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Just so everyone doesn’t think all I have to do is travel around the Caribbean and have a great time, I thought I would show you the dark side of this job. On a recent trip to Puerto Aventuras very little more could have gone wrong. Had this been your trip and everything were to have gone south as much as this one did, I think you would at least be kinda disappointed. But this is a good example of what can go wrong in the Caribbean where, unlike the brochures claim, there is real weather and it can be just as unpredictable as anywhere else - things do go wrong. I have been through three hurricanes on “vacations” to the area. It started raining while we were on approach to the Cancun Airport and continued to rain for two days and nights. At left you can see what we faced from our seventh floor balcony at our four star resort, Dreams Puerto Aventuras. I mention the seventh floor and the four stars not to impress you but to emphasize that you’d think things would still be reasonably comfortable - albeit no diving. After raining for two days and nights it turned out that the lower floor of the hotel ended up with four feet of water in it and many of the facilities flooded out and unusable. The water flooded out some of the restaurants, the gym and some lesser amenities but most of all it ‘killed’ all the elevators so for three days we had to hike the stairs seven floors several times a day. We had to be sure when we went down to eat that we ate enough to sustain us for the climb back.
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