Iberostar Tucan ~ Part 2
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Most of our week at the Tucan was spent on the beach during the day enjoying the sun, sand and surf. Our 8 year old son, Christian, finally got tired of getting beat by the bigger kids in ping pong, so he started spending more time with his new friend Matthew from Los Angeles. He was 10 and was very sweet. He’s been to the resort several times, so he new the drill, and he took Christian with him all over the place. They played horseshoes, bocce, and body surfed together. It was nice that Christian made friends with him, because it gave us a break from constantly entertaining him. When he wanted to rest, he’d join me under the palapa and read or play his game boy.
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Christian and Matthew at the kids show
We ate at the Mexican restaurant later in the week and we had a great waiter, but once again, old age is creeping in and I can’t remember his name.
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My husband wore a very nice ribbed shirt with his dress pants and they wouldn’t let him in because it was sleeveless. He had to run all the way back to the room to change and the waiter was teasing him that they’d let the women in in bikinis but the men had to have long pants and sleeved shirts! Poor Ed was drenched in sweat by the time he got back!
We enjoyed the appetizer bar there a lot. They had several different ceviches and sopes (which I had in Mexico City and they were much better there!) as well as chimichangas and many other things I didn’t recognize. I’m not a big fan of Mexican food, much to most people’s surprise, seeing how I’m a Spanish teacher. I had steak kebob tacos for dinner and they were good. Christian had beef tacos and Ed had the arrechera steak. They both liked their dinners. The Mexican coffee for dessert looked better than it tasted, but again, I’m not a big coffee drinker either!
We also tried the steakhouse our last night there. It was good too, but not air conditioned. Our steaks were good, not wonderful, and I didn’t feel good the next day. I’m not sure what it was from, but I know it wasn’t from drinking too much because I only had two glasses of wine. I’m starting to think that what always makes my stomach upset in Mexico is the warm milk they put in the coffee. I had it every morning, and by the 5th day I was getting sharp stomach pains every so often. It’s not enough to make me stay in bed, but I feel like I have no energy and I start having gastro intestinal issues, if you know what I mean. Luckily, I still had the prescription of Cipro that I took with me in April, so I started taking that and within a day I felt much better. Interestingly enough, when we got to Cancun, they served cold cream with the coffee and I never had any problems the whole week. That’s what started me thinking that it might by the warm milk, which might not be pasteurized. I didn’t take the Cipro in Cancun because it makes you very sensitive to the sun and I was burning even with SPF 30, and I already had a dark tan!
One day we walked south on the beach past the Gala to take some pictures. This year we brought our tripod and nice clothes to put on for a Xmas card pic, but the wind wasn't kind to our hair, and the camera was a little too far away, I think. But we'll probably use the picture below of the three of us anyway because everyone loves those beach pics in cold December!!
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Anyway, overall, we loved the Iberostar Tucan, and we’d go back again for sure. We don’t say that about many places either!
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The service was excellent everywhere, and the food was good (not gourmet, but high quality with a large selection). I thought the food at the Palladium was a little better, but the beach at Iberostar is much more user friendly, IMO. I hope you found this report useful and/or enjoyable.
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Next year we might not be traveling because we’re adding on a 950 square foot addition to our home, and we’ll have to wait and see how our savings account looks in the new year! But we took some wonderful videos which we can sit and watch during the winter while enjoying a warm fire in the new fireplace!