Tulum is pretty safe and you wont have the security guards wandering around like you see at large resorts. What is it tat you are concerned about?

Hi, thanks for the response. I have not been this way, and visualise these cabanas alone on the beach with all the potential for break ins etc. I suppose the larger resorts just offer that greater risk to any potential thief. I am not sure just how remote they are.

Most "hotels" on the beach offer cabanas and are not traditional looking hotels. I think most have security? The one we stayed at certainly did. They are not remote and there are many along the beach.

" I have not been this way, and visualise these cabanas alone on the beach with all the potential for break ins etc"

Which cabanas are you looking at specifically?

When we stayed in Tulum, we stayed at Cabanas Tulum, which is along the beach road, in the middle of a line of hotels, restaurants, and bars that stretches for several miles. These are small hotels, most it seems with less than 25 rooms, and the restaurants and bars are also small and low-key. But they are all pretty close together. There are some plots of land in and amongst the hotels that are relatively undeveloped and then there is a lot of undeveloped space on the jungle side of the road. But none if this is particularly remote. As you go north on the beach road toward the ruins or south toward Sian Kaan, away from the core of the hotel zone, the development is less dense, so you would have places there that are more remote.

For the risk of break-ins specifically - I have heard of break-ins at some hotels along the beach road, but nothing more than you hear of at any hotel area. I wouldn't be particularly concerned about it for myself.

even the hotels on the south end are not remote and really it is one property after another

Is the poster talking about the backpacker-type places up towards the ruins perhaps? Those little concrete or stick cabanas? I really can't speak to those very well, but most hotels in Tulum have good security.

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