Mexico's Best Paradise? Isla Holbox aka Holbox Island | Punta Caliza
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2024
- Welcome to Holbox Island in Mexico! Isla Holbox is a small little paradise and an amazing island with a really special feel. Is it the next Tulum? The best paradise? Golf carts you say? ⬇ 🏠 Punta Caliza is the name of the hotel we stayed at, check out pricing and reviews here - geni.us/QUFSzR
Mexico is full of beautiful scenery and stunning beaches, but everyones version of paradise is a little different. From our experience so far, Isla Holbox is as close to paradise in Mexico as we've found and a lot more our style than the likes of Tulum or Cancun. Holbox Island is relatively small, a bit difficult to reach and has the risk of being over populated in the wrong seasons - but from our experience it all fell into place for the better. Our favourite place in Mexico.
Looking for hotel recommendations in Holbox? Punta Caliza is the name of the hotel we showed in the video, definitely an amazing place to stay, check out pricing and reviews here - geni.us/QUFSzR
Holbox Island is approximately 41.84 kilometres (26.00 miles) long and 1.5 kilometres (0.9 miles) wide, so it's easy to explore the whole thing in a few days. The best way to do that is with a golf cart, which is honestly such a fun way to explore.
Mexico is so large there's likely hundreds of places that tick similar boxes to Holbox, many that we've kept notes of from your recommendations in comments and messages, but Holbox will forever be a special little paradise for us.
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We're keeping a list of the amazing places you guys have been recommending! Any others we need to visit next time?
🏠 Punta Caliza is the name of the hotel we stayed at, check out pricing and reviews here - geni.us/QUFSzR
In your second visit do Oaxaca, Chiapas and Huasteca Potosina
@@ragrreesp4496 Done :)
I recommend Royal Hideaway Playa Car. 98 rooms great food 50 greatest hotel in world. Great beach when no seaweed. Walking distance to 5th ave in playa. Or Maroma Beach Your preferred resort. Excellence and Iberostar Grand are outstanding
I went for my honeymoon in November and stayed at Casa Las Tortugas. My husband and I loved being so close to the center of town. We walked everywhere and rented bikes to see more of the island. We would 100% go back in a heartbeat.
You two are totally adorbs! I started watching your videos about a month ago when I began planning my trip to the Balkans. Since then I've seen about 80% of your posts. The style evolution from your early stuff to this is dramatic and fun to witness. But all of it is entertaining and informative. I ❤ your vibes!
What a lovely comment! We're so glad you found us and have stuck around. Hoping you got some great ideas for your Balkans trip!
Love this video! Holbox looks so cute + fun + chill. I’ve never been but will be sure to now, thks!
Get there! It's awesome
It looks sooo beautiful there! Can't wait for your New Zealand vlogs :)
We're excited to share them!
Wow! It is a paradise. The beach is amazing with a white fine sandy beach. The weather looks very pleasant with cool breeze from north. It is a perfect time and weather to be at the place. I wish that I could just lying on the sandy beach.
Awesome! Yes! I also drove around the little town of Holbox and up the coast to Punta Mosquito, the sunsets are amazing here! Will be returning here this year 2020! Keep up the great work with your videos!
Sounds like you've seen more of the coast than us! Enjoy your 2020 return
Loved the relaxed vibe of this video. I really felt your enjoyment of your visit. I'm happy you had such a cool experience! 😎 Happy New Year and many more happy trails to you both.
We're glad that came across Carol - definitely a little paradise!
My wife and I travel a few times a year to Mexico.. I do not recommend actually staying on the island. The island is a true gem however we must not forget how fragile it is. Flamingos hermit crabs Dolphins The beach of pure white shells. The best way to see Holbox for first time is take a day trip like holbox magico. It takes you all around island by private boat and is like 100 bucks a person from playa or cancun about 3 hour trip to lil port town. 1 day is plenty I reccomes staying in playacar. and book a trip to holbox see the awesome mini islands and cenotes.
That is so awesome. So cute. I want to go here. Good video. Thanks for sharing. Love that the roads are not paved.
Some people didn't like that part of it, but we think it's all part of the character really
@@DanegerAndStacey I like that. It's very unique and authentic. Seems like a great place to visit.
Great vlog as always guys, looks pure bliss there!
Absolutely! So relaxing
Happy New Year!! Definitely a gem! I think this is absolutely my type of place. The golf cart was the perfect mode of transport for this location. It's going to be really interesting to compare this with the all inclusive resort in the next episode. Great the way you guys provide real contrast in your vlogs:)
Huge contrast from one to the other, thats for sure! We know which one we'd pick 😝
Happy New Year to both. Loved your videos throughout the year!
Thanks, Bob. Hope you had a great holiday period
Stalker love is still strong in 2020. Your avid fan from the PH 🇵🇭now back in VN 🇻🇳. While I was away, I went to 🇹🇼and 🇲🇲and now that I am back, will put you both on repeat. Happy 2020 to my fave travel duo. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Some awesome adventures you've been having!! Welcome back
For me the best beach in Mexico is Maruata Michoacán Is a hidden gem and it's not as recognized as a tourist destination .
Thanks for the heads up!
Tshhhhhh... Guárdalo los secretos.
No lo divulgues que los hoteleros no se enteren que irán a destruirlo!!!
Always enjoy seeing your smiling faces and hearing about your adventures!
Lots more adventures to share!
So cool..and so chill, indeed. Paradise!
Hope it stays that way!
Lovely video! Thank you guys! What time of year did you go? The weather and skies look amazing
Really it seems like a paradise☺️ have fun 😉
It definitely is!
Wow.i live for such beaches .cant wait to go there
Loved this video! Amazing work
Also,drives in that golf car on the beach is definitely the dream
Wow, paradise! Happy 2020! 🎇🎆✨
Happy 2020!
I was born in Uruguay, but also Love Mexico!!!
Great People and food!!!
Thank You for the video. Love it! Looks like an amazing place
It was, a paradise! ❤️
Great video! It is indeed a beautiful place in Mexico. However, it’s the one place during my 4 week holiday in Mexico, I wouldn’t go back. I found it a bit boring after I did all the main activities on the island, and I didn’t wanna be on a beach every single day for hours since I spent quite a lot of time in other great beaches in Mexico. I was there 4 days ago, and there was a lot of seaweed and a really bad and strong smell on the beach so it wasn’t my favorite beach, and Punta Coco Playa which was meant to be really beautiful in my opinion looked A LOT better in photos than in real life. Holbox is definitely worth seeing once, and if you love chill places that’s the right place for you. La parrilla de Juan👌 recommended for dinner, there aren’t really many fancy places on the island, this restaurants looks very normal from the street but it was so TASTY.
Interesting! Crazy how polarising the views have been about Holbox, a few other people mentioning similar things as you actually... definitely surprised us to hear the other side.
Holbox is for going to relax, if you want to have "fun" all day long go to Disneyland.
This looks like such a beautiful place! I want to go! ✈️✈️
Book that flight!
Awesome chilled vid as usual guys, was there a few months back and it is a gem for sure! Hope they don’t put no big modern hotels into here anytime soon!
I like how they still made the nicer resorts out of wood to keep the island vibes 👌
Glad you liked it as well - seems like the reviews are really polarising, some people hate it
Omg this was the suite I stay in 😂 I love Holbox, is super relaxing and the hotel is amazing. I convince my boyfriend to stay there because the hotel appears in many architecture mazagines.
Glad you guys loved it as well!!
Isla Mujeres, North Beach for water clarity and deeper water. You can rent golf carts there too. Playa Tortugas Cancun is always pretty empty and totally amazing. Also, you have to go to Mazunte, Oaxaca and stay in a cabana there. That place is amazing
Cheers for the recommendations!
Happy New Year Daneger and Stacey!!!
Happy New Year!
We rented one of those golf carts when I was there. Very nice beaches. :)
Hope you loved it as much as us!
You should try Gili air in Indonesia, no cars or bikes either!
Check our IG stories today 🙀
Where were you when you made your Christmas video-the one you were wearing matching sweaters? Were you back in New Zealand? Thought you left Mexico?
Of all your years travels where was your favorite ad least liked places?
Yup, back in NZ! Still have a few Mexico videos. Its honestly impossible to pick a fav place, we've managed to find areas or experiences in them all that we like. Greece would be high on the list though.
México it's magical ❤️🇲🇽
Holbox was total commercialism in a disguise of dirt streets. We were told it was a refuge from all of the expensive commercial places in the Riviera Maya but we found it more expensive than many places in the Riviera Maya. We were so disappointed we actually left the island early.
Thats a real shame, sorry to hear that. Definitely no cheaper, we were never told that was the case, but it was a little paradise vs the chaos and business of the Riviera Maya in our view
@@DanegerAndStacey We spent 2 weeks in Puertos Morelos and loved it. Found it much less commercial than Holbox even.
¡viva México!
I was there about 3 years ago and no seaweed :) maybe the seaweed is the season. But yes it is shallow for aaaaages.
Aaaaaaaaages 🤣
We like a bit less touristy places, but this is a really place.
Great intro... just had to watch the vlog. Seems a curious place... I wonder though if you would every get back there? Struck me as on the "nearly" list. But then again that is based on a lot of different factors. Oh and as for all inclusive IMHO great if you have children but for grown ups I like the food I choose and the wine I enjoy rather than have an endless supply of someone else's good profit margin choice. Just sayin' so I am really looking forward to your next vlog :) Happy New Year :)
The all inclusive vid is up now! Once in Holbox is probably enough, but theres lots of other little paradises to find around Mexico that we'd probably prefer to discover on our next visit
Looks amazing 😁
How are the internet speeds there? Reliable enough to work/video conference on by chance? It would be so easy for us to get there from Vancouver, Canada.
Sadly, no. Holbox internet was pretty terrible everywhere we tried!
I've never been to Holbox, but the vibe looks a lot like Caye Caulker. Dan
Googling that now, Dan!
@@DanegerAndStacey I did a couple videos from our trip there last August on my channel... cheap plug. :p
Hello we want to travel to Holbox but we're afraid from Sargassum, are there at the beaches ?
It really depends on when you go, for us it was pretty much fine but others have reported it was terrible during their time
Sure is paradise 😊
While i know some things are based on personal preference...what do you think is a good number of days to spend there?
Looks idyllic! Googling it right now to see where it is 🤣
Haha hope you found it!
That looked like a true paradise guys. Unknown to the big public yet, in a romantic way it would be nice if it could stay like that. Thanks for sharing these chilled vibes :)
Thats the big question, will it stay that way or not... hopefully it does!
12k views in less than a week....
I doubt the sincerity of your, "hopefully" D and S.
Wow, 600 pesos is $31.73 American, and I don't think a pizza is that much anywhere in the states lol. Hey, say "vibe" as much as you want! How was Hakka? 🙌🙌🙌
Exactly! Shits getting crazy when you're charging that much for pizza
hey what time of year was this? thanks
One question...looks nice!!! In what month do you visit Holbox?
This was in November from memory
What time of year did you go?
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Guys is super cool that you like our country, but I would rather keeping Holbox a bit of a secret as there are many endangered species and this place cannot become a commercial area as it happened with Cancun. Please!!
I want to go to Mexico for my birthday, can you recommend a the best resort in Tulum and in Cancun for the price and food, by the way I dont eat meat so I wonder about the all inclusive meals. thanks
We've only had limited experience in each place so wouldn't feel confident to recommend the best places, sorry! Would hate to be responsible for ruining your birthday 🙈
@@DanegerAndStacey Respect!
Happy new year! Where to now? ;)
Looks beautiful but with all of that water around the housing structures, I see a breeding ground for mold.
¡CHIAPAS! ❤
No para nada no permitiremos que el turismo masivo destruya Holbox como lo ha hecho como con Tulum saludos y disfruten México
gorgeousito'
Try Koh Rong in Cambodia
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I absolutely love Holbox! It's not for the pretentious. For anyone that wants to be pampered & doesn't appreciate true beauty you should go elsewhere. 1:12
YES! Totally agree, it's a gem
Because of my line of work, I hear a lot about crime rates in Mexico, especially murder and other violent crime, for which Mexico holds the unenviable distinction of having the highest rates of any country in the world. Have you seen any of that on the ground? Is it safe to backpack around?
Just got back from a 10 day trip through the Rivera Maya ranging from Tulum-Holbox very safe in my experience plenty of hostels including in holbox. Air bnb is a very good option at times even less expensive than a hostel.
If you visit holbox don't miss the bioluminescent beaches absolutely amazing!
We've honestly not seen anything of the sort - it just depends on where you travel I suppose. The locations we visited all felt very safe.
You guy's are living a Carona commercial.. Lol. Im afraid to go to Mexico to dangerous. Yes it is nice though. Happy New Year
Haha. Honestly no real threats that we saw in Mexico at all, as long as youre still on the tourist route
Robert Maddelena you’re not living your life sir, that’s pathetic
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Nam hôtel 🏨 holbox?
No “glow in the dark “ water?
You’ve never spent $31 on a pizza?! Don’t go to portland, New York, LA or Chicago. Or do. Sounds like you need to get out more.
$31 for a pizza in Mexico is like $62 in the States. Don’t take everything so literally FFS.
@@DanegerAndStacey Fair price for any pizza with Lobster on it, which runs about $40 a pop
The next Tulum? So a bunch of Americans and Europeans are going to ruin the place.
Maybe... though no cars on Holbox which keeps it low key