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Cancun, Mexico

Mexico

Cancun

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.

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Eruv

No

There is no eruv in Cancun and none on Isla Mujeres, and both Chabad centres state this plainly for visitors. Nothing may be carried outdoors on Shabbat in either place, which in practice makes walking distance to a shul the deciding factor when choosing a hotel. In Cancun the Hotel Zone resorts between roughly Km 9 and Km 14 put the Chabad centre at Kukulcan Plaza within a comfortable walk; on Isla Mujeres the hotels in the town centre and along Playa Norte are two to eight minutes on foot from the Chabad House.

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