City overview
Cancun is Mexico's best-known Caribbean resort city, a seventeen-mile barrier island of white sand and turquoise water lined end to end with resorts, with a working Mexican city of nearly a million people behind it and the Maya interior a short drive inland. Isla Mujeres lies a twenty-minute ferry ride offshore and trades the high-rise strip for golf carts, a walkable town centre and the calm shallow water of Playa Norte. Between them they cover almost every kind of trip, from all-inclusive beach weeks to diving, Maya ruins and day sails. Jewish travel here is unusually well served for a resort destination: Chabad Jewish Center of Cancun sits inside Kukulcan Plaza in the heart of the Hotel Zone, Cancun's own Orthodox community, Neve Shalom, numbers around forty-eight families, and Chabad of Isla Mujeres runs a shul and a kosher restaurant on the island itself. Three certified restaurants operate in the Hotel Zone under Mexican supervision, and both Chabad houses serve Shabbat meals to visitors who book ahead.
Activity providers
Dolphin Discovery Isla Mujeres
Cancun · Operator starting program rates: Dolphin Encounter USD119.00 (advertised online USD89.25); Dolphin Connection USD149.00 (online USD111.75); Dolphin Royal Connection USD179.00 (online USD143.20). Named experience prices, not a general island admission; dates, promotions, child eligibility, ferry/dock charges and add-ons must be confirmed for the chosen booking.
The company's flagship Isla Mujeres site on the sheltered Sac Bajo lagoon, running dolphin, manatee and sea lion programmes as well as combined tickets with Garrafon Reef Park.
Time needed
Half day
Hours
Open daily 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
Programmes are timed and sell out in high season, so book ahead. Combined tickets with Garrafon are usually better value than separate ones.
Phone
866 393 5158Neighborhood
Sac Bajo, Isla Mujeres
Kosher map of Cancun
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