This video is from day 2 of the trip on the beach at Sandos Playacar. The main TR details what we did that day but I’ll add a few things here that may not have been in the earlier TR. Feel free to scroll up & read the other details!
After the errant wake up call by an unknown guest, I flip-flopped down to the beach and used my old pair of lops to reserve a couple of chairs under a palapa right in front immediately down the main pathway from the showers.
We’d explored the new part of the Sandos, called Sandos Rivera; with the buildings running way back from the beach then out along Xaman Ha Boulevard for a ways and eventually this gave way to condos and condo developments. Xaman Ha is a very nice well-manicured boulevard, with traffic divided and the center island neatly trimmed and well kept. There are turns for the major resorts and developments but every so often the boulevard was such that to get to a location on the opposite side of the road you had to drive past it to the nearest turning road through the island and come around backtracking to your stop.
Many condos were nice – on in particular had blue glass windows and almost all of them had a pair of concrete strips for a driveway and short front yards with Bermuda-type grass, palm trees, flowers and very unique architecture.
We ended our walk at the edge of the gold curse where we took the first picture by the palm tree - or rather had it taken for us by a foreign couple, very nice.
Upon arriving back at the Sandos, we signed out bikes and headed to Playa for a look around. Went through the shopping area and then timeshare encounter (that should be the name of a video game or tour, I think ☺ ) we had the WorlodsMostExpesiveRefreshment at Sr. Frogs. Once again the gif shopping at the shops near the ferry dock were price-competitive with anywhere else we went.
Biked back to the Sandos. All week we wanted to check out the Mayan ruins near the entrance to Playacar along Xaman Ha on the east side of the road but never did – they looked interesting and I recommend a stop as they’re free and had some informational plaques on posts.
Finally we were back to our room, changed and headed down to the beach. An Australian gal had tossed my flips under the chair and was firmly relaxed in the spot I was sure that I had awoken hours before she did to come down and claim it. No matter, several open chairs a bit back from the front row, which was where we parked for some quality beach time.
The video pans around the Sandos Playacar beach, showing some of the things people could do there. Vendors selling massages, henna tattoos (I got one that was supposed to last 2 weeks but it made it maybe 2 hours – my fault for wasting the money), jet-skiing, sailing, para-sailing, fishing, and any number of vendors plying their wares. The parasailing is interesting in that the boats don’t come to shore to pick you up – you ride out to the boat on a jet ski as it is in the process of sail-flying someone else. Then when your turn is done, that’s how you disembark and get back to shore.
We mostly lounged here before a siesta that eventually lasted quite a while before we headed downtown to watch the fire dancers – a fun show that’s worth taking in. Enjoy!