Aldea Thai Luxury Condohotel
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Pacific beach resort
... to base ourselves here for a few nights, but found that we would have to dorm it for the next few couple of nights as our room was only available for tonight. We then cooked dinner and enjoyed bbq chicken stir fry. It's really nice being back in a hostel meeting people from all over the place, sitting and chatting the night away.
Sun 18th Mar.
Got up around 8.30am for breakfast, skyped our mothers to wish them a happy mother's day and ...
Tips for traveling with kids
... pillow pet that takes up a lot of room, and a couple of stuffed animals that I've never seen her play with.)
-Mecca helps me pack her suitcase and picks out the clothes she wants to wear for the trip. This alleviates surprises--she knows exactly what she has to wear for the two weeks that we are gone.
-She has a suitcase that is manageable for her. Most of the time she wheels her own suitcase down the street.
-She packs her own ...
Cozumel
... currencies are used around here, Mexican pesos and US dollars. The mexicans seem to still put a $ sign in front of pesos as well. The currencies are pretty different, say 18 pesos = 1 UK pound and 12 pesos = 1 US dollar/AU dollar. Round about anyway. So I was in a shop, looking at some clothes. There is a loud american woman checking out a bikini, her husband was lurking in the doorway. Probably he didn't actually want to be ...
Mexico!
... the ocean. Pretty cool, right? So Lucy and Siobhan are out there chilling and basically having a grand time. So they're all like "ALLY ALLY! COME OUT HERE WITH US!" So I start moseying my way on over to them. I get out there and attempt to get up, only to find there is no ladder or even anything to grab on to to pull myself up. So basically my sisters are like women of steel apparently. So I start trying to jump up, but ...
Rent a car, explore!
... was like old times. It felt liberating to go wherever we wanted, whenever! Made us fantasize about buying an old beater again but realistic ideas of getting stranded and vulnerable in the hands of mechanics made us stop.
Our first stop was Playa del Carmen. We knew it was another, smaller beach town like Cancun, but it had a totally different vibe and was just as touristy. Unlike Cancun, there was no separate island part ...