Cenote Santa Cruz was good, bad, and great... the entrance sign says the cuota is 35 pesos for the cenotes but they required 50. There is a restaurant and activities such as ziplining, as well as cabins and I think camping, but we focused on the cenotes. They are not maintaining the bathrooms very well even though the restaurant looked nice. The ziplines were in very good condition but they were very basic. They provided life preservers which were almost new and the paths for walking are very well marked. While the primary cenote is obvious, the second small cenote entrance is not marked ... and if there are additional cenotes here, we missed them. The large cenote is not very impressive. Possibly because many people were here earlier in the day , the water was not as clear as other cenotes and this has become a very commercialized cenote. There is a boat on the water which we used (no one made us pay ro use it) and I noticed a yellow rope at the far side of the cenote which entered the water ... so I put my mask and snorkel on and investigated! It turns out, if you are able to hold your breath long enough and swim upside down in order to avoid scraping your body against the stone cavern, it is possible to reach another cavern. This is actually the second cenote! IMHO reaching the second cenote in this manner is FAR MORE IMPRESSIVE than later when we walked down the stairs to reach the deep cenote. First, this second cenote is very small, and the area with deep water is not much larger than one meter by two meters. Second, the thrill of the risk while swimming through the water cavern and excitement of first exploration results in a lot of excitement when I saw I was going tho be able to reach the next cavern with air. Third, my view of the cavern when my head popped out of the water was AMAZING! While the cavern is interesting, when you descend fron the stairs, you do not see quite as much of the beauty ... I suppose this is because the carven is more pristine where the deep cenote is because fewer people reach it ... there is a short walk in very shallow water ro reach the deeper water. Only one of my 7 friends walked in the water and she did not enter the deeper water (where I previously...
Read moreOops - researched wrong Cenote Santacruz and stayed in the terrible (and way too expensive!) cabana with 4 bunk beds and 2 doubles (only 3 of us). Features mentioned in review of 5 months ago still present - creepy cross, dirty floor, broken window screens, machete, and spiders - including a long dead tarantula in the cupboard, left perhaps for atmosphere. Holy smokes, some review make the Cenote itself sound like paradise! But really… it’s a small cenote easy access stairs. It has a cool short tunnel to swim through to a widening of the tunnel (“2nd cenote”) where there are cool rock formations and a steep staircase up to a small opening. That’s it. And we only shared it with a very nice Tabascan couple. For our visit I would rate it 2 stars. If you shared with a big group, like what we saw the following morning, it would be considerably less pleasant. Pool is very large and nice. Chairs and palapa huts and bar. Narrow patio. After we settled and ordered beer the staff turned on blaring music. After enduring several songs I had them turn off. They seemed very miserable with or without music. Restaurant ok. Prices not too high. Hit and miss whether nice background traditional music or pop Mexican music turned up too high. Toilets poor with seats broken off. Sign said entrance MXN135 but we stayed onsite in overpriced cabana, so didn’t pay separate...
Read moreYo fui con mi novio con el paquete de 1 noche con 2 días, nos alojamos en los palafitos y fue una experiencia muy hippie muy bonita, de terror porque ese día llovió en la tarde/noche con truenos, sin embargo no se filtró agua en los palafitos y no sentimos mosquitos aunque afuera obvio si había muchos bichos, había un sapo en la ducha jajajaja pero el baño si estaba limpio, igual tenía miedo de que se nos apareciera un Alux porque si estábamos en medio de la nada!!! ya que la salida hasta la avenida estaba muy alejado, de igual manera había un sendero que conectaba con la otra área de los cenotes, ya que que está aparte el área de los palafitos era zona privada a diferencia del otro lado, la verdad es para vivir una experiencia selvática, relajación total, quiero mencionar que el palafito es amplio si cabemos 2 personas y sobra un poco de espacio para meter mochilas y bolsas, si enfría el aire acondicionado solo que hace mucho ruido. Si recomendaría que diario alguien entre temprano para que limpie las piscinas ya que habían bichos, limpien los cenotes, lo que si se me hace extraño que en los cenotes no hay peces cosa que un cenote natural si los tienen. Lo que sí me encantó es que era total privacidad totalmente solos en los terrenos porque nos levantamos temprano al día siguiente para bañarnos en los cenotes y piscinas, el cual caminamos por el sendero escondido para llegar a esa área, ya que cuando hay gente no se disfruta nada, y me gustó que no había trabajadores, nadie literal, pura naturaleza, total libertad y se sintió muy bonito por la confianza que te dan y que no te están vigilando y fastidiando como en algunos lugares. La verdad si recomiendo la experiencia de alojarse ahí en los palafitos para quienes les gusta la naturaleza y vivir algo diferente ya que son pocos los lugares que te dan libertad y un alojamiento así como cabaña
✅A mejorar: Limpieza/mantenimiento de las piscinas y cenotes.
Mantenimiento de los aires acondicionados de los palafitos
Verificar la luz y red wifi para que no se vaya
Más iluminación en los cenotes y donde se ubican los palafitos
La persona que se hospeda en el área de los palafitos (guardia) que esté más pendiente de lo que necesitan los huéspedes y de las instalaciones
La comida buffet estaba equis si deja mucho que desear no se sentía así casero y debería de incluir refresco
La tirolesa solo te lo incluyen 1 vez
Los...
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