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Secrets Maroma Beach or other? Help me decide!!
So for our annual december trip to mexico dh and i have decided to go from dec 22-jan 5 (2 weeks). the first week, dec 22 to dec 29 will be spent at our timeshare resort in cancun for christmas. the 2nd week, dec 29 to jan 5 will be spent elsewhere. herein lies my dilemma:
we stayed at the occidental grand xcaret dec 2010 and love it. we upgraded to the royal club side and loved hving a special small exclusive part of the resort so we'd like to do that again but where? I know secrets maroma beach has a VIP section but am having a tough time figuruing out just what the vip status entitles you to. at occidental there was a separate are for rooms, separate pool, restaurant, beach area etc... but still ahve run of the rest of the resort but no towel cards, no reservations etc...
so i guess what i'm asking is have you been to SM or anywhere else that hade the vip upgrade available? did you do the upgrade? what was included?
Re: Secrets Maroma Beach or other? Help me decide!!
We went to SMB in Oct 10 for our HM. We got the upgrade/Preferred Club. Supposedly the rooms are slightly nicer; although some guests said there was no true difference.
The other benefit is a supposedly quicker check-in (who cares really), a consierge for your building where your rooms are (he made reservations, you could do it yourself) and the Preferred Club bar (3 computers w/free iternet, bar, board games and hot appetiziers in the afternoon when the other restaurants were closed); personally, I wouldn't pay the upgrade and we've said if we go back we will save our money.
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thank you!!!
it doesnt seem like you get much at secrets where at occidental it was a super upgraded everything-and private everything!! appreciate the insight
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We did Excellence Club at Excellend Playa Mujeres last year. The main benefits that I could see were better room location (better ocean views), Excellence Club pool (meh), liquor in the room, more room service selection at all hours, private lounge with top-shelf bar, appetizers, etc., and private area with upgraded service at the beach.
Honestly, it wasn't worth the increased cost other than the better view.