Looking for Market 28? This AIN'T It!

Jen & I live 5 minutes from Market 28, Cancun's main market. It's a great place to shop (Market 21 is slightly cheaper, but much smaller). Tourists flock to this place to buy everything from shot glasses & T-shirts to silver rings & porcelain pottery (photos below).

Almost every day we pass along a road called Tankah, that runs south from Market 28. And almost every day, when we return, we pass a large shop called Plaza 28. And almost every day, when we do, we see a group of white-clad men standing nearby, shouting something about Market 28 at passing tourists.

Only recently did it occur to us that these kind gentlemen were not directing people to continue on to nearby Market 28. They were inviting them to come in to their own store: 

"Come! Welcome! Market 28! Right here: Market 28!"

As far as Mexican scams go, this one is fairly tame, but you can be sure many tourists are fooled. "Oh, look, honey. Here's that market the nice fellow at the hotel was telling us about..."

Anyway, I'm posting this as a WARNING to innocent tourists. The store in the photo below is NOT Market 28...

NOT Market 28!

The guy in the chair and the guy nearby in the white shirt ARE "OPCs" -- Time Share employees.

Remember: Market 28 is a GIANT market covering several city blocks & comprising hundreds of small stores. If you don't see 8 billion kitschy souvenirs, you're in the wrong place :)

Now you're in Market 28, Bitches!