We are back from Mexico! Whilst I did say prior to departure that there wouldn’t be a full blown trip report (and that is very much still the case) I will share some photos and information on what we did.
Most days we don’t do a lot so this will be mostly food related but hey what’s new.
Before we left I was unaware of Tajin. This changed early in the trip with my first strawberry margarita. It then became a consistent theme of our trip hence the title.
If you don’t want to plough through the detail of what is to come and just want a TL/DR summary of the trip, we loved it.
The resort, Secrets Akumal, was incredible. We would recommend and return for sure.
Anyway, using minimal notes and a few photos here we go.
Day one July 2nd
It was a painless journey to the airport and check in was a breeze.
Security was very quiet and we headed to the
lounge at 8.15 courtesy of our TUI Premium tickets . I had two plates of brekkie.
Adhering to airport traditions at least for holidays where I don’t need to drive at the other end we had some free alcohol. Our first attempt was very crap draft alcohol. Beer for me and Prosecco for Louise. They were undrinkable so I went back and got two bottles of Carlsberg instead.
Louise had forgotten her reading glasses so we went to Boots to get some temporary ones and general flight stuff.
Gate A6 at 10.30. One of the last to board.
Fizz was served as we sat down. We were of course 20 minutes late taking off.
I was so tired. I had felt stressed and unready in the lead up to the trip so this tiredness was probably a work hangover. My body gave in and all I could do was sleep.
Louise watched films.
The food was Ok but I didn’t eat much.
When I woke up I watched the Better Man film and enjoyed it.
It’s a bit blurry and it was probably my tired stressed state of mind but that cloud looked like a dog.
The flight was 9.5 hours. Upon landing there was no gate available so we had a 20 minute wait on the tarmac.
Immigration not too busy. Baggage claim slow and chaotic. Then we had to go through the weird x-ray customs thing as I believe they were checking for vapes and e-cigarettes which we were told were not allowed to be taken into Mexico.
It was hard to find our taxi rep but we got there eventually but needed one taxi to take us to another terminal to get our proper transfer taxi.
The transfer was just over an hour and felt like a high speed car chase. I was messaging folks back home from the back seat and felt car sick so had to stop and concentrate on not ruining the taxi.
Check in was a dream. We were seated with a concierge who sorted everything. There was lovely champers whilst we did all the paperwork.
We were escorted to room 8105. It was a huge beautiful room. We unpacked and then Louise passed out and went to sleep.
I had a brief wander around the resort but it was so hot. I was soon back to the room and asleep by 9.
Till the next time…..
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