#7652295 - 04/17/14 08:49 AM
Just got back from an all inclusive
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4Three
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My first time. It was more fun than I expected. I'm not a lounging poolside/beach or drinking type of guy. So my wife was expecting frowny face from me all week. But I got to spend a lot of time with my girls, non-stop swimming, snorkelled for the first time, climbed a pyramid, and ate like a fatty, and it was good!
To summarize:
- Riviera Maya, Grand Bahia Principe, 7 nights
- rained for 20 mins one day, and a little when we checked out; otherwise sunny and hot
- ate bacon, churros, omelettes, fruit every morning. watermelon juice and cappuccinos
- climbed pyramid in Coba (i think it's the tallest one), great view over the trees and out of the coast. going on was easy, coming down, those steps are SHALLOW!
- snorkelling at the beach, saw a small octopus, a small moray eel, and turned over a rock, saw a starfish get eaten alive by wrasse. also got a sense of what it would be like to get carried out to sea. STRONG currents on the last day
- all in all, it was a great experience. i'll probably do it again, but not until my kids are older.
so, where's this snow people were posting on facebook about?
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#7652454 - 04/17/14 10:07 AM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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#7652464 - 04/17/14 10:10 AM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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4Three
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Screamin - we almost could've done a CSI:ON vacay meet! We went to Chitchen Itza too. Went with this USA Transfer thing, which is a mini van and so it's a private outting. You get to control times, which worked well for us. But you're right, that was a hell of a long day. 2 hours to Chitchen Itza, swim a Cenote, eat, another hour to Coba, then back. Probably spent about 5 hours in that van. Half the time I was thinking we might get dropped off somewhere, have me decapitated, sell my wife and kids off to the cartel.
Mario - my kids are 5 and (almost) 8. they've been in semi-private swimming lessons for about a year. the older one can swim about 25 meters, while the younger one can swim for a couple seconds. i mention the swimming because i'm not sure what they would do otherwise. they browned up pretty good. looks like i smuggled back a couple of senoritas. they loved the food. jello and fried stuff every day. nothing that we'd normally let them load up on.
f22b - that pic looks crazy baller! i'd do that if i could figure out where to put my kids for a week.
on a side note, no one had any stomach issues. we just made sure to use the bottled water for everything.
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#7652479 - 04/17/14 10:19 AM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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4age
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Cooooooooool!
So how much weight did you gain?
Be ready to feel the pain on Sunday XD
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#7652525 - 04/17/14 10:36 AM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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zc911
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chichenitza is awesome, i was really glad we sweated out the bus ride.
Seeing it and realizing what it must of took back then to do it was just amazing (unless becuase aliens ), i could walk around there for days.
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#7652528 - 04/17/14 10:37 AM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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I did a CSi vacay meet with AMG SiR in Cuba, stayed at the same resort 
I stayed at the Gran Bahia Principe in Jamaica, nice resort fo sho. I gained several lbs when I went to Cuba earlier this year...drinking rum and coke all day didn't help eating like a pig for a week I'm sure....but vacation so yolo
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#7652952 - 04/17/14 01:41 PM
Re: Just got back from an all inclusive
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The Postman
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Having been to all inclusives about 15 times now, Id say they are a great place for kids. The place my wife and I frequent in Cuba has a whole side of the resort dedicated to families with tons of activities. Huge pool, this pirate ship/waterslide thing, music, games all kinds of stuff. They had a separate show in the theatre every night for the kinds, magicians in the lobby, etc.
I dont even have kids and it looked like a blast. The singles/couples side of the resort was actually kinda boring lol.
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it was hot/humid as hell 1pm-5pm lol.
