June 22 - 28, 2016 - Excelente

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June 22 - 28, 2016 - Excelente

Postby TandR » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:06 pm

This was our fourth trip to Pearl but it has been 2 years since we were last there. We weren’t really impressed with the changes to the resort since we were last there. The lobby seems kind of sterile, and the padded block seating looks nice but isn’t really comfortable. The new roof over the pool bar is disappointing as well. It is very bland and lacks the charm of the old thatched roof. We still love the resort though.

We enjoy the food at Pearl; breakfast and lunch are both very good, and the lunchtime grill stations provided some variety. The service for breakfast and lunch was hit or miss. There were some servers that seemed to disappear after taking care of your initial order, and not stopping back for coffee refills at breakfast, or more drinks at lunchtime. On the other hand, there are some excellent servers; Jesus and Marquez were both outstanding.

For dinner, we mainly ate at Pearl. We enjoyed our meals there and had excellent service from Joel most nights. We ate at Jade one night. We told our server that we were having trouble deciding what to order. He said that was no problem, they could just bring a sample of everything for each course. So that’s what we did, and it was excellent.

We only had dinner at Aphrodite one night, and that was for a large group. We were 12 couples seated at two tables. Since we were such a large group, they did a fixed menu with only a choice of two entrees. They managed the service very well, keeping wine glasses filled and pacing the courses nicely. We were disappointed with the entree we ordered (it was a parmesan chicken), but other than that the food was good.

The group dinner came about through the June Yahoo group. We were a little skeptical about signing up since we never have trouble making friends once we arrive, but we did sign up and post a couple pictures. It worked out really well. Almost as soon as we arrived at the pool or hot tub, there were people that came up to us and said “Hey, aren’t you on the Yahoo group?”. We ended up meeting a lot of great people that way. The dinner worked out well also. We got to meet some more couples we hadn’t already run into.

The daytime activities were fun. Between the two of us, we did stretching, yoga, Zumba and beach volleyball. It is a little disappointing that they no longer seem to be bringing in guest instructors for things like Zumba and yoga. The entertainment staff do a good job, but it was nice to have the pros once in awhile.

We enjoyed the evening entertainment, some nights more than others. In particular, the acrobatics show was amazing. We thought the music in the disco was a big improvement over the last time we were there. There was a good variety of music, and the DJ really seemed to be in tune with the crowd.

The atmosphere/activity level varied quite a bit from one day to the next. The first couple nights we were there things were pretty tame. Mostly just couples quietly enjoying themselves on the hot tub beds at night. That changed on Friday. People were commenting that the resort was at capacity, and we met some hot new friends and sparks were flying immediately. That night after some sexy dancing in the disco, we moved down to the hot tub. Our little group decided to do some body shots (we learned that 1921 is excellent for body shots). That got the ball rolling, and the next thing you know there were half a dozen ladies lined up across the bar doing body shots. Our night ended with our hot new friends on one of the jacuzzi beds.

Saturday night we went to the hot tub relatively early (around midnight) since we were tired from the night before. It was pretty quiet, so we finished our drinks and decided to get out of there before anything interesting happened and get some sleep. Sunday night the hot tub was pretty lively again. We were just having a good time socializing that night, but the “JV Squad” put on a performance on one of the beds that earned them a big round of applause from everyone in the hot tub ^:)^ .

On Monday everyone was talking about the fact that there were 24 rooms checking out that day. That didn’t really slow down the party, in fact it ended up being an epic night for us. As the crowd thinned in the disco, we were with three other couples dancing (with the occasional pole dance performance), and slowly removing clothes. The party moved to the hot tub where the four ladies exchanged body shots. Then someone produced blindfolds (somehow they just happened to have four). We did some blindfolded body shots, then a little “guess who is your mate” game (shoutout to “Cha Cha” for acting as MC). Finally as the hot tub bar was shutting down the eight of us pushed a couple beds together, someone brought out a toy for the ladies to try out, and we had a hot sweaty good time. The whole night was like a hot multi-course erotic banquet.

What a way to finish our trip. We briefly considered staying up for the sunrise, but decided to get a little sleep instead. In the morning we had breakfast, then packed up (why does that take so long?). We weren’t leaving until 1:00, but went ahead and got the checkout process out of the way at 11:00 and had Esteban pick up our luggage. That gave us time to make our rounds to say goodbye, hang out in the pool for a bit, have lunch and stroll on up to our waiting USA Transfers van (booked through the forum of course :) ).
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