My wife and I are planning to visit TTR in August and from all the great people that post in the forums, I have a pretty colorful idea of what our vacation will be like. For you TTR veterans, what was your first trip like to TTR?
Setting the stage for my first time…. September 1999. Hurricane Floyd had just played chicken with Florida. I was working in computer disaster recovery and we had a data center in Orlando. Floyd was headed right for Orlando with 165 MPH winds. So the week leading up to my arrival was packed with 20 hour days and trips back and forth across the country. The whole week I was unsure if we were going to be in Cancun on Saturday or New Jersey at the recovery site. Each day it was on, and then it was off. About Wednesday Chris finally said, “Look, on Saturday I’m getting on a plane for Cancun. If you’re with me great! If not, I’ll let you know how it was.” Now in picking the resort, we didn’t have this web site to get the answers from. There weren’t a lot of sites around back then that gave reviews on hotels. So the process we pick then BlueBay Getaway was a lot less scientific. Chris had always wanted to go to Cancun. I wanted to when it first opened but now it was a tourist trap to me and really didn’t want to go. But being a good husband I finally broke down and told her to pick up some brochures. She grabbed that ones from Apple Vacation, and we took a look. I was shocked that they were advertising a week in Cancun for $465 each including airfare! I said we can’t afford NOT to go. So the decision was made to go, now just where? First we were faced with all inclusive or not. The difference amounted to about $50 a day each. Was the extra money worth it? OK.. so all inclusive included meals, but how much were we really going to hang around the hotel? Maybe breakfast and a couple of dinners, but we’ll be out exploring too much to do many meals at the hotel. And yeah, it included the booze but were we going to drink $50 a day worth of booze if we’re not at the hotel much? But wait… the hobbiecat sailboats were included in that price. Oh god I love to sail and for $50 you usually get a couple of hours. So spending 2 hours a day sailing would be no problem at all! All-inclusive it is! So which all-inclusive??? OK.. we don’t have any kids so the only adult all-inclusive hotel at the time caught our eye. So you remember that I’m arriving dead on my feet after the fun week I had…. So we get on the plane, arrive in Cancun, brave the sales people at the airport we weren’t warned about found our shared van to the hotel, made seven stops before being the last ones off at BBG. So we arrive at the hotel knowing nothing about it at all. We get checked in and assigned what is now known as room 3407. That is in what was then called Section D but is the 4 story building right next to the Sexy pool, second room from the end, top floor. What I like to call the second best room in the hotel. The best being the one next door at the end of the building. This was before Building 1 and the quite pool or any of the Jacuzzi rooms. So we get to the room, and yes I was at least smart enough to pay the bellboy $5 to haul our suitcases up the stairs, and Chris starts to unpack. It’s about 5 in the afternoon and I walk out on the balcony and look down on the pool. “I’m going to sit in the pool while you unpack” and I was off to the pool. There were only about 4 or 5 people around the pool at the time, so I headed out to sit in the water on the steps. As I’m sitting there, this lady, with her back to me, in a big white inner tube they had at the time starts floating towards me. As she reaches about arm’s length away, I reached out and said “I’m just pushing you away so you run over me.” Oh I’m sorry she says as turns around and starts paddling away. I almost drowned! Here was the gorgeous lady and she was TOPLESS! OK. OK.. it was my first time and I was shocked. I didn’t expected this at all but if this was a harbinger of what was to come… this was going to be an excellent vacation! So I head back up to the room with a smile on my face and tell Chris that she was in for a different kind of vacation. So I walk out on the balcony and take another look around and notice other people on the balconies. I look at one lady and duck my head back inside and tell Chris that there is a naked lady out on her balcony reading. With my second look I duck my head back in and say “And she shaves!” That night we meet two single 18 year olds from Colorado and they hung the rest of the time they were they with us. We became their Cancun parents…. Its it bad to have cardinal thoughts about your vacation daughters? The next morning I head to the pool early and get a couple of chairs next to an umbrella down at the end pool by the building we were in. Back then they didn’t put the extra row of chairs so there was this big area in front of us. So as the morning goes on the chairs fill in. About 10 AM these three ladies come out looking for chairs. They find one there and other one over there and so on. So they looked at me and said, Can we put these right here? So I had gotten up early, got these chairs cause I could see the whole pool and now these late arrivers want to block my view! But what are you going to say? So I say, go ahead…. So they pull the chairs out, drop their stuff and start undressing… and they keep going! Here are three beautiful trophy wife candidates that are standing there in only thongs! I got over the view blocking in a real hurry! Oh, and I got those same chairs everyday…. The week went on from there. Oh, and the only time we left the hotel the entire week was to take the snorkel trip out to Isla and to the bars at night. So we got our money’s worth. The trip was made special because it was the hotel’s 25th anniversary, yes Temptation is the oldest continuous hotel in Cancun, and we were treated to a special show. The week went by way too fast but was the only vacation I’ve ever taken that when we got on the plane to come home, I had the brochure out to figure out when we were coming back. And then I passed out before the airplane reached the runway. We were back in 6 months and on my first day back I was at lunch when they lady who was another guest at the hotel looked at me and said weren’t you here in September? Just I made an impression! Sorry I typed so much but its fun reliving our first visit…. Jamie
Wow Jamie I love your stories. In 1999 I spent my holiday on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in France, volunteered as a youth 'helper' to cart the sick and disabled through the grotto! How times have changed! I thought exactly the same as soon as we got back from our first trip in January...when can I afford to go back? The brochures don't span that far ahead, but we're definitely planning to be back in May 2013. I check out Cancuncare almost every day because it makes me feel like I'm there again!
ADULT ONLY!!!!!!! That was what made our decision to stay at what was then Blue Bay Getaway. Both our boys were now in college and away from home. We had vacationed all over the United States but always with our boys, their friends, girlfriends, etc. Cherri decided she wanted to go to Mexico ……….. childless. My only request was for it to be an ADULT ONLY resort. I hit the bookstore the next day and picked up a travel guide for Mexico. We went over several options and were torn between Cozumel or Cancun. After some discussion we decided on Cancun. I hit the internet and started looking for adult only resorts. The options were limited. Sooooo Blue Bay Getaway it was. At the time we had not found this website and had no idea what we were getting into. Our first trip through the airport and the bombardment as you try to find the shuttle was alarming. Cherri thought we should stop and talk to everyone that approached us. That thought passed quickly. We found our shuttle ( a big 15 passenger van) and we were first load up. Then we sat there for 45 minutes waiting on enough other travelers to fill it up. Every couple on that van was staying at a different resort and we were the last to get dropped off. (Never again. It’s always USA from Entertainment Plus for us now) We were quickly given a room and by a stroke of luck we declined the “resort tour and important things you should know about Blue Bay” offered by the time share reps in the lobby. Our room was on the second floor in the 2000 block with a balcony overlooking the old Nice Shoes Lounge ( which is now Margaritas Grill ). We quickly changed and headed out to get a feel for this place. As we made our first lap around the sexy pool, Cherri nudged me ( to break my locked gaze upon a most beautiful and bountiful set of tatas that were staring back at me from a goddess on a lounge chair wearing nothing more than a shoestring ) and said “so now I know why you chose this resort.” I sheepishly reached down and picked my tongue up off the ground and denied everything. “ I swear honey, I had no idea. It’s only for a few days. We will just make the best of it and find a better place next time.” Well…………………….. This place quickly grew on us. We both mellowed out some over the next few days, met a few people, started to get to know the bartenders, and I even convinced Cherri to let the girls out (if only for about 15 minutes) at the pool. Ask anyone who knows her now and they will tell you she has loosened up quite a bit since that first trip. Now I can’t keep clothes on her. All her suits are either see-thru or a string. Ask anybody that was there last May and they can tell you about meeting “Blinky”. So any of you guys that have a wife who is apprehensive about going topless, just be careful what you ask for. We now return every year in mid May. We have made lifelong friends with some of the greatest people in the world. TTR now feels like home.
...and 14 years later, the tradition continues... The year was 1993. A few friends and I, aged 17-18, took a trip down to California for a football game that January. I think it was the Bills vs. Cowboys. The night after the Super Bowl, we were at a bar being idiots and met up with some of the Cowboy cheerleaders. Found out they were going to Cancun at the end of Feb for a calendar shoot. Once it came out that it would be on my birthday, we received an alcohol infused invitation. The next month, a buddy and I are checking into the Blue Bay Club & Marina for 14 days. We hook up with a crazy group on the first night, a mix of Australian rugby team and UK bomb testers. On the 2nd night, the cheerleaders show up. Our group got a little carried away with the booze and we start trying to impress the cheerleaders - to which someone decides that they want to jump off 2nd story balcony from the main bar into the shallow end of the pool. Not wanting to be outdone, I scope my surroundings to see how I can top the last stunt. I notice the pool table is only about 3.5 feet from the patio doors and the railing is only about 42" high... I convinced myself that if I were to get a running start across the dance floor and leap off the pool table, I could get enough momentum to carry myself out the patio, under the door frame and over the railing and into the pool. I even had safety measures in place... If I were to jump to high which would cut down on my distance, the wall over the door would stop me. If I were to jump to low or didn't have enough speed, the railing would stop me... It was all good in drunken theory, but wasn't needed as I landed a 9.8 dive from the second story into the shallow end of the pool. A few guys followed until someone didn't get out far enough and smashed his shins on the side of the pool. As a safety measure, the hotel decided to transfer us to the Blue Bay Village where all public places were on the ground floor and no balconies were within diving distance of the pool. Funny Fact - About 20 trips later, we booked a fishing trip that left from the BBC&M dock. We found out the pool table now sits on the other side of the dance floor.
Unreal My wife and I went for our 25th wedding anniversary. I don't know how to describe it other than to tell you it was the best vacation ever. Not just because it was Temptations but because we met two couples from the Southeast that we have remained friends with ever since we left. The second day we were there we were in the pool and heard familiar dialects. How could we have imagined that two years later, we would regularly get together with people we never knew before Temptations. If you think about that, it is very powerful. The atmosphere was so relaxed even the most reserved of people could meet friends. If you are fortunate enough to go, please take the opportunity to make the most of it. Pictures may fade, but memories will last a lifetime.
We went for our honeymoon in fall 2008. I picked the place as my now wife has worn strings on other vacations but she was a bit apprehensive. She would have been just fine at a Sandels type place. We got there and were bored for a while until we started meeting people. Our second day we decided to go out on the party hopper with a few girls we had just met. On the bus we met 2 couples with amazingly hot wives dressed in very little, I decided we should hang out with them. That night was a real eye opener, girls dancing on bars, doing shots out of other womens boobs, this was the party I have been waiting my whole life for. Lots of smiles and laughs, one of the other husbands and I made a trek the next day to get new memory cards so we would not, under any circumstances, loose those pictures. The rest of the week was more of the same, we got a number of girls into the little bikinis, now they are converted forever. We are 2 weeks out from our 8th trip. That same group of 3 couples has been back every year but now we have added alot more people. In 2 weeks we show up with 15 couples, all crazy hot women, all ready to have a great time among friends.
First time, June 2011 (maybe we met syarsports???) Upon checking into the room, we discovered there was a window that let you see from the bed to the toilet. NOT sexy...spent a while rigging a towels-over-doors system. Laura was very worried about this place.... Headed to the sexy pool and were greeted within minutes by awesome Cancuncare members. Laura had never had to talk to topless women before, so not staring at their boobies was kind of awkward at first. Todd wondered about the etiquette, do you say, "Wow, those are nice!" or should you just keep quiet? After a while, a woman got on all fours between the whirlpools and let a group of people spank her. When a guy on a balcony tossed down a belt, we decided maybe it was time to go! Fast forward from day 1 to day 7, our last evening there.... We've been crowned Mr. Temptation and Miss Temptation, and we're celebrating by violating all hotel rules by being completely nekkid in the sexy pool with 10 or so of our new best friends. A fresh-off-the-plane couple comes down to check out the pool and the poor girl gets the MOST surprised look on her face. We tell them, "Don't worry, you'll be just like us by the end of the week!"
