{"id":3751,"date":"2010-01-29T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2016-12-16T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T03:46:31","slug":"beach-gets-bigger-in-cancun-hotel-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/beach-gets-bigger-in-cancun-hotel-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach gets bigger, better in Cancun hotel zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you book a room at one of the many <a title=\"Cancun hotels on Orbitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Cancun-Hotels.d179995.Travel-Guide-Hotels\" target=\"_blank\">Cancun hotels<\/a>, you may look forward to feeling the sand between your toes as you stroll along the beach. Well, the beach along the popular Cancun hotel zone has changed quite a bit. Here&#8217;s what it used to look like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3757\" title=\"Cancun beach before\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Cancun-beach-before-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cancun hotels\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But since the start of the Cancun beach recovery project in September 2009,\u00a0 more than 227,000 gallons of sand have been added to enhance the beach all along the Cancun hotel zone.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what it looks like now:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3758\" title=\"Cancun new beach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Cancun-new-beach-600x273.jpg\" alt=\"Cancun hotels\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the project is completed Feb. 10, more than a billion gallons of sand will have been added &#8212; putting more beach in beachfront properties in the Cancun hotel zone.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Related Orbitz resources:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Cancun hotels on Orbitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Cancun-Hotels.d179995.Travel-Guide-Hotels\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cancun hotels<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT05ZmYyZDViZTJiNGQxZTY3Y2E1ZjZhM2QxZTllNDQxNg==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you book a room at one of the many Cancun hotels, you may look forward to feeling the sand 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