by shore128 » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:22 am
We just returned from a week at Desire (Oct. 31 to Nov. 7) and booked with SDC. SDC Travel does a good job - no complaints - although we found out when we got there that SDC Travel guests are charged $5.00 for each room service order. No big deal, as the trip includes round trip airport transfers on Trans Beach, and that is worth $80.00, so that more than made up for room service charges. The week was originally supposed to be an SDC takeover week. But SDC apparently hadn't come close to booking the whole resort, so they released the rooms back to Desire about 3 months prior to the trip, and the prices dropped as well.
However, the majority of the SDC guests were from Mexico and South America, and this created to some extent a language barrier with English speaking guests. It was a very nice but diverse crowd and also very laid back. For alot of personal reasons, we will not book during an SDC week again. We had an ok week, but of our 5 times at Desire, this was our least favorite trip. The weather was bad as well - it rained 5 of 8 days we were there, including tropical storm conditions - torrential rains and high winds with beach erosion. BTW, we walked the beach before our departure Nov. 7 and it was decimated - serious erosion - very little beach left. This is our second consecutive Halloween trip when the weather has not been that good, and we will not return this time of year again.