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.
Torre Escenica Cancun
Cancun · Operator lists regular Cancun tower cost USD20.00; eligible Xcaret park/tour wristbands include entrance. Cancun tower is currently closed for maintenance; confirm reopening and current price before visiting.
A rotating gondola that lifts eighty metres above El Embarcadero for a full circuit view over the lagoon, the Hotel Zone and the Caribbean.
Time needed
30 minutes
Hours
Operator reports the Cancun Scenic Tower is currently closed for maintenance. Check reopening with Xcaret before visiting. This is the Cancun tower at El Embarcadero, not the tower inside Xcaret Park.
Tips
At the El Embarcadero marina complex, which is also a departure point for boats to Isla Mujeres.
Neighborhood
Zona Hotelera, Cancun
Activity providers
Kosher map of Cancun
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