Beach Photos from Playacar Riu and Iberostar Properties

[kwagner99]

As promised, beach photos from in front of the Playacar Riu and Iberostar properties, 17-May-08. (Captions are above the corresponding photo.)

1. Riu Palace Mexico Beach Facing North


2. Riu Tequila Beach Area Facing North


3. Riu Yucatan Beach Facing North


4. Riu Yucatan Beach Facing South


5. Iberostar Quetzal Beach Facing South


6. Iberostar Quezal Beach Facing South (2)


7. Iberostar Quetzal


8. Large Sand Bag Between Iberostar Quetzal and Tucan


9. Iberostar Quetzal Beach Facing North


10. Iberostar Tucan Beach Facing South toward Sandos Playacar

[rizan22]

My goodness........... Certainly not the same beach from my last trip. Thanks for posting.

[Shammy]

But hey, that wall at the Tucan/Quetzal looks pretty darn good - compared to the cliff that was there before! Have to look on the bright side when Mother Nature isn't cooperating!

[queencityfan]

Great pictures, I think this area looks better than the last time I saw it in March.

[MicheleR]

Thanks for the great pictures! The wall is nice, but no where near the green grass that was there in October when we were there! With that said, we would still go back to this resort. We weren't there for the grass!!

[Linnysue]

Originally Posted by MicheleR

Thanks for the great pictures! The wall is nice, but no where near the green grass that was there in October when we were there! With that said, we would still go back to this resort. We weren't there for the grass!!

From what I observed, they will probably be placing a small grassy strip directly in front of building #20.

[clfsean]

Thanks for the pics!! It gives me an idea of what to expect in a couple of weeks!

[Playadicta]

Was hoping someone would post an update - Thanks!

[kwagner99]

Originally Posted by clfsean

Thanks for the pics!! It gives me an idea of what to expect in a couple of weeks!

Going back to the Tequila! Most excellent! They are closing down at the beginning of August for a multimillion-dollar renovation, and reopening some time in December. I can't wait to go back to see what they did to improve on darned near perfect...

[plamm]

Wow, great pictures. These are very helpful. Thanks!

[mallen10]

I was at the Riu Playacar in November of 2003 and the pics I seen on this thread look completely different. The beaches in 2003 were absolutely beautiful, no sandbags whatsoever. What is causing the errosion problems? If its been previous hurricanes, shouldn't that be a temporary problem? Rising sea waters?

[kwagner99]

Originally Posted by mallen10

I was at the Riu Playacar in November of 2003 and the pics I seen on this thread look completely different. The beaches in 2003 were absolutely beautiful, no sandbags whatsoever. What is causing the errosion problems? If its been previous hurricanes, shouldn't that be a temporary problem? Rising sea waters?

It was dicussed in the following thread:

http://www.playa.info/playa-del-carm...zal-tucan.html

The beaches in Cancun are getting bad as well. My brother was there in April and couldn't believe the difference from when we were there in 2005...

[gringo6339]

thank you very much for the update as well as the pics...it's so sad to look at those destroyed beaches....