Central beach!
This one isn't as nice as the North Beach down the way. This way it's situated leads to you facing away from the sea to face the afternoon sun. This beach is also a lot busier- it's the one that's closest to the ferry terminal, so you get a bunch of touristas who are looking for the first beach, not the best beach.
There's plenty of restaurants and bars along here to keep anyone busy. The beach is well-kept, but full of hawkers and touts, people who wanna pester you to see if you wanna hold a monkey or a lobster or something.
The nicest thing about this beach is you can look out on the waters and see the Hotel Zone of Cancun. Picturesque!
If you go cutting through any of the restaurants or bars, you can access this. Nobody owns the beaches in Mexico, so you can walk where ever you wanna on this beach!
The restaurants will let you use their restrooms if you buy a shot. read more