cheshirebirder
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Having visited the Playacar resort of Yucatan last year, I returned but based myself further down the Riviera Maya at Akumal. This turned out to be an excellent decision bird-wise and I thought it worth posting my trip here for anyone with a non-birding partner who will be restricted to one hotel rather than on a birding tour.
We stayed at the Gran Bahia Principe (can be booked with Thomas Cook or First choice ). The hotel was excellent ,with spacious grounds and a golf course bordering onto forest. The resort is extensive (it's really three hotels where you can eat/drink freely throughout) and has a system of interconnecting little "trams" that helps you get about ,including out to the golf course . It was also very easy and cheap to use local transport to get further afield.
We were put in the "Akumal" section of the resort and on checking in we asked for a room overlooking the jungle.We got a room in block 70 which proved an excellent position for birding from the balcony - but you need to be not on the ground floor ! Block 71 also would have been good.
Will start posting my sightings next ....
We stayed at the Gran Bahia Principe (can be booked with Thomas Cook or First choice ). The hotel was excellent ,with spacious grounds and a golf course bordering onto forest. The resort is extensive (it's really three hotels where you can eat/drink freely throughout) and has a system of interconnecting little "trams" that helps you get about ,including out to the golf course . It was also very easy and cheap to use local transport to get further afield.
We were put in the "Akumal" section of the resort and on checking in we asked for a room overlooking the jungle.We got a room in block 70 which proved an excellent position for birding from the balcony - but you need to be not on the ground floor ! Block 71 also would have been good.
Will start posting my sightings next ....
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