Tulum airport to Tulum town costs 175 pesos on the ADO coach, priced at launch, or over 1,000 pesos in a taxi. Coach times, the train, rentals, and what runs after dark.
The SMN is watching three areas of the Atlantic for cyclone development. None threatens the coast, but the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is entering its most active stretch.
Federal figures put dengue in Quintana Roo at 196 confirmed cases, eight of them severe, while chikungunya returns after a year without a single infection.
Numbeo puts rent, power, internet, and a phone in Tulum at 12,430 pesos a month. The rest of the cost of living in Tulum, priced line by line for 2026.
Tulum airport deportation flights returned at least 150 Mexicans last week. Most arrived without belongings or money, relying on family to buy the tickets that would get them home.
After more than 20 years of shared dives, a signed agreement now supports underwater archaeology in Quintana Roo, extending to Tulum's Hoyo Negro and the region's deepest flooded caves.
Cruz Roja paramedics confirmed both deaths. The two men found dead in Tulum lots have no names, no ages, and no cause of death, and prosecutors have not linked the cases.
Visitors say lots advertising free Tulum ruins parking honor the offer only if you buy a tour, a meal or a souvenir. Refuse, and they are asked to move the car.
Hotel occupancy has fallen more than 20 percent since May. The municipal tourism office is staking the Tulum tourism recovery on 40 cenotes, four winter routes and a Michelin pitch.
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Water up to four degrees warmer and a record sargassum season have put hard numbers on the Riviera Maya climate crisis and on the limits of Mexico's cleanup plan.
Tulum's environmental office is asking residents to stay calm after a wild feline in La Veleta appeared on security cameras, one of at least five recent wildlife sightings in the neighborhood.
The army's Grupo Mundo Maya hotels published their 2026 rate card. A night runs 1,155 pesos near Tulum airport in low season and 3,332 beside the ruins for the holidays.
The Tulum judo team from the municipal sports schools brought home 10 medals from a national tournament in Oaxaca, and one young athlete won two of them.
Crews clear sargassum in Tulum daily at Playa Conchitas, where sea turtle nests share the shoreline and the state has logged its heaviest season on record.
The municipality now hauls a third of what it collected in peak season, and public services links the fall in Tulum garbage collection directly to emptier hotels and restaurants.
Tulum tour touts still intercept cars at the ruins entrance and push 900-peso packages, months into a federal plan built on cheaper access and restored visitor trust.
Boxing in Tulum drew children and teenagers to the municipal sports complex on Sunday, part of a class that ran at more than 275 sites nationwide. The coaches are after habits, not titles.
State officials met the airport's administrator to plan the return of Tulum airport flights to Panama, Colombia and winter routes from Canada and Newark. Four international routes remain.
The Diablillas de Hondzonot put 15 runs on Selección Xuilub at home on Saturday and moved into the Zona Maya final against Piñeras de Chan Chen, on a date the league has yet to announce.
A sea turtle rescue in Tulum ended with a 220-kilogram green turtle back in the Caribbean after firefighters lifted it out of a hotel swimming pool.
A neighborhood Tulum reforestation project has spent four weekends replanting a stretch of avenida Satélite. Its organizers say the harder work begins once the planting stops.
Maya Train Section 5 gained two round trips this week, six months after a federal court ordered Profepa to inspect and protect the same stretch. Here is what that order requires.
Quintana Roo has pulled more than 105,000 tons of sargassum from its coast in 2026, already past last year's record. Tulum remains among the beaches with the heaviest accumulations.
Federal fees changed on July 17, and the Tulum ruins entrance fee now runs 80 pesos for Mexicans and 265 for foreigners. Sellers working the highway turnoff have no say in it.
The Tulum Lobster Festival brings four contests to Punta Allen and the town center on August 21, 22, and 23. Cooking entries close on Wednesday, and the top plate takes 4,000 pesos.
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