Entrance to Gran Mayan, Acapulco (lake foreground, Pacific in background
Breakfast at Il Lago restaurant
Waterpark (we were on the first floor of the building behind)
The kids loved this place
Before the rush
Good surf on wide beach
Unlike the other Mayans, this one was missing a bar in the pool.
Heron goes fishing
Condo after condo after condo on the beach
Still going up
Low tide, but not much tide
Views?
Beach ended here, more than a mile to our north.
Looking south, we were beyond most of the buildings
Dowagers? You could get a massage in the tent on the left.
Big shows were here (didn't attend this year)
Our pool was about a kilometer long (longest pool when built).
You could get a boat for the lake.
View from the top floor of our building (waterpark lower left)
Looking north
The lake (boat rounding the island and far end -- pool between lake and ocean)
The lobby
First stop on the "historical tour" was the chapel at Las Brisas (a development of multi-million dollar houses that are lived in at most one week per year)
The Capilla del la Paz (Chapel of Peace) was built for two brothers (whose two right hands are memorialized in bronze)
View from chapel to Acapulco proper (about 15 miles north of our resort)
More of the harbor (far peninsula is where Frank Sinatra started it all in the 1940s -- and was subsequently removed by the Mexican president after he built them an airport and spent wads)
Inside the chapel
Flora was amazing even in February
This cross was at the top of a hill and viewable for miles around
Now we're on that peninsula (where Frank Sinatra started it all at the Los Flamingos hotel)
The cliff divers go from the cliff on the left.
The boats gather for the 1 p.m. show
The divers get ready (notice the prayer stations at the top)
Two at once (middle)
View south toward "our" beach
This is Marquez Bay the smaller Bay between our Diamante beach and Acapulco Bay
Expect more building on Marquez Bay
Raul, our guide
Mayan tablet in the entrance to the Gran Mayan
Lunch on leaving day.
Another tablet
Our resort was tearing down one of the buildings built less than 20 years ago.