Do I need a car at Cancun area?

I've rented a car online and picked it up at the Cancun airport and circled the peninsula to see as many Maya sites as I possibly could. See the map in the link below to see just how many Maya ruins there are on the Yucatan peninsula.

You can find cars on Kayak.com from Budget, Alamo, National and Dollar Rent a Car for under ten dollars a day. This gives you the freedom to go when you want and return when you want. You can use the buses to get around, but you're tied to their schedule and your Spanish has to be pretty good so you understand when the announcer says you bus is loading.

If you take the tour buses, they'll pick you up at your hotel, give you a meal and a tour guide for you money. But you'll only find tour buses going to Chichen Itza, Tulum and maybe Coba. So if you want to see more than that, rent a car.

They have tourist buses that go to the sites but then you are locked into their schedule .

I rented a car but a vw bug without AC was the price of a Cadillac rental in the US .

But that was a couple of years ago , check current pricing .

The places are way tooooo far apart to walk or even bicycle .

There are guides at Chichenitza that you can hire to travel with you or just show you the local site deeper into the jungle than the tourist bus goes .

Also , you can stay on the plane all the way to Cozumel and just take the ferry back to Playa del Carmen .

Just make sure you are ready for the climb to the top of the pyramid .

( actually the trip down it is really more of a challenge ! )

enjoy

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Cancun was my worst vacation ever, avoid that hell hole like the plague. If you don't rent a car you will be forced to pay for expensive, dirty cabs or worse, ride the unaircontioned public buses with the locals or the frequently hammered tourist. If you plan to travel there in the summer, it is too hot to walk any distance at all. In short, Cancun sucks camel dick.