San Gervasio — Local services in Isla Cozumel

I've been to Chichen Itza and after visiting San Gervasio, I can say that Mexico does a terrible job protecting their heritage sites.

Before you even see any of the park, there's a pharmacy selling supposed Viagra and other medications. Imagine going to a US national park and being met with a sketchy pharmacy instead of you know... a museum about the history of the place.

There's a bunch of hawker stalls and you have to get your photo taken with some guy dressed as an ancient Mayan.

You need two tickets - one local to just get through the hawker stalls so that you can get to the federally run ticket booth to get into the park. What a rip off.

The park is totally inaccessible to people with mobility issues as the ground has uneven walkways and random plant matter strewn over the walkway to the ticket booth.

People legit just walk over and on the ruins. No brochure. Some signs were partially buried in the dirt. Other ruins didn't have signs of if they did, they weren't easily found. It was hard to know what was the beginning of a ruin vs just a poor walkway they created for this park.

We came as part of an excursion with Celebrity Cruises. There were 6 ships in port and it was like a madhouse as apparently they let as many tour groups come at once as possible. Timed entry would be better so that it's not just a bazillion people all at once.

Once you leave, you have to go past the hawker stalls again and they try to sell you the photo that they took earlier. It just feels like a cheap & not very educational experience.

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