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Arriving in Playa - worth the frustrations

  Jan 16 - 22 The flight out of Toronto was pretty much on time and uneventful and the new e-gate entry system at Cancun Arrivals was busy but moved quite quickly. The ADO bus delivered us to Playa for $250 pesos each (19 CAD). Immigration ticket from the e-gate Our AirBnB was a large, 2 bedroom, two-story house on a quiet street near Fifth Avenue and the beach. The first few days included visiting some familiar favorite restaurants, stocking up on water and  groceries, and going to the beach. The weather was occasionally uncooperative with rain The square at City Hall has been beautifully remodeled. 

Painful winter travel from the Prairies

Minus 30 degrees below zero apparently causes problems for aeroplanes in the Prairie provinces. We were scheduled to depart at 6.30am January 13th Saskatoon-Calgary-Cancun but received word of cancelation the day before. They rescheduled us to depart at 7.30pm  but added in an overnight stay in Vancouver (now SK-VAN-CAN). On Saturday morning we learned of yet another change, slightly better, to SK-Edmonton overnight-CAN, however by Saturday afternoon we got another notice of de-icing problems, crew delays, and departure changes upon which we would be updated within the hour. We waited for the update but no update came. Google informed us that our flight was canceled. Westjet had apparently abandoned us! At the same time, adding to our stress was that Nick was travelling with us but on a separate booking and his cancelations did not coincide with ours. First he would possibly land in Cancun before us, then with his reschedule he would lose almost a week of his vacation.  It was...