I’ve never brought pants to a Mexican resort and went to all a la cartes. Maybe I didn’t go high end but all were 4.5 stars at least.
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I’ve never brought pants to a Mexican resort and went to all a la cartes. Maybe I didn’t go high end but all were 4.5 stars at least.
Got back saturday night from Puerto Vallarta. Masks were required walking into the restaurants, but very few people with them around the resort or in town. Like all other Covid rules some didnt make sense.. order a drink from the pool, no mask is fine. Walk up to the bar, get that mask on.
Had to have them on thrpoughout the flight and in both airports, but that was expected. Dreamliner was substantially better than previous planes though!!
Back as well from Cancun...and most of the comments re: rules there are correct. Only thing I suggest is you book your Antigen test a day before at your resort cause I did the morning of and line-up was crazy. But as of April 1 won't be needing it anyway so it doesn't matter. I personally came back more stressed rather less so wasn't fun for me considering I worked mostly every day but I guess still nice to have a bit of a change of scenery.
Has anyone paid the Mexican visitor tax? I read about it before we left, seemed pretty hit or miss as to whether or not you would have to provide proof anywhere.
We were asked for 10USD per room at the Resort when checking out. Nothing at the Airport.
I believe this was mentioned in the booking information beforehand as well.
Never heard of the visitor tax unless its added to the hotel bill.
2usd per person per day during check in at the resort. 20$ to visit tulum and a protected sea turtle area for snorkeling. That’s all we had to pay as environmental fees while there.
Anyone else see how shitty WestJet is with respect to paying extra to have ability to change your flights?
But booked same flights with Delta. Cheaper and no fee to change flights.
Gone are the good deal, it's a Calgary company days.
Westjet went to shit years ago but especially so in the pandemic. We couldn't get WJD or a refund from our Westjet Vacation for over a year and then they'd only give us Westjet dollars that expire. Then when we did try to rebook our vacation you can't do Westjet dollars + vacation online so it was hours of waiting on hold trying to get through just to book. I've lost any care for flying WJ and will happily take Air Canada instead even though AC also sucks.
WJ just followed the AC business model. Why not? If people still keep buying tickets on the expensive, late airline with no direct flights to anywhere and the worst customer service on earth, why would WestJet bother to be 20x better than AC when they could just be twice as good?
Ok good to know. Not a very frequent phlier and don't live in Aspen so probably late to the game.
WJ is much worse than it used to be, but I think still notably better than AC. Much better than AC for a resident of Calgary due to the benefit of Calgary being the hub.
The issues with refunds being wjd, problems with wjd, vouchers etc are real. I've had some complaints.
thoughts on Cancun side in November?
risky with a chance of hurricane season although didnt seem too bad the past couple of years.
Ive done storm season in Puerto Vallarta (Sept) and it was awesome. Days were hot until about 6pm then it was a torrential downpour for 1-2hrs, then clear skies. (Albiet humid as F)
Holy fuck. I had to wait over 2 hours in Cancun yesterday for some sunwing check in bullshit. Already checked in online, carry on only but couldn't get through security. Had to wait with like 500-600 people to show some gate agent my passport, arrivecan and vaccine passport. Fucking bullshit sunwing
You guys are really selling it
Wait on sunning is only for the peasants that do not upgrade to elite. Haha.
Sunwing Elite lol
If you're "elite", do you go to Mexico?
On sunwing lol
Of course you two only fly in your private G6's as we all know.
pretty sure i mentioned it early in this thread, that's the worst thing with sunwing. although with westjet switching to buses it may get worse with them too. but i'll just do by own private transfer to the resort.
First time I have done sunwing.. didn't know it was shit, but can confirm it to be true. Had a great time at the grand palladium though.
I like Mexico. Can't wait to get back.
I can confirm that I won't experience sunwing again
I’m flying sunwing next Saturday. Better flight times and $800 cheaper than anything else I could book for where we are going. Worth it if I have to spend an extra hour in some bs line at the airport.
The new dreamliner is very nice. Weather was outstanding when we went, though I got a pretty massive burn even with sunscreen. Covid is still around for a few things like buffet etc at the resort. Otherwise pretty much smooth sailing
Just got back from Mexico. Was a fantastic trip. Masks only needed for restaurants and airports. Not bad at all.
wow shit show with sunwing currently. My flight was supposed to leave at 620am tomorrow and arrive for 350pm. Turns out theres a system wide issue and tons of people left in Mexico, Cuba etc since they cant get their check in and flight statuses working.
Now flight is scheduled to leave at 130pm (probably will change again) and somehow arrive at 1103pm? Explain that to me? 9 plus hours of flight for a direct flight? Am I missing something here??? Its 5 hours to Cancun from YYC... And were an hour behind Cancun time.
Fuck me.
The flight likely has stop to either drop off to pick up. In 2019 our aircraft was coming from Cuba to pick us up in Punta Cana. People in Cuba didn’t know they had to fly south first lol.
THAT flight was specifically booked because it stated YYC to CUN and direct flight.
If you look at the return flight its 5hrs.
Unless I'm an idiot and missing something here....
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Your flight there says via: YVR which is Vancouver. It's basically a stopover and not a connecting flight. You land, people get off, people get on, you stay in your seat the whole time, then you fly south. Sucks and scammy of sunwing to show it as direct by claiming it as one flight number.
Yah that’s the direct and non-stop scam some airlines pull.
You don't pick sunwing for the in-flight experience.
Picking sunwing is a coin-flip gamble where you win if the experience is only a little worse than AC or WJ.
We just got back Saturday night with them and had no issues at all. Probably a better overall experience than my last WestJet trip.
I do realize I got lucky though.
Lol sunwing.
Only delayed by 3-5 days and stranded in Cancun, it’s like an extra long vacation right?
Fucking infant toddlers
Some people are approaching 7 days without a return flight, it’s quite the spectacle reading the FB Sunwing comments. Cancun, PV and Dominican all have Sunwingers stuck. :popcorn:
I have no sympathy for people who travel over Christmas. That's just displaying poor judgement
I know sunwing is shit, as experienced personally. But what's the story here that is specific to sunwing? Seemed like every carrier has been royally fucking people all across Canada this past week.
Seems to be a lack of crews.
Surprised sunwing flights can even take off with all the peasants throwing rocks
Don't put this on Terry!
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I have to go to Orlando on the 5th of Jan
RIP me again :(
I hope they figure stuff out by spring. We are looking to go to PV at the beginning of April, we’ve never been before and the Hyatt Ziva was recommended by a coworker but it seems far. I was originally looking at the Hard Rock but mixed reviews. Also, my daughter’s passport expires in June, anyone know if this is going to be an issue?
What is your airline?
WestJet most likely.
I'll be on Sunwing Feb 4th to Cancun. I hate to even give them any business at this point, but they're virtually the only option out of Edmonton if you want any sort of halfway reasonable flight times. Westjet is my preference, but they didn't get in till like midnight, and they were an extra 3 grand for the trip. I have the mind to go buy some trip interruption insurance from a third party just in case.
It's a good point. WJ is the clear winner for anyone travelling from Calgary to a "Sun destination" but the options are more complicated from other Canadian cities.
I would 100% drive down to Calgary from Edmonton for a westjet direct flight. Avoid the Sunwing BS, even if it means spending a bit more. My best experiences were with Air Transat out of Edmonton, but they don’t fly south from western Canada anymore.
anyone know where to get info on destinations sunwing flies direct to from Calgary. I called sunwing and they told me to try and book 100 different options to figure it out myself. This info Is super easy to find for West jet and air canada.
Trying to pick a destination to fly direct either from edmonton or Calgary to avoid going through Toronto. Westjet from edmonton has 4 options and it's all Mexico. Westjet from Calgary has 6 options on top of all the Mexico options.
As much as sunwing may suck flying out of Toronto is worst regardless of the airline.
On a side note the prices for most resorts I've been considering are more expensive now then mid dec. Was waiting to see if they'd drop in price but no luck there.
I'm going to the Bahamas late January. I booked with west jet though. Hopefully this nonsense ends.
If i end up getting stuck for another week down there that's ok too.
This spreadsheet from the yycdeals outlines all the direct flight options and airlines.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...htmlview#gid=0
Also there's additional tabs for different departure cities to show their direct flight options.
nvm beat by 2legit
amazing. Thanks for the link.
We did the transfer through Calgary last year, definitely have zero interest to do that again. Sick 1 year old crying for an hour and a half as we sat on the tarmac waiting for de-icing. And to add insult to injury, Westjet changed our plane from the Dreamliner, which was the main reason I even went through the hassle of dealing with Calgary at all.
We've flown Sunwing at least 4 times I think. Only had one issue(other than the rude awakening the first time that their baggage allowance is 2 kilos lower than every other airline on earth). Issues happen, but the way they dealt with it, leaving us stranded in CUN for 14 hours, is my only hesitation about using them any more. They're cheap and will do whatever they can to avoid coughing up for another night.
Now we have the Passenger Bill of Rights, so at least there is some retribution if shit goes sideways. But I'm not poor, so if we get stranded this time I'll just book the closest resort to the airport on Expedia and go stay there as long as we need to. But seeing that Westjet has been stranding people in CUN as well, it doesn't seem like you're safe with any carrier in the case of a weather event, just have to deal with it as it comes.