katedraven
2024년 10월 24일
We came here for our honeymoon for 2 weeks. The resort is beautiful, clean and has great outdoor facilities. The entertainment team are fun (props to Chris), and we loved visiting the ice cream parlor (Marko is great). The cocktails are strong and tasty, so pace yourself. The live music and entertainment felt quite Americanized, and we do feel like we missed out on some quintessential Mexican experiences, because the resort catered to their American clientele so heavily. (We are from the UK). We had a tropical storm during our stay, so a few days were quite boring and we were stuck inside with not much to do. Despite this, we still enjoyed playing pool at Rick's, or visiting the spa. However, one thing we could not look past is their lack of care and understanding when preparing vegetarian meals. The four restaurants usually had a maximum of 1 vegetarian starter, and 1 vegetarian main meal. They said we could order off-menu, but this proved disastrous most of the time. Over our 14 night stay we had maybe 5 meals that were NOT contaminated by some kind of meat or seafood. 5 meals in total. We explained at the beginning of EACH meal that we were vegetarian, meaning no meat or seafood. Despite this, we were repeatedly brought food containing particles of bacon, sausage, and crab, etc. On top of this, dishes marked with a 'V' contained things such as grasshopper powder, or shrimp powder. Oftentimes we would eat something we thought SHOULD be safe: eg: Vegetarian burger and fries - only to be incredibly ill afterwards because as it turns out, the veggie burger was cooked right next to the meat, absorbing all of the meat juices, or the fries were cooked in the same oil as meat/seafood. I was severely ill for many days, and in a lot of gastric pain, because no matter how clear we were, no one seemed to take it seriously. I had to stay in my room for large periods of time due to illness, meaning I couldn't go on tours. I spoke to management and head chef on the 6th day to ask for help in conveying my needs to the kitchen/wait staff, because there seemed to be a cultural disconnect happening, and they said they would take care of it. I approached this interaction politely, wanting to learn how I could express my needs to their staff effectively. It went fine for 1 meal after that, but by next morning, it was back to the same. By this point I found eating at the restaurants incredibly stressful and upsetting and started skipping meals to avoid them altogether. Room-service was no better. We spoke to management on the 12th night, after being served a dip and told it was 'beans', before eating it and then being told it also contained chorizo. I had repeated myself at every meal, multiple times a day, for 14 days straight, but still, no one seemed to take it seriously. On top of that, I could tell that we were being treated differently by the waitstaff, despite doing our best to remain polite and understanding. But after 2 weeks of being ill and repeat
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