This morning we woke up after a fantastic nights sleep in our new posh hotel room..well, it is posh by our standards! I can´t believe we spent the same on a hostel that was a total dive! Yesterday and today were beach days, simply chilling out days. There are lots of excursions that you can do from Playa, but they are things that we have already done elsewhere (ruins, snorkeling, zoos, jungle etc). The trips we took previously were absolutely amazing and we did...

Yesterday Ian was feeling ill again so we stayed in Chetumal and spent the day in our hotel room watching cheesy films! Today, he was feeling a bit perkier so we decided to head up to Playa del Carmen. We had intended to get a 2nd class bus (since the chicken buses hadn´t exactly set a very high standard!), but it was cancelled so we ended up on a very swanky coach with a loo, AC, TV and more comfortable seats than you will ever find in the UK! Because Ian was ...