After a very long time of not traveling, Christine and I are heading to our first trip away since the start of the pandemic. We had returned from our Australian adventure at the very end of February, 2020, just before countries were shutting down. We’ve had two of our Olivia trips cancelled since then and we’ve only been to Vermont once a few months ago to visit Eve. So this trip to Tulum, Mexico has been eagerly awaited. And now we’re here at the Dreams Tulum Resort and Spa.
We flew from Binghamton to Detroit. Since Delta has reduced to only one flight in and out of the Binghamton airport that departs at 2:19 pm, unless you have a late-in-the-day connection, you have to spend the night in Detroit, which we did.
Off we go 
Tunnel at the Detroit airport 
Have computer will travel
Saturday morning, October 23, we flew from Detroit to Cancun and then we were bused to the Dreams Tulum Resort, which is about 90 minutes south of Cancun. Olivia Travel does a bang up job of organizing everything and our transfer to the resort went smoothly. Upon our arrival, the first thing we had to do was get a rapid COVID test. We had had a test done on Thursday before departing because I thought Mexico had a requirement for testing prior to entering, but I was wrong about that. But with that test negative, we were confident that our arrival test would be negative, and it was. We had also gotten our vaccine booster shot a couple of weeks ago, which we had wanted to do before traveling, so the CDC guidelines about Pfizer boosters came just in the nick of time. What didn’t go smoothly was check-in. After standing in a long line to register, we learned that our room was not ready, which it was supposed to be because we arrived after the 3:00 p.m. check-in time. We were told to go enjoy the resort for an hour and come back to the desk. That’s what we did. We found the Seaside Grill and had a late lunch/early dinner which was tasty (tacos) and in a beautiful setting.
After about 90 minutes we walked back up to the registration area to check our room availability. I was disappointed that I had to stand in another long line along with women who hadn’t registered yet. I thought they would have a better process for already registered folks who just needed a room key, but no. I waited about 30 minutes to finally get to the front of the line to pick up our room keys.
We were quite happy to get to our room because by now we were hot, tired, and ready to plop down. Our room is really great! It’s what is called a junior suite with a small, separate sitting area and a balcony. We have a wonderful view and we’re happy with the accommodations.
We got ourselves all settled into our room and found that we were so tired that we actually called it a night at about 7:30 pm. But now we’re ready to start our vacation tomorrow and will be well-rested.
In the next post, I’ll tour you around the resort, which is really lovely.
So happy that you are so happy