Day 4 - Pool, spa and Italian night 🧖‍♀️

Today was quite cloudy so we stayed by the pool again! Our friends usually get up early, so they got us good spots by the pool! Breakfast buffet wasn’t bad as usual. We booked another restaurant for dinner today, we planned to try the Italian restaurant that evening!
One of our friends went on a bike tour with a staff from the hotel. She said it was really nice and got to visit the nearby city. She brought us back a hibiscus flower! We relaxed a bit more before going for lunch! They had squid ceviche today, which was delish! Their fruit was also so yummy! 🍉
We were walking around the grounds and I got a cool shot of the whole pool. 🏊‍♀️
Yesterday, we were approached by some of the hotel spa staff members asking if we were interested in getting a massage there. We initially wanted to check out the spa before we found out the prices were $175USD for 50mins massage. We immediately passed, but they told us they had a deal where we can get 80mins massage for $120USD (~$160CAD) and free access to their hydrotherapies section (sauna, jacuzzi and pool). The main sale was that they stated as Canadians, we can claim the massage through our insurance. I don’t know if thats true, I guess we’ll see! We thought about it and ultimately said yes! We were all quite excited! 😄
Today we had our massage at 4pm, so we went to the spa around 2:45 to use their hydrotherapies before the massage. It was a nice pool area, and they had a dry and steam sauna room! We stayed for the hour before going to meet our masseuses. I got a girl named Michelle. We were told to take all our clothes off, which is unusual because normally we at least keep our underwear on, but oh well! I was on my own and Michelle came back for the massage. It was very relaxing initially, and I definitely almost fell asleep several times, except midway through I could feel her kind of slacking…? Like she did my back quite well, but she really focused on my feet at one point for like 10 mins each, which was great, but also she wasn’t doing much, just kinda rubbing it with oils. Oh well, the massage itself was fine! We got our receipts after paying and left to go change for our dinner.
We rested a bit before dinner, then went to the Italian restaurant. All tables got bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. It wasn’t bad! We also all ordered an appetizer. I tried their Caesar salad! It was alright, I think I can make it better haha! For main dish, I got a seafood linguine pasta! Since I was in Mexico, I wanted to try as much seafood as I could! The seafood was fine, but the pasta was not… I’m not sure if they left the pasta cooking in the sauce too long, but there was barely any sauce and the sauce itself was too salty. I felt bad but I really couldn’t finish the pasta, I ate all the seafood though… 😭 I got a cannoli for dessert, which was good. Overall, I’d say this restaurant was a 4/10 😕. My friend also got the same as me and felt the same way, so we were a bit hungry and ended up going to the buffet LOL! I got some more fruits to fill myself up!
It was pretty late when we left and we wanted to check out the silent party happening on the terrace tonight! It was my first one and I’ve always wanted to go to one! Basically we all sign in to get a set of headphones. There are 3 DJ’s, each assigned a different colour. All headphones have a switch on the side that allows the person to switch between each DJ! They’re all playing their own mixes and genres! The green DJ was playing a lot of throwback songs. It was funny because a lot of the older people there had it on the green channel! The red DJ was our friend Gabriel! He was playing a lot of Latin songs! The blue DJ was playing a mix of edm/pop dance music! It was so fun dancing around and you can switch the channels as you like! It’s also hilarious when you take the headphones off and just watch everyone because they’re all dancing to their own beats and singing off-tune! 🤣 all the DJ’s were also so amazing we kept switching and couldn’t stay on one channel for long! I had so much fun! 🤩
Some of my friends definitely had fun since they ordered some drinks as well! 😂
Gabriel left a bit early because he was set to DJ down near the adult pool. We joined him shortly after, as did some of the others who were at the silent party. It was almost like a second party! His sets were so fun and hype, we didn’t want to leave because he was playing banger after banger! 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️
We didn’t party too hard, two of us were sober and brought the other two to our rooms safe and sound! 😂Read more