We just got back from Desire last night and I thought I better get
some things down while it is fresh in my mind.
First off I want you to know we have never been to Desire Cancun so
this will be more comparing Hedo 2 and Hedo 3 to Desire Los Cabos. I
have also read the other trip reports posted here and I agree with
pretty much everything they have said but I also think things are
improving by the day.
When we arrived
sat. Dec 2nd we were surprised by how cool the weather
was, after sunset it was down right chilly! We like most people didn't
have anything along for cool weather so you see a lot of people
wrapped in big beach towels while eating dinner in the evenings. As an
earlier trip report pointed out they did get the portable heaters set
up and were using them when the SDC takeover group arrived. By mid
week the weather had also warmed up and was actually very hot mid-day,
still gets cool in the evenings though. Weather in Jamaica is warmer
and much more humid this time of year!
The hot tub is
HUGE, but they had trouble regulating the heat even later in the week but it
wasn't as cool as Monday night again. Once the SDC group arrive there was a
little more activity in the hot tub, but still pretty mild by Hedo standards,
a bunch of the women formed a "booby circle" and the husbands got to get in
the middle one at a time and "sample" all the different
nipples
(that was fun). We didn't witness any sex in the public at any time.
I thought the food was very good, but I'm pretty easy to please
that way, wife wasn't as impressed as me. The steak at the Italian
restaurant was wonderful! You don't get beef like that in Jamaica. I
think the sea food is better in Jamaica but everything else was better
here. We wished they would have had bagels available at breakfast
though, they had smoked salmon, capers and cream
cheese but no bagels.
We also didn't have coffee cups in our room the whole time, coffee
maker but no cups.
The beach is
huge and seems to go on forever and you hardly know
it's there! Fences block the view in all directions. This would be our
biggest complaint. You can't even see the ocean unless you have a room
on the 3rd floor. We did have a 3rd floor room so we could see the
ocean but you have to walk a lot of stairs and everything is pretty
spread out, even though the resort is very narrow.
Disco is too
small for resort full capacity, and the raised dance floor is
a nightmare. My wife tripped on it several times(she
was drunk though
;~}) and someone is going to break an ankle stepping off it
accidentally. We didn't make it into the back room so I can't comment
on it.
Staff was all
wonderful, can't say enough about them! Maid service
is much better than at Hedo. Your waited on as much as you can stand,
personally I would just as soon carry my own plate to the table after
filling it at the buffet but they mean well. Drink service is also
very good, although I had a hard time finding a drink to stick with.
At home I drink Bacardi Limon and diet Coke, here they tasted nothing
like mine at home. I think it's the Coke "light", must be a little
different than what we get here in the States. The "Desire Special"
was a good morning drink too. Some drink orders do get "lost in
translation", but they work hard and are very friendly!
The resort seemed to be
handling the bigger group pretty well, it
seemed like they brought in a lot more staff once they arrived. I too
thought it would be a nightmare once it was full but staff seemed to
handle it just fine.
Like always we met
a lot of very nice people, to many to mention
them all. Monty and Bev, what a great looking
couple! We had a good
time meeting you, to bad you had to have such a quick trip. Your
friends Wayne and Catherine, I hope they enjoyed there trip. Leslie
and Corky, what can I say, we had so much fun getting to know you!
Sure hope we can stay in touch. And Bill and Debbie, a good couple to
hang around with, we had lots of fun.
For sure, without a doubt this was the most attractive group of
vacationers we have seen, for some reason a much more attractive group
than we have seen at Hedo.
Sorry for the length of this report, I mainly wanted to set your
minds at ease if you are going soon. The resort is very nice, staff is
great and food is very good. Things are getting whipped into
shape
(they had the showers by the pool done the morning we left) and will
be getting better all the time. Will we go back? Probably not right
away, we would like to try Desire Cancun because of all the good
things we have heard about it so that might be our next trip and it
sounds like Desire Los Cabos is going way up in price after the 1st of
the year. If you made it all the way through this and have any
questions let us know, we also took a lot of pictures if anyone is
interested in them.
Gary & Becky