Cancun
At the end of April, I went to Cancun. I had been to Puerto Vallarta before and I had a great time there. I knew that Cancun was going to be different but I wasn't expecting it to be as different as it turned out to be.
My wife and I went there to meet her sister and her husband. They were celebrating her husband's birthday along with a couple of his friends. They wanted to stay at a resort that didn't have any kids and I can't really argue with their logic. The problem is that they ended up choosing a resort that was a little too adult. There was a warning that the beach there was topless which isn't really that big a deal but they didn't have to be so raunchy. They had all kinds of games and contests that were all sexually oriented. I didn't think that was really necessary.
The topless pool wasn't horrible but was still kinda hard to deal with. I figured there might be a few ladies that took off their tops but I was surprised to find that just about every woman there took off their tops. There were some hot women but there was alot more "not so hot" women. One of the first things that I did when I got there was to find the Best Day Tours stand to work out our return transportation to the airport. I only had 15 minutes before they were set to close up for the day. In doing so, I walked by one of the pools to find a 350lbs woman oiling up her boobs. She had to lift it up with one hand and oil it up with the other. I almost puked from the sight of it. Eventually, I became numb to the boobies flopping around till we went and took a seat at the pool the next day. There weren't many seats available so we ended up sitting along side this older couple. This lady that looked like she was old enough to be my mother started having a converstation with us. She also was topless and I found it really difficult to talk to her with her saggy boobs hanging down to her waste. Later that day after the older couple next to us left, I saw what was probably the funniest thing of the whole trip. There was this one lady that was obviously from Texas. She wore a Texas flag bikini bottom and a Texas flag hat. She had bleach blonde hair that was clearly fake. We all know that everything in bigger in Texas and this woman was no exception. she was probably around 225lbs and about 50 of those were in her boobs. Over her nipples, she wore stars to go with the Texas theme. I did manage to get a picture of her when she took a photo with a parrot on the beach. I would post it but it isn't quite PG13 material.
The beach was much better. At least there was enough room around that I didn't have to see boobies and booties everytime I turned my head. The biggest problem was the weather. It was warm and sunny most of the time with a few clouds here and there but there was a lot of wind. The water wasn't very warm but considering that it was only late April, it was decent. On our last day there, I was wading out into the water on the beach about waste deep when a couple came in the water next to me. The obviously had a little too much to drink. The lady started yelling to me, "Shark! Shark!" and I just smiled and blew her off. Then she yelled "Jellyfish!" I totally ignored her. Then the guy with her yelled, "Look! Titties!". I said "Titties? Where?". The lady with her obviously fake boobs, pointed at her chest and shook them back and forth and said "Right here!". I replied, "All I see is silicone." They both laughed and went about their business and soon after walked back to the beach.
If you removed the raunchiness from the resort, it still wasn't that nice. It was an all inclusive place so all of our meals were included. They had one restaurant that was a buffet. The food wasn't awful but it was very bland. The other restaurants required you to make a reservation. At the last all inclusive resort I stayed at, we could walk into any restaurant, at any time and eat. I found this reservation situation to be rather odd. The resort was fairly small and the design was a poor attempt at being modern. I would have preferred to come to the Carribean to be in a Carribean atmosphere. Our room wasn't much better either. It had an Adam and Eve theme with a big red apple and sexy red mood lighting. We didn't have an ocean view room (when I booked the room, an ocean view was $50 extra per night and my sister in law didn't get an ocean view room either and we wanted our rooms to be close to eachother). Instead when we opened the window, we had a beautiful view of the main road and all the traffic. Needless to say, if I ever go to Cancun again, I won't be staying there. In retrospect, I would have stayed at the Dreams resort which is a bigger and better version of the Dreams resort that I stayed at in Puerto Vallarta.
Cancun, in and of itself, was very different compared to Puerto Vallarta. Cancun was much more of a partying, resort town. The hotel district seems to have been tailor made for American tourists. There was nothing but hotels, shopping, bars and night clubs. Everyone there spoke English. There was little to no Mexican culture there at all. In Puerto Vallarta, you got the feeling that this was a small port town. It was much more laid back which is closer to my style.
We were scheduled to go on 2 activities. My wife and I wanted to see the Aztec ruins but when they told us that it was a 3 hour drive there and 3 hours back, we decided against it. Besides that, none of the rest of our group wanted to do that. We came there to be together. The 2 activites that we decided on were snorkeling which they called "Finding Nemo" (clearly a copyright violation) and a boat cruise around the lagoon and dinner which they called the "Booze Cruise". I didn't really want to go on the Booze Cruise and neither did my wife but we didn't want to seperate from the rest of our group and decided to come along. It turned out to be really stupid. We road around in this stupid boat at night and weren't really able to see any of the scenery and everyone was smoking which I can't stand. My wife and I really needed to go to the bathroom so we were both very anxious to get off the boat. Eventually we docked and were taken on a bus to the restaurant/bar at whcih we were supposed to have dinner. The place was loud and obnoxious. There wasn't enough seats for everyone and the food was even more bland then the buffet at the resort. The best thing at that dinner was the fries and chicken fingers. Yes, that's right. I went all the way to Mexico to eat fries and chicken fingers. As everyone was partying at the restaurant, my wife, her sister and I went into the nearby shopping area. I felt like I was in Vegas but on a smaller scale.
On one of our days there, we adventured into downtown. We went to the market where my wife spent nearly all of our cash buying gifts for everyone back home. For some reason she feels the need to get gifts for every single person she knows whenever we take a vacation. She is much more thoughful than I am. This was the most culture that I experienced in Cancun. I got a great picture of my wife when a young girl came up to her trying to sell her a bracelet for a dollar. The look on her face and the girls face is priceless.
Later, we walked around downtown trying to find some authentic Mexican food to eat. As we were walked my sister in law posed next to a sign and I took a picture of it. It kind of goes along with the theme of the trip.
Just like in Market and everywhere else, everyone at the restaurant spoke English. The restaurant was pretty typical of any taqueria that I would find at home. Either we have very authentic Mexican food here at home or that wasn't a very authentic Mexican restaurant. I think the latter is more likely the case.
On our last day there, we were supposed to do the "Finding Nemo" snorkeling tour. I was all excited for it. I had my camera and the waterproof case that I had borrowed from a friend. We went over to the desk where we bought the activities and he told us that it was most likely going to be cancelled because fo the high winds. I was pissed off. At least we got refunded and the refund was in US dollars cash. It turns out it was a good thing because I had brought the wrong battery charger for my camera and would have been pissed off when the battery died in the middle of snorkeling.
My wife, her sister and I decided that we had enough of sitting around on the beach so we ended up going back to downtown by bus this time. We sort of got lost trying to find our way from the bus stop to the market. I wouldn't be an adventure if we didn't get lost in a foreign country. (We weren't really lost but I thought it spiced up the story a bit. We just on the wrong side of the street.) My wife subsequently spent the cash that we got in refund of our snorkeling trip that didn't happen. On our return trip, a taxi driver tried to get us to ride with him instead of taking the bus. He wanted $10 US and I said "No way!". The bus is 75 cents per person and there was only 3 of us. I kept telling him $5 and eventually got him to go down to $6. Instead of trying to find the bus, we agreed to $6. I ended up giving him $8 just because he wasn't pushy like all the rest of the taxi drivers.
Our flight over there wasn't so bad. We left from Oakland, switched plans in Salt Lake City and then to Cancun. Our return flight wasn't as efficient. We went from Cancun to Atlanta to Salt Lake City to Oakland. At least I got to rack up some frequent flyer miles, which I am sure will be worthless. It literally took an entire day to get back home. Our travel time was over 11 hours.
All things considered it was pretty fun. I am sure that if it were just my wife and I, it would have been different. We would have not gone on the Booze Cruise and would have definitely gone to see the Aztec ruins. We would not have stayed at that resort (I think I'm a hotel snob) and we would have gone at a time when the water was warmer and the wild was calmer. Despite all that, I had a good time. I'm not sure if I would go back to Cancun. I think there are other places that I would want to visit before going back there.
My wife and I went there to meet her sister and her husband. They were celebrating her husband's birthday along with a couple of his friends. They wanted to stay at a resort that didn't have any kids and I can't really argue with their logic. The problem is that they ended up choosing a resort that was a little too adult. There was a warning that the beach there was topless which isn't really that big a deal but they didn't have to be so raunchy. They had all kinds of games and contests that were all sexually oriented. I didn't think that was really necessary.
The topless pool wasn't horrible but was still kinda hard to deal with. I figured there might be a few ladies that took off their tops but I was surprised to find that just about every woman there took off their tops. There were some hot women but there was alot more "not so hot" women. One of the first things that I did when I got there was to find the Best Day Tours stand to work out our return transportation to the airport. I only had 15 minutes before they were set to close up for the day. In doing so, I walked by one of the pools to find a 350lbs woman oiling up her boobs. She had to lift it up with one hand and oil it up with the other. I almost puked from the sight of it. Eventually, I became numb to the boobies flopping around till we went and took a seat at the pool the next day. There weren't many seats available so we ended up sitting along side this older couple. This lady that looked like she was old enough to be my mother started having a converstation with us. She also was topless and I found it really difficult to talk to her with her saggy boobs hanging down to her waste. Later that day after the older couple next to us left, I saw what was probably the funniest thing of the whole trip. There was this one lady that was obviously from Texas. She wore a Texas flag bikini bottom and a Texas flag hat. She had bleach blonde hair that was clearly fake. We all know that everything in bigger in Texas and this woman was no exception. she was probably around 225lbs and about 50 of those were in her boobs. Over her nipples, she wore stars to go with the Texas theme. I did manage to get a picture of her when she took a photo with a parrot on the beach. I would post it but it isn't quite PG13 material.
The beach was much better. At least there was enough room around that I didn't have to see boobies and booties everytime I turned my head. The biggest problem was the weather. It was warm and sunny most of the time with a few clouds here and there but there was a lot of wind. The water wasn't very warm but considering that it was only late April, it was decent. On our last day there, I was wading out into the water on the beach about waste deep when a couple came in the water next to me. The obviously had a little too much to drink. The lady started yelling to me, "Shark! Shark!" and I just smiled and blew her off. Then she yelled "Jellyfish!" I totally ignored her. Then the guy with her yelled, "Look! Titties!". I said "Titties? Where?". The lady with her obviously fake boobs, pointed at her chest and shook them back and forth and said "Right here!". I replied, "All I see is silicone." They both laughed and went about their business and soon after walked back to the beach.
If you removed the raunchiness from the resort, it still wasn't that nice. It was an all inclusive place so all of our meals were included. They had one restaurant that was a buffet. The food wasn't awful but it was very bland. The other restaurants required you to make a reservation. At the last all inclusive resort I stayed at, we could walk into any restaurant, at any time and eat. I found this reservation situation to be rather odd. The resort was fairly small and the design was a poor attempt at being modern. I would have preferred to come to the Carribean to be in a Carribean atmosphere. Our room wasn't much better either. It had an Adam and Eve theme with a big red apple and sexy red mood lighting. We didn't have an ocean view room (when I booked the room, an ocean view was $50 extra per night and my sister in law didn't get an ocean view room either and we wanted our rooms to be close to eachother). Instead when we opened the window, we had a beautiful view of the main road and all the traffic. Needless to say, if I ever go to Cancun again, I won't be staying there. In retrospect, I would have stayed at the Dreams resort which is a bigger and better version of the Dreams resort that I stayed at in Puerto Vallarta.
Cancun, in and of itself, was very different compared to Puerto Vallarta. Cancun was much more of a partying, resort town. The hotel district seems to have been tailor made for American tourists. There was nothing but hotels, shopping, bars and night clubs. Everyone there spoke English. There was little to no Mexican culture there at all. In Puerto Vallarta, you got the feeling that this was a small port town. It was much more laid back which is closer to my style.
We were scheduled to go on 2 activities. My wife and I wanted to see the Aztec ruins but when they told us that it was a 3 hour drive there and 3 hours back, we decided against it. Besides that, none of the rest of our group wanted to do that. We came there to be together. The 2 activites that we decided on were snorkeling which they called "Finding Nemo" (clearly a copyright violation) and a boat cruise around the lagoon and dinner which they called the "Booze Cruise". I didn't really want to go on the Booze Cruise and neither did my wife but we didn't want to seperate from the rest of our group and decided to come along. It turned out to be really stupid. We road around in this stupid boat at night and weren't really able to see any of the scenery and everyone was smoking which I can't stand. My wife and I really needed to go to the bathroom so we were both very anxious to get off the boat. Eventually we docked and were taken on a bus to the restaurant/bar at whcih we were supposed to have dinner. The place was loud and obnoxious. There wasn't enough seats for everyone and the food was even more bland then the buffet at the resort. The best thing at that dinner was the fries and chicken fingers. Yes, that's right. I went all the way to Mexico to eat fries and chicken fingers. As everyone was partying at the restaurant, my wife, her sister and I went into the nearby shopping area. I felt like I was in Vegas but on a smaller scale.
On one of our days there, we adventured into downtown. We went to the market where my wife spent nearly all of our cash buying gifts for everyone back home. For some reason she feels the need to get gifts for every single person she knows whenever we take a vacation. She is much more thoughful than I am. This was the most culture that I experienced in Cancun. I got a great picture of my wife when a young girl came up to her trying to sell her a bracelet for a dollar. The look on her face and the girls face is priceless.
Later, we walked around downtown trying to find some authentic Mexican food to eat. As we were walked my sister in law posed next to a sign and I took a picture of it. It kind of goes along with the theme of the trip.
Just like in Market and everywhere else, everyone at the restaurant spoke English. The restaurant was pretty typical of any taqueria that I would find at home. Either we have very authentic Mexican food here at home or that wasn't a very authentic Mexican restaurant. I think the latter is more likely the case.
On our last day there, we were supposed to do the "Finding Nemo" snorkeling tour. I was all excited for it. I had my camera and the waterproof case that I had borrowed from a friend. We went over to the desk where we bought the activities and he told us that it was most likely going to be cancelled because fo the high winds. I was pissed off. At least we got refunded and the refund was in US dollars cash. It turns out it was a good thing because I had brought the wrong battery charger for my camera and would have been pissed off when the battery died in the middle of snorkeling.
My wife, her sister and I decided that we had enough of sitting around on the beach so we ended up going back to downtown by bus this time. We sort of got lost trying to find our way from the bus stop to the market. I wouldn't be an adventure if we didn't get lost in a foreign country. (We weren't really lost but I thought it spiced up the story a bit. We just on the wrong side of the street.) My wife subsequently spent the cash that we got in refund of our snorkeling trip that didn't happen. On our return trip, a taxi driver tried to get us to ride with him instead of taking the bus. He wanted $10 US and I said "No way!". The bus is 75 cents per person and there was only 3 of us. I kept telling him $5 and eventually got him to go down to $6. Instead of trying to find the bus, we agreed to $6. I ended up giving him $8 just because he wasn't pushy like all the rest of the taxi drivers.
Our flight over there wasn't so bad. We left from Oakland, switched plans in Salt Lake City and then to Cancun. Our return flight wasn't as efficient. We went from Cancun to Atlanta to Salt Lake City to Oakland. At least I got to rack up some frequent flyer miles, which I am sure will be worthless. It literally took an entire day to get back home. Our travel time was over 11 hours.
All things considered it was pretty fun. I am sure that if it were just my wife and I, it would have been different. We would have not gone on the Booze Cruise and would have definitely gone to see the Aztec ruins. We would not have stayed at that resort (I think I'm a hotel snob) and we would have gone at a time when the water was warmer and the wild was calmer. Despite all that, I had a good time. I'm not sure if I would go back to Cancun. I think there are other places that I would want to visit before going back there.
"saggy boobs hanging down to her waste" I dont know if that is a typo or a very clever play on words
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Yup that was a typo. Sometimes my fingers move faster than my brain. But in this case, I think it's pretty appropriate.
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