Prebooked taxi vs. the taxi rank at CUN
When you walk out of a Cancun Airport terminal, the first thing you meet is a wall of people offering rides — official taxi vendors, timeshare desks handing out a "free" transfer in exchange for two hours of your morning, and telling them apart while jet-lagged with luggage in both hands is harder than it sounds. The official rank sells by zone at a counter before you board, so the price depends on where you are going rather than on a meter, but you find out what it is at the exact moment you are least able to walk away. Booking your taxi ahead skips that whole encounter. You know the price weeks in advance, your driver is already assigned, and you walk past the vendors toward someone holding a sign with your name on it.