As beautiful as Mexico can be, one of the biggest concerns before visiting is about ‘general safety’. Understandably so too as there’s also no uniformity on this.
Safety tends to be tied to certain specific pockets so you could find one area is quite fine but the surrounding areas aren’t.
Anyway, thanks to this, when we first decided to visit the city of Merida in Mexico our first thoughts were about how safe it is to visit.
Thankfully, official websites all across the world regard Merida as the safest city in Mexico so that eased off a lot of worries and we could just focus on the important things, like where to stay.
That part was easy though.
We found a place called Decu Downtown that was an instant yes. There was only one problem though.
We needed the place for 4 nights but they had availability on the first two nights and then for one day, no availability at all.
The calendar then opened up the day after that and was available again.
So with that in mind, we ended up having to book another place for the remaining two nights.
I’ll show you that place in another post though. For now though, let me show you more from Decu Downtown.
One of my favourite things about this place is that there are only 8 rooms which means you kinda feel like you have a whole villa, complete with staff to tend to your every needs, all to yourself.
The only time we really saw anyone else was at breakfast when we were due to check out.
Originally it only had like 4 rooms and the extra 4 rooms are now an extension to it and it’s just such a lovely place to stay in the city.
Plus, it’s pretty centrally located so after we’d checked in and changed out of our travel clothes, we headed out to the city partly to acclimatise but also to find ourselves a late lunch.
The thing about walking around though is that it’s so distracting (in a very good way) and Merida just immediately felt so comfortable.
The whole vibe of the place felt like you were getting to explore a much more real side to Mexico than Cancun or Tulum (which is very easily done) but at a pace that was just so lovely and relaxed.
Oh and by the way, if you have any Spanish language skills or perhaps even less likely, any Yucatec…
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