El Dorado Spa Resort

... night) as they were on the lookout for a donkey show but Connie ended up having the best birthday ever so all was good!! Today we are taking a local van bus up to Playa del Carmen to spend a night before going to the fancy Eldorado Royale Resort ...

... of bucolic and lush green scenery and alluring and quaint Costa Rican farming hamlets, we reach our next two nights accommodations: El Sapo Dorado (The Golden Toad; which in real life is one-inch long and bright orange. Costa Rica is the only place this ...

... the coast. After about an hour we dropped some lures off the back and almost immediately got hooked up to an 8 pound mahi mahi or 'dorado' in the local parlance. Chad reeled the first one in and being so early it was a great sign. The next couple of hours ...