Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

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Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby 2naked » Mon Nov 28, 2016 3:42 pm

We just returned from another great week at Desire RM. If you were there during any of these days, we were the couple that had the pool chairs right in front of the pool steps, every day. I was up well before sunrise every day to get my wife's favorite spot... what we do for them huh ;-)

I'm just going to touch on the changes since our last visit in March or from recent reviews where things are different.

-The beach: The beach is even more eroded. CiCi's bar is closed and close to being gone. She now serves drinks at the Gazebo. All the beds north of her old bar are gone as well. The entire bed structure and swinging beds are gone and there are new stand alone beds that are up behind the sea wall on the same level and directly in front of the first floor rooms. There are still some beds south of the old bar, mostly for passion/jacuzzi suites.

-Late night pizza: Pizza is back at the lobby bar.

-Restaurants: 2 nights while we were there, the buffet was served outside at the lunch location and the main bldg was closed. Not sure if this is normal every week.

-Bldg 16: Construction is ongoing but not too intrusive. We stayed in bldg 15 with no issues but we are early risers. Banging started about 8am each morning.

-Lunch area: There are now more sliding glass partitions to close it off if needed and a railing with fake greenery to help separate the eating area from the bar area.

-Lobby: They are building an add-on to the north end of the Lobby bldg next to the women's restroom. One bartender said this was going to be the new DJ booth for the lobby area.

-Staff: JJ is a great and funny addition to the Playmaker Staff as well as Robert and David.

That's about it. Everything else is just as good as ever including the staff, pool, and jacuzzi. Thanks to the November Yahoo group, we met some great people:

T & A
R & S
D & J
A & S
M & A
Is
Some others we met not from the group but great new friends are:
C & L
J & B
And another J & B

We also recognized several from previous trips that we really didn't get to know but it's always nice to casually speak to or see repeaters like us.
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby rulesynch » Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:43 pm

Hey A&S here. You were easily one of our favorite couples we met at DRM. You both are just so wonderful people. We felt we missed interacting with you more on several occasions. But you know where we stay. So happy to met you again if we get a chance. Thanks for all the wonderful conversations :)
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby BandP » Mon Nov 28, 2016 10:15 pm

2Naked, loved reading your report as you were easily some of our favorite friends from our initial trip last year. Hope to meet y'all again sometime!
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby gibor » Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:34 am

We just returned from another great week at Desire RM. If you were there during any of these days, we were the couple that had the pool chairs right in front of the pool steps, every day.

Hey! We've been at same days as you (stayed at build 14) and probably we passed hundreds time in front of you on our way to the pool :) ... Because every day we were going to sleep after 3am, we were waling up late (just before beach volleyball, and my wife participated in all games :)) and were getting this big "shared" bed :)
Cannot comment on changes as it was our 1st time in Desire.... :)
In any case, we didn't care too much about "beach beds" , as majority of fun "activities" we had at Jacuzzi area :mrgreen: ....
Everything was excellent and fun! Especially we liked Jacuzzi :) Entertainment team was amazing. Waiting for 2nd visit to Desire!

The only thing we didn't really like (together with our Russian and British friends) was DJ music ... both downstairs and upstairs ... it was too much trans and techno that is mostly for teens , we'd like to hear more old classic rock and pop. Live band was OK.
Also expected more from Sahlo restaurant, otherwise food was pretty good.
Drinks were not too bad, but was surprised that they didn't have any Cognac and .... Corona?!
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby 2naked » Tue Nov 29, 2016 5:58 pm

rulesynch... PM sent.
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby 2naked » Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:04 pm

gibor wrote:
... Because every day we were going to sleep after 3am, we were waling up late (just before beach volleyball, and my wife participated in all games :)) and were getting this big "shared" bed :)


We went to bed at 2am, 3am, 1am, 12:30am, etc... and I still woke up early enough to get her favorite chairs :-) True love!!!
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby gibor » Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:29 pm

We went to bed at 2am, 3am, 1am, 12:30am, etc... and I still woke up early enough to get her favorite chairs :-) True love!!!
Thus, you are "gibor" (means "hero" in Hebrew) ^:)^
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby Explorer79 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 2:37 am

2naked, it was great hanging out with you guys, hope to meet up again! I'm already looking at getting some of those sunglasses.

Maybe we met some of the others here as well, I don't recognize the forum names, but if so, R&S say hi to you too :D
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby latinos28 » Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:27 pm

2 naked please to have met both you guys as well A&M
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Re: Nov 19-26, 2016 Trip Report

Postby 2naked » Fri Dec 02, 2016 3:25 pm

:L
latinos28 wrote:2 naked please to have met both you guys as well A&M
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