Plaza Caracol — Attraction in Cancún

I really liked this mall and it deserves way more customers. I wandered in after getting a drink at Starbucks and was absolutely surprised how large it was!

I see many comparisons to the Flea Market in the reviews, but I vastly prefer this mall. It is much less noisy and chaotic and I didn’t find the shopkeepers here nearly as pushy and annoying. It’s a bit sad since many of the storefronts are empty, but they have turned the mostly empty second floor into an art gallery. (All affordable art (under ~$500 USD for original paintings) but I don’t really want to figure out how to ship a painting home)

Some reviewers say it’s all just souvenirs, but there were a few really nice shops in there too. There was also a photographer who had a storefront with absolutely gorgeous photos of Mexico. I took his card to order something shipped to me at a later date. There was another shop with beautiful amber jewelry. A “natural” store with nice beach covers and carved hair combs.

From one of the jewelry shops, I bought a pearl bracelet and earrings for $20 USD which is a price I’m perfectly happy with. Prices seemed in line with other shopping areas and I felt the staff was friendlier and would probably be happy to haggle (the man I bought the earrings from admitted that I was his first customer of the day and he came down $5 on the set when I seemed most interested in the earrings)

This mall definitely deserves...

A lot of things to buy for souvenirs but don’t pay what they ask always try to get a better price cuz they ask you three times more than what actually cost Don’t take any tours from there cuz is fake they take the money and is no trip for you We were walking around and some guy stops us saying that he has the best deals in town he actually offered us a full day trip to Mayan ruins for $50 dollars each person Be aware of scams If you buy things try to pay with credit card or pesos cuz if you pay with dollars they don’t give the best exchange rate Be aware that in some places they will denied to take credit cards cuz they’re going to...

I wish they made this and Mayfair plaza back to the way it was where it had all the original stores and outside walking with the stores it was very authentic. These developers are completely changing CANCUN. It's so Americanized Cancun was much better 20-30 years ago 🇲🇽❤️😔. And I have property there for the past 25 years at Solymar. So I seen the change over all these...