El Dorado Royale!!

So it was off to the honeymoon...

Saturday night we staying at Union Station, which was such a treat. Its beautiful in there. I could get used to room service considering we had it for b'fast everyday and at least one other meal/snack (it was our 4th meal of the day not lunch or dinner). 

Sunday we flew to Dallas and stayed at DFW in the Grand Hyatt-incredibly nice! It was amazing, and once again--room service, b'fast in bed. Ah, the joys of being spoiled! We ate at the hotel restaurant, which of course was marked up ten fold but it was really good too. I love food!

We flew out to Mexico early Monday morning. Ah, flying into Cancun was amazing--the beautiful crystal blue ocean, sand, sun...what more could you ask for! We then drove to Riveria Maya where we stayed at El Dorado Royale. The service was impeccable. Wonderful wonderful. There are hotel like rooms and then casitas, we were lucky enough to stay in the casitas.  You can see below:

This is a little bundle of casitas with their own little lazy river pool (it didnt actually let you lazy river to the main pool). There are probable 10-15 little bundles or neighborhoods of casitas. They are in a  "U" shape and in the middle of the "U" there sits the main pool/swim up bar. The one with all the flowers, bigger building is the back of the main lobby.

We did this EVERY morning--b'fast on our balcony. Amazing and refreshing. Loved it. We did manage to eat about 4 meals a day as I said in the beginning. Talk about stretching your stomach. I got back and was hungry by 9am and 5pm. The food was ok. We started out at the worst place to eat in the resort the first night so that was good and only got better from there. There are 7 restaurants to eat on the resort--oriental, mexican (surprisingly the worst one, ugh! american, fondue, itialian, and some others).

Breakfast/Room service, our favorite!

Dinner at La Fondue

Actually one of the better places to eat

We were lucky enough to get a massage on the ocean, one of my favorite things about the week. Hearing the ocean in the background was the best part of it. I loved it. It was a couples massage so we got them at the same time, which was the best--simply bc I got to see Andrew experience his first spa treatment. ha, the oils pretty much intoxicated him. He was a noodle when we were finished. We went into the spa, got a pedicure, and then got in the hot tub. Where the hot tub is there is a hydrotherapy pool system. Andrew loved it. Freezing pool, not fun for me. There are 4 little different areas of the pool and Andrew tried them all. See below! 

After our massage. 

Loving the hydrotherapy pool.

No way I was getting in that freezing pool.

Other than the massage, we pretty much ate, layed by the pool/beach, ate, explored the resort, and ate some more. Cant forget the fruity beach drinks. The wine was miserable there and im not a huge fan of fruity beach drinks. I settled but I missed my daily refreshing white vino! =)

Some more pics of the week...

One night before dinner.

Gotta love self timer pics!

The lobby in the background, which was beautiful.

These little (or huge) guys were everywhere. I was terrified at the beginning but by the end, they had names and we loved them! I know, kinda weird. They are sweet and harmless. Andrew tried to fight one. I think it could kick his butt, i mean look at that tail!

The main areas had white lights around the trees. I love white lights, somehow they make everything happy! Not that you can't be happy at this place.

Andrew's favorite place, the swim up bar at our pool. The bar tender in the background--always make good friends! =)

We took accustom to the traditional morning bloody mary's in the AM. Love them! 

Time to go home

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