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Hello everyone, I am back from the "palace". If you want a quiet room (if there is such a thing), try for the backside of the building. Just for clarification, there are 3 floors, rooms with numbers 1000, etc. are ground floor rooms, 2000, are up one level and 3000 are the top floor. Backside rooms are the ones with odd numbers and they overlook the jungle and the service road, if you are in an even numbered room, you have a "view" of the main bldg. still under construction and worked on daily from 8 a.m. until 8-9 p.m. every night. Granted it is coming along day by day but sitting out on your balcony for a quiet time at night or after 8 a.m. is just not possible (but only if you are in the first 2-3 bldgs., from bldg. 4-9, it does seem to be a little more peaceful). Having just returned this past Fri. (sorry it took a while to post, I severely sprained my foot at a restaurant during one of the many rainy days that we had during our 2 wks.) Anyway, I really will not let that affect my judgement of the place, weather is a chance that we all take whenever we travel. So, in answer to this question, if I were to go back tomorrow, I would try to get a room facing the jungle in bldg. #1 or 2, 2nd or 3rd floor. Only because you don't get much of a view of the pool anyway, and it is a lot less noise. We were in rooms 2016 and 2018 for our first week and then shared 2016 for week 2. Our "maid" was a wonderful guy by the name of Miguel, what a hard worker, we never had to ask for anything twice, yes, we tipped him daily but it was worth it.
Katrina, I checked out your pictures and they are great! You have done everyone here a wonderful favor by posting them. Some things have changed already though, the hammocks are no longer there, all taken down. And the beach restaurant was being dismantled as we left, part of the palapa roof blew off during the big storm on the 14th and now it is completely out of service (but that could change again, things change there almost daily) so now there is only the one restaurant by the pool for all meals.
I will try to answer questions if you have them. Linda
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