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.
Garrafon Reef Park
Cancun · Operator Royal Garrafon admission from USD99.00, current advertised promotion USD64.35; Royal Garrafon VIP from USD119.00, current promotion USD73.78. Listed packages include buffet/drinks and transportation. Promotions/date availability, child eligibility, dock fees and final inclusions must be confirmed before booking.
A cliffside park at the southern end of the island with reef snorkelling straight off the rocks, kayaks, zip-lines and an infinity pool looking back at the Cancun skyline.
Time needed
Half day
Hours
Open daily 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
Admission tiers vary and can be combined with Punta Sur; the reef is best in the morning before the boat crowds arrive.
Phone
800 727 5391Neighborhood
Garrafon, Isla Mujeres
Activity providers
Kosher map of Cancun
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