Trip Planning·16 min
How to Beat Jet Lag
The plain version of beating jet lag. What it is, why flying east wrecks you more, the one lever that works, and where melatonin helps.
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Every place has a stretch when the weather has turned and the crowd has not arrived yet. These are the ones closing in.
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Tulum
Last weeks. After November 30 the crowds land and the prices follow.
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Aruba
The best months start December 1. Book while the fares still make sense.
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El Nido
It comes right on December 1. Far enough out to get your pick of dates.
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Trip Planning·13 minThe Aruba ED Card for Families
Every traveler entering Aruba needs their own ED card, infants included. The form is free on the official site, children under 8 skip the $20 sustainability fee, and a household can file together. Here is how, and how to fix a mistake.
Budget Travel·30 minCash in El Nido
El Nido has ATMs now. It also has two completely different kinds of ATM standing on the same street, and one charges about four times what the other does. Here is the arithmetic, the legal cap on the pesos you can carry in, and the number to withdraw before you get here.
Island Travel·23 minTulum's Cenotes, and Which Ones Are Worth the Drive
Gran Cenote, Calavera, Casa Cenote, Dos Ojos, Angelita and the cave cenotes past Coba, sorted by the road they sit on and what the drive buys you.
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