Oct 13-20th Trip planned...thinking about cancelling

[syversons2b]

We have our honeymoon planned for Oct 13-20th in Playa. We are staying at the Riu Mexico Palace. I have been looking at weather.com over the past 2 months and EVERY time I have looked it was T Storms and showers. The 10 day forecast is also all T Storms. I am getting a little discouraged about going to Playa for a honeymoon with no sun. I also checked weather.com for Cabo and it is sunny 9/10 days in the forecast.
Has anyone been to Playa within the past month that would like to give me some advice. I REALLY need some fun in the sun. I have been feeling a little down with the miserable rainy weather at home, and I do not want to have the same feeling in Playa. Advice??

[myhappyplace2]

Babs where are you?

[Jacko]

You should go...the forecasts can be really misleading...and even if you get a little rain, it is often a nice refreshing cool-off from the heat....I loved the Riu Palace when we went there a few years ago...is this the newer one or the older one?

[Loree]

Originally Posted by syversons2b

We have our honeymoon planned for Oct 13-20th in Playa. We are staying at the Riu Mexico Palace. I have been looking at weather.com over the past 2 months and EVERY time I have looked it was T Storms and showers. The 10 day forecast is also all T Storms. I am getting a little discouraged about going to Playa for a honeymoon with no sun. I also checked weather.com for Cabo and it is sunny 9/10 days in the forecast.
Has anyone been to Playa within the past month that would like to give me some advice. I REALLY need some fun in the sun. I have been feeling a little down with the miserable rainy weather at home, and I do not want to have the same feeling in Playa. Advice??

My advice is this..........
GO. ....you will have so much fun.............out of 14 or 15 trips to Playa, it has been forecasted to rain all of them, but in reality has rained only once.
You can NEVER trust the forecast
If it does rain, it usually lasts about 5 minutes..............just an excuse to duck into the bar
Relax................go.............trust me...........you will LOVE it and I am looking forward to a trip report.

[Babaloo]

that is the forecast everyday
it's the tropics
it's beautiful here today
there are no storms in the carribean
come on down...have a great honeymoon
oh...i've been here - i live here
in fact...i'm going to lay out in the sun right now with susie

(you are picking a great time of year to come down)

[gingele]

Originally Posted by syversons2b

We have our honeymoon planned for Oct 13-20th in Playa. We are staying at the Riu Mexico Palace. I have been looking at weather.com over the past 2 months and EVERY time I have looked it was T Storms and showers. The 10 day forecast is also all T Storms. I am getting a little discouraged about going to Playa for a honeymoon with no sun. I also checked weather.com for Cabo and it is sunny 9/10 days in the forecast.
Has anyone been to Playa within the past month that would like to give me some advice. I REALLY need some fun in the sun. I have been feeling a little down with the miserable rainy weather at home, and I do not want to have the same feeling in Playa. Advice??

Best Advice: Don't cancel. But only heed that advice if you can make up your mind NOT to obsess and stress over it between now and then. YOu can have all sorts of peeps (local and itinerant) tell you not to worry over and over and give you every reassurance in the world.....

But if you are the type who will worry yourself sick about it and stress over it between now and your honeymoon (and in your post you do "sound" stressed already) regardless of the assurances you will get here, then frankly, maybe you should change your trip.

[MMandm]

Originally Posted by syversons2b

We have our honeymoon planned for Oct 13-20th in Playa. We are staying at the Riu Mexico Palace. I have been looking at weather.com over the past 2 months and EVERY time I have looked it was T Storms and showers. The 10 day forecast is also all T Storms. I am getting a little discouraged about going to Playa for a honeymoon with no sun. I also checked weather.com for Cabo and it is sunny 9/10 days in the forecast.
Has anyone been to Playa within the past month that would like to give me some advice. I REALLY need some fun in the sun. I have been feeling a little down with the miserable rainy weather at home, and I do not want to have the same feeling in Playa. Advice??

I think you'll find that the weather forecasts are always going to say thunderstorms this time of year.

My experience last week (and weather.com said thunderstorms all week):

9/22 steady rain most of the day
9/23 cloudy with hellacious rain squall mid-morning
9/24 sunny and 85
9/25 rainy and kinda chilly in the morning, sorta sunny in the afternoon
9/26 sunny and 85
9/27 sunny and 85
9/28 very brief, isolated shower in the morning, sunny and 85 rest of day
9/29 sunny and getting a bit hotter
9/30 leaving, but sunny

The only thing to watch for is hurricanes about a week out or so, but even then big ones are pretty rare (the last couple of years notwithstanding).

You might get a couple of days of rain, but that should keep the sunburn to an acceptable level. No worries and have fun!!!

[syversons2b]

It is not the brand new one, but I think it is newer.

[abachechi]

Originally Posted by syversons2b

We have our honeymoon planned for Oct 13-20th in Playa. We are staying at the Riu Mexico Palace. I have been looking at weather.com over the past 2 months and EVERY time I have looked it was T Storms and showers. The 10 day forecast is also all T Storms. I am getting a little discouraged about going to Playa for a honeymoon with no sun. I also checked weather.com for Cabo and it is sunny 9/10 days in the forecast.
Has anyone been to Playa within the past month that would like to give me some advice. I REALLY need some fun in the sun. I have been feeling a little down with the miserable rainy weather at home, and I do not want to have the same feeling in Playa. Advice??

Hi! We were just in playa on our honeymoon as well about 2 weeks ago. The forecast called for storms every single day!

Guess what, it was sunshine every single day! It rained twice in the time we were there, for no more then 20 minutes - it was the perfect excuse to duck into a bar for a drink

[Bluespicker]

If you're that stressed out about what the weather MIGHT be I'd cancel.

[syversons2b]

I love that everyone on here is so positive!!! It is encouraging. Weather.com has scared me to death!! It is good to know that it is not a constant rain all day!! You are all calming me--THank you!!!

[syversons2b]

Originally Posted by Babaloo

that is the forecast everyday
it's the tropics
it's beautiful here today
there are no storms in the carribean
come on down...have a great honeymoon
oh...i've been here - i live here
in fact...i'm going to lay out in the sun right now with susie

(you are picking a great time of year to come down)

Thank you SO MUCH for your advice!!! I am excited!!! I think I will keep it as is. Weather.com needs to take some advice too!! Ha!

[Heather]

weather.com sucks. Don't worry. Just stay off of weather.com

It very RARELY rains continuously for days and days here. VERY rarely.

[syversons2b]

Originally Posted by Heather

weather.com sucks. Don't worry. Just stay off of weather.com

It very RARELY rains continuously for days and days here. VERY rarely.

Advice taken!!! No more weather.com I think it is meant to be, because when I called my agent this morning she was out of the office. I am keeping everything as is Anyone want to give me some must visit places?? You all are wonderful!!

[MMandm]

Originally Posted by Babaloo

that is the forecast everyday
it's the tropics
it's beautiful here today
there are no storms in the carribean
come on down...have a great honeymoon
oh...i've been here - i live here
in fact...i'm going to lay out in the sun right now with susie

(you are picking a great time of year to come down)

(Jealous grumbling as I sit here at my desk at work)