Mexico reccomendations please :)

OK, i'll have a look! I want to book asap, I'm getting impatient, lolll!

Plus there doesn't seem to be a lot of availability considering it is a yesr away!

Were going to Grand Sirenis Resort & Spa in Riviera Maya - £2600.00 for the 2 of us for 14 nights. We did some haggling as well! Flights to Gatwick cost us £200 & our hotel @ Gatwick is £80.00. OH mum is giving us £500 spending money which should be plenty but we'll maybe take an extra £100 just in case. So all in all its coming in around £3500.00

Some reviews on trip advisor arnt great (i always read them b4 booking!) but they are generally from Americans so Im taking them to be more fussy than is lot lol

We know 2 couples who have been (one couple in October) and they all loved it, said the food was great, grounds beautiful & staff couldnt have been more helpful.

They do a couple meal on beach complete with moonlight massage so were going to do that a night, go to the Spa a day & also do Coco Bongo - the hotel goes every wed nite & as we arrive & leave on a wed we only have the one wed nite to do it!

We booked through Thomas Cook.

We've looked at going to Coco Bongo's as it looks a bloody awesome night out!!

A family friend of ours went to Coco Bongo's KBS - she said it was totally awesome.

Cramped, overcrowded, a health and safety nightmare, but so so worth putting up with that for the awesome time - they didn't get back till 5am! Despite being nearly 50! ?

I always always read TA too - it's the first thing I look at when someone makes a recommendation rather than the website.

Flo have you read the comments about your resort? If not - make sure you do. It seems a room request to a particular side of the resort would be a good idea if you've been upgraded to platinum.

already done so they did have an explosion 2 yrs ago on one side of the resort, but a couple who Mr Flow works with went in march this year, they said youd never have known!! it was on their recommendations we chose it!

We are off to Secrets Maroma Beach in October! Its Riviera Maya x

Gourmet all inclusive - no buffet at dinner! x

SNAP! WOOHOO! ?

We are off to sensatori resort. Pure lush!!

Shani a honeymoon destination twin!!! i cant wait the sensatori looks amazing, we know someone who went, they said it was fantastic. good for adult only or if you have kids as it has so much, we are going with a 4 year old and 18month old for 2 weeks in september and its costing £4,600 i think

went to the iberostar tucan/quetzal about 6 years ago and would thoroughly recomend aswell

We were supposed to go to the Moon Palace... Pure luxury. Unfortunately this was in 2005, the day Katrina Hit, so had to divert to Mauritius but I would definitely recommend the Moon Palace from all the reviews I got from people we were in Mauritius with who had to do the same thing as us! hehe

Nat

Snap. this is the hotel we are going to as well. When i read the reviews (after we boked) I started to panic, but like you said its only the americans having a moan. everyone else is saying its really nice. i really hope it is. we can only go for 7 nights as oh has a shift pattern where he only gets 10days off every 5 weeks, so have to get wedding and honeymoon into them 10days (he has managed to bag a few extra days tho)

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I highly highly highly recommend going to the moon palace or one of the hotels in the chain. They are 5* luxury!! I went a few years ago and managed to get flights and a week at the hotel for £800 by booking it myself through their website and missing out the travel agent! The rooms have hot tubs and each hotel has 5+ restaurants and you can go to any of the their hotels to use their facilities when ever you want. I haven't seen another hotel in cancun that is affordable and compares to the moon palace resorts!!!

Hubby and I stayed here in December 2009 and we had a fab time. I wrote a glowing report on TA which you can see here - https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g499445-d599193-r52100555-Grand_Sirenis_Riviera_Maya_Resort-Akumal_Yucatan_Peninsula.html I would defo go back and would recommend it to anyone!

Hiya

You've made a good choice on Mexico, we came back off our honeymoon from there last week and it was absoloutly fantastic!!

We stayed at the Iberostar Tucan in Playacar (Playa del carman) and we really couldnt fault the hotel one bit, it was beautiful. It was all inclusive 24/7 and the food was amazing, couldnt wish for better. You were a couple of minutes away from PDC however about an hour from Cancun.

We swam with the Dolphins which was fantastic!

Couldnt have wished for a better honeymoon! Good luck xx

I have been twice - stayed at the Gran Bahia Principe Riviera Maya and also the Riu Cancun. cannot recommend Mexico enough. We are planning to go back on our honeymoon.

Done loads of trips, driving our own speedboat, Xel-ha, Tulum, Catermaran trip to Isla Mujeras, catermaran trip around the riviera maya, playa del carmen, coco bongos inclusind bar crawl.

Any questions just ask, have plent of photos on my facebook if anyone wants to look.

Mrs Leightobe how do I find your photies on fbook please? We have just booked to go to el dorado seaside suites and can't wait to see what excursions we can go on, esp coco bongo, and we have heard the ruins are spectacular and I really want to swim with dolphins!!

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Please excuse some of the shocking pictures! lol

I mind writing a post on it b4 & a hitcher who is a travel agent said it eas fabulous & a one of their most popular wedding & honeymoon destinations. If were unfortunate & sthing isn't right i'll kick up hell till it is! What date will u be there? We fly wed 6th july & arrive gatwick thur 21st july x

Just wondered if you wouldn't mind telling me what this Isla was like? We are planning to go across to do the Dolphin swim?

I'm a tad worried as to how long the ferry is / how rough the sea is as OH doesn't travel by boat well.

TIA

Oooh looks amazing! Can't wait to get into that beautiful blue sea, looks like you had a brill time. Thanks for the link

The isla was beautiful but very very busy and was hot as hell, absolutly no breeze on it so you need shade. We did a snorkling tour whilst at the island, it was fab, however i got stung by a jellyfish/fire coral (they were unsure which) - well at least i still have the scar!

The catermaran over to the island was good, open bar and stopped at a few swimming spots enroute, the sea was very calm near cancun beacuse the isla shelters it. We didn't swim with Dolphins on the isla as we have done that previously in the Dom Rep. If you are not staying in Cancun you can swim with Dolphins at Port Aventuras which is near Playa del Carmen, you wouldn't have to get a boat there.

Also you can rent golf carts on the isla, we didn't bother as we only had a couple of hours there. Just did a little shopping and chillin under the shade of a bar.

One thing i would recommend though is to sort your own trips out rather than through the rep as you will save over a third of the price, just visit the trip stalls in most shopping malls.