Since Cancún's whole rationale is to encourage almost two million visitors each year to have fun, the entertainment scene is lavish - or remorseless, depending on which way you look at it.

There's everything from sports and gambling bars to romantic piano bars and fun bars, even just plain drinking bars: enough choice to ensure that you can find a place to have a good time without being ripped off. Most of the nightclubs, on the other hand, are pricey, with a "no shorts or sandals" dress code.

A couple of cinemas show new American releases subtitled in Spanish: the largest downtown is the multi-screen Cineapolis, Plaza Las Americas on Av Tulum south of Av Coba; in the zona , there's a cinema in the Plaza Kukulkán and two screens in the Forum by the Sea shopping centre, Blvd Kukulcan Km 9.5.

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