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we're lloyd and mandy we're digital nomads that have been traveling the world full time for the
past nine months searching for somewhere to call our home base we're currently in playa del carmen
mexico and we've booked 24 hours at the most affordable all-inclusive resort in the area to
see if it's worth it so we're staying at the grand riviera princess it's pretty much the cheapest one
i could find had a good look on booking.com yeah it's 150 u.s for the two of us for a night that's
so that's 150 per night and that's all-inclusive that includes everything drinks food which i think
is pretty good right so excited we're gonna eat so much but unfortunately we booked it a week ago
and the weather's been great pretty much since we got here and today is like full-on rain it's been
raining since we woke up um it's almost looks like it's flooding in some places so we're just gonna
have to make the best of it i think it's almost comical how much this happens to us but it's still
gonna be an awesome day i think we're gonna have the best experience we're pretty used to the rain
we've been we traveled all through bali when it was rainy season and then we followed the rainy
season to thailand uh vietnam philippines so this happens and it's rainy season now
oh
this time
okay we've officially arrived at the all-inclusive uh a bit of drama with us checking in we are
pretty much in the reception for almost two hours trying to get our booking figured out but
we're finally here and it looks pretty bloody awesome the room is huge the bed is massive
a big king-sized bed uh the fridge is stocked still raining but we're going to make the most
out of it i'm really happy to be here this is exciting our first time really doing this together
no alcohol
i think i have the alcohol
that was close pretty sure our bartender was just very drunk just now he's wasted so drunk
i think everyone might be here
so it is raining but it's not really stopping anyone from partying no
it's what time is it it's about 3 p.m and everyone is faced yeah um we saw a woman
fall over this is everything i thought it was going to be at an all-inclusive it's so good
the people watching is incredible this place is pretty good for the price like the room and
the resort itself i don't know i think it's pretty good it's good even with it raining
it's so cute
so there's this animal here we're not really sure what it's called the house cleaner told
me already and already forgot can you say lima it's not a lemur it's not a lemur but it
looks like a lemur sort of it's like a mix between a monkey possum or all
there's signs everywhere saying not to feed them and everyone's feeding them it does not look good
this joint's massive i think there's five or six
restaurants we're gonna try them all tonight i mean might as well let's do it i was not
expecting this no i i thought we were gonna end up in like a little tiny all-inclusive considering
this is the most affordable even for the most affordable all-inclusive like it's still lucky
people just leaving half empty drinks all around no one cares though this is like
an adult playground it is like an adult summer camp drop the kids off at the kids club and
sit in the pool drinking all day it's awesome
you want to dance
all right we're all showered and ready for dinner we're gonna head to the first of
five restaurants right now i think it's fourth
or five or four we don't know we're gonna see how many we can hit tonight
i don't know what they all are yet but i know the first one's a mexican buffet so we'll try that
yeah i got some random stuff this isn't even the first restaurant feels like
back at school camp or something everyone comes out of their room at the same time and goes to now
there's so many people here there must be a thousand rooms when i was in seventh grade
i came to mexico with my family and at the all-inclusive that we stayed
at had cinnamon donuts for breakfast every morning so that's what i associated so happy
this is the grossest buffet plate we came next door it's the same buffet really
it's the exact same food basically mandy said she wasn't gonna get anything and then just
filled her plate up with snacks we're here anyway might as well i don't know what this thing is
what's that it's delicious
you went straight to the sweet table this is fresh on number two so we'll start on the suites now
okay we got into another restaurant so we weren't really told how this place
works in fact when we got here we kind of just had to walk around and figure it out there's a
few different restaurants and i think you have to make a reservation at the restaurants but
you can just show up to the buffet anytime you want we don't really know how it works
so we just tried to get into one restaurant and got denied and then we came to this one
and we nearly didn't get in because we didn't have a reservation and it's really empty anyway so we
just said we'll just be here for 20 minutes we're trying to try all the different restaurants here
this one looks really good it's like a japanese restaurant we have some tempura shrimp here
it looks pretty good it smells awesome i think this has been my favorite food that
we've had so far the buffet food was just average buffet food but this one's actually pretty good
this one's really good but i want to go back to the buffet then can you really get me all right
okay so we didn't make it to all five of the restaurants we made it to three i think yeah
only did three good thing we were able to get into the third one uh we're gonna call
it a night though and we're going to get up early i think the weather's going to be better
yeah get some sun go to the beach make the most of the morning until we check
out but then we just hit the hay and get up early
all right we finally got into the restaurant we couldn't get into last night first thing i noticed
is um it doesn't feel like there's much alcohol in the drinks here
i counted 11 drinks i had last night and i felt fine when i got home and i feel fine today
which isn't normal for me i reckon i don't know what's going on i saw him put a lot of
alcohol in the drinks maybe it's watered down i'm not sure unless my tolerance has somehow
gotten way better such a doubt because i haven't been drinking much the last month
so the sun's out today which is good because we get to
have a swim and check out the beach when it's not raining i was worried we weren't
going to be able to do that at all but we've got a few hours till check out
oh
i couldn't believe anything at
it's all you would want and if you tell me everything's alright
yeah this is pretty good i can see why people come here and you can just spend like a week
just chilling on the beach go get a drink whenever you feel like it three big meals a day
i think it is definitely like you get value for your money
if you don't mind the few little things that they've had to
i guess skimp on in order to make the price this much the staff seem very overworked so customer
service is a little bit lower and the food quality i think there's a bit more like frozen stuff
but that just makes sense why the price is what it is so i do think it is good value for money but
you get what you pay for the room itself is really good and the facilities like there's really good
pools this beach is pretty nice i'm not going to give it a 10 out of 10 i think maybe like a
six and a half or a seven but i also have nothing to compare it to is my first all-inclusive resort
so we just found out that we only have to check out of our room at midday
actually let you stay here until six o'clock at night we get to use the pool
drink as much as we want eat as much as we want probably gonna fill right up
so once we leave we don't have to eat again today that's pretty good value i think
my
should probably mention that um this video isn't sponsored by this resort at all we
didn't get invited here we're not collaborating we just wanted to book one of these on our own
to give an honest review and opinion it's like almost four o'clock things are starting to get
pretty wild again yeah i don't really understand though because i've had a few more drinks today
and i just don't it doesn't feel like anything it feels like it's all watered down because
usually if i drink a couple of cocktails like i'll definitely feel it but yeah i don't know
anything yeah see you today but it's affecting some people yeah which is good for us it's good
good people watching um don't want to be too rude and be filming people though when
they're on holidays enjoying themselves yeah so we'll just enjoy it for ourselves
all right we've been here over 24 hours that's so much food
so many drinks so much sun a lot of relaxing this is definitely vacationing we're used to like
traveling to see like a new town this is a whole different way of seeing somewhere very relaxing
i can see this is like probably the most yeah definitely the most relaxing way the holiday
kind of surreal we've only been here 24 hours and i can't remember what it was like not being here
i'll leave the link below to this um hotel if you want to book it yourself i think we got like
a pretty decent deal because it's low season and we use booking.com so it might not always
be this cheap have a look it's still pretty cheap i think even when it's normal prices
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