At the Chiquilá Port Dock, you’ll buy a ticket for the ferry to Holbox Island. They cost $330 MXN pesos each way (about $17 USD). There are two companies offering the same trip, Holbox Express and 9 ...

If there's one way to enforce relaxation during a holiday, it's to break your ankle two weeks before departure. Add to that a three-year-old travelling companion (whose legs also only seem to work ...

Brain freeze from a hasty gulp of a piña colada produced the only imperfect moment during five days on Isla Holbox. The idyllic island a two-hour drive and 20-minute ferry ride from the highways and ...

Book a stay in a tree house at Nomade Holbox for breathtaking views over the sand and sea. As whale sharks migrate past Isla Holbox in the summer, the island becomes an ideal destination for swimming ...

When you arrive on Isla Holbox, the first thing you’ll notice is the greeting party: Cotton candy-colored flamingos wading in the shallow, six-mile-wide lagoon that separates the island from mainland ...

Isla Holbox is a small, slender island just north of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexicans have long been in the know about this laid-back, go-everywhere-in-flip-flops getaway, ...

It was supposed to be just a short walk to the central plaza to grab some breakfast, but a gathering band of little Pancho Villas caught my eye. They adjusted their sombreros, fiddled with the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. By the time we approached Casa Las Tortugas, we had been travelling almost 20 hours. There had been an 11-hour flight ...