. Small city with big city problems.
23 Dec 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Go to the mondial museum of maya
Liked: The center
Disliked: The buses are reeeally old
12 Dec 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Visit yaxcopoil if you can, it's an old henequen hacienda, the people who work there are lovely and the site is really interesting, make sure you have one of the guys there show you around, their knowledge is great.
Liked: Beautiful architecture and plazas.
Disliked: Quite a lot of traffic in the historical centre which is a shame.
27 Nov 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Stay at Casa Chalia
Liked: There is always something going on - singing, dancing, bands etc. The weather is great. Only 1 hour from the beach (Progreso 30 pesos round trip).
Disliked: Hard to find a cheap restaurant. Lots of more upmarket restaurants and lots of fast food or street food.
29 Oct 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Nomadas hostel and Chaya Maya restaurant
Liked: restaurants and relaxed vibe on the streets - little hassle.
Disliked: quite a few sleazy oprationst: street kids being used by gangs to sell tat to tourists, credit cards being cloned by supposed co operatives, which is apparently a scam which the police are into as well.
26 Oct 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Small restaurants
Liked: Buildings
Disliked: Traffic
24 Oct 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Over-rated by Lonely Planet. There are plenty of other colonial towns which are a lot nicer
Liked: Bratwurst in the German bar, wifi in the parks.
Disliked: Not a very appealing city
20 Oct 2013
Customer Travel Tip: enjoy !
Liked: Nice colonial traces.
Disliked: When it rains, the streets turn to rivers.
20 Oct 2013
Customer Travel Tip: enjoy
Liked: Wonderful colonial traces.
Disliked: When it rains, the streets flood
11 Oct 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: visit north of the Yucatan coast, it is a little germ.
Liked: there are plenty of Entertainment for free
Disliked: nothing