CANCUN
By Amy Martens
I left Minneapolis from the Hubert Humphrey Termainl on
Sun Country, the airline serves free food versus other airlines
are now charging for the meals, it was about a 4 hour flight,
very smooth, no problems.
After getting into Cancun we went thru Customs
which is a breeze now with everybody having passports, the
Karisma Lomas Tour Director met us outside the Airport and
lead us to the buses to go over the hotel, about 40 minutes
away, not bad.
We were checked in and had the afternoon
off, so a bunch of agents and myself went over to Jo Jo's
to eat some Dinner and then went to the Swim up Bar and
Pool, very nice.
At 5:00 P.M. we had a sight inspection of
the hotel and carted us around in Golf carts, and it started
to rain. They showed us many different rooms, the one with
the swim up pools and Casita's also, very nice and then
took us to the Presidental Suite, Very Nice. We went over
to the Las Fuentes and they had 6 different kitchens to
choose from food and chefs cooked your food right in front
of you, very nice, after that we went to the Theatre to
watch a Circus Sol Lei show, very nice, we all went to Las
Guacamyas to dance.
Day 2 we toured El Dorado
Seaside Suites, Adults Only property, Very Nice, smaller
property and then we went over to Azul Fives Hotel, this
hotel was not completely finished, they showed us a show
room and showed us a Video of all the things that are coming
to the hotel, very educational.
We toured the El Dorado Maroma next, smaller
property, they showed us all types of rooms there as well,
and we ate lunch there at Sabores, we expereienced a lobster
martini there, it was lobster bits in wine sauce, with chow
meain noodles, very interesting, but very good.
We then went over to the Azul Beach, this
hotel excepts children, they offer a Child Care Center,
where children can back Crafts, and then offer video games
for the teenagers also, only 92 rooms, but very spread out.
Then we went over to the Azul View, they
were pouring Cement at this hotel, they only had the main
walls up, not even the elevators were put in yet, so it
was very dangerous to are 23 agents touring the property,
they had 1 show room to show us, very nice. This hotel will
be very luxurious, with many restaurants and activities.
The new Secrets Excellence was being built right next door.
Both scheduled to open in November of 2008.
We ate Dinner at the Cocotel Restaurant,
very delicious!!!, we had Steak as one of the options, and
many vegetarian meals as well, I took the Steak, I like
my meat.
After we went over to Bar Las Guacamayas,
and at about 12:30 in the morning the lights turned off,
here there was a fire at the La Fondue Restaurant, one of
their ovens was left on, so they were getting water from
the pools to distinguish the fire, it was bad. The said
they would close to the restaurant and be reopen in 14 days.
The Fire trucks came in and got stuck in a Ravine and of
course they were right in front of our rooms, so we heard
the fire engine horn all night.
Day 3, we did not have
Hot water in our showers because of the Fire. We had class
from 9-1:00 P.M., the Mangers, Wedding ordinators and tour
directors came in to speak and talk about the Karisma Hotels,
this gave us a opportunity to ask questions about the Hotels,
very educational.
We had the afternoon off so two Travel agents
and my self took a taxi to 5th Avenue and went shopping,
one of the agents gets a lot of her medications from Mexico,
we toured around and then eat at Senior Frogs for a appetitizer
and a refreshment, and headed it back since we didn’t
have a whole lot of time.
We had our farewell dinner at La Isla, they
offered us Steak again and other options and then we got
Crème Bell'e for desert, very good, I would recommend
that restaurant to anybody.
Im so glad I got the opportunity to go to
this Karisma Fam Trip, it was very educational and well
worth it, I recommend any other agent that has not gone
to this Fam Trip to go.
Thank You
Amy Martens
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