Playa del Carmen - Oct 2012

Playa del Carmen Beach

We decided to join John and Joanna in Playa del Carmen for a few days of sun and fun. We called it our practice trip for Cabo which is scheduled for next Spring.

Hotel Pool

Accommodation:

Royal Playa del Carmen - An all inclusive hotel on the beach and in town.  There are several good restaurants in the hotel and the pool area is very nice.  The rooms are interesting with a large jet-tub in the middle of the room and they put two double beds together to make a super-king!

Royal Playa del Carmen

Activities:
We took a direct flight from Denver to Cancun and arrived at the hotel around 5pm on Thursday.  John and Joanna had been there since the weekend prior but had stayed at a different hotel up until this day.  After we checked-in and dumped our luggage in our room, we joined them in their room for a couple of beers before heading to the hotel bar for more drinks and then to dinner.  We capped the evening with more drinks at one of the hotel bars by the beach that had swings to sit on.

Pool Bar

Each day was the same.  We got up and had a light breakfast, worked out for a couple of hours and then plopped down by the pool for the rest of the day, occasionally cooling off with a beer or mojito.  There was interesting people watching at the pool - not surprisingly a lot of people from the Northeast, in particular Long Island.  After a day of relaxing, we napped (because we had such a hard day), showered and then went out to dinner.  On one of the evenings, the hotel put on a fun show in the lobby where they did dance routines from each of the decades.  Prior to this, we attended a wine tasting in the lobby.  Between the food and drink, the trip set us back a few pounds on our diet. 

Wine Tasting

Restaurants:
We ate at all the restaurants in the hotel that allowed shorts. A few of the places required pants in the evening and John had not brought any.

Pelicanos - we ate breakfast here each day.  Big buffet!

Spice - we had lunch and dinner here at this oceanside open air restaurant.  Very yummy.

Tapas & Pintxos - we had dinner here and ordered almost one of everything on the menu.  Very tasty.

Asiana - we had lunch here twice (pants not required for lunch).  They have a mixture of Asian food - Japanenese, Chinese, Thai and Korean.  Also very tasty.

John, Joanna and Keith