Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
A Maya site on the northern edge of Cancún near Puerto Juárez, settled from about AD 300 and at its height between the 11th and 16th centuries as a port on the coast. Its pyramid, El Castillo, about 12.5 metres high, stands among smaller temples, plazas and palaces.
An aquarium in the La Isla shopping centre in the Hotel Zone, on the Nichupté lagoon. Its tanks show fish, rays, turtles and sharks of the Mexican Caribbean, with a touch pool and programmes in which visitors meet dolphins and sea lions.
A bar and restaurant of the Señor Frog's chain on the Nichupté lagoon at Punta Cancún in the Hotel Zone, serving Mexican food and drinks, with music, a dance floor and evening parties.
A show nightclub at Punta Cancún in the Hotel Zone, opened in 1997, where the evening mixes music, acrobats, aerial acts and tribute numbers to films and singers on several stages over the dance floor.
More than 500 cement sculptures placed on the seabed off Cancún, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc from 2009 onwards, by Jason deCaires Taylor and other artists, to draw divers away from the natural reefs and give corals a new place to grow. They are seen on snorkel and dive trips or from glass-bottomed boats.
A museum of the INAH in the Hotel Zone, opened in 2012, with three halls of Maya objects from Quintana Roo and the rest of the Maya region, including finds from underwater caves. Its grounds hold the Maya site of San Miguelito, a group of small temples and palaces in the forest.
A Maya site in the Hotel Zone, between the lagoon and the sea at kilometre 18 of Boulevard Kukulcán, at its height from about 1200 until the Spanish conquest. Platforms, temples and palaces line two long plazas, and iguanas live among the stones.
A public beach on the open Caribbean side of the Hotel Zone, at kilometre 18 of Boulevard Kukulcán, with no hotel on its sand. A viewpoint above it holds the large painted Cancún letters, and the Maya site of El Rey lies across the road.
A park on the rocky southern tip of Isla Mujeres, across the bay from Cancún, built around the Garrafón reef. Visitors snorkel and kayak along the reef, cross a zip line over the water and walk on to Punta Sur, the island's southern cliff.
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