"Life's a Beach"

 Mexicans celebrate New Year's Eve by eating a grape with each of the twelve chimes of a clock's bell during the midnight countdown, while making a wish with each one. Mexican families decorate homes and parties in colors that represent wishes for the upcoming year: red encourages an overall improvement of lifestyle and love, ...

This month marks an historic moment for Mayan world!  December 21, 2012 marks the beginning of a new period called a baktun on the Mayan calendar.  The new baktun is an opportunity for improvement, a chance to start things afresh according to the Mayan.  It is the end of one Mayan "world".... and the ...

This holiday season have a blast, get your heart rate up, get your groove on and help raise money for Christmas Dreams Playa!  BuyPlaya Real Estate Advisors and FurnitureMex are sponsoring this high energy event to raise money for local disabled and impoverished youth throughout the Riviera Maya region.  100% of the proceeds generated ...

Here are a couple other Thanksgiving Suppers, Buffets and Events going on in Playa del Carmen! Woody's Bar and Grill invite you to join them on Thursday November 22nd at 5:00pm to Eat, Drink and be Thankfull!     Fancy up for Casa del Agua's Turkey Dinner! Reserve a spot by contacting them here!     Lol-Ha ...

This looks like a lot of fun "Siente el Corazon de Playa" - A good old fashioned street fair with vendors, artists, photography, musicians and more! The event will be held in Parque Fundadores (Av.Juarez and the beach near the ferry dock) on Saturday April 21. For more information visit the Grupo Quinta webpage.    

Mark you calendars for  March 9th from 5:30 -7:00 pm for a SILENT AUCTION to support Hekab Be Biblioteca de Akumal.Held at the Lol Ha Beach Bar during Happy Hour, the auction will feature the paintings of well-known muralist Oscar Romero and other artists, hand crafts from Bali, Indonesia and Panama. Hekab Be Library promotes literacy and ...

The Hekab Be Library Christmas Party will be on Monday, December 19th at 3 p.m.! There will be singing by the kids, a pinata, food and of course, Santa! Please join us if you are in town!    

Quinta Entertainment & Tourist Guide, the Riviera Maya Hotel Association, the Department of Tourism of Solidaridad, Mamitas Beach Club,  the Riviera Maya Tourist Board, Sam's Club and Coca Cola invite you to partcipate in this exciting event as local Playenses, businesses, schools and other organizations attempt to create The Longest ...

The festival of Santa Lucia begins on the 13th of December, which under the old Julian calendar, used in Sweden until 1753, was Christmas Day and the longest, darkest night of the year. Traditionally, throughout Sweden, the eldest daughter of the family, known as the "Lucia Bride", comes to ...

The town of Tulum is now growing rapidly and with it the population of urban "wildlife", homeless cats and dogs left to fend for themselves on the streets. The methods used for the past 10 years for animal control in Tulum have not been effective to any measurable degree. The time has come to change the strategies and to rectify the ...