Has anyone been to cancun in the last couple of years,

Im looking to go back out there later this year, and been told that there beachs have been ruined by the hurricains in the area. The pure white sand has been washed away and all there is shingle and pebbles, i can go to southend for that.

I went out there 5 years ago and they was some of the best beaches ive seen.

Has anyone else seen the beaches, is it true.....?

They still look white from google earth

[Edited on 5/3/09 by grusks2]

My cottage doesn't have the extension we have been enjoying for years on Google Earth!

I think Acapulco did better.

Don't know about Cancun, but the local media here in Canada are warning University students and others of major chriminal and drug problems all over Mexico of late, several Canadians have been murdered there in past years.

it was all back to normal shortly afterwards was out there again not long after the blow..cheers les g

Within days of Hurricane Wilma, a team from Belgium-based Jan De Nul Group arrived to survey the damage. Shortly after, a crew of 220 people began working on restoring Cancun's beautiful beaches.

55,000 cubic meters of sand was dredged up a few kilometers north, where surveys showed most of the sand had been pushed to by the storm. The sand was then transported back to the hotel strip and pumped through a massive pipe back onto the shoreline extending the present beach from 70 ft. to an average of 140 ft.

Interestingly the Jan De Nul Group is the company that built the beaches and foundation for the Palm Islands in Dubai. Work on the Cancun beaches was completed in April, 2006. Since then there has been no direct hits on Cancun from any major weather storm systems.

Phil

Bournemouth - no Mexican bandits there.

Up north we go to Seaton Carew or Crimdon Dene for the beach then call into chiqito's on way home.
All very civilised and locost. Maybe not as sunny though.


La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, we like our burrito's.

La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, we like our burrito's. La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, La cucuracha, we like our burrito's.

Shake your maraca's. Oooh. Wash youir windows shake your bum!


BTW - no drugs or war lords here either. And if there are they are mostly friendly and eat same food as us. Probs keep themselves to the outskirts where the flat cap shops and whippet kiosks are.

[Edited on 6/3/09 by DarrenW]