Thanks for you help...Northernexposure...15 more days to go...

Your welcome. Have a great trip!

We will stay at the IB Beach in May would you recomend a Maya upgrade? What is that little dock I see in the pictures?

Thanks

Uschi: To be honest I would probably upgrade to the Lindo and save yourself the extra money money than stay at the Maya. The Maya is beautiful but you can use most of the facilities from the Lindo anyway. I have heard a lot of people very happy with the Beach too but you have a limit on the facilities and restaurants you can use. I am not sure what the little dock is my guess is it was once a pier that got damaged. I am sure someone out there can tell you.

DOCK: That "little dock" is half gone so far as I know. Hurricane last SEptember.

MAYA VS LINDO: I booked the Maya, but I am beginning to think I made a mistake. Only two restos at the Maya and the private swimming pools are off-limits to Maya. I booked it for the "exclusivity" and it seems that its not all that exclusive.

FLOATS FOR POOL: Bring the cheapest ones you can find. Then leave them there.

PRES SUITE: WAS IT REALLY $300/NITE OVER THE JUNIOR suite. Find that hard to believe.

The Presidential Suite was just an estimate I was given by the front desk. But it sounded like the rates through the hotel were more expensive than booking it as a package at home. The man at the front desk told me the regular rate for a suite at the Maya was $328.00 U.S. per person based on double occupancy and that the Presidental Suite would be approximately $300.00 U.S. over and above extra per person.

What is the best way to phone home...when I stayed in Cancun last year I purchased a phone card from the gift shop and used the pay phone just outside the resort...does the resort sell phone cards and if yes how far was the pay phone...

We purchased a phone card from our signature rep. For $10.00 u.s. you got 20 minutes. But be aware that you have to pay a connection fee of $5.00 everytime you make a phone call regardless if it goes through or not.

Was there not a pay phone you could use so you did not have to pay the resort the $5.00 connecting fee. Everytime I have been to Mexico I have just used a pay phone.

Apparently there is a payphone somewhere outside of the resort. Where I do not know. These resorts are in the middle of nowhere. The closest thing to the resorts would probably be the Mayan Palace or Maroma Resort. It would be a fair distance so we found calling from the room convenient. They did put the charges on our room and had to settle up. It is a good walk to the highway from the Maya but I am sure when you arrive your rep can tell you where the payphone is.