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Cancu/Riviera Maya trip
Here is my trip report and I will post in Trip Advisor too.
Cancun/Riviera Maya trip report. From 8/3-8/10 at Palladium Grand Resort Fly from Philadelphia by USA 3000 Apple Vacations All Inclusive including airfare booked through www.vacation-discount-superstore.com contacted their travel agent named Dan so only got 8% discount (no airfare discount) Cost ~$885 per adults (3) and ~$835 for 15 yrs old son in 4 people room. 2 adults in one room cost ~$975/person and 3 adults cost ~$920/person We had 2 rooms: Me, wife, daughter (18) and son (15) & my wife's mom, sister & cousin in other room and her cousin flew out Detroit by Delta. Departu Very good, quick check-in. Got to airport at 5:00 AM for 7:00 AM flight. Dropped everyone off and went to Economy parking lot. Check in was done when I came back I went to the front desk to get my boarding pass, a person from airline saw me and ran over to look at my passport and gave the boarding pass. Flight was smooth and departed on time we landed in Cancun at 9:30 AM (CT). Since it was on Tuesday so it took about 1 hour went through custom including the time from the runway to the gate by bus and got the luggage. We had to go out to meet Apple Vacations representatives. I don't understand why Mexican government does not allow them inside but the people who tries to sell time share is allowed inside. Don't listen to the people works at airport just go to collect your luggage, these people pretend to help you but end up they passed you to "time share" guys. Hotel: it took about 1 1/2 hours from the airport, we arrive at the hotel about 12:30 PM and check in took less than 10 minutes. We went for lunch and came back 1 hour later to pick up luggage and room keys. Rating: scale 1 to 10 (best) Airline: USA3000 score 9 Hotel: In general: room, lobby, landscape... score 9.5, they are very beautiful. Services: 9.5 due to the call in front desk never got what they promised. Restaurants/bars services score 10+ Food: buffet restaurants score 9, Japanese restaurant score 5, Steakhouse score 7 and Mexican score 8. Note don't eat Sushi 2 out of 4 got sick. We think they don't have enough "Mexican" food, a lot of American food. Activities score 4 not much thing to do if you do not drink much. Shows at night score 3.5 only my wife likes it since it was free. Swimming pools are beautiful but water was too warm so score 9.5 Beach: Beautiful but no waves, my wife and her family like it but me and our kids were getting bore after an hour. Beautiful sand and we walked almost every morning. Score 9 Apple Vacations representatives were very helpful but were more interested in selling tour (most of them were over-price we think). They offered a free trip to shop at Playa de Carmen downtown for people who booked the tour but not to people who booked the whole vacation with them !!! ---- Score 8 Xel-Ha park: Score 8. It is a nice park but not much thing to do beside snorkeling and float on the "river", other activities look good in their website or the paper. This is the best place to give you the highest exchange rate for dollar to peso. The food and drink was very reason, they don't try to rip you off like Disney park. We were lucky no rain at all for 7 days we were there but it was very hot on the average I took 3-4 showers a day. Since Sunday night I could not eat much foods or drink I think the food is too "rich" for me. The workers were very friendly and cheerful and like others said they treated everyone well regarding tips or no tips. We gave the tips for every meal 1-2 dollars. Sometimes I felt bad since there were two waiter/waitress served in our table so I either gave tips for both or gave to the main one and gave tips to other next meal (we tried to sit in the same location). We did not see many people gave tips once a while someone gave tips and most likely American. This resort is more "family friendly" so no topless at the main pool. I did not see much topless women at the beach on the average 3-4 a day and the same people everyday. For the money, we think it is the best but we don't think we will be back except my wife. We may try some places else in Mexico and may try to learn Spanish at Community College. Please ask me any questions regarding the trip, hotel ...... Hai Pham |
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