Jackson Lindsay - Local Knowledge Travel Guides for Playa Del Carmen, Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Mexico

Unique and innovative, Local Knowledge Travel Guides contains an indispensable collection of places to eat, drink, swim, shop, dive, fish, walk, or just about anything when visiting from your next charter, cruise ship or private itinerary. Our goal is to give you the most complete, honest and unbiased selection of the best vendors and activities each location has to offer, whether your visit is for eight hours or for one week. From the hidden to the not-so hidden secrets, we recognize that this is your vacation and our only allegiance is to you and your trip. We are not sponsored by any vendor, every shop, bar, restaurant, stretch of beach, dive shop or other facility is mentioned because it deserves to be here due to excellence or it's representation of the community. We do our best to offer you long standing sites in each community and not flashes in the pan, because they can be just that. All research is done anonymously, we accept no free drinks, meals, fishing, snorkeling trips or any other type of encouragement to include businesses in these pages.

Having been carefully assembled by its author after 30 years of visiting the area, the author also utilizes countless interviews and friendships with local divers, ex-pats, fishermen and vendors to come up with the best, the most fun and some hidden gems in each location. Like never before, know places that will fit your style for food and drink, romantic beaches, quiet shopping spots or top notch silver your first day, without fumbling around with questionable suggestions. Our unique format of categorizing activities from, most romantic restaurants for an evening meal to finest wine selections, great spots for a quiet late night cocktail, best family restaurants, best margaritas, live music & dancing, best spots for a quiet jog or sunrise, finest jewelry, swimsuit or tequila selections, to local art, beach-accessible snorkeling, golf courses, dive shops, bicycle rentals and over 70 more categories puts you the reader in control upon arrival. Too many first visits to unfamiliar ports can be met with disappointment and costly delays by simply not knowing where to go or wasting time with generic guide books. Local Knowledge focuses on activities in each community and is a compilation of favorite suggestions from people who have been there, done that. Carry it with you in your back pocket, read and enjoy, study it on the boat, plane or taxi and have an excellent time. Go explore, you're sure to discover even more.

Beautiful color photographs, maps and authoritative information will lead you to the vacation you deserve. Always feel free to e-mail us with any suggestions, new places you might like to recommend, unfortunate and rare closings of vendors mentioned in these pages or anything else for that matter. Most importantly, have a blast and please pass this site and book information along to anyone who might be considering a visit to the splendors of the Riviera Maya.