All Inclusive most certainly does NOT equal sucks depending on what you want to do.
I actually have ZERO interest in seeing the ruins or any of that other JUNK.
What I DO have interest in while on vacation is being treated like royalty, which this first-class resort did to near perfection.
Lobster/Filet/top-shelf drinks and a poolside/oceanside room are where it's at in my book. My GF had already seen all the ruins down there before, so I don't have to suffer through what I would find painstakingly BORINGGGGG.

The ONLY way to do the area in my book IS the AI way.

I never had ANY intention to 'belt' that dolphin. The lunkhead photographer wanted me to make a fist, which I found ridiculous. About the only thing I would ever do to the snoot of one of those magnificent creatures would be to give it a gentle "honk", which I did.

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I'm just messin' with ya....

So the photographer wanted you to give a fist pump eh... and you listened to him?? LOL

Now, what WOULD have been funny is if the dolphin would have shat on you...

Given you a little dose of your own medicine... LOL

Have a good one! OL JR

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So you're pretty much going to spend 2x your annual YORF budget on a week of phun!

I'd guess a bit more than that, did you look at the fancy digs?!? Going for Christmas too, Scott?

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Heh, not for Christmas. Hoping to go to the condo in Fort Myers Beach for Christmas. The Packers play Tampa Bay in TB on 12/21. Would be great to hit that game.

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Some more pics.
Next year we are thinking of going to Captiva Island, Florida instead of Mexico.

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Captiva is cool. Our family condo is close by on Fort Myers Beach. I actually like the beach on FMB better than Sanibel/Captiva. Over there there's too many broken shells in the sand making it painful to walk barefoot unless you constantly look where you're walking.

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I agree, Captiva isn't all that great. My brother liked it.

Ever been to Cabbage Key?

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We are going to go to Captiva (maybe Sanibel) specifically due to all the shells on the beaches. Stayed there at South Seas Plantation as a child and showed the GF pictures. My girlfriend likes to collect unique shells.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !

The last few years we have switched to going to Playa Mujeres (a bit NE of Cancun) instead of Playa Del Carmen.

We are members of a Vacation Club and go to Secrets or Dreams resort (sister resorts about 100yds apart, you get use of both) a couple times a year.

Secrets is 100% children-free.

We last went back in September of 2020, and was only 25% capacity due to travel / resort restrictions because of COVID.
Headed back to Secrets Playa Mujeres in May for 10 nights. Private poolside-patio suite. Top-notch all the way.

Playa Mujeres is a bit pricier than going to Playa Del Carmen, but WELL worth it.

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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !