Quieter Mexican AI holiday?

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Which area is the less lively part of Mexico?
is it Riviera Maya? I think Cancun is louder?
Looking for a fly and flop holiday for 2 adults and DCs aged 14 and 16.
Want to avoid massive, high rise hotels.

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What you want doesn’t seem to fit well with AI in Mexico tbh as you won’t be able to do adults only

We stayed in Playacar which might fit the bill. Could still walk into Playa del Carmen if you wanted but the resort was quieter.

I loved Isla Mujeres too but was very much backpacking round there so can't comment on what the AI holidays would be like

Does it have to be Mexico? Have you considered Playa Blanca in Lanzarote? quiet enough compared with Puerto del Carmen, a four hour flight (from UK), great weather, no high rise, and you are covered for emergency health care on the Brexit thinggy. Same language, different grub maybe, but if going AI you will really only see the sea and the sunbed if you want to fly and flop!

We stayed at Akumal Bay on the Riviera Maya. Flopped on the beach, swam with turtles and you could walk down the beach to the nearest small town 1km away which was lovely to not be completely 'locked in'. Went out to a Mayan temple and Xcaret which was fab.

Food was amazing, smaller pools to the sides, hot tub on the terrace and only a two or three storey hotel. It wasn't stupidly expensive either.

www.akumalbayresort.com

Plenty of lovely AIs in Mexico. The further away from Cancun you get, the quieter the hotel - Akumal as mentioned above is quiet, I’ve stayed at Marriott Casa Magna in Cancun and it is centre but not party-ish. Don’t know if it’s AI as I am there with work. On holiday I have stayed at Dreams Puerto Moreles - hell on Earth if you want a quiet holiday, and Sandos Caracol, which was OK. My best experiences in Mexico though have been staying in local hotels and cabanas. You have to go to local restaurants for food, which means you get to eat Mexican food instead of beige hotel food, and have your margaritas mixed by a bar tender using decent tequila and served to you in a glass instead of a gloopy mix slopped out of a ready mix jug into a plastic cup.

I’d also say that lovely though the Mexican Yucatan coast is, check out the seaweed situation at the time of year you want to go. Often Cancun and Isla Mujeres are free of it while playa del Carmen and Tulum are overwhelmed. I took my family in peak seaweed (and hurricane) season and it didn’t bother us as we were there for the archaeological sites, the jungle, the cenotes, wildlife tours, boat trips and the adventure parks, but if you’d gone just to sit on a beach you would have been disappointed. We had a fabulous time! Our most enjoyable AI experience was going to Xel-Ha for the day. Lovely place.

Cozumel is fairly chilled If you want AI. Although I agree, if you’re only laying round pool/ beach it’s a long way to go & you might as well stay in Europe.

Tulum was nice

Make sure you don't go during Spring Break, lots of hotels in Mexico get overrun with students