Christmas in Cancun

Christmas was all around us in Cancun last week.

I am pleased to say that Geoff and I had the good sense to make an early — if only temporary — escape from winter last week. We took a last minute package from Calgary to Cancun and stayed at the Oasis Palm Beach for only C$500 or so each, plus tax. Given the fact that we would have had to rent a vehicle for the week had we stayed, and likely would have compensated for being bored stiff in our empty apartment with trips to Cineplex, the pub near our temporary abode (excellent cheap nachos), and other expensive venues, we figured we would have been stupid NOT to go. And so we booked tickets online on Wednesday and arrived in Cancun — a full 60 degrees warmer — on Sunday. YES!

Cancun was in full-swing getting ready for Christmas: the public square on Tulum Ave. was decorated with figurines of Santa and Frosty, each and every hotel had at least one nativity scene, and there were a number of reindeer concocted from twigs and white Christmas lights. My hands down favorite had to be the Christmas skeletons I saw sitting at a table outside a Oaxaca-style restaurant in Cancun’s hotel district.

Definitely not a Christmas sight I’ll forget anytime soon. Thanks to Heidi Taylor for inspiring this post — check out Heidi’s visual observations on Christmas in Hong Kong here.