MEXICO

Are you looking for a place to relax, to rest, to enjoy the beach and the good weather, but at the same time to make the most of the environment and do activities?

In that case this is your tourist destination: Mexico, in the Riviera Maya, that is located in central- America.

We chose the hotel chain Bahia Principe, concretely the hotel Grand Bahia Principe Akumal that it’s a 24 hours all inclusive hotel.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND SERVICES OF THE HOTEL

The hotel have 630 fully equipped rooms with multiple supplements, an own bathroom and balconies or terraces for each one.

The hotel also have four restaurants with different gastronomies, an snack bar 24 hours opened with fast food, 9 bars distributed in the beach, the pools and the rest of the resort and different dining areas with self-service meals.

In respect to other services, the hotel also have a golf course, an spa, a gym, a Casino, a service of bikes for rent, a basketball and tennis courts, a football field, a volleyball track, etc..; an own beach where you can play water sports like kayak, jet ski, snorkel, sailing catamaran, etc ; and 2 huge pools and some smaller ones.

They also offer animation activities, games, and shows and performances through all day.

One of the special services that they offer is a bus that drives you to the main building of the resort, and also has a little train you can take to move around all the sites of the hotel.

You can enjoy the Wi-Fi connection on the lobby.

EXCURSIONS

1. XCARET (park eco-archaeological):

You can enjoy the Mexican culture and the Mayan Jungle. In addition of more than 40 attractions for every age it includes shows and performances, gastronomy and a big diversity of animals in a zoo and an aquarium.

It’s located next to the sea and 30 minutes from the hotel. There is a bus service to take the tourists from the hotel to the park and the comeback.

In that park we play snorkel, a travel through underground rivers, and we swim with dolphins that it was an unforgettable experience.

If you bought the tickets with advance they can give you a 15% of discount, and if you go with kids between the ages of 5 to 11 they can give you a 50% of discount.

 

2. Climb the PIRAMIDE NOHOCH MUL from Cobá: built between the ages 500 and 900 and is 43 meters tall, the highest of the Peninsula.

3. Visit a MAYAN VILLAGE

 4. You can go to a lot of beaches for example the “PLAYA DEL PARAÍSO” where we saw the sunset.

5. You can visit different close towns where you can see the everyday life of the Mexican people. For example we visited PLAYA DEL CARMEN.

6. Also an excursion RIDDING QUADS through the wood to a “CENOTE”, that is an underground pond, typical of the Yukatan Peninsula of Mexico.

CURIOSITIES

If you don’t like iguanas this is not your tourist destination because you can find them everywhere.