DavidD wrote:My wife and I are celebrating our 10th Anniversary in April. We currently
are planning on celebrating at Desire Pearl. We are not swingers, but free spirited, and suspect we would enjoy the sexual energy of the place.
Anyway, my concern is the safety element. Cancun is not the most reputable of places these days and to make matters worse the police are corrupt.
Searches on the internet surfaces some real life horror stories.
So here is a hotel with new management, new employees, new security,
new bartenders etc. It just seems like a set up for possible disaster. How can one be so sure that we are safe from the Riff Raff that plagues Cancun. How do I know some scum bag is not going to drug our drinks, rob us, or worse rape my wife. While we all are having fun and getting inebriated, whose watching our backs? Who is guarding our rooms? Who is watching the beach side?
Don't mean to be a Joy Kill, but as I said, there are some real life horror stories out there, not just hype, but hard core reality.
Having just returned from a weeks worth of tranquility there, I would say our concerns are not warranted. Security is on the ball here - we saw a couple of instances where someone would walk down the beach with a camera and the security guards follow them, making certain that they never get a snap off. In one instance, a woman took a picture and was quickly apprehended by the guards, and forced to delete her pics. They watched the beach and property like hawks.
No scum bag ever drugged our drinks (to our knowledge
) and at NO time did I ever feel unsafe walking around or leaving things in my room. As a matter of fact, I had about 4 thousand dollars worth of camera equipment in my room most of the time and never even worried about it. It was all there when it was time to leave.
We DID encounter the occasional staff member that was obviously not comfortable being around naked people...as a matter of fact, one of the girls that was an EC and showed us around the resort left after Day 2. We could tell she wasn't comfortable from the day we got there...these things happen. There was a bartender or two that couldn't deal with it either, but again, at no time did we feel uncomfortable.
My wife took several walks around the property by herself and I never thought her safety would be compromised.