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Panama Jack's is a Cancún phoenix

When I was a teenager visiting Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula with my folks in 1973, as we were flying from Cozumel to Mérida our pilot indicated a skinny, scrubby island below that was about to be developed into the country’s newest resort destination. More than 40 years later, Cancún remains the most wildly successful sun-and-fun capital of Latin America, with dozens of big resorts; a huge menu of dining and shopping; and access to diverse adventure and eco attractions down the Riviera Mayacoast as well as the jawdropping Mayan ruins scattered throughout the peninsula.

And all these many years after Club Med became Cancún’s first resort, the Zona Hotelera (Hotel Zone) has of course become packed with a bewildering variety of resorts from modest to enormous and glitzy. And as of January 2017, 438-unit Panama Jack’s has been making its mark among them as a family-friendly, four-star option whose hallmark is friendliness and exceptional service (with 640 employees, the staff-to-guest ratio is exceptionally high).