Princess Hotel -- Riviera Maya 12.14

Every day we walked this beautiful path from our rm to reception (10 minutes)

I would recommend the Princess Hotel -- quite large, almost a factory, but very good service and design for a large complex.  We had a junior deluxe suite which had a very comfy queen bed plus a sofa sitting area and balcony.
Our room, 6117 was situated in the middle -- great.  Halfway between the front reception and beach at end.  Nicely near the center swimming pools with swim up bars.

had a trolley if you didn't want to walk, Gary took it due to knee problems

One of  my biggest memories was how hard it was to get a beach chair.  The first day we were there, we had to lay our towels out on the sand, as all the chairs were taken.  From then on in, I learned the trick.  You had to go and put your stuff on a chair by 7:30, have breakfast and come back in order to get a chair at either the pool or beach.

ah, this is what vacations are for + you need to remember to bring your room key boys

 It was hard to get these little huts, but when I finally did there was bird poop on the chair.  Switched it for another, and continued to read my book (The Goldfinch) happily.

We walked back & forth to reception one day in the rain to arrange our trip to the Mayan ruins of Coba.  When we were finally done we went for a massage on the beach.  The rain had stopped & birds had walked on our towels (as evidenced by the bird footsteps on our towels).  Surprise--it was empty, all packed up.  Luckily they called the masseuse back & I had 1 of the best massages of my life!  (even went back another day for more!).  This is what vacations are for. The hut behind G & J on the beach is where they gave massages......

As you can see, they had these neat little bridges all over the place.  To get some exercise I had a goal of swimming from one end of the complex to the other underneath these little bridges.  Much father than I thought.