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Hey ladies! I have a $150 Gracias Certificate for any Azul or El Dorado properties. My husband has had it in his wallet since our October wedding and I had no idea. It has to be used by December 15 and we won't make it back before then, obviously. It says it can be given to a friend and I can't think of anyone other than you girls!
It says "receive a $150 Resort Credit per room to be used at any of our luxury resorts toward a beachfront sky massage or a candlelight dinner on the beach or a suite upgrade or receive a vintage wine. Three-night minimum. Certificate must be presented at check-in. Presidential suite not included."
Email me your address and I will get it out in the mail ASAP - I'll take the first one to respond!
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We had 60 guests at our wedding - those are all the people you see in the chairs/on the beach. But let me tell you that we had at least another 50 or so watching the wedding above that wall. I thought it was hilarious - people in bikinis as some of our "guests." Our lanterns did have lights in them but I'm not even sure they worked. It didn't really matter because they had these huge spotlights to light the area once it got dark. We actually had to ask them to point that light up a little more because it was right in our eyes at times.
The wedding was an absolute success! There were only a few snags along the way but no one noticed except me. Stay tuned for a review thread! -
Hey ladies! I have a $150 Gracias Certificate for any Azul or El Dorado properties. My husband has had it in his wallet since October and I had no idea. It has to be used by December 15 and we won't make it back before then, obviously. It says it can be given to a friend and I can't think of anyone other than you girls!
It says "receive a $150 Resort Credit per room to be used at any of our luxury resorts toward a beachfront sky massage or a candlelight dinner on the beach or a suite upgrade or receive a vintage wine. Three-night minimum. Certificate must be presented at check-in. Presidential suite not included."
Email me your address and I will get it out in the mail tomorrow - I'll take the first one to respond!
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Oh, and here are our pictures!!!
Click on View your Pictures, password is mexico
I highly recommend our photographer if you are planning to take one with you!! She took thousands of pictures!! And she can fly from DFW which is a relatively inexpensive flight for those of you in Canada or Europe. I am happy to give you her info or if you get it off the website, let her know Shanda recommended her. Let me know if you have any questions!
Shanda
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Hey ladies! I have a $150 Gracias Certificate for any Azul or El Dorado properties. My husband has had it in his wallet since October and I had no idea. It has to be used by December 15 and we won't make it back before then, obviously. It says it can be given to a friend and I can't think of anyone other than you girls!
It says "receive a $150 Resort Credit per room to be used at any of our luxury resorts toward a beachfront sky massage or a candlelight dinner on the beach or a suite upgrade or receive a vintage wine. Three-night minimum. Certificate must be presented at check-in. Presidential suite not included."
Email me your address and I will get it out in the mail tomorrow - I'll take the first one to respond!
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Hey girls! We got back yesterday from the honeymoon. Just wanted to let you all know that the wedding was absolutely beautiful!! Everything was perfect that day and we can't imagine having done our wedding any other way. We honeymooned at the El Dorado Seaside Suites and it was amazing as well. We spent more time in the room there than we did at Sensatori - not just for the reason you are all thinking! We were exhausted from the wedding!
I'll write a full review very soon - I promise! Here is a link to just a few of the pictures our photog put on her blog. I'll post more soon...
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Ladies!! We're heeeeerrrreee! It's technically Thursday morning right now and we are in the room. We upgraded to a premium room and got a private concierge check-in. We arrived on Tuesday and most guests arrived Wednesday. Welcome reception in Spoon was just OK. Food took awhile and it wasn't fantastic. Drinks were flowing though, and I think that kept our guests happy. The servers didn't really even think about the whole "you are the bride and groom so we'll make sure you get your food first" thing either. On-site coordinators are super nice. Everyone here is super nice! One bad thing - we feel like most people are expecting a tip for EVERYTHING! Gratuities are included but we are tipping too. IDK if our friends are...
More to come!
Shanda
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Carrie,
We are doing our ceremony on the beach at the gazebo near the palapas (I think) and then the reception at the Zavaz Plaza deck. It is getting soooo close. Most of our guests are arriving on Wednesday so we could definitely meet for drinks Tuesday evening if you can. Since we are in Texas, a lot of our guests are just making it a 4 night vacation (Wednesday-Sunday). We are also leaving AS on Sunday and heading to either El Dorado Royale or Seaside Suites. Have you been to either?? Or heard anything? We keep going back and forth on those but we need to get it booked this week!
I still have sooooo much to do!
Shanda
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Scooby - looks like we are getting married the same weekend! We are leaving on Tuesday, getting married on Friday the 2nd. Maybe we can meet up at a bar for drinks?
Shanda
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When are you planning to tell your principal? Do you guys have a similar policy?? At least you are only taking 2 days. -
Holy crap - posting that made me realize my wedding is in just over a month!
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Hey ladies! I haven't posted in a couple of weeks because I had to go back to work - booooo! I teach high school and it keeps me busy all damn day.
I did want to let you all know that after a LONG wait on the whole rate special issue, they did lower the rates for all my guests. A lot of them had even paid the full balance already and they are issuing refunds! Hard to believe huh? I know it brightened up my day when I heard about it so hopefully it will restore some faith in those soul crushing money grubbers
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They have Emergen-C here in Texas. My mom bought it in bulk at Costco or Sam's Club. Do you have those in Chicago? Most of the people I have heard that have taken it said it is one of the best things EVER to make your hangover feel better. I've never taken it so I don't know exactly what form it's in (pill, drink, powder you add to water).
We are using little organza bags and putting in Tylenol, Emergen-C, Immodium, and Tums. We are tying a ribbon around it with a tag that says "Hangover Kit." I think it's going to be really cute! We are also doing a bottle of spray air freshener for each room. My guests are going to be drinking A LOT so we are tying a tag around it that says something like, "Too much drinking leaves the bathroom stinking" or something to that effect. I have heard a lot of girls on here say that they wish they had put an air freshener in their bags. -
This does make me puke - we still haven't heard back about them giving us the lower rates. My TA said she is going to some VP but it seems to be taking forever for him to get back to her. Stay tuned about how it turns out! We will have a pretty sour taste in our mouths if they don't work with us AT ALL on it!
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Whoa!! Crazy stuff. I bet Chima just did it because she thought she would get voted out. I love reading spoilers. We watch BBAD all the time hoping they all say something to give away what is going to happen on the show. Good riddance to her!
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If this helps, most of our guests are staying 4 nights.
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For our October 2 wedding we started telling people back in November 08 that it would most likely be between $1000-$1500 per person including airfare. We didn't give them the exact room rates until we signed the contract in late January. We quoted them per person but based on double occupancy. We have a lot of single friends going that are rooming with other singles. The price is much higher if only 1 person stays in the room so we tried our best to get everyone a roomie that didn't have one.
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Do you mind telling me who you spoke with at the resort that is giving you these options? I won't mention your name, but I want to give that name to my travel agent to see if we can get the same options. -
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I agree about the class of people that might be there now. Also, I verified with the resort this morning that they still had the availability for at least 25 rooms. I called in as if I were booking a new wedding and they quoted me the special rates. My TA then told me that they are doing it to sell the last few rooms. We feel like we are being duped here. Were you able to get anywhere with them? When is your wedding? -
All of our guests are booked in the jr. jacuzzi suites. Double occupancy rates in our contract is $739 per person for 4 nights. The new special rate on the internet is $524 for 4 nights. Over $200 per person difference!! We are staying 5 nights at Azul, paying $1886 total for the 2 of us. The new special rate would save us around $575!!! Our contract includes taxes and hotel transfers. The problem we are having is that we are almost 45 days out and it would be quite expensive to cancel all the rooms. I am waiting to hear back from my TA tomorrow to see if she could negotiate anything.
I used to work for an upscale hotel here in Austin and figured we would book the lowest room category and hope for upgrades. I think most of our guests want to be on higher floors so we opted not to do the swim up suites.
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Same here!! I am fuming right now. We got our first quotes for room rates in October or November of 08. My TA sent me rates on January 9, 2009. When we decided for sure to sign the contract on January 20, the resort came back and said those rates no longer applied because they were given in 2008 - even though they quoted them again to my TA in January. So we signed the contract based on higher 2009 rates - it was only $15 or so per person per night so we were only mildly annoyed. At that time my TA fought for me to get the lower rate but they wouldn't budge and they ASSURED her that the rates would not go down this year and that was the absolute lowest we would get...period. Now I see my guests could be saving $215 for their trip!! Let me know what they say about it. -
More and more charges!! So frustrating! I wonder what would happen if we booked it for 40 and then more actually show up for the dinner. I mean, would they refuse to serve them at an ALL-INCLUSIVE restaurant on site? Anyone have a clue about the size of the restaurant?
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I have a pretty random question for all of you about the actual ceremony.
We are planning for a friend, who was ordained on the internet, to marry us so we are not paying for the civil ceremony or blood test stuff in Mexico. We just want it to be more personalized by having a very close friend perform the ceremony. We also do not want to get married before or after at a JP. We were just planning to apply for and file the marriage license here in Travis county with the date of the ceremony we have in Mexico. Is that legit? I mean, will it be a legal marriage as far as the state of Texas is concerned?
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We decided not to go with the covers or the bows and we are so glad we didn't spend the money there. I don't know that anyone would have noticed. The people who are going to make the trip are probably not the ones who are going to gossip about your chairs not being covered