HURACANES EN RIVIERA MAYA 2005 ✈️ Foros de Viajes ✈️ p59 ✈️

Hola,

Yo también voy al Riu Lupita el 29 de Julio. Por lo que he leido, la gente del Riu Lupita se quedó en él durante el huracán. También he leido que los Riu de Playa del Carmen van a estar cerrados 2 días para solucionar los desperfectos y luego volverán a abrir normalmente. Si alguien tiene más información, por favor, decidnoslo.

Gracias

Hola Yanet:

Dices que tu información no es para agradecer, de verdad eres una buena amiga, nos informas de todo y aun eres modesta, enhorabuena.

Yo voy para la riviera maya el 1 de septiembre espero que para entonces todo este mas tranquilo, mala suerte seria si pasarán dos hracanes grandes por la misma zona en tan poco tiempo no?

Respecto a lo que dices de las excursiones y compras si que estoy interesado en toda la información que puedas facilitarnos.

Tu pagina de msn muy bonitas sobre todo las fotos, alguna expectacular.

Hola Diobi !!

Bueno, stoy leyendo el periòdico y Mèrida, ha albergado 12,000 turistas de La Riviera Maya. Tanto del interior del paìs como de diversas partes del mundo.
Con respecto a lo de la informaciòn, nuevamente les digo .. Lo hago con todo gusto, puesto que me gusta ayudar a la gente o brindales informaciòn, y en sì los sureños somos hospitalarios ademàs de ello, de eso deseo estudiar, turismo, puesto que es lo que me gusta y el dìa de mañana que logre mi meta ... Pondrè mi agencia de viajes, jijijij ...
Bueeno, es todo x el momento y seguimos en contacto.....


Yanet

Hola,
Necesitaria información sobre el hotel club madarin.
Alguien sabe algo de su estado ? Alguien sabe algo de este hotel, porque si no fuera porque lo he visto en el catalogo, no he visto ninguna opinion o referencia a ese hotel y está en Playa del Carmen.
Agradeceria cualquier información.
Gracias.

Os pongo el mensaje de otro foro, esta en ingles, dice que el kantenah esta abierto con limitaciones pero si leeis esta bastante dañado aunque creen que en dos semanas podra estar a pleno rendimiento. Lo peor parado ha sido la vegetación, gran parte del encanto de este hotel para mi era precisamente eso, pero bueno como dice Ann el hotel ha sobrevivido al huracan y todos están bien.
"Hi Ann,

First of all thanks for your thoughts and your prayers. I have no doubt they
All were usuful to pass this situation.

This is the first time I have a connection to Internet but not from the
Hotel. Telmex is not having any possibility to provide us the service.
Possibly later on today through BBG we may have access to the phone. Cells
Are not working too. If you see how the cel phones towers are after the
Storm you would not believe it.

Everybody is fine. Nobody has been injured. All guests and Staff are ok. If
You can metion something in all the boards that would be great as I imagine
Lots or worried relatives will be checking any possible page to know about
Them. No injured in our staff. Absolutely great.

The jungle and the lobbies are destroyed. El Gran Azul palapa is ok just with some reparations it will be ok. The theather palapa is destroyed. All palapas by the beach are destroyed. The beach is ok, some rockes but in a few days it can be cleaned again. The palm trees by the beach have been also damaged seriously, as our garden. As soon as I get the connection I will send you some pictures. Absolutely incredible.

Some palapas remain at the Spa pool and at the Adults pool. We have to empty
Both ones, will have the chance to repair the tiles properly and full them
Again. I hope this will be ready tomorrow.The main pool has no more palapas, just a few, absoultely dark. We are also working in this pool but it will take longer.

Beach bar is ok, except for the ceiling of the terraz (horrible in any way)
That was affected and we willl take the chace and built something nicer.

La Jarra, new beach bar, is ok.

Kids Club, glases (not the windows) were destroyed but the palapas are ok.
It will be ready tomorrow.

All the rest is more or less fine. Except for two glasses at the Tikal,
Restaurants are ready to open.

We have been giviiing the service according to our possibilites but even the
Show cookings were working yesterday. No complaints. We have been extensively
Thanked for all what we have done during these days.

I feel absolutely proud of all our staff.

The decision was made that we will remain opened with some limitations. (Note from Ann: Apple requested the resort stay opened as approx. 40 resorts will be closing.)

The disco will be working as our only bar for a few days but at least we
Have one for our guests.The beach bar will be ready tomorrow.
We will have two pools ready tomorrow. The big one in a week
All rooms are ok. All restaurants are ok.
We do not have lobbies yet but we will have the Colonial one ready in two
Week.I expect the theater to be ready also in two weeks. In the mean time, if the
Weather help us, we will have the entertainment by El Gran Azul as soon as I
Am sure the palapa is sure.

So...THE PALLADIUM IS HERE YET AND I CAN PROUDLY SAY IT!

Yo marcho o mejor en teoria tengo vuelo el día 5 de agosto,me hospedo e el hotel riu lupita que no esta en primera linea de playa,pero me da la impresion que la zona ha quedado muy tocada me estoy planteando la cancelación (por mi porque mi novia la quiere cancelar),pero bueno esperare a ultima hora,la información de la mayorista no me vale y encima me llamaron hoy para decirme que ha subido el combustible del avion,he leido antes un post del estado de algunos hoteles y es bastante malo,no se tengo muchas muchas dudas,pero tb muchas ganas de conocer ese lindo pais (no hay mas que ver a nuestra amiga yanet como se esta portando),sus gentes y sus costumbres,bueno veremos que pasa pero tengo dudas,por cierto hay que organizar una buena cena e invitarla a yanet,por su amabilidad.
Un saludo.

Yo tb voy al lupita el 5 de agosto,al no estar en primera linea no ha tenido tantos desperfectos,pero la vegetación y las comunicaciones estan muy tocadas,tengo dudas de cancelación es una pasta y .....,no se esperare a ultima hora aunque me cueste una penalización cancelar.
UN saludo
(he visto fotos de la zona y la verdad esta bastante mal la cosa).

Hola,
Yo llego a Cancún el día 24 de julio y tengo reserva en el Catalonia Riviera Maya [Puerto Aventuras]
De este pueblo llegan pocas noticias. ¿Alguien sabe cómo está la zona?
Mil gracias

Hola de nuevo!!

Los hoteles no han quedado dañados, tal vez sí hayan tenido, pero cosa leve, el problema está en que los servicios no están disponibles aún, hay gente en playa del carmen que aún no tiene ni luz ni agua, tengo una amiga allá, que vive en una colonia no muy lejana de la 5ta avenida y dice que no está nada bien. Por otro lado, en Puerto aventuras es por donde entró el huracán, fué el primer lugar afectado. Así que les recomiendo que se comuniquen con sus respectivos hoteles para que les brinden información acerca de los servicios.

Yanet

Por si les sirve de alguna cosa, les remito información de situación de los hoteles publicada en otro foro. La cosa no pinta nada bien.
playa.info/ ...ge=9&pp=15

Aunque esté en ingles pego la informaición del estado de los hoteles.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 (5:00 pm) Hello folks, the people of Cancun.Bz hired me to make a site inspection to the area affected by the Hurricane Emily that recently hitted the Mayan Riviera. No other electronic media is offering this information on the internet and they are just publishing sensacionalist news and taking as background for their news videos and pictures from past hurricanes where shows disaster and devastation. This information is real and objective, I was hotel manager for 15 years, actually I'm the owner of travel agency in Cancun and living here for more than 27 years, this report is serious and here is what I saw this morning:
Puerto Morelos. I started the site inspection in Puerto Morelos. On this area the hotels are Paraiso de la Bonita, Desire Resort & Spa, Azul Beach Hotel, Melia Paradisus Puerto Morelos, Ceiba del Mar, Reef club, Secrets Excellence Riviera and others.
Report: All the hotels on that area are working normally, no damages in most of them except in thatched roofs but they will get fixed in a couple of days. They have electricity, water and all the services, some of them are haveing problem with the telephone lines but this will be fixed at any moment. We recommend that if you have reservation for those hotels or Puerto Morelos hotels don't cancel your reservations.
Punta Maroma. The hotels on this area are: El Dorado Royale, Mayan palace, Carrousel Villas Paraiso, Iberostar Playa Paraiso, Maroma Resort & Spa and Venta Club Playa Maroma. Those hotels are working normally and the damages are minor those ones can be repaired in a couple of days. If you have reserved on those hotels don't be afraid to keep your reservation.
Playa del Carmen. This area hosts the following hotels: Bravo Club El Mandarin, Secrets Capri, Maya Koba, El caracol Village, Capitan Laffite, Kaillum Resort, Qualton Club Riviera Maya, Ikal del Mar, Las Palapas. Shangri La and downtown hotels. Those hotels are operating normally too , minor damages to facilities, some of them had thatched roofs as decoration only but nothing that can not be repaired in 2 or 3 days. Electricity is back, they have water and all the services, beaches were beautiful today. I walked along the 5th avenue today and drove on the city and everything seems nice except for some trees and branches but the government and hoteliers are cleaning the streets. If you are going to stay on any of those hotels please do it.
PlayaCar. This is the hotel zone of Playa del Carmen and residential area, it has a golf course and hosts some of the most beautiful hotels in the area. I entered the area and there was a lot of trees and branches spreaded on the paved roads but also an army of workers cleaning the area. I stopped hotel by hotel and asked the manager on duty or the front desk manager about the situation of ther hotels and this is the report:
Riu Hotels.- All the hotels of this chain are operating normally, their facilities don't present any visible damage and there were tourists in the lobby, restaurants and beaches so everything looked like a normal day.
Gala Resorts.- This hotel is closed due to damages on some parts of the hotels, I saw people working on the area, I asked about re-opening date and they said they don't have that information at that time.
Royal Hideaway.- Closed, full of workers, didn't want to allow the access and don't have a re-opening date actually.
Wyndham Viva Azteca.- Closed, full of workers, didn't want to allow the access and don't have a re-opening date actually.
Reef Playacar. Closed, full of workers, didn't want to allow the access and don't have a re-opening date actually.
The golf course looks like fine, some trees and branches on the grass but nothing can not be solved in a short period of time.
Private houses and villas on the area look okay, the access roads are in very good conditions.
On each hotel we left a letter asking the hotel managers to send us a full report about the status of their hotels in order we can publish that information on this page. Personally I think the hotels closed at this time will be ready to operate in one or two weeks because no visible damages are shown except on the roofs and some palapas on the beach. Before you cancel your vacation for those hotels we strongly suggest you to contact your travel agency or wait for the response of the hoteliers to our letter, we will publish here the report for each hotel. Important: Some hotels in Playa del Carmen and Playacar are working but they still are having problems with the telephone service so if you want to contact them be patient that it fill be fixed in a short period of time.
After Playacar I took the south road to Tulum, after 10 minutes drive I really saw the damage that the hurricane caused on this area. Thousands of fallen trees, electricity poles cutted in half like plastiline, electric lines on the ground, a microwave tower twisted like a small copper wire, myriad of workers of the electric company fixing the poles, lot of activity but about the hotels....
Xcaret Park and Flamingo Xcaret.- The park and the hotel are closed, no access is allowed but we will speak with the head office to grab the information of status and re-opening date.
Puerto Aventuras.- This is painful for me to report this but Puerto Aventuras is devastated, no electricity, no water, no services at all. I recall this exclusive place for its golf course, nice roads, ever green jungle, exclusive hotels, all this has gone, this morning it looked like a junk yard , trees spreaded everywhere, trees under cars, debris everywhere. I personally think Puerto Aventuras will not recover itself for several months. I advise you to cancel your trip to Puerto Aventuras or change it to Cancun or Playa del Carmen instead. The hotels I visited were The Omni, Punta Serena, Sunscape Puerto Aventuras and the Oasis.
On this area another hotels are located, those ones are Aventura Spa Palace and Xpu-Ha Palace, those hotels are closed too for major damages and they don't have a date to re-open at this moment. If you had plans for vacation on those hotels I suggest you to contact them to their headquartes to inquiry further information. Email them al info@palaceresorts.com
Continued my trip to the south most of the hotels are damaged and no estimated re-opening date was available at that moment but all of them presented serious damages on roofs and facilities, I think it will takes weeks even a couple months to get the damages fixed, the landscaping and gardening is a real disaster, it will not be a nice view for the tourists to see a dry jungle and garbage everywhere, please give those hotels some time to recover. No electricity, water, telephone at this time. We will keep track the status of each hotel over the course of the next days and publish the hotel comments in a special section of the weather main page of cancun.bz
The following hotels are in that area and ALL of them are closed:
Copacabana Beach Resort
Barcelo Maya Beach
Club Maeva Akumal
Oasis Akumal
El Dorado Seaside Suites
Kantenah Palladium and Colonial Palladium

Buenas,

Viajamos a RM el 29 de Julio. En un principio no vamos a anular el viaje. Dicen que los Riu están bastante bien y no hay problema (vamos al Lupita). Me preocupa un poco como estarán las carreteras, ruinas, etc, pero soy optimista. Supongo que poco a poco nos llegará información sobre ello. Los que salís en esas fechas ¿que tenéis pensado hacer? Los que sigáis adelante, estaría bien ir conociéndonos y formando un grupito para las excursiones (no nos vamos a dejar amargar las vacaciones por un poco de airecillo, por muy huracán que sea, jijiji).
Espero vuestras respuestas.

Ciao y Animo.

9 días y bajando....

Kitara puedes poner el link de donde has sacado esta información??

La información sobre el kantenah y el collonial no es correcta, estos hoteles SI ESTAN ABIERTOS aunque con limitaciones, podies ver el mensaje del director del hotel (Felipe) en otro de los temas credos por mi. La zona es cierto que esta bastante mal.

La información está aquí
playa.info/ ...e=10&pp=15

Buenos días a todos, ayer nos llamaron de la agencia de viajes para preguntarnos que queriamos hacer, pues nos comentaron que la zona está bastante mal, aunque los hoteles se dan prisa para que todo esté perfecto. Pero claro, pagas un dinero para poder disfrutar de una magnificas vacaciones y ahora estamos dudando que hacer. Nosotros nos vamos a finales de Agosto, y para esas fechas puede que la cosa este mejor, pero claro.... No como antes. Ayer nos dieron varias opciones, porque queremos ir a Caribe, nos dijeron Cuba y Punta Cana.
Que hacemos? aconsejarnos porfavor porque realmente estamos muy indecisos, no nos atrae la idea de ir y no poder disfrutar del pais como dios manda.
La zona en la que teniamos reservada era en Puerto Aventuras, la mas afectada. En fin, os agradeceria cualquier tipo de consejo o recomendación.

Esto es lo ultimo que tengo respecto al estado de los hoteles después del EMILY

As of 7/18/05

Riu Palace
8 ton buoy on the beach. Vegetation stripped. 1st floor rooms flooded. Glass above lobby bar broken.

Riu Yucatan
Lots of debris. Sand around building blocks. Large trees in pool. Beach 1/2 the size it was.

Riu Tequila
Pool is closed. Damage to gardens. 60% of the restaurants and bars are open. Gradually getting back to operations.

Secrets Excellence
Damage to some windows in the Excellence Club. Excellence Club area is closed for a few days. 3 of 7 restaurants have damage and are closed. Should accept guests by Tuesday.

Secrets Capri
In a clean up mode, minimal damage. 100% functional.

Sunscape Puerto Aventuras
A few rooms are damaged. Two outdoor restaurants are damaged. Still assessing damages but resort is NOT open. Guests will be sent to Dreams in Cancun, Secrets Excellence or Secrets Capri.
*Update 7/19*
Closed 1-2 months

Sunscape Tulum
Broken windows in oceanfront rooms and outdoor restaurant. 1 restaurant lost it's roof. Beach erosion. Open by 7/20.

*NOTE* Even though they are adults only properties, both Capri and Excellence ARE accepting families that have been displaced by the closing of the Sunscape Puerto Aventuras for as long as necessary.

Iberostar Maya
Debris. Lobby damaged. Beach erosion.

Iberostar Paraiso Beach/Del Mar
2 restaurants are damaged. Lobby bar damaged. Beach erosion. Kids club and convention center closed.

Iberostar Tucan/Quetzal
Least amount of damage of all the IB*'s. Pool and beach has debris. Kids club and restaurant damaged.

It will take about a week to fully clean up the above IB* resorts but they are accepting guests.

Iberostar Cozumel
Badly damaged. Closed for several months.

Occidental Grand Cozumel
Closed until December.

Palladium
Closed. Should reopen in a week, perhaps a little more.
*update 7/19*
Hotel is open but operating on limited facilities, as requested by Apple Vacations that they stay open. Not sure if they are accepting guests from anyone other than Apple. The jungles and lobbies were destroyed. Lobby on Colonial side should reopen in two weeks. The theater palapa is destroyed, theater should be open in two weeks. Only one bar (disco) open right now, other bars will reopen in a few days. New beach bar is OK. Other beach bar lost it's ceiling. All beach palapas and main pool palapas are down. Main pool closed, will reopen when repairs have been made. Adult pool and spa pool have some palapas left. Adult pool and spa pool are empty and will reopen after repairs to the tile are made...and this will be before the main pool which will take longer to repair. Palm trees on beach severly damaged. Windows in kids club destroyed. Most restaurants are fine, and open.

Omni Puerto Aventuras
Closed until 8/8.

Copacabana
The eye passed over this hotel. No roof in the lobby. Closed, not sure when it will reopen yet.

Bahia Principe Tulum/Akumal
Closed for 15 days (?)

El Dorado Seaside Suites
Water damage. Vegetation stripped. Open by 7/21, will be 75% operational.
*Update 7/19*
Will reopen on 7/26

Azul Resort and Spa
Open and accepting guests

El Dorado Royale
Open by 7/21, will be 100% operational.

Reef Coco Beach
Lots of debris. Lots of roof damage. Most of roof and lots of sand in the pool. Buffet restaurant damaged.

Barcelo Maya
No power or water. No phones. Theater almost destroyed. Many chandliers fell. Lots of downed trees. *Should* be up and running in 72 hours as per management.

Aventura Spa Palace
Closed until further notice. Guests moved to Moon Palace or Palace properties in Cancun.
*Update 7/19*
Closed until October (?)

Xpu Ha Palace
Closed for 8-10 weeks. Guests moved to Moon Palace or Palace properties in Cancun.
*Update 7/19*
Closed until October (?)

Akumal Beach Resort
Closed until mid September

Gala Playacar
Open on 7/25

Viva Maya and Viva Azteca
Will reopen on 8/18

Allegro Playacar
Closed. No opening date given yet. Looks to be some very significant damage. Pictures were taken by "urbangal" (thank you!) and are in the Multimedia area under member photos.

Royal Hideaway
Said to be reopening by 7/22 but with "limited facilities". Damage to theater and landscaping.

Falta más de un mes para iros, en ese tiempo les da tiempo de poder arreglar todos los desperfectos que se hayan podido producir. Yo iría: merece la pena. Por cierto, ¿sóis de Jerez?

Mirar este mapa que aclara mucho la cosa

playa.info/ ...hp?t=16008

Esta claro que la zona sur es la mas afectada y cuanto mas al norte menos problemas, ya cada uno que sabe donde esta su hotel podra tomar las medidas, yo creo que viajar en las dos proximas semanas al sur de la riviera maya es tirar un poco el dinero.

Yo voy en Octubre y al Riu Yucatan, osea que no estoy demasiado preocupado.

Nosotros también nos vamos a Riviera Maya a finales de Agosto y de momento no vamos a cancelar nada, ya que en la zona lo restauran todo bastante pronto, pero si tienes dudas llama al Hotel donde vayas y les preguntas, son bastante sinceros. De todos modos donde ha afectado el Huracán, en la península del Yucatán, normalmente no suelen llegar huracanes tan a menudo como al resto del caribe, es más problable que los huracanes que quedan por venir afecten mas a Punta Cana, Cuba y Jamaica, que a Mexico.
Quisiera decirte también que es la época de huracanes en la zona y que cuando se va a la zona hay que asumir que te puede tocar alguno, yo ya he ido 5 veces por la zona del caribe y hasta ahora (tocaré madera) no me ha tocado vivir ninguno, lo más cercano siempre han sido coletazos del huracán y tormentas tropicales.
En definitiva no seré yo quién os quite la idea, en caso que decidáis no ir, pero es una zona que merece mucho la pena para ser visitada, la gente es encantadora.
David0474@terra.es
Saludos
David M.

Gracias, muy buena información y muy detallada.