On the last day I finally realised it was the staff from the next door hotel who started wheeling trolleys around at 5am that was causing us to wake up so early. Anyway we had an early breakfast and hit the beach for a few hours of sun and a last dip in the sea - in fact it was harder to come out of the sea for the last time than leave the beach. Diana headed back up to the room first for a shower. As she stepped out of the shower the phone rang, it was our he...

5.15am found us waiting at the front of our hotel for the coach that would take us to Chichen Itza. As with other trips we did the usual tour of other hotels in the area to collect fellow Thomson excursionists. Once everyone was on the coach Martin, our tour guide introduced himself, the driver and our host. Because we were spending so much time travelling they had laid on a team member whose role it was to ensure we were fed and watered. The first service wa...

Our last full day of doing nothing. We hit the beach first, having coffee whilst lying on our beach loungers. Chris managed to fit in a massage on the beach and then we headed off for a late breakfast. After some more sunbathing we decided to walk along the beach to see what one of the other Riu hotels in Playacar was like. They say only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the mid-day sun and we were rather regretting the beach walk as it was extremely hot. As...

Monday was another early start. We had booked to do a half day excursion which included snorkelling with giant turtles and swimming in an underground cenote. Our guide Tatiana - a young russian girl - greeted us with much enthusiam outside Starbucks opposite the entrance to our hotel. As seemed to be the way with organised travel around the area we were collecting other people from different hotels. We set off towards Tulum and more precisely Akumel beach wer...

We had decided to don the roles of intrepid explorers again today. We had heard their were more Mayan Ruins that we could get to on local transport. We weren't in any rush so we took our time over breakfast and also booked a late sitting for the Mexican dinner which meant that we didn't need to be back until around 8.30pm. Donning our cameras. suncream and hats, we headed off to the bus station at Playa Del Carmen. It is quite difficult ensuring that you are ...