A note from the team · La Onda VIP

Meet Ondees.

He’s an AI built by La OndaVIP. He finds things to do in the Riviera Maya — Cancún, Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel — when you ask him.

Proprietary AIRiviera MayaCommunity-confirmed
01 · What he does

Built to listen.

Ondees is your AI guide to things to do across the Riviera Maya — events, nightlife, dinners, day clubs, and plans in Tulum, Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel, Bacalar, Isla Mujeres, and Holbox. He finds the stuff your friends, TripAdvisor, and Google Maps miss — the tiny pop-ups, tonight’s DJ set, the dinner you’d only hear about if you knew the right people.

He doesn’t get tired.
He doesn’t get FOMO.
He doesn’t have a favorite beach club.
He just listens, finds, and tells you what’s there.
02 · Proprietary tech

What Ondees does well.

Here’s the thing. Ondees runs on proprietary software built by La OndaVIP, custom-engineered to find events, parties, and things to do in the Riviera Maya the way no general-purpose AI can.

How the data gets to you
The internet
Instagram, flyers, blogs, venue sites, promoter WhatsApps, local press.
Ondees
Reads, normalizes, dedupes, geo-locates, assigns a confidence tier. 24/7.
You
What’s on tonight, this weekend, this month. Filtered to your city.

What that means for you.

Families
Kids who need something to do — wholesome events at a decent hour.
Couples
Date-night dinners for a weekend in Tulum or Playa — no traps.
Groups
Nightlife — clubs that are actually still cool.
Solo
Low-key day-trips — easy plans you don’t have to negotiate.
Free & pop-ups
Hidden gems and free events in every city in Quintana Roo.
You won’t find this on TripAdvisor.
One-night pop-ups and DJ sets never make it into their catalog.
You won’t find it in your friend’s outdated Facebook group.
The admin moved to Mérida two years ago.
You won’t find it on Google.
Google indexes pages, not flyers buried in Instagram stories.
That’s the whole point.
03 · Confidence tiers

How sure Ondees is.

Every event Ondees finds gets a confidence tier. So you always know how sure he is — and how you can help confirm it.

Confirmed.Show up confident
The event is locked in. Posted across multiple sources. There’s a video, a ticket link, an official page. The promoter is on the record. This one’s happening.
Multiple sourcesTickets liveOfficial pageVideo / flyer
Confirmed
SAT · 10PM · TULUM

Bedouin @ Vagalume

Carretera Tulum-Boca Paila km 7 · MX$2,400
This is what a Tier 1 event looks like
Confident.Needs your vote
Ondees is pretty sure this one’s happening but a couple of signals are missing. Maybe the ticket link hasn’t gone live yet. Maybe only one source has posted about it. He needs the community to help confirm. Vote on the event page. Your vote helps move it to Tier 1 for everyone else.
1 sourceTickets pendingPublic flyerOfficial page
Underground dinner · guest chef
Community · 8 votes
FRI · 9PM · PLAYA

Underground dinner · guest chef

Location on confirm · MX$1,800 approx
A Tier 2 event — your vote moves it to Tier 1
Sniffed it out.Is this happening?
Ondees caught wind of this from a single source. Maybe an Instagram story, maybe a flyer in a coffee shop someone snapped. The organizer hasn’t confirmed yet. Click “Is this happening?” on the event page, or contact the organizer directly. Help the community get the truth.
1 storyNo ticketsNo pageNo video
Pop-up · unnamed rooftop · Cancún
Sniffed · unconfirmed
SUN? · 8PM? · CANCÚN

Pop-up · unnamed rooftop

Spotted in an IG story · hotel zone
A Tier 3 event — help us get to the truth
04 · What he can’t do

What Ondees can’t do.

Read your WhatsApp.
That’s between you and your contacts. Ondees only reads what’s public.
Make you breakfast.
He’ll send you to the best brunch in Playa. The skillet is on you.
Tell the future.
That’s why the tier system exists. That’s why your votes matter.
Ondees’s nightmare

The last thing Ondees wants is for you to show up at the 9th green at 9pm looking for someone who isn’t there. Or to charge a football that gets pulled away. That’s why the tier system exists — and that’s why your votes matter.

Vote, earn points, climb the ranking.

Top contributors · Tulum · 7 days
01
camila.r Playa del Carmen
38 confirmed · 12 reports
1,420pts
02
diego_qroo Cancún
29 confirmed · 9 reports
1,180pts
03
you · @ondees-fan Tulum
22 confirmed · 6 reports
965pts
04
marisol.tulum Tulum
18 confirmed · 11 reports
880pts
05
noche_cancun Cancún
15 confirmed · 8 reports
740pts
Top 10 · weekly
Drinks at participating spots
Top 5 · monthly
Tickets to events
Top 1 · each season
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05 · About the AI

He’s AI. But not the AI you’re thinking of.

Ondees runs on La OndaVIP’s proprietary AI — engineered from the ground up to find events, parse local sources, rank confidence, and serve the Riviera Maya specifically. He’s a custom system, built for one job.

The traffic-signal metaphor

Vote on what’s real.

Think of a traffic app — when you see a cop on the highway, you mark it. Other drivers see the warning and slow down. Same thing here. When you confirm an event, others know it’s locked in. When you flag a fake, others know to skip it. Ondees gets smarter every time you vote.

He doesn’t make money off your clicks.
No specific-venue pushing. No sponsored results dressed up as organic.
He won’t lie on purpose — but he can be confidently wrong.
Double-check important details (event times, prices, locations) on the source links he provides.
His personality is consistent — but he’s not a person.
He’s a tool. The community is the soul.
06 · La Onda Ideas

Have an idea? Tell us.

La OndaVIP started with events. But the site can be anything the community needs. We live here, visitors pass through — we all have gaps in our routine a good website could fill.

We run a public board — La Onda Ideas — where anyone can propose something new. A vetted directory of trusted doctors, mechanics, and plumbers. An itinerary builder for your weekend. A hidden-gems map to live like a local. Whatever you want. Others vote. If enough people want it, we build it.

And here’s the thing — we’re software developers. If enough people vote for something, we build it.

We build what people actually want, based on votes. So tell us.

Submit an idea
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TulumPlaya del CarmenCancúnCozumelBacalarIsla MujeresHolboxyour city?