Southern Mexico Beach Vacations

Southern Mexico Beach Travel Guide

• Southern Mexico Overview
• Southern Mexico Hotels
• Southern Mexico Attractions
• Southern Mexico Feature Articles
• Southern Mexico Vacation Rentals

Other Guides for Southern Mexico

Beach Guide
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkeling
• Surfing
• Family Guide

Top Beach Destinations In Southern Mexico

• Acapulco, Southern Mexico
  
• Bahías de Huatulco, Southern Mexico
  
• Puerto Escondido, Southern Mexico
  
• Zihuatanejo, Southern Mexico
  

Travel Guides In Southern Mexico

• Ixtapa, Southern Mexico
  • Family Guide

Mexico Beach Subregions

• Baja
• Central Mexico
• Gulf Coast
• Northern Mexico
• Southern Mexico
• Yucatán

Beach Travel Destinations

• United States
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Mountain West
  • Northeast
  • Pacific Coast
  • Southeast
• Caribbean
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • Puerto Rico
  • St. Kitts and Nevis
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Turks and Caicos
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
• Central America
  • Belize
  • Costa Rica
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
• Mexico
  • Baja
  • Central Mexico
  • Gulf Coast
  • Northern Mexico
  • Southern Mexico
  • Yucatán

Sunset in Zihuatanejo Bay (César Orozco/Wikimedia)

Southern Mexico Beach Destinations

• Acapulco
• Bahías de Huatulco
• Puerto Escondido
• Zihuatanejo

Feature Articles

• Mexico: The Mainland
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  Surfing
• The Lazy, Crazy Guide to Sand Land
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  Where to Surf, Hike, Dive, Fish, Shop, Eat, Drink, Dance, Sleep, and Kick Back
• Worldwide Wild
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  Domican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize
• Love's a Trip
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  Zihuatanejo: Purely Mexico
• La Costa Incognita
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  Pacific Mexico is a thatch roof overhead, fresh snapper daily, and 660 miles of nada between timeshares.

Practical Advice

• Seafood Watch: The Eastern Seaboard
  Oceana, an organization seeking to protect and restore the world’s oceans, offers information on the environmental impacts of eating various types of seafood.
• Sharks: Myths and Realities
  Every summer, the ominous display of a dorsal fin sends crowds scurrying for the shore—and newspaper headlines exploding with warnings. Find out why that’s the wrong way to act.
• Deep Focus
  Learn the basics of underwater photography and you expand the experience of scuba diving and snorkeling. Our ten tips will help keep things crystal clear.
• The Move
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  Go deeper with champion freediver Tanya Streeter
• Welcome to Home Rental Country: The Refuge of the Un-Hotel
  Take the brand-name anonymity out of your next foray into the vacation world by getting the scoop on finding the best homes away from home.

Gear

• Diving Fin Innovations
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  Maiden voyage of the man-fish
• O'Neill's Psychofreak boardshorts
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• Surfing
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  Get dialed for summer's coolest sport
• Complete Gear Archives: Surfing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things surfing.
• Women’s Beach Gear Essentials
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Fitness

• The Move
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  Catch a wave with tips from pro surfer Damien Hobgood
• Fit to Surf
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• Sunbrellas Chemical-Free Sun Block SPF 30+
  
• Good Day, Sunshine
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  Embrace the summer sun with an intelligent skin-protection strategy
• Is surfing a good workout?
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Hotels

Hotel Flor de Maria
Playa Marinero, 1ra. Entrada
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Las Brisas Acapulco
Carretera Escenica Clemente Mejia Avila 5255
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The Grand Mayan Acapulco Wyndham Resort
Av.de las Palmas No.1121 Fracc.
Acapulco, Mexico Map

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