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You will have no trouble finding a room. Be resourceful, look for hotels in the medium to large to very large towns . Any place where a federal highway passes a town of , say 7000 population is likely to have at least one place for lodging. . Bigger towns , and those near tourist draws are probable targets , look around the central plaza, look in the side streets and alleys .ASK the locals where the hotels are.
Seaside towns and resorts are likely to have good supplies of hotels but these charge higher rates and also draw the big crowds on holiday weekends which actually may nearly fill hotels available. This is particularly so in the Mayan Riviera where the snow birds migrate .
WARNING : do not go to CELESTUN during a holiday weekend. It is a pretty enough little seaside town but on certain holidays they have a festival and set up 300 loudspeakers of 1 million watts each and blast LOUD music/noise all over the town all night until 6 am. Okay, maybe I exaggerate a bit on their power , but you will not get a wink of sleep . Been there done that. It is very nice on a quiet midweek night.
HOLBOX on Isla Holbox is interesting but can fill up on holidays.
In Cancun you can always find reasonable (low! )priced rooms at the hotels along the north edge of downtown along Mex 180/Av Lopez Portillo.
Finding a hotel room in the 'normal towns" will be no problem, they do not draw massive crowds , just the locals having parades, parties, concerts at the plaza and going home.
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Thank you Sjoerd for this very complete info.

I have only been in Northern Mexico. I am traveling on a big tourer this time (yamaha venture)

I think I have enough time to reach any single spot on lower mainland Mexico on my trip. I like remote riding areas, dirt roads are fine as longs the there arent too damaged (I have low clearance aye... topes!)

Do you have any particuliar spots, areas or roads you recommend?

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I like riding all over, give me warm weather and good roads and I'll be happy.
Some spots you will enjoy on your heavy bike in the Yucatan :
-- Chetumal, ,
--Bacalar and its blue laguna,
-- all kind of narrow paved regional roads wandering around through the scrubby jungle west of Felipe Carillo Puerto and connecting countless small MAYAN villages . You can wander for days around there as you advance north to or from Merida, Valladolid and the north coast of Yucatan.
---Lots of Mayan ruins sites , cenotes, old haciendas of the sisal era now in ruin or converted to country estates or b&b or museum s open to visitors.
In Chiapas you will enjoy Mex 190 through Tuxtla Gutierrez , S Cristobal , Mex 187, 195 and 199, the entire loop of Mex 307 around the Lacandona and along the Guatemalan border. , visit Z A of Bonampak, Yaxchilan both from Frontera Corozal, ; Palenque ZA and town /
The Mex 17 across the Pantanos de Centla ( delta wetlands ) through Jonuta and Palizada are very interesting, it is paved highway to the coastal route of Mex 180 and Frontera ( west ) and Cd Del Carmen (east )
just toooooo man to detail.
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