Here are a few more photos. We left Minneapolis on a Saturday morning not too early from Terminal 2, aka the Humphrey Terminal, aka the smaller and reasonably sized terminal. We woke up at the normal time for work so for once it didn’t feel like day 1 of our trip was a marathon. Sue posted a similar selfie from the airport and when we checked in to the resort, the Guests/VIP Manager Monica Madrid said she had already seen the selfie. Sue had tagged it Live Aqua and she is well known in the Live Aqua social media world.
We were whisked upstairs to the 5th floor lounge for our early check in. Up to that point, we didn’t know for sure if we would be upgraded like we were last year. You can tell by Sue’s smile that we were upgraded. I was reading some reviews on Trip Advisor of Live Aqua and someone actually said the 5th floor lounge is not worth the extra cost. We beg to differ. We ate breakfast here everyday as well as having a sunset happy hour drink on the terrace before going to dinner and we also stopped in for a chocolate martini before bedtime. Reviews are subjective. Speaking of reviews, go to Tripadvisor.com and type in Cancun for the location and Live Aqua for the hotel name. Both of our reviews are posted. This was my 2nd review ever and I kind of liked writing it. We posted some pictures with the reviews, too.
Our room with the colored rice art on the bed. I would like to know how they do this so quickly and how they clean it up without making a huge mess. They cleaned it up during the nightly turndown service when they set up the aromatherapy for our relaxing / sleeping pleasure.
There was champagne at the ready. Don’t ask me what the star shaped fruit is or I’ll have to Google it.
Sunset on the back terrace. Sue introduced the highly exotic drink French 75 to three different bartenders. It involves champagne and lime juice and maybe gin and a whole lot of fanciness.
Here we are on the terrace of the Aqua club. This is the hotel zone, a narrow strip of land between the ocean and the back bay. If you follow this road, they tell us, it’ll take you to downtown Cancun. Cancun was built up from nothing back in the early 1970s. There is so much tourism in this spot that I cannot imagine a time when there was nothing but beautiful beaches and jungles here.
This is the restaurant called Siete which means Seven. On one side of the curtain is the buffet which we did not eat at this time and on this side of the curtain is Siete. I rated this meal as the second best of the trip after the eight course Peruvian Chef’s dinner.
This is a tortilla soup I’m staring down and that’s probably a Margherita being quaffed.
There was some traditional Mexican music performed by a singer and two guitarists—very good.
Delicioso!
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