{"id":183,"date":"2015-06-25T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamabearlove.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-06-25T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:35:30","slug":"mexico-vacation-enjoying-the-sun-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/mexico-vacation-enjoying-the-sun-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico vacation, enjoying the sun Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently took a family vacation to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico at the Grand Luxxe<\/a> resort.\u00a0 We have been afraid to travel to Mexico for the last four years because of all the reports of violence.\u00a0 My in-laws talked us into joining them at their time share and oh boy are we glad we did.\u00a0 First of all the resort arranges transportation to and from the airport, it was a short 15 minute drive.\u00a0 We were surprised when we passed a drive-thru Starbucks on our way in!<\/p>\n

We never left the resort so I can’t really speak to how safe the city was in general.\u00a0 The parts we drove through were definitely a poorer area and we did see plenty of armed police.\u00a0 We never felt unsafe at any time.\u00a0 Once we arrived at the resort we never looked back though.\u00a0 It was lush, beautiful, and huge!<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>

View from our room<\/p><\/div>\n

Our room was absolutely amazing.\u00a0 My in-laws upgraded their normal suite to a 2 bedroom so we could all be together.\u00a0 We even had small wading pool on the deck which the kids loved!\u00a0 We really enjoyed having a kitchen, we made breakfast most mornings which allowed everyone to sleep in and saved us some money too.\u00a0 The property had its own grocery store and we purchased all our breakfast items as well as some lunch items from there.\u00a0 We were happy to find PB&J for the kids as well as some snack items.\u00a0 We could have saved money by going to a Walmart off of the property but we honestly didn’t want to deal with the hassle of it with the kids and the pool time wasted!<\/p>\n

\"Deck\"<\/a>

Deck<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kitchen\"<\/a>

Kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bedroom\"<\/a>

Bedroom<\/p><\/div>\n

Our first day we were all a little tired from the traveling day and we couldn’t enter our room until 5pm, so we ended up exploring the property and then staying in the room for the night to unpack and just enjoy each others company for the evening.\u00a0 We were able to order pizza to the room which was really nice.\u00a0 We brought a few toys, coloring books and movie loaded iPads for the girls for the plane ride and they enjoyed these in the room on the first night.\u00a0 They also took their first dip in the wadding pool on the deck.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for the plane with new My Little Pony<\/p><\/div>\n

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The next day we visited the pool that was closest to our building, the Grand Luxxe Tower 4.\u00a0 I am still not sure how many pools were on this property and we definitely did not get to visit them all.\u00a0 I think each building had their own pools, a total of eight buildings is my math is right, but the each “pool” was really multiple pools put together.\u00a0 One was even on a roof top!\u00a0 I loved the pool by our building as it was a little quieter and offered some nice upgraded amenities.\u00a0 The chairs by the pool were much nicer and more comfortable and they had awesome cabanas.\u00a0 They offered free Popsicle and ice cream cones several times a day, someone would come around and offer to clean your sunglasses, towels were abundant and did not need to be checked out with your room number, and they had nice activities you could do right by the pool.\u00a0 The girls made bracelets the first pool day.<\/p>\n

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\"Grand<\/a>

Grand Luxxe Tower 4 pool<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cabanas<\/a>

Cabanas at the Grand Luxxe Tower 4 pool<\/p><\/div>\n

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They had a nice kids club right next door with a fun kids pool.\u00a0 They also had a kids recreation room that showed movies and did arts and crafts, kids five and above could be dropped off for the activities for the day.\u00a0 We never took advantage of this though so I can’t speak to this service.\u00a0 Nana and Papa wanted to get the most of the kid time and quite frankly so did we.<\/p>\n

\"Kids<\/a>

Kids Club<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kids<\/a>

Kids Club<\/p><\/div>\n

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That’s enough for this post, in the next one I will talk to some of the other pools, night life, and of course the FOOD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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