Features jazz, reggae or rock bands and the occasional flamenco guitarist. Roots is a full-menu restaurant as well as a club, serving pasta, salads, seafood and meat dishes. Thursday seems to be the best night for catching nice tunes with a crowd.

This is often the venue for MTV's coverage of spring break, and tends to be a happening venue just about any day of the week. The club opens with celebrity impersonators, dancers and circus acts (clowns, acrobats and the like) for an hour or so then it really hots up with live music and dancing - on every surface, all night long.

Dady'O is one of Cancún's hottest dance clubs and attracts loads of twenty-somethings with its latin, house, techno, trance and hip-hop beats. The elaborate setting is a five-level black-walled faux cave with a two-level dance floor and zillions of laser beams and strobes.