Nope, not the score of the Germany-England game from last week, but rather the score of the Heavy Rain vs. Sunshine days for my recent Mexican sojorn. Well at least that was the score the day of the Germany-England debacle.
We really enjoyed Playa Del Carmen. The direct flight to Cancun, and a 1 hour bus ride was totally fine. The Grand Coco Bay Resort in the low season was great; there are about 250 rooms there, but only 50 were used when we arrived. I think I like a small resort; 5 min will get you from room to buffet to sea back to the room. With another stop in between!
The other guests were cool, the buffets were good and changed up day-by-day. The quality of drinks were great. The breakfast mimosa was pretty decadent. The staff, including Ramon, Gabriella, Antonio were great. They really seemed to care that we were happy. The tour office had Juan Carlos and he was fantastic. Highly recommend him.
In direct contrast the concierge was useless – worse than useless in fact. Their job was to lie to you and tie you into a timeshare presentation. Terrible. The worse part? Their ignorance of Hurricane Alex. I mean we asked them and they said, “Oh yes, a little rain the next few days. All days the same until Tuesday.” Hurricane never came up. I’m pretty sure I’d have figured out if they had said a word about it…or perhaps have had a newspaper I could read. Or had any news channel on TV.
We got there on a Wed. By Saturday we were being hammered by the storm. But we didn’t know it was coming until we had rented a car, drove an hour, checked out some ruins then set down to lunch. We were THEN told about the storm. I thought…ya know, you could have told us concierge.
So loved the resort, had a great time, especially the last 2 days when it was sunny (so the final “rain score” was 4-3), but man, you would figure telling folks about a Hurricane would be useful…





