We booked a spur of the moment trip on Costco Travel. We booked the cheapest all inclusive resort we could find. We found the Occidental Nuevo in Puerto Vallarta with airfare from Salt Lake City for $2,500. Puerto Vallarta Mexico is a must do for anyone looking for a cheaper tropical vacation.
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it’s morning Jesse yep and we are out of here we are getting the heck out of town a few weeks ago I was filling the itch and booked us an anniversary trip to Mexico so we are on our way to the airport why you going to the airport flying somewhere and we booked the cheapest all-inclusive we could find on Costco [Music] [Music] just got out of the airport it is chaotic but if you book through Costco you just go over the gry line they have it all set up they get your driver over it’s amazing it is the best way to book your flights and all that stuff in our opinion this is what our fourth trip using Costco Travel and like always it’s Flawless the resort that we’re staying at is the ocidental NOA Vara and don’t I know I have a horrible Utah accent so I’m sure it’s pronounced different than that but we are going to let you know what we think of the cheapest all-inclusive we can find on Costco Travel positives negatives all those sort of things when you arrive you walk in to to this beautiful Lobby it is amazing and it just has a nice breeze coming in off the ocean so nice I thought I’d requested a king bed but I guess we got two queens so yeah not too outad of a room but we did get the deck we upgraded to the deck and the grounds look pretty nice be nice to sit out here and you know enjoy the evening beautiful ocean view though be kind of nice if we were out on one of those decks instead of clear back here oh well pretty nice bathroom shower’s a little bit funky CU it has a glass wall so Cara can you see me not too bad of a bathroom at First Look I thought they were queen beds but they’re just two doubles or fulls so overall exper like from walking in the do is what you thinking Cara overall it’s very nice I mean we’ve been here 10 minutes so first glance I mean it’s very nice the grounds are beautiful pool area looks really nice um we’re really going to have to just do a little walking around just to get a whole you know full feel of what this Resort has to offer and we just went to book dinner and what was our experience there well so we’re here for five nights they only have three restaurants and the buffet and within those five nights we can only reserve two dinner reservations in our state so if you were here longer than five nights you would be buffeting it every single mill well or they they would maybe give you three out of the seven or whatever but maybe I I really dislike that so far this is the first all-inclusive that has been like no you can’t reserve more than the nights you’re here right so now that we could have upgraded to the Royal yes I was going to mention men that um however it was um basically with the conversion it was 100 basically $110 every night for the two of us for the two of us so 55 or whatever per person and then we could have had room service and I think we could have made reservations every night and there’s things like that private pool area private bars things like that but that’s add on extra $500 and we booked the cheapest one for a reason yeah see what it’s like however they did treat us to a little dessert for our anniversary one thing I do have to say is it is a very nice facility restaurants are clean even the buffet’s area is nice air conditioned but the grounds are so well kept they may be the best kept grounds that we’ve seen out of any of the all-inclusives we went to one of our favorite Parts is after dinner just walking the beach the temperature is finally dropping I don’t know if the sunset’s coming through over here but this place is amazing last year we came to PTO Barda the year before we went to Costa Rica the year before that we went to Cancun and I think this is becoming kind of a tradition right Cara get out of school get out of school go on vacation yep it’s I don’t know if it gets much better than this the next morning it is a morning and I am out trying to stay clean on some beach chairs so I’m just you know kind of scouting the beach scouting the property to find that ideal spot so us pasty people don’t get burned but while I’m out and about I’m checking out this view this morning I think I found my spot at least for now always the sun’s always shifting so you never know but right there nice little right 6 and 1/2 hours later just walking the beach trying to walk off dinner and do have another complaint so they didn’t tell us when we signed up for one of our two dinners um that you have to have pants so I didn’t bring pants to Puerto Barda so we weren’t allowed to go in for dinner we had to sit out front which we were able to get the same food but come on then as we sat there there older guy probably about 70 comes walking in what’s he wearing Cara suit what was that his tracksuit when you are a man sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room he for fun jogging pants I I know that we booked the cheapest one we could find but come on if you’re going to be the cheapest one on Costco don’t have a dress code that just pissed me off plus the only the other restaurant the Tokyo Japanese Restaurant it’s going to be the same scenario yeah same scenario so we can’t book there or they have lender pants I don’t know who’s been freeballing it in those pants I really don’t want to wear those not really a big fan of the idea of lender pants we went way nicer all-inclusive by far and never had a dress code the worst is they didn’t like my shorts but they accepted that I was in Crocs I mean these are nice Crocs they have sport mode the little strap but they didn’t care about the Crocs they cared about the shorts and Cara also in shorts and sandals and a t-shirt was just fine I know not everybody cares about a fitness center all that sort of stuff when you’re on vacation but I really enjoy uh being able to hit the treadmill or things like that at an all-inclusive where I’m eating so much and everything else they do have a Wellness Center here little workout facility it’s it has two treadmills some free we some machines you know that sort of stuff but it’s pretty minimal uh typically you’ll see four five six treadmill Ms you know few different free weight sets all those sort of things but yesterday I came down to run and both treadmills weren’t working overall you can get your workout in if you want but not the greatest I also want to mention the grounds here so they are very well groomed it’s beautiful um of course there’s palm trees everywhere giving you that tropical feel also with the well groomed grounds everything is immaculate like very very clean tidy uh staff here has done an excellent job we are just enjoying our last morning here in ptoa and thought we’d do a wrap up of what we thought of the ocidental overall I think three three and a half stars out of five Cara yes I would agree with that we’ve stayed in several other all-inclusive Resorts and there was just a few things that we found kind of lacking on this one and that was mainly food wise uh it was mediocre at best and I understand you don’t go to these all inclusives expecting the best food but this wasn’t great by any means it was barely good you couldn’t get food out on the beach or by the pool side which was kind of weird you couldn’t do room service on the on our our regular package I guess if you did the elite package or whatever the Royal the Royal package you could have got room service but that would have been an extra $500 for the trip for room service the the restaurants were yeah the Mexican restaurant last night was part restaurant part Buffet I mean the service was great but oh yes show please like that yeah the Italian restaurant was Olive Garden at best and we couldn’t go to the Japanese restaurant because I didn’t bring pants to the beach if I had sweatpants they would let me in so we were not able to try that one and the buffet uh it was probably one of the Lesser buffets we had and that’s for breakfast lunch and dinner and when you get here and you expect to be able to reserve a restaurant every night and they say you get two restaurants in your five night stay that’s a little disappointing as well yeah so overall I mean we we’ve had a good experience the staff’s been awesome the grounds are awesome the beach is awesome the hotel’s clean it’s just the food was so lacking yeah but it’s hard to complain very much when we did book the cheapest all-inclusive on Costco and we probably got what we paid for it was about 2500 bucks and that’s with flights um and that was with the upgraded room so we had the balcony upgraded room to a King With an Ocean View and we got two doubles which whatever we can deal with that but it was the cheapest allinclusive and that’s why we you know chose it just to see what we were getting versus what we have expecting yeah yeah uh comment below have you came to PTO VAR and stay all inclusives is this what you like to do all those sort of things um maybe you’ve stayed at the ocidental and and what’s your experience been make sure to like And subscribe all those sort of things and as always enjoy your weekend [Music] [Music] [Applause] pap PA [Music]
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Enjoyed, gorgeous – catch you later~ Jaunt-=))