The Real Cancun Baby...

So you want to know the real Cancun? Well its like this... The water

is magnificent but you will have to reach it through a construction sight because the entire coast line is owned by giant hotels and resorts, who give their guests wristbands to wear, preventing the unsightly rifraf (aka richo and ebs) from reaching the public beach through their marble lobbies. On the beach there are the beautiful people and not no beautiful people tanning, consuming, consuming, taking paragliding rides, platting hair and wondering how else to spend their money. We were guilty of this and took a 30 min jet ski ride to see the billion dollar sand castles from the water.
Apart from the beach Cancun it quite boring. Its set out like Movie World, but doesnt really draw the crowds appart from Spring Break time. The only shops more numerous than the tacky suvenior shops are the Starbucks.
We decided to stay downtown (a decision made for us by our wallets) which is where all the locals hide and so did we.