Trip Recap Continued: Day 3
Posted on July 29, 2007 by Ching under Travel.
Horseback riding was our main activity on day three. Instead of eating breakfast at the patio, Brian and I decided to have breakfast delivered to our room. Unlike continental breakfast here, at Couples you can ask for just about anything (except for the hot breakfast items of course). You can have several servings of danish, chocolate croissants, fruits, juices, cereals.. You name it!
The resort offers the horseback riding excursion twice a day: once in the morning and once in the afternoon. I highly recommend horseback riding in the morning as it can get really hot on the trail. This excursion is one that you do have to make reservations for so be sure to notify guest services of the day and time you wish you go. It’s included on the paper you fill out for dining reservations, but in case you want to go more than once making reservations for your second horseback riding trip is as simple as swinging by guest services.
The ride itself is slow-paced. If you are looking for a more exciting, fast-paced ride you might consider taking one of the optional horseback riding excursions by Chukka or Hooves. They both offer a horseback ride and swim excursion which I thought would be kind of fun to do but didn’t have time for. I probably wouldn’t recommend this excursion for more experienced riders (they might find it on the boring side) but if you’ve never done this sort of thing before it is a must. We’d been horseback riding before in Cozumel (one of the excursions we did on our honeymoon cruise) but Brian and I figured we’d go horseback riding again this time because it’s free. Again, you have to bring several singles for tipping your bus driver and tour guides. On this excursion, we had three tour guides. We also stopped by a shaded area where we met a guy who did a whole coconut demonstration and gave us a taste of coconut and coconut juice. You should tip him also.
Here are some of the photos we took during the excursion:
After our excursion we returned to the resort for lunch and spent the rest of the afternoon on Tower Island. That night was the evening of the manager’s cocktail party and beach party buffet. My recommendation would be to wear a nice, light sundress and flip flops. You’ll be spending most of the evening on the sand so heels should definitely be avoided.
Bring some cash to dinner as they’ll have some crab races that you can bet on. It’s actually a lot of fun cheering and watching the crabs as they make a go for it. Then they have local dancers perform. We also had Prince Bob, a local performer who does fire dancing and balancing.
This is pretty much how we spent day three.
P.S. Monday night is also the night of the weekly repeaters’ dinner. This is the fancy dinner that the resort hosts for guests who have visited the resort before. Brian and I are thinking of checking this out next year.
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