April 13-16, 2025 - Cancun, Mexico to Fort Collins, Colorado

We started our day at The Grand with breakfast at the Habibi Restaurant on Sunday when we visited with our day pass. The food was good, but the service was SLOW!!! It took over an almost an hour before our food was delivered to our table! Crazy. After breakfast, we headed to the waterpark. We just found chairs and let breakfast settle before doing one of the waterslides and the lazy river a couple times each. We enjoyed seeing the kids area - lots of fun things to climb and get soaked on! We had decided to have lunch at Los Tacos, which we have eaten at before. Unfortunately, we were disappointed with the food.

Oh well. At least we got to see the hawk with it's handler working for a few minutes while we ate. VIDEO https://youtube.com/shorts/P5gLk7fcRQE?feature=share

We headed out to the beach and walked along a little before deciding to go back to The Sunrise and go sailing. Rather than wait for their lobby-to-lobby shuttle, we walked since it's under a mile. We walked through the Nizuc pool and beach area and they had a fun bubble machine on the beach for the kids.

Bubbles video https://youtube.com/shorts/QeXsHrME1Oo

After sailing and showers we headed back to The Grand for dinner. We had booked reservations at The Jade and their menu is very similar to Momo's here at The Sunrise, with the exception of a yummy beef dish they grill at your table. They were out of it! The head waiter was super nice and called to Caribeno and we switched our reservation there. Yummy seafood and a restaurant we hadn't tried before. We had a beautiful view as we left the restaurant.

We managed to get massages again, go sailing several times and went out in the 16 foot Hobie Cat. It is missing its jib sail, but was still faster and Tobey thought it was actually easier to sail than the 14 footers, and we had a great time. No more getting stuck on the beach for us!! :) Let's see, we ate more food - and more food, sat by the pool, read, relaxed, and got more sun than we probably should have.

Our last night's shows were a puppet show - geared toward the children, but still fun to see and the Michael Jackson show. It was fun and a good way to round out our stay. Michael Jackson Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/x9l2Ag87Ye4?feature=share

The wait staff in all of the restaurants are excellent and so friendly. On our last morning we had breakfast at the Gondola Restaurant. Michel, one of the hostesses, told us she would have something special for us this morning if we ate there - and she did! We were treated to a beautiful table and wonderful service! We NEVER saw anything like this during our entire stay.

She made us smile every morning - along with Vanessa - who usually works in the Boganbila Restaurant. Michel gave us many hugs and they both asked us to come back soon.

We were on the shuttle to the airport about 11am for our flight back to Colorado. The view as we departed Cancun was beautiful!

We were ahead of schedule arriving in Denver, but had to circle and circle because of winds in Denver and had a VERY bumpy descent into the airport. Then we had to wait for ground crew so we were not early after all! Oh well, it was a great trip but it is always good to be home.