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Sunscape Resort Time Shares
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    • emilienoelle
  • Updated By emilienoelle on August 11, 2004
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    Run to the beach instead!!
    by emilienoelle
    I only have one complaint about the Sunscape Resort: they employ people, very nice, local people to mingle among the guests and convince them to take a "tour" of their new time share facilities. After you take the tour, which in itself is not so bad, you are then brought to a room and handed over to the "manager" who will mercilessly (and very rudely) attempt to sell you a time share deal using every hard-sell technique in the book. I was greatly offended by this, not just because the people doing the selling were so damn obnoxious, but because we paid a decent amoount of money to stay here and I found the entire thing to be in very poor taste. All in all, we wasted 2 hours of our vacation caught in this time share quagmire only to be gruffly ushed to the door when we refused to agree to paying $15, 000 for something that was not even adequately expalined to us. If you stay at the Sunscape, avoid these people at all costs.

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    Voladores
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    • Dabs
  • By Dabs on December 12, 2003
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    Voladores
    by Dabs
    This may not be a bonafide tourist trap as we didn't stay around to watch the performance. If you try to take a picture, even before the performance starts, there will be someone chasing you down looking for a donation. I might have given one had they actually been doing something when I snapped the photo.

    Stick around for the performance :-) Apparently it is something to see but i didn't know what it was before we went.

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    Too crowded
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    • micas_pt
  • Updated By micas_pt on October 29, 2003
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    by micas_pt
    Tulum is always very crowded. Buses full of tourists and guides arrive every minute. And guides always say that those shops by the parking space are the best - i don't agree! They seem to be more expensive than other places and have nothing to sell that is worth buying.

    When you enter the ruins there are always so many groups of people surrounding guides, that sometimes you have some difficulty in managing to observe things properly.

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    too much people
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    • Alicja1
  • By Alicja1 on March 8, 2004
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    • if you visit Tulum in the morning you can admire the beauty of this place, later you wont see nothing because of number of tourists.

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    very hot!!
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    • Alicja1
  • By Alicja1 on March 12, 2004
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    by Alicja1
    Around 11.00am is gointg to be very hot.

    Take a water with you.

    There is a nice beach over there so dont forget a swim suit.

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    Roadside souvenir stands
    icsgirl28
  • By icsgirl28 on July 15, 2006
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    • Honestly, all that we went to seemed overpriced, especially for silver. We found that we could buy the same things at the gift shop and jewelry store at our resort for less, and superior quality.

    You may be making an unexpected stop at a tourist trap if you book any excursions. That's how we always ended up at them. You can haggle a lot. Some people bought the same thing, one for half the price that another paid.

    If you are on an excursion, you may want to take a taxi back to your accommodations. You'll get home faster, and you can leave when you want to leave. There were generally taxis at the exit areas of all tourist attractions, so it's not a problem getting one.

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    Payments for camera using
    Alicja1
  • By Alicja1 on March 12, 2004
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    • Unfortunately you need to pay for entrance and for your camera. It cost about 10$

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    Lapis Jewelry Company...if you are a millionaire
    cherylll
  • Updated By cherylll on January 25, 2006
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    • Upon leaving our Resort, to do a shopping day trip into Playa del Carmen, you are told, as you are getting onto the bus, that it will be stopping at a jewelry factory on the way to PDC, to see how jewelry is made. Sounds kinda of interesting until you get there...there is no one in sight making any kind of jewelry. You are unshered into a huge building to shop at an extremly exqusite shopping 'site' (for lack of a better word) If you are a multi-millionaire then you can afford it!!!

    If you have to go into the Lapis Jewelry Company, just go to look or stay outside, as the group is only there for 45 minutes and then onto PDC

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    Voladores
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  • Updated By call_me_rhia on January 7, 2006
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    voladores
    by call_me_rhia
    Flyrs are what people call "voladores". they are the ultimate tourist attraction (or trap( just outside the Tulum ruins. It's five costumed men recreating a ceremonial ritual by the Totonac indians. Here's how someone online described the ritual: "the flyers begin by climbing the tall pole, then each of four of the men slip a foot into a loop at the end of a rope that is wound around the top of the pole. The fifth team member performs a special dance to each of the four cardinal directions, dancing upon the top of the pole while playing a flute! At the right moment, the four flyers release themselves from the small cap on the pole and fall to earth, circling around the pole in expanding circles as the rope unwinds, eventually touching ground."

    Remember it's a show put up for tourists - money is collected at the end of the show (or during). It's up to you to decide if it's correct to give some or not.

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    The ruins
    1Sharla
  • By 1Sharla on March 17, 2006
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    OK, I almost put this in "things to do" but really, it takes just a few moments in this place to realize that you can see what there is to see so quickly. And the people--it is crazy!

    I guess you should see it just to say you saw it. It is magnificent.

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