This page covers various ways to get from the CUN airport to the retreat. The most common (and highly-recommended) way is to rideshare with other dancers. Regardless of the way you choose, please complete the travel form once you’ve registered and have booked your travel to Mexico. Thanks!

Coordinating a ride with other dancers

Details coming soon…

At camp, you can also coordinatie rideshares to the airport for the end of your trip.

Arranging your own ride

By taxi or private car

• The best rate we’ve found online is to pre-arrange a ride using the transportation page on the Cancun International Airport website.
• Avoid hailing a taxi at the airport. Some people have been charged as much as triple ($90 yikes!). In fact, in an attempt to lessen the badgering, the airport has made it “illegal” to hail a cab at the curb. They (and we) highly recommend pre-arranging your ride.
• Never use a credit card with a taxi driver at the airport! They’ll say it didn’t work and send you to someone else, but in reality they just stole your card info or successfully charged a bunch to your card.

By bus/taxi combination

There no longer is a bus that goes from the airport directly to PM! Getting to PM by bus is still possible, but it takes a minimum of two hours by either:

• Taking an ADO bus north from the airport through traffic to downtown Cancun, walking across the street, getting on a Playa Express bus to Playa del Carmen (driving right back through the same traffic jam past the airport), getting off at Puerto Morelos, then taking a taxi or the collectivo from the highway to your accommodations.
• Taking an ADO bus south from the airport (driving right past Puerto Morelos) to downtown Playa del Carmen, getting on a Playa Express bus to Cancun, getting off at Puerto Morelos, then taking a taxi or the collectivo from the highway to your accommodations.

There is a taxi/collectivo stand on the east side of the highway (around the corner from where the northbound buses stop).

By rental car

The Cancun airport is modern, on par with typical US domestic airports, complete with an in-airport rental car center. Check with your own car insurance company to see if your policy covers you while in Mexico.

By train

The Tren Maya is fully operational, but only runs from Cancun south twice a day. There’s a free shuttle from the airport to the train station and it costs 130 pesos to take the train to PM. Then it’s another 250 pesos for a taxi from the train station to the beach village.

If you are trying to do it really on the cheap, you possibly can walk from the Puerto Morelos train station out to the road and wait for the collectivo (but we know how that can go…). Unless you are gonna use the collectivo, it’s cheaper (and a heck of a lot faster) to take a prearranged taxi door to door.