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Key West 2025

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 Our second time over the last few years.   This has been on my nephew's bucket list for many moons and to celebrate his 50th, four of us flew in to enjoy the Keys! Lucy and I jumped on a plane out of DFW for a direct flight, Pablo and Beth a day apart and flying in each with one stop.  Once on the ground, we Lucy and I grabbed a cab and less than 15 minutes later were at our Resort which we got via Airbnb. Turns out to be a great location on the water with two heated pools and just a quick jaunt from downtown.  Hour later Pablo cabs it over and we're ubering towards Duval to kick it up a lil.  Find some grub, pop into a few joints, grab some bottles to take home and we've got the first night in the books. Following day, we'll have a few mimosas (shock!) on the back patio and make our say to the Pool  Addtionally, I've got a golf cart being delivered for the rest of trip so we'll have solid transportation.  The entire trip will be sunny and absent...

Secrets Playa Blanca Costa Mujeres 2025

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 Christmas 2025.   Found a good deal and headed South of the Border yet again!  We've been to Secrets Maroma Beach and Secrets Akumal several times each and this one, is the sister resort ..... all three of them are similar and have the same owner.  We'd heard good things about this one and had to give it a try.   Flew into Cancun from DFW and grabbed a Private van via a reservation I'd made through one of my club memberships.  Delayed us about 25 minutes more than necessary so lesson learned in there (last time using them!).   After about 50 minutes through traffic and  construction, we're pulling up to the resort.  Until recently, we've always gone south of Cancun so this is a lil different for us seeing different resorts and areas new to us. Once we pull in, they  have our names, whisk us away into the preferred club and we're immediately checked in.  I got a low cost King Suite, but with our UVC membership we have...