Tips for an All-Inclusive Resort Vacation in Mexico

Tips for an All-Inclusive Resort Vacation in Mexico: The things I wish I knew before going the offset time and bonus tips but for fun!

Pool Side in the morning at Valentin Majestic Riviera Maya

Heading to Mexico for an spread-out vacation tin be SUPER exciting. But it tin can as well be super nerve-wracking if you've never been because you're unsure of what to await.

Luckily, my start time in United mexican states for a vacation at an all-inclusive resort, I traveled with a friend who had been multiple times, and so she knew what to await and knew the ins and outs.

But if you're heading there for the showtime time and yous're not sure what to pack or what to expect upon arriving, consider me your virtual best friend that can assistance! (Plus, get my costless printable, United mexican states Packing List to help brand the planning process even easier!)

I may not have all the answers for a perfect trip to Mexico merely I practise have tips that tin make your trip more enjoyable and hopefully spare y'all some trouble.

Note: I'll be referring to taking an adults only, all-inclusive vacation to a resort where you wing in to the Cancun aiport (CUN). So if you're arriving elsewhere, some of the tips may differ only this should still be very helpful!

How practice you become the about out of an all-inclusive resort?

I've cleaved the tips up in to "must-know" tips (or highly suggested tips) and "only for fun" tips to help you get the most out of your all-inclusive vacation. The first fix will be those tips that I wish I would have known or so glad that I knew when traveling there for the start time.

The "but for fun" tips are… well… merely that. Fun tips that I've learned along the style that make things even better or more enjoyable. Definitely non necessary but are nice perks and things to remember!

MUST-KNOW or Highly Suggested Tips:

• Travel minimally! (Unless you lot're a fashion blogger. Haha!) Just fifty-fifty as a blogger knowing that I could get some crazy fun photos on the beach of whatever new outfits… I terminate up wearing a swimming suit and swimsuit encompass-up most days. I feel similar day clothes are overrated unless you're going on an excursion. So for someone like u.s., who never leaves the resort, I simply take 1 day outfit (cute shorts/meridian) just in case we decide on a whim to practice some exploring. The same goes for jewelry… I take 1 pair of earrings that tin can become with anything and only wear those every night.

• Telephone call your telephone carrier to cheque on the International phone plan before leaving. Some phone plans will charge roaming fees when traveling to Mexico. Or, y'all may exist able to get a specific, temporary package to cover roaming charges.

• Print out your itinerary earlier leaving habitation then you tin reference information technology in case your phone goes dead at all in the airport or on your way to the resort. It'southward as well handy to have this when filling out the community form and you need flying number information as well as the resort's address.

• We dearest booking EARLY flights to Cancun. (Similar, vi or 7 am flights.) Knowing we have a few days to nap when we get there, we don't mind waking early, catching a flying and arriving at the resort effectually 11 am to still enjoy most of the day!

• Fly out mid-24-hour interval if possible on the manner dwelling. (Sleep in…at least more than you did on the way in that location.) You don't want to exist stressed on your manner back home and it's recommended that you arrive to the airport 3 hours early anyway and your resort may be quite a distance from the airport besides. So a nine:00 am flying may sound doable, but but go on in mind how early y'all may just have to start your day for that kind of flight. Plus, having i more than all-inclusive breakfast before you lot leave is always a nice way to start your day to travel back domicile. (For instance, on our terminal trip, we met a couple who had to leave the resort at 2:30 in the morning to catch an early half dozen am flying. Yuck.

• You will make full out a customs form while on the plan to Mexico. Yous will and then give this form to the person in the "customs" area in the Cancun airport. The grade will ask how you're arriving in to Cancun… flight/boat… what airline you used, what hotel/address y'all're staying at, etc.)

• When you get through customs on arrival, they'll give you a petty slip of paper from the customs course on the airplane that you'll need to hang on to and bring back to the airport with you. So don't throw this abroad! The last time I ran in to a problem with this though (someone was traveling with me that lost theirs) we institute out that an Clearing course replacement is $xxx, and it'due south cash only.

• Ink pens – Sounds crazy right? But y'all'll exist so glad that you lot brought ane or two for filling out the customs form on the airplane.
  Having a pen on you so y'all can make full this out is so much nicer than having to await and enquire a stranger to use theirs and share the same pen with 20 other people.

• Apply a beach bag as a purse for the flight! I Beloved doing this considering I honey to pack minimalistic. If my beach bag is modest plenty to authorize and slide under the chair in forepart of me and big enough to hold my laptop, wallet, passport, small jacket, etc. then I don't take to pack a beach bag in my check-in and I don't need to take my big behemothic handbag that I use every solar day.

• Smile, be cooperative and be kind to the airport workers. You'd be surprised how far this can get y'all if a problem arises. (Cheque-in bag too heavy, etc.)

• Don't feel like going to dinner every night? A lot of resorts have room service 24 hours a day. Society in and relax!

• Cheque with the resort for any dress lawmaking at the restaurants. Some restaurants have requirements that you'll want to know about before packing. (i.e. elegant apparel codes, casual, etc. and what types of clothes fit the dissimilar codes.)

• Sunscreen – Pack that sunscreen! I know it sounds obvious merely buying at the resort can exist me a lot more expensive. Same for aloe vera gel. That'south fantastic to have for a sunburn.

• How much should you lot tip at an all inclusive resort? Take $1's for tips – Some resorts volition say "please don't tip" or "we don't accept tips" But I'll tell you lot that I've even so to detect one where the employees don't have them and I've also found that tipping a couple of dollars here and there to waiters/waitresses, bellhops, concierge, etc. tin make their day and sometimes even get you superstar service!

• If I were y'all, I'd still take a bit of cash with you, other than just dollar bills. Our debit card gave us problems while there, so nosotros were thankful we took enough greenbacks to encompass emergency purchases or even purchases that we made at the resort.

• Remember that you'll be dealing with pesos while y'all're at that place, only using USD is just fine! If you visit the spa or buy something while there, don't panic when you encounter what looks similar your total is thousands of dollars. That is in pesos and they'll be able to convert it to USD for you.

• Pack items like Motrin, Tylenol, Advil, hangover relief, digestive, heartburn relief, etc. for those "Ooops, I drank too much" moments or if the food/water doesn't settle well with you.

• Bug spray – sometimes the mosquitos can be an issue, so I always like to bring that with me in case it'south heavy mosquito season.

• Pocket-sized crossover handbags are super handy for going out for dinner at the resorts if you want to carry your phone or other minor holding with yous. Here's the crossover handbag I utilize!
  I recommend a crossover if you exercise want to take things with you lot, so it'south easier to carry if you decide to stay out afterward for the entertainment, and information technology'due south less likely you'll sit the handbag down and walk off from it. However… I get to where I don't fifty-fifty accept my phone or whatsoever belongings with me to dinner and just go out everything in the room. So freeing! But take hold of that room key… and skid it in to your pocket if you accept i!

• Leave your wedding rings at habitation or wear a fake ring! The final thing you want is to take a great time and then lose something so special and important!

• Exist prepared to take a credit carte with you for extra charges or let your banking concern know y'all're traveling if you bank with a modest local bank and using a debit card.

• If you lot similar to accept your phone out in the pool/beach surface area, grab a waterproof case. But surprisingly (even as fond as I am to my phone/computer) I get out my phone in the room virtually all day. If y'all can, use this fourth dimension to detox from your telephone.

• Take ane pair of dress shoes that you can clothing with multiple outfits for dinner. (Nude heels are a great color for me considering they get with just about annihilation, and my husband unremarkably takes blackness/brown dress shoes.)

• Practice I need to bring a beach towel to an all inclusive resort? Beach towels usually aren't necessary to bring with you. Y'all may check with your resort, simply don't waste the infinite in your baggage if your resort provides them.

• Hairdryer – check with your resort to come across if they provide one. Less you have to have, the better.

• Use the prophylactic in your room. You but never know. When you get to the room, place your passports (and machine keys if applicable) in the safe, as well as any other travel documents that y'all want to continue safety while you're on the trip.
  Don't forget to get your things out of the safe when you leave. If it helps, set a reminder on your phone the dark before or morn of deviation so you lot don't get to the drome and realize you've left it behind an hour away at the resort!

• Pack a swimming suit in your deport-on or bag (beach bag) when flying. This is smart in case your luggage gets lost, or if yous arrive at the resort before yous can check-in. If your room isn't ready, go to the bath, change in to your swimming suit and hit up the pool or beach while you await for your room to be ready!

• Books/Magazines – not only are these handy for the airplane ride there when you tin't play on the internet to pass the time, but they come in handy for when you lot need to go up and become somewhere and need something to show that your pool chair/cabana is taken. (I really prefer to buy magazines in the airport when heading to the resort, so I tin can leave the magazines backside in one case I've read them and not accept to drag them dorsum dwelling house like I would a book.)

• Not interested in taking books/magazines? Download books/podcasts on to your device before going. Information technology'southward lucky to wing with an airline that has Wi-Fi and so don't assume they all exercise.

• Volume a shuttle service ahead of time that tin selection y'all up from the Cancun aerodrome and take you to your resort. When you arrive at the aerodrome, there will be a TON of employees for various shuttle services trying to talk you in to riding with them. Information technology's much easier to bypass them and expect for the shuttle company you booked. They're expecting you and know exactly where to take you lot!

• Arriving at the airport in Cancun, you'll accept to go through something called "customs". This is where they check your passport, and may enquire y'all a couple of questions of why you're coming in. (i.e. What is your name, where are you staying? How many days will you be visiting, etc.) One time through customs, you'll walk to the baggage claim and pick up any luggage yous checked in.
  Nearly of the time, y'all so take your luggage through an area where they scan the luggage or even physically open it up and take a look through it to make sure you're not bringing annihilation illegal in.
  Then, you caput exterior and soak in that beautiful weather condition and sunshine to catch a ride to your resort.

• If yous can swing it, book a individual shuttle. Sometimes it's not that much bigger of a cost. Sharing a shuttle or transportation ride with strangers can result in stopping at multiple other resorts earlier getting to yours, taking a lot of time abroad from your day of holiday!

• While at the resort, ostend your shuttle service dorsum to the airport to know what time to leave the resort on the twenty-four hours of.

• On the mode back dwelling house (if y'all live in USA) you'll go through the flight check-in at Cancun airport similar normal, go through security and then board your flight. When arriving at your layover (if you don't accept a direct flight) you may accept to get your baggage at baggage merits, go through security again and get through customs at that airport earlier boarding your next flight home.
  For example, if yous live in Montana and are flying home from Cancun, merely you have a layover in Dallas… you may have to go to Dallas' baggage merits expanse when laying over to get your baggage and take it through customs so they tin check to brand sure you didn't bring anything illegal in to the USA. Then, in one case you're good to go, yous can board your plane to your final destination.
  Accept a straight flying? Customs will but check your baggage after you have picked it up from the baggage merits at your home airport. Direct flights are definitely a better option if yous are able to go one, simply isn't as crazy every bit it may audio unless a flight is delayed.

• Ladies, dry shampoo may be your new all-time friend if it isn't already! I love being able to use that instead of having to get completely ready for dinner if I've stayed at the pool bar/beach longer than planned.

• Well-nigh people volition tell you to become up early while at that place if you tin or if it's worth it to you lot, to reserve a pool chair. Some people think it'southward rude to reserve chairs and some resorts don't even allow it.
  My opinion? I like to get up early on some mornings, head down by the puddle and pick a place. I put my things down (sometimes sit for a bit and soak upwardly the sun) and then I become to breakfast, leaving my magazines and sunscreen on the chair. This manner if something happens to them, it'due south not the end of the earth, only most of the time someone will see that information technology is taken and they won't sit there. So, after breakfast, I tin come right back and enjoy the chair again. Merely be kind. Don't reserve a chair in the morning simply in case you want information technology hours later and leave for an excursion for the day.

• Don't try to bring dorsum meats, fruits, etc. from your trip. Community won't let most of these items.

• Drink the water? Take you lot e'er heard someone say "Don't drink the water in Mexico?!" We accept too. But nosotros always drink the water at the restaurants and in the bottles that are in the hotel minibar. But I've too heard stories of others struggling with drinking water that'south not bottled or fifty-fifty brushing your teeth with the sink water. I'1000 sure it depends on where you go and what resort yous stay at, but we accept never had problems with this, at 4 unlike resorts.

• Use the "do not disturb" door tag if you have one, for when y'all're in the room. The housekeepers can make multiple trips to your room in i day to clean and even come in for turndown service. You don't want to get woken up from that precious nap y'all've been craving!

But FOR FUN:

• Can you bring your own cup to all inclusive resort? Some love to accept yeti cups for drinking in the pool so their drinks stay colder longer. Nosotros prefer to simply become a new drinkable at the bar rather than keep up with a loving cup and feel like nosotros take to make clean it every 24-hour interval.

• Get out a tip for the housekeeper – sometimes you can get piffling extras, or possibly your room cleaned sooner

• Have airline miles or wanting to go large or go home? Book outset class for your flight if you can. There'due south nothing like going to Cancun and starting your vacation out early on by hopping on the flight with ease and enjoying tons of legroom, comfy seats and cocktails.

• A lot of resorts have nightly entertainment. Anything from magic shows, dancing, live bands, etc. The pools usually close around vi in the evening to permit guests to go back to their rooms and go ready for dinner.

• If going to the spa, a cocktail or ii beforehand tin can help you lot get extra relaxed

• Making a spa engagement on the resort? Run into if you can get to the spa early and take advantage of their steam room/sauna beforehand!

One more pro-tip: Clothes cozy, and in something that could even double as a swimsuit coverup if your room isn't ready when you arrive! I Honey this jumpsuit from Pink Lily Boutique!

Where are you going? I'd love to hear!

I've been to a small scattering of different resorts, but I've been to the same resorts multiple times! (When you find one that you similar it's hard to endeavor a new one! At least for us!)

I've been to:

• Excellence Riviera Maya – Our favorite! Also check out how I surprised my husband for his 30th birthday at this resort!
• El Dorado Casitas and Royale – Both casitas and the royale side
• Valentin Imperial Riviera Maya
• ….and another (not all-inclusive) in downtown Cancun that was a timeshare.

But I'd LOVE to hear where you lot've been and what your favorite is. Or, if you lot haven't been even so… allow me know where you're going!

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