hello from minneapolis we are here at our park n fly hotel when we have early flights in the
morning we always come down the night before and we are headed to cancun and we are so excited
because we have not flown in 234 days yes it's been that long the last time we flown was when
we were in cabo mexico and now the first time we're flying again is two mexico it is 4:42
here in the morning so we have an early flight here at 6:30 so we're like getting awake hello
i know i know now that we are living in different times here with a pandemic things have definitely
changed and i'm going to be vlogging all the things from the start of our trip here until
we get to our hotel in cancun so we are flying delta airlines and we do have a connection in
detroit so it'll be interesting to kind of just experience everything that goes on so follow along
as i share all the things that now take place when you are traveling during a pandemic so we are at a
marriott courtyard marriott that's where we say every single time we come down here to the airport
we've probably stayed at this hotel like what 20-30 times because it's literally the same
hotel we come to every time we come to do a parking by before we fly out and one thing we
did notice yesterday when we were arriving here at the hotel um you usually can just walk right
in the hotels well you couldn't hear you could get up to the door and then it would buzz and then the
reception desk asked if you had a reservation and then if you said yes they would let you in so they
are not letting like people just come in and out of the hotels here so that was a new thing and
then now that we're in a hotel everything's pretty much the same they just the amenities aren't there
like they were like they don't have all the like little lotions and so bars and stuff which is
fine we really didn't use that stuff anyways and then um also they used to have like glass drinking
glasses and stuff in the room and the coffee maker is gone um so instead of the glass they have
plastic like cups i'll show you here so no more glassware um but plastic covered stuff
and they're also giving out breakfast bags instead of like having breakfast available so
those are kind of like the changes we're seeing here at our park and fly in minneapolis time to
head down and get on the shadow and head to the airport of course we got our mast on because
anywhere you go nowadays you have to have your mask so we'll be burying these a lot on this trip
transfer was awesome our driver pretty much like did everything she's like don't touch anything
you know don't i'll open the doors i'll take your luggage she's like we're just trying to eliminate
touch points so yeah transfer was good so we're now at the airport we're being really cautious
as we're traveling here we're not like touching handrails and like anything more than we actually
have to touch so just a lot more cautiousness going on and i hope you guys can hear me
with this mask on never seen the airport this empty it is october 23rd and this is the lines
that tsa is less than five minute wait time it is like five in the morning but still at five in
the morning a lot of flights early flights still used to go out all the time and yeah look at the
lions over there delta oh it's so sad so we print out our boarding passes before we came here so we
wouldn't have to go to the kiosk so just another thing to see limiting as much touching as possible
so we are in a tsa security line and there's no one in line so this is a breeze
we just got through tsa little different situation there so we scanned our passports ourselves
and then they didn't even check our boarding passes they i asked him like do you need our
board and pass and she said no so literally all they had to do in tsa was scan our passports
and we were good to go through so that was easy this is how empty this airport is right now i've
never seen it this empty ever mcdonald's for breakfast so one thing i want to share with
you guys when we were i'm going through security you know there's the liquids rule i have a whole
video on that so if you're interested in learning more about the tsa311 liquids and powders rule go
check out that video but um because of coved they are allowing you to have additional hand
sanitizer and you don't have to have all of it in your clear 311 bag so just so you know
on my purse here i had this on here and i asked tsa i'm like i just want to verify like
this doesn't have this extra bottle doesn't have to go into our uh tsa bag and he said no
it's fine so just fyi if you're traveling you can definitely have a bottle of hand sanitizer on your
purse available and it doesn't have to go in your 311 bag so just to note that now we're gonna eat
breakfast because our flight starts boarding at 5:50 and yeah we got here five usually we get
to the airport what two to three hours prior to departure but we had a feeling it was going to
be pretty dead here this morning and we were right we have never not waited in line at security like
we went right through securities yeah we walked right up scanned her passport and walked right
through right to security screening crazy it's like we have the airport to ourselves
i've never seen it like this we're thankful we're going to mexico and one other thing
i forgot to tell you guys for someone who has to go do a parking fly because
you live hours away from your airport um just a heads up parking fly shuttles are
not running 24 hours for some hotels like our hotel they used to always run 24 hours
but they've now cut that back and so they only run from 5am until 11pm so just keep
that in mind when you are booking a park and fly hotel um definitely check with the hours
of their shuttle because it could be you know different now in pandemic days so just a tit
here and i'm like i don't know how to do this because i have to wear masks when i
walk in the airport i've like pushed my mask up when i want to take a drink it's weird so
let's go the travel life i guess let's get to our gate because it's actually boarding so
must go now we are silver medallion members with delta airlines so we always get zone one usually
unless we get uh first class so i know we'll be like some of the first sports so we gotta go
our flight is boarding and they are boarding from back to front and then if you're in first class
you can board right away a little different than normal not by zone way to detroit before we head
to cancun so now you know if you're in zones that doesn't matter they board from back to front so
being silver medallion not a big deal right now
wow it's clean it's really good the seats are clean the floor is clean
looks good definitely like one of the cleanest flights we've ever been on
so delta has a seat blocking so they're only allowing two people in a row so we're sitting
together but it's our own row which i like a lot an extra room boarded the plane here
we got a little purell wipe to sanitize our hands and whatever else we want to say like
so we were just talking about how it's been it's really nice having them board from back to front
because you don't have all these people like standing and walking past you so it's really
nice that they they're doing that and i think that's something that should stay because i
always thought that was kind of crazy who are they boarded from front to back but then it's
like all these people are going past you and moving and stuff so that's a good thing
delta is now severing their food in these little plastic pouches this is the only food
and drinks that are now served on the flights you get a bag of cheez-its a biscoff cookie
napkin bottle of water and hand sanitizer
all right we are in detroit i changed masks because we are not used to wearing
masks we both work from home and that one was like pulling out of my ears and
it was really annoying by the one so i put this one on it's looser so hopefully
this will be more comfortable we are but never worn masks for this long so yeah all the things
waiting to board our next flight just one thing i wanted to touch on was when you're deplaning now
you can't just get up and like try and get off the plane right away like you know when you
land the whole plane stands up you can't do that you have to stay seated wait until someone's six
feet in front of you yep yep so as soon as the people in front of you got their luggage
and they are six feet in front of you then you can get up get your luggage and then go off so
a little different process pretty easy mask over your nose because i heard someone get talked to
there was another person on the phone that got talked to because he didn't have it over his nose
wearing it like this yeah you can't wear it like this you have to have it like this so now you know
now to cancun all right so boarding this plane was as normal nothing really out of the ordinary
they are boarding from back to front still unless you are first class or diamond medallion then you
can bird at first we are on a really old plate i don't think we've been on this old of a plane
for delta for a long time so look at them yeah screens oh my god its an oldie but a goodie
yeah i guess the oldie but a goodie as long as it makes this a cancun i don't care how old it is
we just got our first passport stamps on our brand new passport we just got a new one
hi hello we're getting searched so we just got the 52 page passport and our first stamp on it
was mexico so it's pretty exciting hot out oh i cannot wait to take this mask off totally focused
all right we're in our transfer here so when we got here they gave us hand sanitizer and
they sanitized our luggage before they put it in the vehicle and now we're on our way
to our resort so everything's been really really good and safe and social this thing massive core
certain place so all is well so far and there we go he already got his corona upon arrival to
the resort one of the staff members came to our transfer and took our temperature via our wrists
thank you we made it so we just got to a room here in cancun an awesome awesome room they did
an upgrade for us and the only exception was they couldn't operate the king bag because they didn't
have me left they only had queens they're at 60 capacity and i was like i couldn't believe it
when they said that so that's really cool so just a quick rundown on the check-in process
um we got here you know the transfer brought us here to the resort and then before we could even
enter we've got our wrist temperature checked and they were fine we got cleared we went in
to the resort they didn't ask us any questions it was standard check-in they said maths are
recommended but optional so that's where it's at right now and also because of kobe a lot
of resorts don't require restaurant reservations some do some don't this resort normally does not
require uh restaurant reservations but they are requiring because of kovitz so you do have to go
down to the lobby every day and then set up your dinner time every night so just a heads up that
might not be the case at all the resorts but just a heads up at our resort where we're staying here
in cancun when it was we had to make a dinner reservation and then also when we uh checked in
they sanitized our luggage again just a really good reminder if you guys are traveling i would
highly recommend hard sided luggage because they're spraying sanitization stuff all over
it and if you have cloth luggage it just like would soak in at least with hard sided luggage
you can sanitize it yourself and they're spraying all these things all over them to sanitize so
just a heads up and a recommendation if you are traveling i would highly recommend getting some
hard sided luggage so it's easy to clean so let me just give you a really quick tour of our room here
all amenities were still in the room the only exception was that there was no coffee maker the
fridge was fully stocked with beer water and other sodas upon arrival the lobby did give us a mask as
well so this resort is an adult-only resort and they have one of the largest infinity pools in
mexico so check it out that looks amazing i cannot wait to get down there get a margarita and some
food we're going for mexican tonight so it's gonna be a good day upon departing cancun you will have
to fill out a health questionnaire that includes standard covert questions and if you have any
symptoms upon departure weaver given a paper copy from a delta agent or you can also scan a qr code
and fill it out on your phone prior to being able to go into the security line if you have airport
lounge access i definitely recommend taking advantage of that especially now during covid
because it's nice for social distancing everything is extremely clean and sanitized they of course
have free food drinks amenities and of course it's way more comfortable to sit in a lounge
rather than out in the general public area where everyone else is sitting waiting for their flight
all right you guys and that is a wrap here on our first trip during a pandemic internationally
minnesota to cancun and overall what'd you think it was easy it was super easy lots of
you know hand sanitizer just more cautious yeah delta was awesome the transfer company was awesome
pack your patience bring sanitizer and a mask and it was easy peasy plus people yeah there was
definitely less people but i'm glad to see that mexico is you know there's more people coming so
that's a really good sign so overall don't be scared to fly during a pandemic because it's not
that bad just be smart be safe and go so i'm so glad we finally went so because we finally had a
trip that wasn't canceled after what four trips have been canceled on us now so we finally made
this one i think it canceled on us so it's really good so stay tuned for my cancun vlog i'm gonna
vlog that completely separate so definitely go check that out and if you haven't already be sure
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course reach out and let me know in the comments below we're gonna go enjoy some cancun time you