Hi! I stumbled upon your video since I am currently trying to decide whether to go to Tulum or PDC. Do you have any updates on how Tulum is currently on 2023? I heard Tulum is more expensive and also unsafer. However, like I saw on some of your previous comments. Everywhere is unsafe now.. heck.. the US is unsafer now these days. We have a 7month old and we speak fluent Spanish and I was leaning more towards Tulum until I started reading some reviews but I don’t know. I feel we can manage coming from South America which is exponentially unsafer.
Just keep in mind if you're planning on staying at the Hotel Xcaret which I HIGHLY recommend get ready to pay around $1,250/night for a family of 4 (2 adults/ 2 kids). It seems a little excessive but it includes all the parks by xcaret and the food inside the parks as well. Another option is staying at the brand new Nickelodeon Resort in the Riviera Maya, the kids fall in love with the waterpark.
We're not familiar with the shops in Tulum but where we live places like La Comer or Chedraui carry variety of healthy and international items. Thank you for watching :)
Tulum is very dangerous right now….seasoned Mexico vloggers have warned against visiting. How do you deal with this and bringing your kids somewhere kidnapping is a real problem?
Danger is everywhere - no matter where you go you need to be cautious. You need to be alert wherever you go and we never leave our boys sight. The kiddos are always with us and if one is away the other is near them. We are warned about everything and anything these days. Tulum is beautiful and definitely a must to visit :)
@@FlyKidsFly I ask because I'm genuinely curious about how to be this way. I just started emdr therapy for cptsd from childhood and I'd love to be able to release the anxieties that hold me in place. I want to take my kids to explore the world. I hear stuff like what's been going on in Tulum and just have a complete gut wrenching freeze moment where I think, NOPE. I was in Cancun last summer when I heard about an incident involving some tourists getting shot on the beach next to our resort, had nightmares. Canceled all future travel, we had plans for PV in spring. I hate it. I'm going to be missing out on those mariscos.... Thanks for your response! I'd love to hear more if you want to include on another video on how you operate the way you do, ie brave exploration and what kind of research you do before hitting up a place. Thank you!
@@bloodorangemoon Hi Laura it’s Paulina . Im sorry you’re going though this. I do suffer from anxiety and the best advice I can tell you is honestly being comfortable with being uncomfortable because nearly everything I do I overthink but if were to stop myself my family wouldn’t experience the adventures we do. The thing is everyone will have their opinion just how they say don’t go to Tulum many say GO to Tulum so why take the negative over the positive ? You know ? If you don’t try you’ll end up being upset you didn’t that’s a fact . Goodness PV is incredibly safe we live here and cannot be happier . I don’t know where you live but look at what unfortunate event happened in Michigan not too long ago? Does that stop you from sending your kids to school ? It might , but you know they need to go to school and get their education. Right? So for us it’s we go into everything open minded and disregard what others experience was especially if it’s something we truely believe will make us happy ;)
@@FlyKidsFly I live in pleasantville basically, inland socal, grew up in the worst gang hoods of San Diego though, huge difference. There was a tik tok threat for school hootingseys before winter break and even though logically I knew that my area, seriously pleasantville, was super safe my anxiety kept both kids home, I'm not on social media myself (cept YT) but there was an email that came out from the school the night before, ironically trying to reassure us. That's why I'm finally doing trauma based therapy. I've done talk therapy for close to two decades, but my brain is still wounded, so it's emdr now! Top neuroscientists are recommending that to really heal the brain. It is really great to hear someone who travels and lives life like you be vulnerable and share your own issues with anxiety. Often I watch other vloggers who travel Mexico and they seem mostly stoic about everything, even if they talk about dangers they don't always share their anxiety directly. I think, man, they're just ballsy! I have been to PV before in 2003, I've actually been all over baja too. I used to be braver before I had kids, that seemed to trigger my ptsd. Bizarre how the brain works!
Wowwww beautiful tulum 🇲🇽👍👋👋👍
Beautiful family. Your kids are going to grow up in an international vibe.
Thank you for the kind words! Saludos :)
hi.. guys.. great video... i know its been a year.. but any reccos for playa del carmen or cancun (non resort stays like Aloft etc)
Hi! I stumbled upon your video since I am currently trying to decide whether to go to Tulum or PDC. Do you have any updates on how Tulum is currently on 2023? I heard Tulum is more expensive and also unsafer. However, like I saw on some of your previous comments. Everywhere is unsafe now.. heck.. the US is unsafer now these days. We have a 7month old and we speak fluent Spanish and I was leaning more towards Tulum until I started reading some reviews but I don’t know. I feel we can manage coming from South America which is exponentially unsafer.
Great video guys!
Thanks so much! We had a wonderful time in Tulum!
Welcome enjoy 👋👍👍👍👍👍🇲🇽
Just keep in mind if you're planning on staying at the Hotel Xcaret which I HIGHLY recommend get ready to pay around $1,250/night for a family of 4 (2 adults/ 2 kids). It seems a little excessive but it includes all the parks by xcaret and the food inside the parks as well. Another option is staying at the brand new Nickelodeon Resort in the Riviera Maya, the kids fall in love with the waterpark.
Well if you stayed in a hotel.on the hotel strip....they all have kids clubs, pool with slides and play parks etc! So what you are saying is not true
How weird I just watched house hunters international lat night and this couple was looking for a house!
I’m physically in Vallarta but mentally in Tulum haha 😂 que hermoso es Tulum 😍 y que ¡bella familia!
Hay gracias ! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Do they happen to have easy access to specialty foods in that area? Gluten free and dairy free? Thanks for these vids!!
We're not familiar with the shops in Tulum but where we live places like La Comer or Chedraui carry variety of healthy and international items. Thank you for watching :)
Yes LOtS of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and options in their menus
I have a friend who visits the area often and she said Tulum is full of the cartel and you can tell according to her.
If you wanna avoid cartels, don't buy drugs and don't go to strip clubs.
@@FlyKidsFly they definitely don’t do that stuff nor do we but she said it was obvious in the city.
@@Blessednesting did she give you any specific examples? Why do they keep going back?
@@FlyKidsFly I’d have to ask her but they go to various areas nearby and she just mentioned that in Tulum it cartel was more obvious basically.
Tulum is very dangerous right now….seasoned Mexico vloggers have warned against visiting. How do you deal with this and bringing your kids somewhere kidnapping is a real problem?
Danger is everywhere - no matter where you go you need to be cautious. You need to be alert wherever you go and we never leave our boys sight. The kiddos are always with us and if one is away the other is near them. We are warned about everything and anything these days. Tulum is beautiful and definitely a must to visit :)
@@FlyKidsFly I ask because I'm genuinely curious about how to be this way. I just started emdr therapy for cptsd from childhood and I'd love to be able to release the anxieties that hold me in place. I want to take my kids to explore the world. I hear stuff like what's been going on in Tulum and just have a complete gut wrenching freeze moment where I think, NOPE. I was in Cancun last summer when I heard about an incident involving some tourists getting shot on the beach next to our resort, had nightmares. Canceled all future travel, we had plans for PV in spring. I hate it. I'm going to be missing out on those mariscos.... Thanks for your response! I'd love to hear more if you want to include on another video on how you operate the way you do, ie brave exploration and what kind of research you do before hitting up a place. Thank you!
@@bloodorangemoon Hi Laura it’s Paulina . Im sorry you’re going though this. I do suffer from anxiety and the best advice I can tell you is honestly being comfortable with being uncomfortable because nearly everything I do I overthink but if were to stop myself my family wouldn’t experience the adventures we do. The thing is everyone will have their opinion just how they say don’t go to Tulum many say GO to Tulum so why take the negative over the positive ? You know ? If you don’t try you’ll end up being upset you didn’t that’s a fact . Goodness PV is incredibly safe we live here and cannot be happier . I don’t know where you live but look at what unfortunate event happened in Michigan not too long ago? Does that stop you from sending your kids to school ? It might , but you know they need to go to school and get their education. Right? So for us it’s we go into everything open minded and disregard what others experience was especially if it’s something we truely believe will make us happy ;)
@@FlyKidsFly I live in pleasantville basically, inland socal, grew up in the worst gang hoods of San Diego though, huge difference. There was a tik tok threat for school hootingseys before winter break and even though logically I knew that my area, seriously pleasantville, was super safe my anxiety kept both kids home, I'm not on social media myself (cept YT) but there was an email that came out from the school the night before, ironically trying to reassure us. That's why I'm finally doing trauma based therapy. I've done talk therapy for close to two decades, but my brain is still wounded, so it's emdr now! Top neuroscientists are recommending that to really heal the brain.
It is really great to hear someone who travels and lives life like you be vulnerable and share your own issues with anxiety. Often I watch other vloggers who travel Mexico and they seem mostly stoic about everything, even if they talk about dangers they don't always share their anxiety directly. I think, man, they're just ballsy! I have been to PV before in 2003, I've actually been all over baja too. I used to be braver before I had kids, that seemed to trigger my ptsd. Bizarre how the brain works!
Hello can you please tell me the car rental company you used ?