Walking About Playa … A Picture Tour of Playa del Carmen

Archive for April, 2008

Let’s Hit the Beach

Today, we set out to have lunch at Bad Boys for their Wednesday special, Southern Fried Chicken. We had been planning this ever since we realized we missed it last Wednesday! There’s no real fried chicken around these parts, so I was totally psyched when I learned that Bad Boys had it on their menu. Upon arrival, I asked the waiter if they truly did had Southern Fried Chicken today. He assured me that they were serving today’s special. Yes! I could already taste the crunchy, greasy goodness!

We ordered margaritas. The marg on the left is a small marg on the rocks with fresh lime juice and Don Julio. At $50 pesos, it was quite tasty. On the right, is the standard marg — large, frozen, house tequila, $70 pesos. Tasted pretty nasty IMO, but John managed to drink it down.

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After the margaritas arrived, we were informed that there was in fact no fried chicken. Major bummer! So, we sat back and enjoyed the view while we pondered our next move.

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After finishing our margaritas, we got on with the walk heading south along the beach from Bad Boys.

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The Blue Parrot advertising their 11pm fire show.

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Lifeguard station

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Smiley face parasailing

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The beach is not an ashtray!

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Walking back north:

Las Ruinas beach club

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Bang Beach Club

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Hobie cat near Fusion Hotel

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What exactly is a chirophysic?

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Mosquito Beach club

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Residences El Faro

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That’s $179,900 for ocean view, ocean front! Sound too good to be true? Well, silly, that’s for fractional ownership!

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At least they left this well-known landmark standing when they tore down the El Faro Hotel.

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The beach is nice and wide here.

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Zenzi Bar & Beach Club

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Not sure what they’re installing here on Calle 10 between El Faro and Corto Maltes. Looks interesting.

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Corto Maltes

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Late lunch at Babe’s

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Limonmenta - Frozen limeade with mint, very refreshing!

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Sesame Chicken

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Thai Chicken Salad

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