First Time Trip Report: June 17 to 26, 2019

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First Time Trip Report: June 17 to 26, 2019

Postby calicenter » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:47 pm

We had our first trip to Pearl this past June and LOVED it! Simply fantastic and we are already talking about going back. Here are our thoughts from the trip in no particular order.

OUR ROUTINE-- Mileage varies with people but keep this in mind when reading our review. We are night owls. While on vacation we have a tendency to stay up later and later while getting up later and later. Given that, once we got settled in at the resort, we usually rolled out of bed for lunch between noon and one, laid on the beach and then hang around in the pool until 5 or 6. Dinner and then the nightly event followed by the hot tub. We stayed most nights in the hot tub until 1 or 2. Rinse and repeat.

LIFESTYLE-- We are in the lifestyle; however, on a spectrum from "infrequent to hardcore" participation, we hover consistently around the infrequent side. We are in the lifestyle for many reasons one of which is just to meet fun, open minded and cool people. Play is never required or expected. From our view, having that expectation only allows for disappointment. Just meeting and talking to people who are all open minded (everyone runs around naked of course) without any agenda is fun and entertaining. We truly enjoyed the social interaction especially considering we are typically on the shy side (though we get naked and talk more; go figure...).

With the above in mind, it seemed during our visit the large majority of guests were not in the lifestyle. That was ok as we still met a ton of great people and that alone is a win.

We didn't see a ton of open PDA even in the designated areas. Again for us, that was not a necessity. We are veterans of Sea Mountain in California (think Desire statewide, extra lite) that is lifestyle friendly with usually a heavy dose of open play. All told, having gone to a nudist place before made it a breeze for us to jump right in and have a great time. We also personally did not engage in any open play in any of the play areas as the mood did not strike us and we have "been there, done that" many times at Sea Mountain. Who knows, maybe the mood will strike on our next visit.

FOOD AND DRINK-- We would say it was very good, not excellent. Biggest complaint would be a tad more variety as the offerings became rather repetitive towards the end of our stay (albeit we had a long stay). Highlight was the French Onion Soup at the Pearl Restaurant-- delicious and fantastic presentation. From my view, I found it strange no traditional street style tacos were offered (I love tacos!!!). All in all, very minor complaints on the quality and selection (though we would have also liked to have seen a more robust offering of snacks and late night selections).

Drink wise, we loved the orange juice. Best we have ever had. We are not big drinkers so the resort probably made money on us there (probably should give us a discount of some sort!). Interestingly, we found the Coca Cola to be more flat than what we were used to state side. Not a knock on the resort; we suspect it may just be how it is bottled for Mexico.

SERVICE-- Absolutely outstanding. We were simply blown away by how helpful and pleasant everyone was. Stateside it seems too many people in the service industry don't care or don't go all out to help and serve guests. Not true at Desire. Very attentive, pleasant and simply a joy to interact with. Our favorite was Jairo who was working the jacuzzi bar. He had our drinks of choice ready every night when we arrived. Also very funny and pleasant. Desire excels on this front.

GROUNDS-- Amazing as well. The grounds are well maintained and someone always seemed to be cleaning, trimming, etc. Being our first trip to Mexico and not knowing what to expect, we can say we at all times felt 110% safe at the resort. Our only complaint was incessant hammering in the room above us for repairs. That became highly annoying and did not improve much our entire stay despite our complaining. It did not ruin our trip but we do wish it was handled a bit better. On the positive side, we knew the room number above us was vacant and tied to an assigned cabana bed so we took that cabana bed each day. There was thus a positive out of it.

The pool was excellent as was the hot tub. We probably would have swam later in the evening but the pool was closed at 7 (that was a slight bummer).

BEACH-- Tons of seaweed with murky water. Outside of getting our feet wet, we did not swim. We did love the pier and had a daily routine of lying out on a cabana bed. All in all, it was relaxing and still beautiful. We were told a net was being installed in July of this year to help control the seaweed; we hope improvements are shown.

FELLOW GUESTS-- All fantastic. We lost track of the number of good people we met. We did exchange information with one couple who were loads of fun that we look forward to visiting with again. Engaging and fun conversation was had many a night and day.

Being couples only was a plus. Neither one of us like the "creepy dude" who can appear at lifestyle events. We saw none of that which was refreshing and great.

THEME NIGHTS-- We both had fun participating in the theme nights and seeing many cool, sexy and/or interesting costumes. The disco was on the small side but once we realized that guests cap out at about 80 or so couples, the size makes more sense. We peaked briefly into the playroom but did not enter it. The nightly entertainment was fun though we found some of it to be a bit repetitive. After maybe dancing a half or one song, we would head to the hot tub which was more our speed.

EROTIC MASSAGE-- We did the erotic massage and found it to be subpar. We had two women providers. It seemed rather mechanical and forced. While we are glad we gave it a go, we do not plan to do it again. Next time we plan to stick to a normal massage. As we don't want to spoil it by sharing what happened, we won't offer any further details unless someone PMs us who is dying to know.

FINAL THOUGHTS-- This was the most relaxing vacation we have ever had. We cannot wait to go back. It was hard to leave and dare we say depressing. The vacation checks everything off of our list we like (lifestyle friendly, open minded people, eating, sleeping) so there is really nothing to like. We will be back and cannot get back soon enough. If you are still thinking of going, pull the trigger and pull the trigger now!
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Re: First Time Trip Report: June 17 to 26, 2019

Postby Thrill Seekers » Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:23 am

Great report. Is there still a lot of construction going on?
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Re: First Time Trip Report: June 17 to 26, 2019

Postby calicenter » Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:29 pm

Thrill Seekers wrote:Great report. Is there still a lot of construction going on?

Yes. The mansion. We were on the other side of the property so it didn’t bother us at all.
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Re: First Time Trip Report: June 17 to 26, 2019

Postby Takes2toTango » Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:04 am

Thanks for posting. We enjoy reading trip reviews and look forward to our return.
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