Month: September 2025

A light breakfast of coffee and a pastry around 9am after a decent sleep. Guess what? We went to the beach again. On the way we nipped to the onsite shop as we had run out of toothpaste. I say we, but such matters are the sole responsibility of Louise and she had woefully under stocked for the trip in this area.

You can only imagine how we laughed when the chap at the till asked us for $18. Yep we paid £15 for a toothpaste. For that money I was expecting new teeth to start growing.

Just to mix things up today we shared a club sandwich for lunch after some lazing.

More beach ensued. Feeling guilty that we had not made use of all the food options on offer yet I went and got some meat from the poolside barbecue and a pizza from the pizza oven. The pizza was lovely but the meat was a bit fatty for me.

Whilst waiting for the pizza to be ready this chap was sunbathing and eating pizza.

After lots more beaching we wandered back to the room around 6 followed by our usual routine to get ready. Have I mentioned how much we loved the turndown service. We would get stupidly excited to get back to the room once it had been done.

Out at 7.30. Bordeaux tonight and we had a twenty minute wait so we got a drink in lobby.

We actually waited 40 minutes so there were two drinks.

We had our bouches amused before Cauliflower and onion soup.

Lamb for me and chicken wellington for Louise.

Once done we headed to the theatre for an acrobat show. There was a lot of impressive dangling from silks.

With that done we headed back to the bar for one more. It was incredibly hot and humid tonight so we were glad to get back to the room and bed at 10.45 for the air con.

Till the next time…..

I was inexplicably awake at 5.30!! With seemingly no prospect of more sleep I lazed and scrolled until a more civilised hour.

One we were ready we headed to the Coffee shop for brekkie around 9. We encountered
two iguanas on the way. Latte and cinnamon roll and blueberry muffin. That was our breakfast order not the Iguana’s names.

You will be shocked to hear we went to the beach. The morning passed without incident until we shared a club sandwich for lunch.

More beach until we moved to the pool in the late afternoon. We had a couple of drinks in the pool before, you guessed it, returning to the Beach.

We were back in the room around 5.30 for our usual CNN and after sun session. Usual showers and getting ready etc.

We were out at 7.15 and we headed to the main pool for tonight’s Asado show.

It was a bit slow to start and it seemed to keep stopping but it picked up towards the end.

Once it was done we did the short stroll to the beach as we clearly hadn’t spent enough time there. The moon and the decor looked lovely.

It was time for food so we wandered to Portofino. We passed the half hour wait at the lobby bar.

Artichoke soup and Caprese.

Followed by Pappadelle and pizza.

Again it was all excellent.

Bed at 10.30 for a bit of TV before sleep.

Till the next time…..

I had a week off last week as it was my birthday and the day got away from me. What do you mean you didn’t notice?

Than I returned to write today up and my notes are quite sparse and I didn’t take any photos during the day. Can you tell I had little to no intention of writing about this trip.

Anyway, I’ve started it now so we plough on.

We ventured to the proper buffet breakfast but I only had toast. After a later start and a sit down brekkie we got to the beach around 10.30. Then we did absolutely nothing of note but don’t take that as a negative.

There were two more sessions of competitive volleyball and at some point Louise had a stroll up the beach. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed doing literally nothing all day on this trip.

We were back at the room at 5.30. The usual ritual of watching the news, having showers and a relax in my resort robe ensued.

Out at 7.30 and we started with a drink at the lobby bar.

There was a show at the theatre at 8 so we headed there deciding to eat later. I understand that a five piece Mexican Beatles Tribute might sound weird but we loved it.

We chose the Seaside restaurant for dinner. It was pretty empty being later now and we sat at a table at the edge of the restaurant and spotted raccoons wandering about again. They are very cute.

Obviously feeding them would be stupid but as we saw the staff throwing them some bread we did too and then of course it wouldn’t leave us alone.

We didn’t mind.

The food was great too.

I opted for steak and it was massive.

I couldn’t finish it and threw a couple of pieces to our new friend. Eventually he jumped up and the wall at the side of me and stared at me. Then, maintaining eye contact, his very human hand reached across the table and slowly dragged the steak from my plate and ran off into the bushes.

I was delighted to be honest. I couldn’t eat it and I was very happy it would go to a good cause. It made our night.

Full and tired we walked back to the room, transformed into a mood lit delight by our turndown service and went to be at 10.30.

Till the next time……