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Published: February 7th 2013
Occidental Hotel featuring the romantically named Building 22
Our "home"; one of many residential blocks in the extensive hotel grounds Wednesday 6th February: without wishing to appear overly biased on account of Caroline working for Virgin Atlantic our Virgin Holidays vacation to Cancun has got off to a terrific start.
With our VA flight from Gatwick leaving at 12.30 pm on Tuesday 5th February we secured an excellent deal at the Ramada Hotel near Gatwick for the Monday night which included two weeks' free parking. When we arrived at Gatwick Airport our holiday package included access to VA's Vroom lounge which was better than any business class or first class lounge that I've ever used before. Then when we boarded the flight we were upgraded to Premium Economy. Eleven hours later we landed in Cancun and were met by a Virgin rep at the airport and were effortlessly transferred to our hotel in Xcaret (pronounced with a hard X and a hard C), the Occidental Grand Flamenco, which seems to be a sort of Club Med on steroids: all-inclusive but without all the sporting activities. The hotel is vast, spread over a very large area of what appears to be primary jungle bordering the rocky cost. There are about 20 accommodation blocks spread amongst the extensive grounds and
Beach at hotel
Great weather, warm seas. Life is tough. several bars, restaurants and cafes to choose from. Great if you're not on a diet. The staff are very friendly and helpful and most of the guests are Americans, Canadians and Brits. We're here for three days then off on a 7 day cruise to New Orleans: Belize and Honduras, then back to Cancun and back to this hotel for 4 more nights, then back to warm and sunny Wales .
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Jim Anderson
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Already mad with envy at your luxury lifestyle compared to us mortals shivering indoors! Will also go State - side in March to Florida for family reunion (daughter and relations coming from Colombia and son from Washington) and hopefully Maria and I can get our creaking bones onto the golf course. Keep the blog coming. Jim and Maria