October 25th, 2009 | By admin
Our room with a swim out pool
Wow! It doesn’t get any better than this. I am typing this as I sit out at our private patio looking out at our swim out pool waiting for room service to bring our breakfast. Getting this room was a free upgrade, not sure how you consider it a free upgrade when we are staying here for 3 nights for free to begin with. 
As I mentioned in my last blog we got this trip by taking an online webinar about AMResorts newest and upcoming properties.
Dick and I are at Secrets Maroma Beach in Playa del Carmen. Maroma Beach has been rated the World’s Best Beach by the Travel Channel for four years in a row. I can see why its a world’s best beach. The sand is so fine and soft and very white. The water is turquoise blue and it is just such a contrast to the sand. Just beautiful.
When we arrived yesterday we walked into a magnificent lobby. Unlike your typical lobby desk, we were greeted at the door and “Welcomed Home”. While waiting to check in we were handed a flute of champagne. After just a couple minutes we sat down at a private desk (with our champagne) and told about the resort’s amenities. It was a very nice personal touch.
We went to our room, there we met our personal concierge, Elizabeth. She was there for us if we needed anything, well we sure did. We had packed our toothpaste in our carry on and it was confiscated at Logan Airport since it was over the 3 ounce minimum. Elizabeth arrived back in 5 minutes with 4 tubes of toothpaste for us. After changing into swimsuits and shorts we grabbed a quick bite to eat down at the pool. A salad bar with sushi was a perfect lunch. We broke our first “rule” about waiting until 5 o’clock to have a drink and had a couple Corona’s, oh well, its 5 o’clock somewhere!!
Time for a walk on the beach, it’s a long beach and we passed several other beaches. It was quiet and the water was oh-so warm. When we got back there was a wedding going on at our beach and a group playing volleyball. Secrets has a large beach with lots of chairs too. Plenty of room for everyone. We rinsed the sand off our feet and headed to the infinity pool. Time for a couple more Coronas!
A quick change and we headed to El Patio for a Mexican supper. Dinner was scrumptious. The hard part about an all-inclusive is we keep waiting for the check to arrive. Not so, everything is included. Back to our room we enjoyed a swim in the pool that is just a step off our patio. How cool is that?
Well our breakfast has arrived. We ordered a simple continental breakfast and coffee and I hear Dick in the room, carrying a glass of champagne and saying “look at all this stuff”. Two plates of of sliced cantalope, honeydew, watermelon and papaya, a basket of toast, spice cake, soapapillas, jams, butter, orange juice, coffee and champagne mimosas.
Well, there goes our “rule” again for today… oh well…. after all “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”!!
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