As you may already heard (or read), Cancun is trough a wave of sargassum. This is a type of seaweed, and its smell is not the best thing in the world. Local industries organiced summits to stablish new mechanisms for the treatment of this seaweed. Hotel Industry is already putting a lot of effort on vanish every piece of sargassum from Cancun, but as a natural phenomenon, its arrives continues. However, you may not stop traveling to Cancun because of this. There are plenty not affected beaches, and for you to know specifically which are these beaches, we made the following list of Cancun beaches without sargassum.
Playa Las Perlas (Pearls Beach)
Located in km 2,5 of Kukulcan Boulevard (commonly referred as Hotel Zone). This small beach area is publicly accesible. Is one of the firsts beaches to find when taking the Kukulcan Boulevard from the city. Lots of locals come here thanks to its short distance from the city. Sportists visit this beach really often. Here, you will find beach chairs and umbrellas rental, so as fried fish and other nice local dishes. It is an excellent place to work out, do yoga, swimming or running. As there are practically no waves, it is ideal for families with young children. Counts with parking lot, children playground, showers, restrooms and access for wheelchairs. If you want to work out, we recommend to be there before 9:00am. After this time, bathers start arriving to enjoy the sun and the sea.
Playa Langosta (Lobster Beach)
Righ beside a dock, this beach, even though it is one of the most visited in the Hotel Zone, it’s clean, tranquil and relaxing. It is a bit more spacious than its sister “Las Perlas”. It counts with a little ‘square’ where you will find the famous “CANCUN” sign, where a lot of tourists stop to take a photo for the memories. So as “Las Perlas”, this beach counts with public dressing rooms, showers and bathrooms, everything clean and functional. It also has parking lot and children playground. Ocasionally, you will find walking food sellers, from whom you could get some local delicatesses. True fact is that you should be careful on what you eat, we don’t want you to get sick and loose energy for the rest of your vacation.
Playa Tortugas (Turtle Beach)
From all the beaches without sargassum in this list, Playa Tortugas is the most visited by tourists, thanks to its location in Hotel Zone. Here, you will find bungee, restaurants and a ferries departing to Isla Mujeres. It is, very possibly, the second most visited beach of the whole Hotel Zone. Same as the two others, counts with public services such as showers, restrooms, children playground and beach chairs and umbrellas rental. As it is a departing port to Isla Mujeres, this beach has a lot of activity during the most of the day. Be aware of sellers, as these have developed some “tricks” to convince you at any cost to buy them a tour or whatever they are selling. Most of them will walk away with the tipical ‘No, thank you’, but there will be some others that will insist. You are in your human right to just ingore them or say no with your head without pronouncing even a word (so they wont feel ‘well received’).
It is important to say that sargassum appears very randomly. We do not know if these beaches are going to have this issue in the future, however at the momment we posted this article, they had either a very little or non sargassum at all. We also checked on Google’s user reviews for these beaches and the were all rated over 4 stars (in a 1 to 5 scale). Follow these links to check reviews by yourself:
Cancun Beaches Without Sargassum:
Las Perlas: https://goo.gl/maps/zcgzDR1g4SxAt2iz6
Langosta: https://goo.gl/maps/yPjfNVVpQNjkK1ibA
Tortugas: https://goo.gl/maps/E14b2LnFheXf6CGw8