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mroach2014
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El Dorado Casitas Royale or Excellence Playa Mujeres
Hi all! We have time as our wedding isn't until June 2014 but Fiance & I are trying to decide on our honeymoon destination. We want an all inclusive resort on the beach and would love one with a wide variety of restuarants & activities. We don't want to spend more than $3000 total.
Has anyone been to the following?
El Dorado Casitas Royale - Riviera Maya, Mexico
Excellence Playa Mujeres in Cancun
Is anyone familiar with Cancun in June? I'm hearing thats the beginning of rainy season...
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Re: El Dorado Casitas Royale or Excellence Playa Mujeres
For our honeymoon we stayed at Secrets Maroma, weloved it, but we met some couples that said they had been the El dorado for a wedding and were now at Secrets for a vacation. They felt that it was really nice, they moved only for a change of scenery. But they said the El Dorado was much livlier tha Secrets. I believe Secrets and EPM are long the same lines of "lively" ness and so i think if you are looking for a bit more action, more shows, more people interaction etc then El Dorado would be a good choice. They said the food between El Dorado and Secrets was the same.
I know its not on your list but i LOVED secrets.
We are also from Rhode Island and for an August honeymoon it cost us $3500 for 7 nights flying from Providence-- but that included a swim up room, the other rooms were less expensive.
Also, we are paying around $2500 for 6 nights this year at EPM or our anniversary. this is just for the standard junior suite, you an upgrade to the swim up or the terrace room (with private pool) for a few hundred dollars more- so that is def. in your budget.
(as a side note, my coworker went both to EPM and secrets and preferred EPM because of its privacy and seclusion)
I hope this helps!
ps. don't worry about the rainy season, we went right before hurricane sandy, we were totally fine, and it did rain but it was usually from 6-7 at night and it would clear up after. This was perfect, because we were usually getting ready for dinner then and it helped cool it down a bit.
Good Luck!