We just returned after 2 days of a scheduled 5 day trip to Desire Pearl. Lots of explanation here... Before you read this trip report you might consider reading a couple of my previous posts to get some back story - even though this has nothing to do with why our trip was cut short. SO...
We arrived (Wednesday Jan 18th) in Cancun after an uneventful flight at around 1pm. I had pre-registered which helped the process speed along a little bit. After collecting the balance we owed Desire for our 5 night 6 day adventure we were shuffled over to visit with Lucy who went over a few things about the resort including asking if we were in the lifestyle - answer... no. I (husband) booked us in a penthouse suite. After Lucy scheduled the "sales pitch" for Friday the 20th at 9am we were escorted to our room by our butler Rudy - great guy. Total check-in time = 45 min. Let me also add that both of us were nervous from the time we landed in Cancun until we hit the room. The room was spectacular. Penthouse 88 - furthest from all the noisy areas of the pool and jacuzzi and has the best view of the beach. My nerves subsided a bit and my wife remained on edge not knowing what to expect, even though we had communicated a great deal before arriving. About this time, after settling in we headed to Pearl restaurant to eat some lunch around 2pm. In order to get there the only way to go is to walk past both the quiet an noisy (aka...wild) side of the pool area. Naked folks everywhere. Never seen this before live. Little shock to the system - more for the wife but me included. Went into the restaurant and had lunch - not bad. We ordered off the menu and avoided the buffet - in the hopes of not getting sick day 1. After lunch as we were walking out past the noisy area - one of the entertainment staff members (female) came up to me and gave me a big hug and welcomed me to Desire and did the same for my wife. Very nice but my wife was still a little tense and surprised - no big deal though. We went back up to our room - changed and put on our bathing suits. Wife bought a few bikinis for the trip and put one on (she is very good looking 5"6" 120lbs and works out quite a bit - think Kate Beckinsale - not kidding). She looked awesome! When you book a Penthouse Suite you are allocated a bed on the beach. No one else can use it and it is great!. We headed down and set up shop in beach bed 88! Within a few minutes of laying down, a waiter came over to take our drink orders. Wife wasn't ready to get alcohol in her system yet so we had our yeti tumblers filled up with ice water and good to go. It was heaven. Under the palm trees, cool ocean breeze and paradise in general. All good.
Over the 3.5 hours we laid in our beach bed LOTS of naked guests passed by. No one approached us - not being rude though, just enjoying time along together like we were doing. We also saw numerous passers by that were not resort guests - checking out the scene, walking slowly and watching what was going on. Wife did NOT like this aspect of the resort. They stayed down by the beach and water approximately 15 yards from where we were laying out. Our clothes were on the whole time, no big deal for us. The naked Desire guests seemed oblivious to all of these folks, so I guess no big deal for them as well. Up to this point we witnessed no PDA at all, just lots of chilling' by the beach/pool. Also, on the noisy end of the pool lots of games were being played and the music was quite loud - but not too annoying. By now it was time to begin thinking about dinner... we headed back to the room to shower and get ready for dinner. Couple of other notes here, at around 4 or 4:30 most everyone shuts it down at the noisy end of the pool and for that matter at the beach and heads to the Jacuzzi area. The quiet end of the pool and us were all that remained between about 4:15 and 6pm. On our way back the room as we walked up our 4 flights of stairs another couple was walking down - both totally nude. BAM... wife was shocked - I laughed after they passed sending us a friendly "well hello guys!". Back in the room showered and dressed we headed off to dinner at Aphrodite - no reservations necessary especially at 6:45. In the Lobby Bar we grabbed a pre-dinner drink and talked to Jorge the bartender who told us "tequila makes you want to get naked". Wife ordered vodka tonic - I chuckled and remained in my go with the flow persona.
Dinner was nice - at 7pm the restaurant was 25% full and older crowd. Theme night that night was tape art - no go for us so we headed back to the room. Sat outside on our penthouse deck for an hour and turned in around 10:30 tired from our trip. Day 1 in the bag at Desire Pearl. No harm no foul for the reluctant wife who originally said hell no to my suggestion of coming to Pearl... More to come as I sit down again later today to write about day 2... our most interesting day at Pearl.