First full day

Yesterday was our first full day, and we woke up to the most overclouded day ever! It was grey and windy all day, but no problem for us! We set up in the main square, all four of us tapped into the excellent wifi! Or reading or in my case embroidering.

Forgot to mention that I flooded the bathroom yesterday (as some of you know, we've had a problem with water in our rooms previously and this years no exception.....).  I turned on the shower from outside, only to be drenched full face on in freezing cold water as the shower head had been turned to face the door, literally gallons poured into the room before my rescuer could save me.  Yep, another flooded room! Kev mopped up with the bath mat, squeezing it out in between.  Hey ho!

First impressions of the hotel are good with a couple of exceptions.  The hotel is vast 880 rooms on a large sprawling estate.  We upgraded to the adults only area of the hotel, which means we get exclusive use of the adults only pool and bar, wifi in the pool area, bottles of alcohol in the bedroom and a mini bar.

After a lovely lunch yesterday heres the photo of the chicken, salad filled poppadum from yesterdays post

We strolled out to the pool area, this is a lovely little oasis of calm! But boy was it cold! So we sat under the bar canopy! Lol! my boss assures me the weathers going to pick up on Friday so fingers crossed!

In the evening we had a lovely meal in the main restaurant - i have to say here that the food is very good, lots of choice, all very fresh and well seasoned, however, as is usual with Riu hotels, its all buffet style.  Weve booked into the four speciality restaurants later in the week, but they are also buffet style.  I think this is where Riu fall down on their 5*'s compared to the likes of EPM.  

This and the alcohol, which is truly horrendous......cheap manufactured synthetic nastyness, really really bad! Everything Ive tried so far has been unpalatable except the lemon caipirinha. And the wine yuk!!! We're going to be drinking Kevs single malt with coke the rest of the week!!  

Anyways - Theres lots of cats around the resort that come up and chat which suits me as i love them! 

Last night, we had another nice meal, followed by the jazz show - lots of miming and dancing to the score of chicago - it was surprising good! Lol! Then off to bed!  More tomorrow!