Today I was sitting at the community health clinic waiting to get my final set of Hepatitis B shots. I realized that the last time I was at this clinic was in the Spring of 2011, waiting to get my shots before going to China in May and June of 2011.
I started to reminisce about my "Chinese Adventure", and thought about how writing that Blog was a great way to help me "remember" everything about that trip.
This, in turn, got me thinking that I should do another Blog for our upcoming family trip to Mexico (and maybe for all our future trips and adventures as well?).
Ultimately, this "collection of Blog's" might be a nice way for Heather and I to look back on all our vacations (......plus maybe one day our great, great, great grandchildren could read these, and would realize just how cool we actually were!!!!! :)
anyway, here it goes.....
The 2012 Allan Family Trip to Mexico: December 28th, 2011 to January 3rd, 2012.
We.....namely Heather, Jordyn, Chad and I have booked an 8 day trip to the Mayan Riviera this Christmas break.
We believe this might be one of our last chances to do a family trip before the kid's start their careers, start getting married (hopefully NOT too soon) and start having their own families (hopefully LATER than the whole getting married thing!).
We have booked into the Iberostar Quetzel Resort, which is located near the town of Playa del Carman.
The Iberostar is an all-inclusive resort, which means that all your food, drinks, and entertainment are included in the price. The resort is rated 4.5 stars out of 5, and has a ton of positive reviews on web sites like tripadvisor.com
The total cost for the four of us (flights included...out of Calgary) is $8,740 which we think is a pretty good deal. The problem for Heather and I is that with school, we ALWAYS end up having to go during the high season...and therefore end up paying "top dollar" for trips. For example, if we could leave one week later, the price of this exact same trip drops $400 per person! Oh well, such is life, and there are lots of other benefits to teaching that more than make up for this.
As always, there will be numerous other sundry costs (even going the all-inclusive route)...i.e. the travel shots (about $400 for all of us), getting to and from Calgary, getting Jordyn down from Saskatoon etc.....and that does not include the other "little extras", such as some new bathing suits (Heather informed me that she is buying a new bathing suite for the trip....which means that she will now have 1,214 bathing suites instead of just the 1,213 she currently owns).
The resort sounds awesome, we know the area is beautiful (see some of the pictures below), it should be hot and sunny, everyone has all their travel shots (Hep A&B), we have our passports etc etc......now, all we have left to do is anxiously count down the days until we leave!
The Mayan Riviera is well known as one of the places with the most beautiful beaches in the world
I started to reminisce about my "Chinese Adventure", and thought about how writing that Blog was a great way to help me "remember" everything about that trip.
This, in turn, got me thinking that I should do another Blog for our upcoming family trip to Mexico (and maybe for all our future trips and adventures as well?).
Ultimately, this "collection of Blog's" might be a nice way for Heather and I to look back on all our vacations (......plus maybe one day our great, great, great grandchildren could read these, and would realize just how cool we actually were!!!!! :)
anyway, here it goes.....
The 2012 Allan Family Trip to Mexico: December 28th, 2011 to January 3rd, 2012.
We.....namely Heather, Jordyn, Chad and I have booked an 8 day trip to the Mayan Riviera this Christmas break.
Picture of the Iberostar Resort (from the pamphlet)
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We believe this might be one of our last chances to do a family trip before the kid's start their careers, start getting married (hopefully NOT too soon) and start having their own families (hopefully LATER than the whole getting married thing!).
We have booked into the Iberostar Quetzel Resort, which is located near the town of Playa del Carman.
The Iberostar is an all-inclusive resort, which means that all your food, drinks, and entertainment are included in the price. The resort is rated 4.5 stars out of 5, and has a ton of positive reviews on web sites like tripadvisor.com
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The resort is about 10 minutes walk from Playa del Carmen
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The total cost for the four of us (flights included...out of Calgary) is $8,740 which we think is a pretty good deal. The problem for Heather and I is that with school, we ALWAYS end up having to go during the high season...and therefore end up paying "top dollar" for trips. For example, if we could leave one week later, the price of this exact same trip drops $400 per person! Oh well, such is life, and there are lots of other benefits to teaching that more than make up for this.
As always, there will be numerous other sundry costs (even going the all-inclusive route)...i.e. the travel shots (about $400 for all of us), getting to and from Calgary, getting Jordyn down from Saskatoon etc.....and that does not include the other "little extras", such as some new bathing suits (Heather informed me that she is buying a new bathing suite for the trip....which means that she will now have 1,214 bathing suites instead of just the 1,213 she currently owns).
The resort sounds awesome, we know the area is beautiful (see some of the pictures below), it should be hot and sunny, everyone has all their travel shots (Hep A&B), we have our passports etc etc......now, all we have left to do is anxiously count down the days until we leave!
The Mayan Riviera is well known as one of the places with the most beautiful beaches in the world
