What you can see on the Puerto Aventuras cam
The camera sits high on the resort and looks across a chain of pools, small bridges and thatched palapas toward the hotel buildings, with a strip of sea beyond. It is a quick way to check the sky and the light over this part of the coast: sun or cloud, a shower blowing in from the sea, or palms bending in the wind. Through the day it also shows how lively the pools are.
The pools of the Hard Rock Riviera Maya
From high above the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, a large resort at Puerto Aventuras, this camera looks over its chain of pools, bridges and thatched palapas to the hotel buildings, with a strip of the Caribbean on the horizon.
It shows the weather on this stretch of the Riviera Maya at a glance, and how busy the pools are through the day.
A town around a marina
Highway 307 splits Puerto Aventuras in two. On the inland side lies the residential town, home to most of its people; on the coast side, the tourist zone, laid out around a sheltered marina and canals lined with condominiums, restaurants and moorings for yachts and sport-fishing boats, with a golf course and the large resorts along the beach. With nearly 23,000 people at the 2020 census, it is the second-largest community in the municipality of Playa del Carmen, after the city itself.
When to watch Puerto Aventuras
The Riviera Maya faces east: the sun rises out of the sea and sets inland, behind the forest. From late morning to mid-afternoon the pools and the water show their brightest colors. The busy, drier season runs from December to April, and the rainy and hurricane season from June to November. Quintana Roo is five hours behind UTC all year, with no daylight saving time.
Around Puerto Aventuras
Xpu-Ha, a long and quiet beach with no town behind it, is a few kilometers south, and Akumal, where green turtles graze on the seagrass inside the reef, about 15 km (9 miles) further on. To the north are the Xcaret park and Playa del Carmen. Inland, the forest on both sides of the highway hides cenotes, several of them open to swimmers.
Visiting Puerto Aventuras
Buses and shared vans running along Highway 307 between Playa del Carmen and Tulum stop at the turnoff. The tourist zone is entered through a gateway on the coast side of the highway, and its marina, restaurants and dolphin center see plenty of day visitors. Beaches in Mexico are public by law, but here most of the sand lies in front of hotels and condominiums. Swim only where the beach is marked as safe, and keep clear of the boat channels around the marina.
