What's up Tangerineys!
We are currently in Tulum in the state of Quintana Row - Quintana Row? - Quintana Roo?
Quintana Roo.
I want to say it like Roo, like kangaroo.
It's about 85 degrees, somewhere between 60 to 70% humidity and quite windy.
So, right now we're on the main drag in Tulum, so there's lots of shops and restaurants,
lots to see here, this is very much a tourist zone.
Going each way, they have big wide sidewalks and bike paths and then it's lined with shops
and restaurants and lots of people watching, a lots of stuff to do right here.
And this town is kind of designed how our Puerto Morelos is where we currently live and
there's a Colonia side, like the cheaper town area and then the beachside.
Cross over the mangroves and then there's the beach side, except unlike Puerto Morelos, Tulum
is much more expensive, exclusive, like there's a whole hotel zone where - there's even restaurants
that you can't eat at unless you're staying in a certain level of room within that hotel.
Yeah, honestly we're kind of intimidated to even go to the hotel zone - yeah - because
it's so freakin expensive, you're talking like 500 US dollars a night for a room or
twenty or thirty dollars for a plate of food, it's just absurd.
But here in the town side, it's much more reasonable.
In comments, people have asked us what our favorite cities are and Tulum almost always
comes up on my list but when I say I love Tulum, I love the Colonia side of Tulum, I
do not like the Instagramer side [Laughter] where it's really expensive and you just sort
of just feel unwelcome unless you have tons of money or status of some kind, so yeah,
we enjoy it over here.
Right now, what are we doing?
Let's go get some Thai food.
Thai food!
Hello, good afternoon. Can we sit... (anywhere?) Yes.
Is now a good time to talk about the biggest disaster of 2019?
Oh, guys, this was bad.
A little bit of background information, I get my hair cut like once a year, maybe twice
a year and I don't like it.
I don't like it in the U.S. and I certainly don't like it in another language.
You might remember the last time I got my hair cut in Guadalajara, thankfully that turned
out really well. But I was having like mini anxiety attacks for like days leading up to
it and all my worst fears were confirmed fears were confirmed here in Tulum.
She got her hair cut, showed some pictures of what she wanted and the result was nothing
like it, it was a totally botched job as if the person... I could have done it better
I think.
Yeah, I think Jordan - I should have just asked you to do it.
To add insult to injury, the whole time she's using a comb and just ripping through my hair,
absolutely ripping through it, from the top to the bottom.
It's super painful, I'm trying to explain to her in Spanish, "hey if you like wet my
whole hair, then it's gonna be a lot easier".
They didn't have air conditioning in the salon, so I'm like just absolutely drenched in sweat,
it's super embarrassing.
So, terrible haircut, painful and dripping in sweat and it's another language, so it's
uncomfortable to begin with.
There's two layers, there's a top layer and there's a bottom layer.
A short top layer and a long bottom layer and nothing in between.
You usually do everything with our Twitter but I happened to see your post and I really
loved that [Laughs].
I'm sad to be making this video with this hair and if you think I'm being dramatic,
all I have to say is "you're wrong". [Laughter]
I'm just kidding; I only get like one haircut a year, so this just set the course for 2019
and bad hair days.
Gracias.
Cheers - cheers.
Something to sooth my sorrows.
Sidebar, if my chest looks red, it's either because I'm worked up over talking about this
or we just walked in the sun all the way over here and my dumb self forgot to put sunscreen on.
We have a hopeful or we hopefully have a solution for what happened.
So at this Thai place, we both ordered red curry, that's what we always get, red curry
is so good.
And then they have a promotion going on, two for one margaritas, two for 80 pesos, they're
normally 60 each and my curry, I got it with chicken and shrimp and that was 190 I believe
and yours was 155.
That Thai food was super delicious; I would definitely recommend that place.
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[Spanish] So we just got to Playa del Carmen. It's a little less than an hour
away from Tulum, we're heading into this hair salon now, so hopefully this crazy mess... Can
we get a 360 of your hair?
Yeah, it's obviously super uneven.
Like here's a long layer, here's... Like what the fuck is this? It's supposed to be layered.
Well we need to go find this salon.
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Amazing!
Yeah, it does look good.
Yeah, this is perfect, thank you so much!
I'm amazed that she was able to work with it and not really take off any more length
so, praise the Lord!
Definitely - definitely recommend Paula, we're gonna put her information in the description.
I don't think it's very often that I find a hairstylist this good like...
All for three hundred pesos.
All for three hundred pesos, yes.
Ahh, I'm so so relieved.
Hello, two days later, so after I got my hair cut, we went to this place that we've been
wanting to try it out called Pook Chook. Like hamburgers and it was so good! Maybe
one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever had. But it gave me food poisoning, so now it's
my least favorite hamburger I’ve ever had [Laughter], so I was like really sick in bed
for a whole day.
People so often asked about Montezuma's Revenge and how often we get sick in Mexico and really,
I don't think I get sick anymore in Mexico than I ever did in the US, in fact in a lot
of ways, I feel much healthier.
This was just one of those bad luck things I think.
Yeah, it's just - and Jordan didn't get sick but there were two different types of meat,
it was like pork meat versus beef...
Mine was beef, yeah.
Who knows, right now we're going to this smoothie bowl place, there's actually a lot of hipstery,
Healthy, raw, vegan, gluten-free type options in Tulum which is really cool and - what was
the other thing?
We were going to talk about what is wrong with Tulum, what happened since we were here
like six months ago.
Yeah, we started saying this after we went to the Thai place because they had a gratuity added
on to the bill and it was very clearly listed but they did return the change without that
and so we're gonna get our smoothie Bowl and talk about that.
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So, almost every place, every restaurant we've been to in Tulum adds a tip to the bill
and some of them do it honestly and then others do it in a very deceiving way.
Something we think is okay is when they're like, hey, this is what we say is a suggested
tip and it's either clearly labeled as tip or in Spanish it's "Servicio or Propina" but
then, there have been a lot of times during this trip that they do it in a very dishonest
and deceiving way trying to get you to double tip.
So, you might have seen our Facebook where I posted a picture of a receipt from Cervecería
Chapultepec and at this place, he came over to our table, after the whole time we had
been speaking Spanish with him, he came over to the table and he said "the total is 405".
It was a handwritten 405 and circled and I thought, how weird that he would say this
in English to us after the whole time speaking Spanish and Jordan being the numbers and math
guy...
I started adding everything up and making sure the bill was right, like all the line
items were right and it was but the total was 345 and he said the total was 405, so
he was putting an 18% tip on there and not telling us it was a tip and then most people
are - it was just straight up lying.
He said it was the total, so he wanted that plus for us to tip on top of it.
Yeah, so I'm very - I'm very disappointed with that restaurant in particular but also
other ones, but especially since we like Cervecería Chapultepec and we've been to ones in other
cities and they've always treated us well and it's one of the best places to go for
cheap eats and drinks.
We would have happily tipped 20%.
Like at a place like that, it's so cheap and they're coming to your tables so often, tipping
more is okay, I mean, you should do that.
But that's one practice we've seen in Tulum guys, if you're coming here, watch your bill
and watch for these dishonest practices and if you give them cash, they'll usually bring
you change with the tip taken out, so know how much you're supposed to get back.
I think it's really sad that this is happening especially - this is even happening when we're
speaking Spanish, the whole - yeah.
All of our interactions are in Spanish, so I don't think that they should have any reason
to believe that we don't know what the correct tip is, which is generally 10%, sometimes
it's fifteen or twenty depending on the location.
Like tourist destinations, often it's a little higher or nice restaurants, and of course
if we ever feel like the service is particularly great, of course we're gonna tip more.
Yeah.
But I think it's very dishonest especially when they return the change with their tip
that they decided, what they wanted, taken out of that and they don't give you the receipt,
they just return the change so you're less likely to notice that they took out that tip
and more likely to leave more tip on top of that.
So, Tulum come-on, have some integrity, don't do this, like it's just - it wasn't like this
six months ago when we were here.
I know, what the heck happened? Very disappointed, that's all I can say.
But we're still having fun, you just have to watch your bill and make sure they're not
trying to screw you.
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We often say "Hey!" or clap to street dogs that might be aggressive.
His reaction... Hey, hey! Laska.
You're causing a ruckus in the whole neighborhood.
So the plan today was to go to the beach.
We haven’t been into the beach in Tulum this whole time.
And you were sick yesterday.
So that's gonna be tomorrow.
What we're doing now it's going to this place that we got gluten free burritos the other day.
The tortillas are made out of coconut, how cool is that?
I've never seen anything like that before in my life and they're good!
They were like really sturdy tortillas too and that's - with gluten free stuff, you don't
often get that, it's sort of like all falls apart.
Uh-huh.
So we're going back there.
Try not to die.
These streets, they're so confusing with who's gonna stop and even people that have a stop
sign, they're probably not gonna stop for you.
Pedestrians here do not have the right of way. Oh my gosh!
Laska has the right of way [Laughs] to poop as I'm walking, uhh.
So Jordan, how do you think Tulum compares to other cities or other Pueblos Mágicos.
Much more touristy than most Pueblos Mágicos.
Jeez [Laughs], Laska saw a dog.
More expensive than most.
How about you?
I love Tulum, I love the Colonia side of Tulum.
The beaches are gorgeous, the sand is soft and silky and magical - Oh yeah, the sand
is great... But I think it's just too expensive and I like have a hard time enjoying it or
feeling like I'm allowed to be on that side.
And the Colonia side is getting expensive too but at least with that, you can do it
cheap if you need to or if you want to.
Yeah, I want to live here but it's - it's too expensive.
Like everything is designed to be a vacation rental not a long-term rental.
Erm...
It looks pretty packed.
Holy shit, that's a lot of people. How about Mango instead? [Laughter]
Honestly I think it's going to take forever to get our food here, just to get a table
it'll take a while and last time when we came, they weren't very busy and it still took a
long time for our burritos to come out, so...
[Maddie singing] ♪ no burrito love...burrito love, burrito love...♪
Is that to the tune of something?
♪ Where is the burrito love, love [Laughs]. ♪
Oh my god!
It's called "Burrito Amor." We have none, no love, no burrito love. [Laughter]
We are at The Good Burger, welcome to The Good Burger, home of the good burger.
Can I take your order?
[Laughter] We walked and walked and walked and walked up along this tourist street here
at the main drag and there were so many places that had no pets allowed signs and finally
this place did and I actually feel bad for The Good Burger because there's a restaurant
upstairs that has like "amazing views" they say, so they're probably trying to do what
they can to get people in here because everyone wants to go upstairs but we're gonna see how it is.
Excuse me. A few questions...
In the vegetarian burger, does it have onion, peas, or sesame?
Yes, it has sesame.
Can you make it without sesame?
No, the bun already has sesame.
Oh, the bread. But without bread? Or with gluten-free bread?
Maybe? Yes. Okay, I'd like the vegetarian (burger) then.
Yes. Thank you. You're welcome.
I would like the falafel salad.
Thank you. Thank you.
Well, they just brought out a bowl for Laska.
And yes I realize how risky this is considering just two days ago I got food poisoning from
a burger.
You want to try another burger?
It sounded really good though, so...
First of all, shout out to Good Burger because they put on the receipt, tip is not included
and highlighted it and he asked would we like change when we left more bills than was necessary
for the check, so we really love them for that considering no one else in this city
seems to do that. And secondly, that was the best burger I’ve ever had in my life, whether
with or without meat, it was vegetarian but still the best burger. And then I let you have
a bite of it and you said... it was also the best I’ve ever had, so so good!
With like the first few bites I was like, "holy crap, I'm definitely driving here from
Puerto Morelos" [Laughter] when we go back there. Ah! That was so good!
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Woah, there's two cats.
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Well the drive here was a trip.
Uuh, man, I wasn't really expecting that.
We drove of course through the mangroves, like the long road that leads to the beach
and once you get on like the Beach Road that goes along all the hotels and stuff, you are
sharing a very tiny two-lane road but it's not even big enough for two cars to go past
so let alone - for people to walk, bike, park.
Yeah, so if you're stuck behind a bike and there's a stream of cars coming the other
way, you're gonna be going just as slow as the bicycle or the walkers or whatever, so
that was really like...
I was like "White knuckling it the whole time."
Well where are we now?
We are at this place called Mulberry Project which is one of the top-rated beach bars here,
so apparently they have a cool two-for-one special on Tuesdays and great tacos, so we're
gonna check it out.
And this was about 20 minutes away from where we're staying on the Colonia side of Tulum.
I'll probably take a cab here next time.
Yeah, just to avoid the stress.
Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
That sure is pretty!
A nice view!
Ok, so when we first came to this restaurant, I was a little disappointed because they were
saying that everything had onion in it, so I begrudgingly ordered a salad and it kind
of blew my mind, I was pleasantly surprised.
This place is cool! Compared to other things we've seen on the beach side and all we've
heard about this, we expected 20 or $30 meals but we were able to get entrees for about
200 pesos.
One of our favorite things about Tulum is there's swings all over the place; at bars,
between two palm trees at the beach.
I feel like a little kid again.
This is probably the coolest way I’ve ever seen to ask for your server. Help!
And look at this view!
I highly recommend this place and come on a Tuesday if you can because the Beach Bar,
Beach area, they have two-for-one drinks...
If you can get a chair [Laughs].
We had to wait for quite a while before we got one.
But we really enjoyed that, they make great cocktails, and have really good bartenders.
It was like a choose-your-own-adventure, cocktail as well, you chose the base liquor and then
whatever random ingredients you wanted and how you wanted it to make you feel, like well
- [Laughter] makes you fell like sour, refreshing, bitter or whatever.
I really like that.
I want to feel bitter.
I realized as soon as I said that that one of the options was bitter [Laughs].
Sarcastic wasn't one on the list but you seem to have got the effects though [Laughter].
And it is raining, I'm so mad! We really wanted to walk along the beach but it's been raining
for the past like hour and a half, maybe two hours or more, so we're not gonna get to do
much on the beach and this is our last day but it was a really nice time here.
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