How It All Started

In late 2012 my husband and I started talking about going on a winter get away!!  He told me he was doing this for me as he knew I wanted to go on a tropical vacation!  He also told me this would probably be the only Tropical vacation I would get or at least the only one he would go with me on.

So in November we planned a time to go see the travel agent but first we had to have an idea of where we were interested in visiting.  We had a budget price per person and settled on Mexico in the end.  

We booked our trip to Sandos Caracol Eco Resort located north of Playa del Carman Mexico for January 12, 2013!!  

Once we are cleared through Immigration & Customs and got our luggage - no secondary screening, we got the green light to leave.  We head out to catch the shuttle to the resort!  We must of looked like first time visitors, which we were as everyone was wanting to sell us a tour, give us a map, one even told us our shuttle was going to be 45 minutes late!  We had been warned by the travel agent that these would people trying to sell us a time share and would cause us to hold up the shuttle or miss it all together, something we didn't want to do.  A quick stop for a beer at the bar outside the airport then into the shuttle and we are heading off for the resort!!!

We arrive at the resort around 1:30pm!  We are greeted with a welcome cocktail and got checked in. Only thing was we couldn't get to our room till 3pm as they were still cleaning them - no problem!  We had our wrist bands on so we head off to explore the resort and have lunch! 

Later that day we make our way down to the beach.  As we are sitting there looking out on the Gulf of Mexico on the Caribbean Sea my husband says he has something to tell me and he's not sure how to do it!!  You can imagine I'm wondering what the heck he has to say, I stand up and tell him he just better say it!  He looks at me and says "We're coming back, you're going to have to get used to travelling!"  We've been at the resort all of about 5 hours if that when he tells me this!!!  I just stood there shocked, I'm sure my jar hit the sand with his statement.  I couldn't believe what he said that I had to ask him if he was feeling alright!!  I told him he best not be joking with me on this or he'd be hurting!!  He assured me he was very serious on the matter!!  So I told him about my plan and how we could do these trips in the future.

The next morning we had a breakfast meeting with the Royal Elite sales staff for a presentation on the Royal Elite Vacation Club!  After learning about the benefits of membership and what we get with the membership - we made a deal that worked for us and bought in!  The next morning we are second guessing ourselves and wondering if we did the right thing.  I spent the morning reviewing the contract, we discussed it a bit more and headed to the Select Club beach area.  Here we met a couple that were discussing their membership weeks remaining and my husband and I ask them if we can ask them a few questions about the Royal Elite Vacation Club as we had just purchased ours.  This couple had been members since 2008 and had told us how it worked for them and how happy they were with it.  They put our second guessing to rest, it was so good to talk to members that had been using it for a few years to be re-assured we made the decision.  We actually started getting excited about our membership and looking forward to using it it again the next winter.

We had been home a couple of months and my husband started thinking about our next trip to Mexico.  By June of 2013 we had booked our reservation for Sandos Cancun Luxury Resort as well as our flights for January 2014.....we were heading back to sun, sand & relaxation.  By August we had booked another trip to Mexico with our daughter and her fiance in March of that same year back to Sandos Caracol Eco Resort ~ our Mexican Home!!

In June of 2014 we decide to us our RCI points for a family vacation to the Hawaii.  We found decided on a resort on the island of Kauai and planned for February 2015.  We were booked for this by June 2014.  In September 2014 after our daughters wedding my husband says lets go to Mexico in December just before Christmas!  Christmas shopping in Mexico ~ Love it!!! 

As you can see my husband is now hooked on traveling and I am loving this side of him.  Turns out purchasing our Royal Elite Vacation Club was one of the best investments we have ever made!!  No regrets 2 years in and our savings have reached what we paid for our membership!!  A great feeling knowing it has paid for itself that quickly!! 

Our travelling desires all started with a trip to Mexico that I was certain would be my one and only one with my husband!!!