• as cheap as it gets
For about 20 Pesos you can actually have a decent meal of roasted chicken (¼), rice, salad, tortillas & salsa in several main street BBQ places selling nothing but pollos asados al carbon.
In the evening, if you're not really hungry and just looking for a snack, you can get some tacos (7P/piece) or tamales (10P/pc) from street side vendors.
• for the budget minded traveler
On the south end of the main street, both Tacoqueto & Doña Tina cater to locals with a choice of home made dishes, of which you'll get a plateful for 30-40 Pesos. Add to that 10 Pesos for an agua de fruta or soft drink, or 15 Pesos for a cold beer.
Making your own cheese-tomato-cucumber-avocado sandwich with some halfway decent bread will cost you at least as much.
• tourist class
El Mariachi, Don Cafeto, Charlies, La Nave and various others offer Mexican & International cuisine for the more affluent, with dishes from 50 to 150 Pesos & more, drinks from 20 Pesos & upwards.
While not quite as overpriced as the beach side establishments, you still pay a premium for setting, arguably -if you know what to order where- slightly tastier food and often extremely slow service.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Friday, April 9, 2004
Tulum
Tulum has changed a lot over the last six years... From a laid back travelers bus transit stop, to a wannabe bustling tourist town.
The good thing about that is that you can find almost anything now in the local mini supermarkets and pharmacias. There's even a bank now, two ATMs and several money exchange counters (open all week). Everything is pretty much located along the main street running through town.
Basic rooms in town go for 25-45 USD and twice that much along the beach. A typical meal in a Mexican eatery costs from around 20-25 Pesos all the way up to 50-75 Pesos for meat and shrimp dishes. Add 10-15 Pesos for a fruit drink. Tourist restaurants charge from 60 to 180 Pesos for a meal. For great Italian pizzas, "La Nave" is the place in town! I can recommend the "Capricciosa".
If you don't have a rental car, Tulum's "Tiburones" will be happy to charge you the tourist price for a ride in their white taxis. Tiburon is Spanish for shark, a name they try to live up to very hard.
[ note: all the rather blurry above land snapshots were taken with a Nokia 6230, whereas all the underwater photos were taken with a Sea&Sea MotorMarine IIex, with 20mm WAL and YS60 flash, using normal Fuji 100 ASA film ]
The good thing about that is that you can find almost anything now in the local mini supermarkets and pharmacias. There's even a bank now, two ATMs and several money exchange counters (open all week). Everything is pretty much located along the main street running through town.
Basic rooms in town go for 25-45 USD and twice that much along the beach. A typical meal in a Mexican eatery costs from around 20-25 Pesos all the way up to 50-75 Pesos for meat and shrimp dishes. Add 10-15 Pesos for a fruit drink. Tourist restaurants charge from 60 to 180 Pesos for a meal. For great Italian pizzas, "La Nave" is the place in town! I can recommend the "Capricciosa".
If you don't have a rental car, Tulum's "Tiburones" will be happy to charge you the tourist price for a ride in their white taxis. Tiburon is Spanish for shark, a name they try to live up to very hard.
[ note: all the rather blurry above land snapshots were taken with a Nokia 6230, whereas all the underwater photos were taken with a Sea&Sea MotorMarine IIex, with 20mm WAL and YS60 flash, using normal Fuji 100 ASA film ]
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