Getting from the Cancún airport to your hotel just got easier, thanks to a new US $8 bus service

Tourists traveling from Cancún International Airport (CUN) to the edifice portion tin present instrumentality a 140-peso (US $8) autobus ride, Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama announced Thursday.

The caller route, operated by Grupo Asur successful collaboration with Autobuses de Oriente (ADO), is successful effect to reports of ongoing taxi fare abuse.

The long-established ADO proscription institution present runs buses from the Cancún airdrome to the edifice portion each 2 hours from 10:25 a.m. to 6:25 p.m. (@BradWelton/X)

Previously, ADO offered nonstop proscription services lone to metropolis centers specified arsenic Cancún and Playa del Carmen, from which tourists needed to usage different proscription work to the edifice zone.

The caller ADO work departs from Terminals 2, 3 and 4, connecting to Plaza Fiesta successful the edifice zone. According to ADO’s website, the work is disposable each 2 hours betwixt 10:25 a.m. and 6:25 p.m. The thrust takes astir 40 minutes.

Taxis departing from CUN are known to complaint tourists much than US $100 for a thrust to the edifice zone. According to the rates established by the city, a one-way travel from the airdrome to the edifice portion should outgo from 100 to 400 pesos (US $5 to $20).

Reports of taxi maltreatment accrued aft Mexican influencers fell unfortunate to the scams. In a video posted connected his societal media successful January, contented creator Luisito Comunica shared however a taxi operator charged 2,000 pesos (US $99) for a thrust of little than 20 minutes. Meanwhile, influencer Narabask reported that a taxi operator charged her and her friends 10,000 pesos (US $500) for a 30-minute drive.

Such reports prompted Sergio González Rubiera, caput of the Mexican Association of Inbound Travel Agencies (AMATUR), to dependable his concern.

“It is precise worrying that the abuses committed by taxi drivers and airdrome concessionaires are damaging and undermining the representation of tourer destinations, throwing distant each the promotional enactment that we person done,” helium said.

In summation to the pricing issues, users of ride-hailing apps similar Uber person experienced acts of unit from taxi drivers. Uber was authorized to run successful immoderate areas of Cancún and the Riviera Maya successful January 2023, but beardown absorption from section taxi operators has led to conflict, expanding attacks by taxi drivers.

To code these issues, the section Congress accrued penalties for assaults involving proscription and nationalist byways, which present see the cancellation of licenses, permits and concessions. Sentences for execution and battle involving nationalist oregon backstage proscription were besides increased.

With reports from Infobae