car hire mexico cancun

how do you get around the riviera maya? well, you have several options. if you're coming into the cancun airport,one of the easiest is an airport transfer. and they can take you right tothe place that you're staying. you can take a bus up anddown the coast line, and there's lots of first classbuses that are easily found. you can take them,they run usually about on the hour. now if you want a more culturalexperience, you want to take a collectivo. and what a collectivo is, it's likea volkswagen minibus or minivan, and

everybody piles into it. and they put a lot of people into,and you pay like 15 pesos. and they make various stops up anddown the highway. now, if you take this tothe area that you're staying, be prepared that you have to walk fromthe highway then in towards the beach. they're not gonna take you door to door. now taxis can be pricey, butyou can easily flag a taxi anywhere. when i'm in playa del carmen,i usually park my car. and then i take a taxi and zip aroundwherever i need to go, a restaurant or

shopping, because i don't wannahave to look for a parking space. and car rentals, you can rent a car. and a lot of people ask us, and there's small rental places where youcan rent from that are out of cancun. or you can go with a hertz,avis, executive. none of them are commercial endorsements,but you can go with any of those big agencies,too. now one question we get askedall the time is about insurance. do i really need that car insurance?

well, it's like having house insurance. you don't like having it, but you're really glad when youneed it that you've got it. and i will say, with car insurance,it will cost you, sometimes more than the rental itself. but if you, god forbid,have an accident, or something happens, you're gonna be really happyto have that car insurance. because if you have a problem with thatcar, you get dinged or banged up, and you go to leave the country andcatch your flight home.

if there's something wrong, they'regonna tie you up at that rental office, and they're gonna make youpay the damages on that car. no matter what your credit cardstell you that visa says, oh, it's covered by your insurance.

car hire mexico cancun,no, the car rental company is gonna say,you know what? you can pay cash for it right now, and then sort it out with your creditcard company when you get home. just err on the side of safety andbuy the car rental insurance.