Jungle hotel

Written: 9 june 2013
Travel time: 2 — 8 june 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
We arrived in Cozumel for 11 days on June 2 by ferry from Playa Del Carmen. Let me start by saying that we were unlucky with the weather. On May 31, Typhoon Barbara hit Mexico, causing a prolonged tropical downpour for a period of 5 days. Water was everywhere, dripping from the ceiling, flowing under the doors, flowing like a river down the street. This is not the usual tropical rain for an hour and again the sun, and everything has already dried up, as if nothing had happened. This is a complete ASS!! ! We nearly croaked during those five days with the local frog choir. What can we say about the sea, which, with such a storm, rain, wind, turned, well, to put it mildly, into a drain puddle. Water from all over the coast with all sorts of garbage rushed into the sea in a brown stream. Hotel life is dead! Nothing worked these days! No animation, of course, because the hotel is made in the form of a "cozy Mexican ranch", as I read earlier in one of the reviews, then you have to walk everywhere along the street and to the main buffet too. A hurricane is a hurricane, and you need to eat at least 2 times a day. Moreover, there are not enough umbrellas for everyone. One room, one umbrella! What if we are a family of 4? The second umbrella was issued on the 3rd day of rain. Of course, the Mexicans themselves have beguiled everything from such bad weather !! ! They were not prepared for the consequences of the raging elements. There were floods throughout Mexico, roads, and transport, and homes were damaged, even people died (I read on the Internet). The hotel employees say that they have fun at home, ankle-deep water! But judging by the news, this week was generally fun! In Europe, everything was flooded, in the States a tornado..... In short, we got into Force Majeure.
On the 5th day it brightened a little and everyone rushed to the beach! Naturally, everyone was so eager to warm up that they forgot about the increased solar activity, and, as a result, red-faced and red-armed people at dinner. And in the evening it rains again! On the 6th in the morning it shed and it seems that everything is so far. The weather is cloudy but dry. But mosquitoes! It's not mosquitoes, it's vampire monsters!! ! We have two mosquito sprays with us, but they don't care! They seem to have bred so much during this rainy week and they are so hungry that even a myriad of toads cannot cope with them !!! ! . .
Yesterday and today it is already sunny, but still very humid. Life in the hotel is gradually getting better. Pool bars and a restaurant on the beach have started working, sleepy animators have crawled out and are trying to lure people into playing volleyball or water polo. Haven't seen anything interesting yet. Evening shows are already the third evening on the site near the lobby (the first was based on the Mayan and Aztec empires, colorful and interesting. And yesterday and today it’s like a Caribbean night, some kind of amateur performance). The sea is clearing up slowly, but not like in the pictures in the descriptions of the hotel. A lot of sea grass drove to the shore and the turbidity is strong, as in Azov. But today we went to the reef with masks, snorkels, of course the water there is blue and clear, well, just super! We saw two turtles, a large barracuda (they are dangerous, do not pull your hands towards them), starfish, and all sorts of small reef fish. The kids love it and so do we....

We still have four whole days, so much to see! So far my impressions are, and then I will write more.....
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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