My family and I have a cruise that stops in Cozumel, Belize and Honduras in September. We’ve booked an excursion through the cruise line for Belize and a beach resort for Cozumel. Hopefully all will be fine. Is a private beach in Cozumel with very high ratings on Trip Adviser and they limit the number of people on the property per day. I wonder if the cruise lines will take notice and change the itinerary due to the advisory.
You will have no trouble with the cruise company beach in Cozumel. It will be nothing buy you and a thousand other gringos. The danger in Cancun is visiting the city bar and club scene (where you can end up targeted for petty crime, drugged or caught in the middle of a cartel gunfight) and if you drive off into the country side to see the jungle or archaeological sites. Here you don’t have the cartel issues but the same old petty crime of tourists that has been around for decades. I’d still do it but take precautions. I took my family (5 teens and college age kids) for 10 days to Puerto Penasco (Rocky Point as the Arizonans call it) a few weeks ago. It is on the Sea of Cortez only 90 minutes past the US border. It is an old fishing town that has turned into a tourist destination over the past few decades. Rule # I don’t drive at night in Mexico, Rule #2 I don’t hang out at the bars in town at night. Following those rules we had a wonderful beach vacation had great interactions with locals in markets, restaurants and at church. It’s too small and off the drug routes for much of a Cartel presence and the Mexican and local government are going out of their way too keep the cash cow for locals safe. On the highway between Arizona and Rocky Point they even have a “hassle free zone” where the Feds have warned the local cops not to play their pull you over for a bribe games. I would take my family there and feel safer any day than Washington DC, New Orleans, or Chicago.