Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Disappointing Playa Del Carmen

Here's the last travel post for our most recent Mexico trip.

The Lady especially hates unpredictable weather. Hate, hate, hate.The last two days of our recent trip was spent in Playa Del Carmen. The last two days in one word: Sucked. It rained and poured cats and dogs. Not a peek of beautiful sunshine. Sad was what it was. After months of waiting for our sunny, hot beach trip, it ended with a whole bunch of rain. I hate being disappointed.

When we were making our way to Cozumel from Tulum, we obviously had to stop through the Playa to get to the ferry terminal. The day we were just passing through was excruciatingly hot and unbearable. It was hot! We were actually looking forward to some of that heat, just laying out on the beach, tanning and reading. We hadn't really had any of that this whole trip (unlike Maui, which is all we do there). So leaving Cozumel, we were sad but looking forward to that. We got downpoured. Good thing it was the last days of our trip, I would have been so disappointed if it was our whole trip.

On the flip side, I guess food was pretty decent in Playa. Fifth Avenue was pretty interesting as well to take a stroll. Touristy, but busy with plenty to do. Playa is supposed to be the subdue version of Cancun, being about 40 miles south of Cancun. Not really the case. There were many parties at clubs, many bars open late, lots of rowdiness and partying going on on Fifth Avenue. Not really our thing honestly......we wanted to enjoy the Playa for it's glorious white sanded beaches. But because we couldn't, we pretty much stayed in and ate out.

(What should have been a beautifully sunny beach is a stormy, grey and cloudy desolation)


(Cute place mat at Chez Celine)


(Probably the most delicious almond/chocolate croissant I have ever had!
The Man had a ham and cheese croissant, and I had the tuna)



(Our first dinner at the Playa, caesar salad with camarons and steak tacos w/ guac!)

(Lobster's a big thing down here in Riviera Maya. This is my plate,
the Lobster fettuccine with tomato cream sauce, delicious and simple)

(The Man got the Carbonara pasta, which is also another one
of my favorites, and it was deliciously decadent and rich with
 a nice touch of bacon)

(After all that pasta, we went to get dessert at a chocolate cafe
where we got a brownie, hot chocolate and sipping chocolate [not pictured].
The chocolate was good but I think I've had better, deeper,
richer chocolate in San Francisco)


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