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video and now let's get into it we're Lloyd and Mandy digital Nomads that have been traveling
the world full-time living in airbnbs hotels and resorts for over a year here we've stayed
in our fair share of risky hotels during our travels but this one might be the most risky
so far for the next 24 hours we will be staying in a mystery hotel in Playa del Carmen for
the first time [Music] okay so it's a couple of days till Christmas and we decided that
we were going to treat ourselves to a night out at a hotel rather than staying home and
nice hotel maybe go out to dinner or have dinner somewhere when we started looking for
hotels in Playa del Carmen we found this website and it's called Hotwire and basically you
jump on you put in where you want to stay and it brings you up a whole bunch of hotel
deals they're like 50 off 40 off like really cheap but the catch is that you don't know
what hotel you're booking it's a mystery hotel we started thinking maybe that would be a
fun thing to do for tonight so we're going to book a hotel a mystery hotel for tonight
we have no idea what the hotel is going to be what it's going to be called all we know
is that it's in Playa del Carmen so I put in Playa del Carmen here and it gives us a
few options here this is a three and a half star hotel for basically half price 46 dollars
in the Centro area but I think we want to go a little bit nicer than that don't we yeah
let's treat ourselves a little four star for 98 a night four-star hotel Centro area 98
that's a pretty good deal 100 bucks 31 off three and a half star eighty four dollars
there's some pretty good deals here I think the four star one look at the reviews four
and a half out of five so that's Expedia review so that's usually pretty good includes a pool
bed Wi-Fi so it shows you the amenities it's near the beach it has a restaurant it has
a pool I think we should do it four star four and a half star reviews out of five if it's
bad it'll be funny yeah if it's bad it'll be funny and if it's good it's a good travel
hack for a nice hotel for cheap oh I want to book it let's do it all right it's going
to reveal our hotel foreign
[Music] looks awesome all right Luna Playa Del Carmen cool two pack of the action yeah
let's do it that turned out pretty good I'm excited to see if it's as nice as the photos
we just gotta drop bear off at his um puppy playdate I guess he's having uh we have a
local lady that's looking after him when we need to go do work she's absolutely beautiful
there's other dogs there so he gets to socialize as well so we're gonna drop him and then head
to the hotel [Music] thank you all right just dropped bear off seems like he's gonna be
happy there a few other dogs for him to hang out with well we go have a night in a mysterious
hotel if you feel sad what you just dropped off you killed it yeah um kindergarten or
something yeah I don't know how I'm ever going to be a parent because just doing that with
bear is the hardest thing ever but it's very convenient we found a really good pet sitter
here so now we can go and do our work and not worry about beer so we're just about to
pull up to the hotel and it's right in the middle of Playa del Carmen one street back
from Fifth Ave in a pretty ideal location plenty of restaurants and stuff around see
how it looks inside
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foreign
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thank you
[Music] breakfast on
the rooftop it's pretty good so good so we obviously didn't get to choose our room but
they gave us a king room which is not pretty good sometimes we check in hotels and we get
two single beds not sometimes most times I don't know pretty much since we got married
they haven't been letting us sleep in the same bed [Music] foreign [Music] I'm actually
super impressed with this room the location is awesome it's just across the street from
Coco Bongo the room's massive this is pretty much bigger than our apartment it's not the
same size nice beautiful big king bed we've got a mini fridge in here huge shower like
the biggest waterfall shower I can't wait to use it in the morning we've also got a
massive TV that I think has Apple TV on it and they've also included a white noise machine
which I've never seen in a hotel or before which is pretty cool
that's actually so nice we might have to get one of them for our van I guess like where
do we live they've also included we don't drink coffee but I'm really tempted to drink
it this sounds so good dark chocolate toffee cherry and walnut I'm gonna have to drink
we're gonna have to drink it I think we're gonna have to try it in the morning yeah for
the Vlog that'll be it we'll be back on calcium yeah I bet we would it's a big mirror too
Kettle and a big mirror see what mirror mirror and an ice cream bathroom a big shower this
is awesome I'm really excited to check out the rooftop I think breakfast is going to
be awesome and sunsets just in a few hours so we'll be able to have some dinner maybe
or a drink Up on the Rooftop Watch Sunset all right let's go check out the rooftop pool
and get something to eat because I'm stuck ready yeah this little Lighting in here so
beautiful and it smells so good in here like cinnamon or something like the whole building
smells amazing
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wow it's really nice up here just go to some nachos and some margaritas [Music]
so good yeah
foreign
[Music] just come down to the sushi restaurant downstairs and all of the sushi rolls all
day every day are two for one so we'll leave the link in the description if you are coming
to Playa del Carmen because it's really cheap I haven't tried them yet hopefully they're
good um but that's a really good deal what drink did you get Manny got a lemonade Passive
A later lemonade I'm not a huge I thought it was a coffee though so it looks like Garfield
I'm not a huge Hulk fan either the state's a ball
so much food like usual you always over order there's two for one though what else could
you do [Music] we did our best still heaps left over a good thing we have a fridge in
our room we're gonna take it away [Music]
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[Music] just come across the street to Fifth Avenue to see what's going on and what's around
us it's not too busy out here tonight but it's seriously so close to the beach like
this hotel is worth way more than what we paid for it
foreign [Music]
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[Music] thank you [Music] come on [Music]
[Music] but we're just up here for breakfast which looks awesome had a pretty good sleep
last night it was so comfy for once you had a little holiday and didn't get drunk a couple
of movies I'd say the only little downside is that it is in a very loud area but they've
got like double pane glass which made it not too bad and then they also had that uh White
Noise thing that we turned on so I didn't really hear much it was a couple of sirens
here maybe a bit of a nightclub going on in the distance but for where we are it was some
breakfast and then go for a walk around if that because it's like perfect weather right
now okay so breakfast included tea juice fruit bunch of toast and you could either choose
from French toast eggs or what was the other one Chila coils
I can't remember how to say it that's the thing that I got in Mexico City where it's
like corn chips and Salsas no [Music] thank you
[Music] okay we just realized we're across the street from a Starbucks so we can go get
one and then head down the beach [Music]
foreign [Music]
[Music] so hot and it's so hot out before we moved to Australia there was no way I would
have drank in a hot drink out in weather like this but I've changed drinking drinking drank
drank drinking drunk drunk I don't know
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apparently it's never too early to start drinking in Mexico we're getting off the tequila for
our Starbucks calls it a Mexican breakfast I don't know about that all right just packing
up getting ready to leave and we just realized there's a yoga mat in the closet I'm devastated
because I just used a towel this morning but if you do stay here check the closet for the
yoga mat I think that's so awesome such a nice touch anywhere else that we've stayed
has not have that all right just checked out of the hotel it was super simple uh we're
just gonna go pick up bear from his Doggy Daycare
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[Music] okay we just made it home after our mystery Hotel experience it was awesome I'm
really happy that we did it I highly recommend trying it for a date night or if you just
want to save some money on staying at a nicer Hotel it's really nice we got to stay somewhere
we wouldn't have normally picked I was in a great location great food really great room
really recommend it we'll leave the link in the description to that hotel as well as the
booking site that we used to do the mystery hotel if you're interested in doing it we
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in the next video bye [Music]
thank you