Asrit & Jason
Things To Do
Centro
This is the center of the city, with lots of restaurants, bars, and beautiful architecture. Centro is one of the largest historic districts in Latin America. It is about a 10 minute drive from the hotel.
Paseo 60
Hip, contemporary complex with global eateries around a lively courtyard. It is less then a 5 minute walk from the hotel.
El Barrio Comfort Food
Small little breakfast spot we went to, the food was amazing! If you plan to go here make sure you go early. https://el-barrio.meitre.com/
La Negrita Cantina
One of the oldest bars in Merida, it has great live music and cheap drinks! It is about a 5 - 10 minute Uber from the hotel.
Dulcería y Sorbetería Colón
Dulcería y Sorbetería Colón is a company founded in 1907, in Mérida, Yuc. Mexico. Family tradition has offered tropical fruit sorbets with original recipes. To visit this establishment and enjoy its products is to know part of the most deeply rooted traditions among Yucatecans and visitors to this city. There are several locations in the city
Crabster
If you want some good seafood, this is the place to visit! it is located in Paseo 60. It is less than a 5 minute walk from the hotel.
Bike Ride on Sundays
On Sundays Mérida closes its main street, giving a chance for cyclists to enjoy downtown on two wheels without any cars or trucks. you can rent bikes along the street on Sunday, from 8am to noon.
Monumento a La Patria
Circular, Mayan-style homage to Mexican history by Colombian artist Rómulo Rozo & lit up at night.
Montejo 495
One of Mérida’s Casas Gemelas, or Twin Mansions, is now a museum, with its first-floor open to the public. All the original furniture from the 1911 residential marvel is intact. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m Thursday-Sunday.
Progreso
A small beach town about 45 minutes outside of Merida.
Archaeological Site of Mayapan
Mayapán Archaeological Site was the last Great City of the Mayan Peninsula and head of the Mayapan League made up of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. About an hour outside of the city.
Cenote X'batun
A pair of cenotes, or underwater caves, set in a forest with deep pools popular for swimming & diving. About an hour outside of the city.
Chichén-Itzá
About an hour and forty five minutes outside of Merida. Chichén Itzá is a complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A massive step pyramid, known as El Castillo or Temple of Kukulcan, dominates the ancient city, which thrived from around 600 A.D. to the 1200s. Graphic stone carvings survive at structures like the ball court, Temple of the Warriors and the Wall of the Skulls.