Each building has it's own concierge. We made our reservations for dinner for the week. At the Lindo you are able to make reservations at the ala carte restaurants every night if you like. If we stayed at the Del Mar we were only given two for our stay. The we realized we were suppose to be at our orientation with the Apple rep and off we went.
As far as the restaurants go, we ate at the Cajun, Mexican, Steak house, Italian, the Beaches buffet, and the Steak house again Joe really liked the Steak house. Neither of us liked the Mexican. The steak house was located at the Maya resort. Breakfast we ate at Beaches buffet. We really enjoyed sitting outside and eating breakfast. Breakfast is wonderful, fresh fruit, smoothies, fresh squeezed orange juice and of course bacon, eggs and pancakes etc....it was interesting to see the european foods also.
It seemed as the majority of guest were from Canada or european. My estimate (and only a guess) would be about 1/3 American.
Nightly we explored the resorts. Daily we were at the pool on the Del Mar side when we did not leave the resort. The Maya is magnificent. But does not have the atmosphere that the other resorts have. All the resorts are beautiful. We caught the nightly entertainment, but never went to the disco. We spent the majority of our time on the Del mar side of the resort. Service everywhere is top notch. I cannot say enough about this resort, it is just absolutely stunning. Every day there was something I had not seen before. I was amazed at the peacocks sitting on top of the balcony walls. Can you imagine getting up and opening your patio door?
We really liked the location of our room. It was almost just as far to the Del Mar pool as the Lindo. We primarly used the Del Mar pool. It was hot in the afternoon by the Lindo pool as there is not as much shade. Joe's main objective of the trip was to sit pool side. I got a massage half way thru our stay. That was wonderful. I had my massage at the spa. You could also get a massage by the pool or the beach. The beach was beautiful. Lots of chairs and palapas. We never went down and "researved" a spot.
The resort provides transportation hourly to Playa Del Carmen.There are two travel buses that pickup. Be sure to note on the return trip, there is a 4:30 pickup an not again until 6:30. Buses ran a little late, just so you know in case you are pushed for time getting back. There are a lot of people going back but there were two buses. The first time we were waiting to come back and there were all these people I was starting to get worried we would have to wait for the 7:30. We went into Playa one day for shopping, and another day to Cozumel for snorkeling. The ferry to Cozumel was only $4. If you get airsick, take dramamine. I should have. We hired a snorkeling tour ($25) off the pier. I would have done that different. So if you want to snorkel on your own I would research it first. We had never snorkeled before and did not know what to expect. I am sure there are better places to snorkel at Cozumel. I swallowed some water while snorkeling which did not sit well with my stomach and after being seasick on the ferry....I ended up heaving over the side of the boat.
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The end of our stay came too soon.
We had our bags picked up on the 19th at 6:45 A. M. Checked out at the main desk. The concierge said she would be there at 7 but the desk said 7:15. We needed to get breakfast before our 7:40 departure with Apple Vac. Apple was 15 minutes late. We stopped at another resort which then filled the bus. We got to the airport around 9 for our 10:35 flight. At 10 we were just to getting our luggage searched. And then check in. The computer breaks down and there is about 7 couples behind us yet. We finally get checked in at around 10:15 and still need to go thru security and find our gate. No duty free shopping for us! Needless to say our flight was delayed and yes our baggage made it. Our trip home was uneventful. And the only thing good about coming home was that we did not have to dig our van out of snow at the hotel.
Our vacation was wonderul
, thank you to our friends who suggested this resort to us. Oh yeah, my favorite drink...mojetos (sp) , but you could not get them at all the bars as I often ran into the problem that they did not have the mint leaves there.
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