What will you find here?
Who is MapChick?
Lots of tips and information concerning your trip to Cancun, Cozumel, or the Riviera Maya. What to pack, what documents you'll need, what to expect when you land in the airport, Mayan recipes, Spanish words, links to great websites about the area, fun things for the kids to do, how to call home, trip reports, how to get around, and more. Plus we have aerial photographs of major hotels, and a hotel locator so you can find where your hotel is located.
Where's Cancun?
...World map to find Cancun
...U.S. flight times to Cancun
...Hotel locator with aerial pic's

Getting ready to go
...Organize your documents
...What to pack
Clothing Optional & Adult Only Resorts

The Cancun airport
...Arrival at the airport
...Going through immigration
...and filling-out the tourist card.
...Going through customs and
...filling-out your declaration form.
...Transportation to your hotel
...Oh no, It's time to go home!

Staying Healthy
Important tips and more

Playing with Pesos
...Exchanging money and
...printable conversion charts

Getting around
...Cancun's great bus system
...Taxi tips
...Renting a car
How to Get To Playa, Isla, etc!

Charitable Organizations

Links
Check out some of my favorite sites!

Fun stuff
...Mayan recipes
...Learning to speak Spanglish

Web Cams
Akumal
Playa del Carmen

Trip Reports

If you do any browsing on Cancun area discussion boards, then you probably already know the one on the right. Our family makes maps and guides of the area, and I (Laura) like to chat with people on the discussion boards. Someone started calling me MapChick, and the name stuck.
Check out our new online map store!

Map updates here

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