Hello..anyone went to cancun lately? I would like to know how the situation is for tourists!

We leave Sunday! Curious to know as well!
Donika Bajrami Mackenzie Arsenault

Dan please let me know after as we are planning a trip and we don’t know how the situation is, thanks!

Rima Me too! I got flights for 2 weeks end of November and don’t know much of the situation.

Dan there are lots of You Tube videos mainly by Americans who are travelling to Cancun during COVID. I watch every one of them with interest. The hotels seem to be doing a great job with safety precautions but the tourists are not wearing masks and gathering in groups which is odd to see given the strict rules in Canada.

Lynn America's pay for their own healthcare the government doesn't care if they get sick because hospitals make money from it. In Canada it costs $ from the government budgets to pay for sick people.

Krystal good point and this will certainly cost Canadian taxpayers plenty!

Your usual Covid precautions, no different than anywhere else.

Stephen actually very different than here. I just got back on Friday

Janet so did I. Nor much different lol.

Stephen then you live in a different world than the rest of us

Janet so what's so different...?

Stephen not a single hotel chain in Canada has protocols anywhere near what's happening in MX. No covidiots in MX, every single MX we saw was masked properly, even small children. Not the case here in Canada. Outdoor use of masks very normal in MX, not here. That's just for starters...

Janet resorts suck right now, I don't stay in them, I do beach front condos with rooftop pools for a third the price, pretty normal in them. I saw plenty of Mexicans and tourists in PLC not wearing masks or not wearing them properly, more than here.

Stephen if you say so... Not our experience. We have done villas in Playacar before but not this trip. It's been too fucking hard of a year to not enjoy some luxury. We don't do cheap travel, we're too old and boujee for that anymore

Janet half million dollar condo with a million dollar view, I don't travel cheap, I travel smart.

Stephen - name of this place please.

Danielle Grønfeldt Cruz Con Mar

Lynn
Janet the MX people and businesses look to be taking it very seriously. I wish the tourists I see on the videos about travelling during COVID would do the same.

Just in case you haven’t seen this https://www.cancunadventure.net/covid19.php
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Cancun and Coronavirus COVID-19

Susan it's been at yellow in Quintana Roo for several weeks now

Just got back on Fri. Expect full flights to start with. Honestly, MX isn't screwing around with Covid. Our resort is super clean and vigilant. You arrive and luggage stays outside till disinfected and then it goes straight to room. You walk through a disinfecting tray when entering any building, off resort as well. In the lobby is a temp checking machine that records your temp and you're asked to use it daily. Rooms are disinfected with a fogging bomb then sealed with a door seal till you open it. Soft surfaces are disinfected with a steamer. On resort masks are required at restaurants and buffets. They ask you wear them in other public spaces indoors but not required. Most did. Sanitizer everywhere and mandatory in lots of spaces. Constant cleaning of high touch areas as well.
We went into Playa del Carmen, again not screwing around. I would say 90 % were wearing masks outdoors (it's law in MX btw in the orange stoplight, yellow is optional). Stores all were doing temp checks and disinfecting mats. Sanitizer everywhere!
I'm in Niagara Falls and felt way safer in MX than here at home. NF is packed every weekend with covidiots from hotspots. To put it in perspective, I'm also immune suppressed and never felt like I was at risk.

Janet buffets? I thought those were a thing of the past?!!

Shirley as buffets use to be, yes. The current version is staff serves everything. Lots of stuff is now pre-plated as well. Some very inovatively! Think salads in little mason jars. Masks are required while not seated at your socially distanced table as well

Shirley we were at Iberostar Paraiso complex. Our reservation was for the Beach resort, they upgraded us to Maya as Beach isn't open, and we decided to upgrade further to the adult only Grand. We spent lots of time at Maya though.

Janet are beaches not open in general in Mexico?

Jennifer Bouyoukos yes beaches, including public beachrs are open.
On the Iberostar Paraiso resort there's a resort called Iberostar Beach.

Janet thanks! You’ve got me thinking about going now.

Jennifer Bouyoukos if you can do the quarantine I think it's worth it.

Janet I can totally do the quarantine. Haven’t left my house since March and I’ve been working in my dining room. I need a break so bad!

Janet it was really easy for me. Had a bit of a "omg I wanna get out" on my Day 10 but otherwise it went by like a breeze.

Hajime Pang good to hear.

Janet ......which resort were you at?

Janet Kenny Su

Janet that is great to hear that they are keeping themselves and everyone else as safe as possible.

Jackie yes. But there's always a few... They were wearing MAGA hats

Dash Piarr

Janet which resort did u stay at?

Headra Iberostar Paraiso complex

Are you asking in general or just COVID related? Also, are you staying in a resort in the surrounding area of Cancun or are you staying in the actual city of Cancun?

There are a few Youtubers documenting the situation/protocols

I'd add if looking at specific resorts join their Facebook groups! There is generally video and pics daily of the actual conditions and protocols. Remember, 3 hurricanes in 6 weeks to the area. Still lots of cleanup happening

Janet I'm in zihua and all protocols being followed with planes arriving. At the same time police driving by telling people on a loudspeaker to stay home

This is great detailed feedback thank you

Inder Gill

Just booked and going to Playa in 3 weeks. Appreciate all the feedback!!

Renee you'll have a great time!

Janet I go once or twice a year - so I’m ready!! U said ur in the Falls right?? I’m in Tonawanda

Renee yep Canadian side. We go every year, at least once. Currently in our 2 week quarantine but it was sooooo worth it. Now if the border would open, I miss crossing. I miss shopping on your side, especially with BF coming. I miss our fav MX restaurant

Ahh!! Cool!! We usually rent a house in port colborne in the summer! Yeah - I can’t believe it’s been closed this long. I miss Swiss Chalet!! Hahaha.

Renuka

Aemun should we go in Jan 2021? Lol

This is amazing to hear!

I honestly felt safer in Cancun than Canada when I went in August.

I was in Cancun just last week and it was amazing! I just flew back on a 747!

Silvio what’s the quarantine situation, when you got back?

David standard quarantine measures for 14 days. I did have officers come knock on my door to check up on me. I invited them in for beers after as well. You do get phone calls everyday as well from someone.

Silvio we haven't had a single call yet. We did the ArriveCan app though and are doing the daily optional symptom check-in

Janet lucky you. I guess they didn't trust me.

Silvio weird, when I got back from Mexico in August I didn't even get a phone call. Nothing whatsoever. Hmm

Silvio we'll see. I've read such wildly different experiences with qurantine checkups

And I never checked into ArriveCan either lol. I don't think it was mandatory then. They are cracking down more now since cases are rising again

Janet thank very much.

Leeann I guess they like me more

Leeann it's still not mandatory but it's "highly suggested". air canada counters in MX all had the qr code up for quick download.

Janet it's mandatory effective November 21.

Silvio lucky you! We got an A319. David, mandatory 14 day qurantine. It's all on the ArriveCan app that's highly recommended to use pre-departure home

Janet thanks.

Janet Oof. Must have been a long flight!

Silvio do they test in Mexico?

Aneta nope, not like they do in Dubai.

Silvio Thank you

Aneta you're welcome

Aneta no testing required to enter MX. Jamaica changes biweekly and DR is changing regularly as well

With which airline company?

Jessica Pan Am

Amelia Stein Sheena Claassen comments to read

If you follow Style Your Vacation on instagram she's in Tulum now and travelled from Toronto....she's been covering how it is at the airport and locally... So informative! Considering a trip soon because of it... Makes me feel more comfortable.

For all that are interested, manulife has a very comprehensive Covid Travel Insurance plan.

David so does Blue Cross and Medipac

planning to be in cancun and Tulum in mid December. How is tulum in terms of precaution to covid ?

Iftekhar Islam Adhishree Kapoor

Janet
Tasnuva the whole area is the same.

Janet thank you for the feedback!

By going, you are risking the life of all the workers, and locals. They don't have the same access to healthcare that we do. Why be so selfish?

Anades Weir-McPherson I live in Mexico and agree fully with what you say.

Anades Weir-McPherson and you do realize there are no social programs in MX right? Every friend we have in MX, every staff member is so grateful to be back at work. They've depleted most of the savings they had and NEED to work. If they don't work they'll be homeless and hungry. There's no CERB and the monthly food hampers were a joke and stopped a while ago. There are no families wandering Playa begging. Seniors sitting on curbs weaving palm baskets. The Mayan communities are exceptionally hard hit and in crisis. $$$$ is what's needed and like it or not, that means tourism and hospitality

Janet.... Gringa, my family lives in Mexico.
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Tasnuva might just be there too! Drinks please

Lyelca omgg so cool hold on messaging you

My sister stayed at the Moon palace not too long ago and she enjoyed it her resort did a lot to comply with covid restrictions. Felt really safe. Paperwork and check in takes a lot longer so prepare for that she was going 3-5 hours early for flights.

Louise Jeffray
Phil Collier just in case you were thinking of going this year.

It’s safe and clean. Some resorts are only filling up 30% and everyone social distances.

Kaatalin the 30% occupancies were under orange stoplight. When the area went to yellow several weeks ago they are now allowed 90% occupancies. Occupancies are varying wildly week to week but it's increasing overall

Karla

This making me consider going away before our mat leave ends soo hard

Christin excuse me?! Let’s go

Karla apparently the precautions are awesome and a lot safer then up here

Christin Take an extra two weeks to quarantine when you return.

Karl Youssef

Are all the bars and clubs open in cancun?

Lili yup!

Lili if you're thinking of a particular, fav place check first. There are reputable reports of some shutdown for non-covid precaution compliance. There's one resort not serving alcohol as well without food. They are blaming it on 'new' Covid regulations which is bs. It's they didn't renew their bar liquor license

Oh and the federales are on the job. As we were there Halloween and Day of the Dead, they were shutting down any bars with large crowds. In some cases, senor frogs, they made them stop serving alcohol without food. Covid regulations are taken really seriously

I know people that are in Talum or have been lately and they said it was amazing!

Once they lift the mandatory 14 day quarantine I wanna go!

Amy me toooo !!!

Just be careful. It is extremely difficult to get travel insurance coverage right now. If you do it will not cover you if you get covid. I know also my employers insurance has said that they will not cover me if I travel either. But if you want to gamble, go ahead

Laura yea it will cover you.

You have to get separate coverage outside of group benefits.

David I saw sunwing offering free COVID 19 coverage up to $200,000.00. I am not sure if this is true?

Bal yeah a lot of companies are. I am a broker and listened to a webinar put on by manulife today and was very impressed with the coverage. Even if you start getting symptoms on the way and the country won’t let you in the company will reimburse. Not all coverages are equal. Sun wing is a travel company so I would be a little cautious.

David Oh. Yiu Sure about that? Got different information last March from the Snow bird association. Wonder

Lori they actually talked about snow birds and the coverage that was available. As always you have to be careful with pre-existing conditions

Lori thing have changed A LOT since last March in regards to Covid coverage.... thankfully most insurance companies are on board with coverage..

Sunwinghas partnered with manulife for Covid travel insurance.

Char Lene oh good to know.

Laura air transat vacations says that they will cover you for covid.

Kathy that does not include any thing else very limited.

manulife has trip interruption would I think to be important.

David how much for that coverage?

Laura depends on age but roughly $56 per person per week. A little cheaper for younger and a little more for over 55. This is not taking into consideration any pre existing conditions.

Brenda Well that's why you get your normal coverage and then they are adding that peace of mind if your policy doesn't cover covid.

Kathy exactly! Many resort chains are offering coverage as well for Covid but no way in hell it should be anyone's primary coverage. Our chains policy is 40,000euros medical but the most useful part is fully covering ones expenses if qurantined or travel partner/family gets Covid.

Jan Keck

Medipac (who is Snowbird Assoc official company) and Blue Cross have both been offering Covid covering policies since July! We bought a yearly policy from Blue Cross with $5mil coverage for $150 for both of us over age 50 with preexisting coverage
There are a handful of other companies as well, most well known in the nomad/backpacker circles.
Oh and our extended benefits out if country absolutely does cover us, including Covid. We are with manulife

Between March and June it was nearly impossible to find medical coverage for COVD-19. Most insurance companies were telling people 'due to the current travel advisory in place, coverage for covid is not available.'
But then around July we started to see market forces at work, and a couple of insurance companies started to offer coverage for covid, even while the Canadian government recommendation not to travel was still in place.
That got the ball rolling, and there are now 13 insurance companies offering medical coverage for covid-19 (see below).
Certain countries (Dominican Republic, Jamaica), airlines (air canada, westjet, air transat, sunwing, Emirates, Etihad, Virgin Atlantic), and vacation package operators (air canada vacations, westjet vacations, sunwing Vacations, Transat Vacations) are also starting to include covid-19 insurance for free.
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Laura air canada supplied me with covid insurance. And my private medical company has me covered. And credit card

I used Seven Corners insurance to travel to Europe for 2 months and it was pretty robust. I would suggest them

Most insurance companies AND travel agencies (or should I say airline agencies) offer now Covid insurance!!

Laura FYI it depends on your current health. You can get insurance it is definately a little more expensive try manulife.
Plane has never been cleaner to travel south. Happy travels to all

Laura westjet includes covid insurance in their vacation package.

The manditory 2 weeks quarantine, for me sucked. I was going nuts by the end of it.

The travel was fine.

Live yr life girl

Abilash Logeswaran

Heather

Heather told her to message me.
Thanks heather ! Don't like getting caught up in the negative trolls on here. Hah
Having a great time !!!

one weeks vacation turns into 3 when you consider that you have to self isolate when you return for 14 days, even if you test negative once returning.

Terri true! But many people work from home anyway!

Usmanad I don't, that's the problem.

Terri oh man
sorry to hear that!

Hi. Am here now.
Message me

Heather hello, I was planning on going this wkd. Can I msg you??

Kbelo yup

I messaged you also!

Medipac offers Covid coverage.

How do All Inclusives work right now? Anyone know?

David works like always just masks are required when you go to restaurants and temperature is checked on the entrance to the buffet restaurant..

I’m in Cancun right now and having a blast. However people tend to leave the masks behind shortly after arriving. So you need to police yourself and social distance. I don’t recommend going out to clubs etc while they are at limited capacity And staff are good about masks etc tourists start partying and forget, plus it’s also very hot and humid so hardly anyone is compliant. It’s still fairly empty so you can keep your distance and enjoy the weather

Maria thanks! What about on the resorts? I wouldn’t be leaving the resort so I’m wondering what’s it like.

Jennifer Bouyoukos I find people stop wearing their masks on the resort shortly after they arrive. Staff take temps everytime before entering the restaurants/dining rooms. The buffets are open and staff serve you (instead of tourists touching all the serving utensils. Be mindful of keeping distance during the nightly entertainment... once people have a few drinks they all seem to forget we’re still in the middle of a pandemic.

I recently got back from Cancun, off resort you need your mask it's mandatory but on resort once you arrive you don't need one. Only for gift shops, etc

Clubs and everything were open

Maria i was planning on going this wkd. Can I mag you?

Kbelo for sure !

So does Allstate inbox me i would be happy to give you a quote

Just returned yesterday..the travel is very fine, just keep the mask on.. no tests, no isolating.. holiday was amazing.. we went for Royalton Chic Cancun all inclusive and it is an excellent hotel, adults only.. gorgeous rooms, beautiful beach and pools, fantastic food, great service..amazing deal from Sunwing.. really worth staying on quarantine after..

Dayle Murphy