Cayo Hotels

- 8 months - 7 x 2 countries - 6 pairs of shoes - 5 star hotels? Err, no. - 4 better or worse - 3 continents - 2 willing participants - 1 ton soup - 0 Korean, Japanese, or Spanish spoken by either of us at time of departure

... part of the "Solmelia Hotel range" is that you can use any facilities of their different hotels when staying in one. So while booked in at Melia Cayo Coco, we had free access to the 3 Solmelia hotels on Cayo Guillermo (including food and drinks). ...

Given our disappointment with our hotel in Cayo Coco, we set off to explore the other hotels on the island using the local tourist bus. By the afternoon we decided on a hotel on the next island Cayo Guillermo. The rate quoted by the receptionist was about ...

... and Cuban music, a very friendly and warm welcome!! Our Resort twas the Barcelo, it was great and the newest of all the Hotels on the Strip. We had our own little Bungalo not too far from the pool and dining hall-convienient!! The 1st day there we ...

... island in the north joined to the mainland by a 9km road) is a pilagment of something that was once a beautiful place. The hotels run the place like a freak show. from 8 in the morning the run aerobics classes through PA systems so loud that they make ...

... to Samana and beyond. There we were greeted by some beautiful dancers in traditional dress and by a small steel band. The island has several hotels and a section which is taboo for non guests to walk to so we were pretty much stuck in a small section of a ...

... figure out. Over an hour later…. We’re still here ….. hummmmm……… did they forget? Cynthia, the hotels tour agent/concierge came and told us that our guide was sick, she’d tried to arrange for another guide, but ...

... were small without much nightlife, San Ignacio is even less touristed.  There's only one primary block with travel agents, hotels and restaurant-bars and a few other hotels on some of the other streets radiating from the 5-way intersection that marks ...

... Caye Caulker. We decided that renting an electric golf cart would save time. Lisa was the first to drive, distracted by looking for hotels, we were diving on the wrong way on a one way street. "Hey, girls," a lady yelled from her own little electric ...

... that it is not very convenient. This was less of a problem in central Mexico, as we were at the homestay and then stayed in hotels much of the time, but still a headache. Taking advantage of being able to talk to people in our native tongue, we located ...