Playa del Carmen is located in the Mexican Caribbean coastline well known as Riviera Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula. White sand beaches with palm-lined costline and coral reefs coexist with hotels, restaurants, bars, local business and dance clubs mainly in the Quinta Avenida a pedestrian main road that runs parallel to the beach.
Playa del Carmen Travel
Playa del Carmen beaches are bathed by the Caribbean Sea, you will find beautiful beaches with gentle surf, like the beach of Playa Paraiso and Paamul, ideal for relaxing, sunbathing and all kinds of activities and beautiful ecological parks like Xcaret and Xel-Há where you can practice a variety of water sports: snorkeling and diving courses, in the spring you can organize trips to the great Mayan Reef, the second largest world where you can dive more than 10 m deep, among hundreds of multicolored fish and corals with more than 500 years or, for tours around the area of ”cenotes” where you can also explore the depths of these connected underground water mirrors.
When night falls, we recommend walking in the “Quinta Avenida”, the most famous meeting point of Playa del Carmen, where there are all kinds of restaurants, bars and clubs with a cosmopolitan atmosphere and a center shopping with boutiques, jewelery and exclusive boutiques and for lovers of nightlife, dance and Bohemia Playa del Carmen offers a wide variety of bars, discos and clubs for all tastes and budgets.