Lost in Translation
The pool water was very pretty to look at in Cancun but much chillier than the ocean! If you can get to the top of any of the hotels in the tourist strip (and it's tough because they are purposely designed to display views that eclipse the surrounding buildings and properties), you can see the whole coastline of the hotel strips is filled with them! Our hotel alone had something like four pools - all on the beach side of the building. It's their winter season over there and tourism is just starting up for the year, so the pools and beaches aren't completely packed just yet. It makes for more privacy but less sampling of the swim-up bar! They also had an on-site DJ who sat in a little grass hut by one of the pools all day long playing thumping dance music... it made me happy we came here early in the winter. You won't find us dancing poolside on Spring Break Cancun 2009!