Puerto Vallarta - Day 2

Sunday we went to a time share presentation... for 6 hours. Yes, I wrote that correctly. We had agreed to go when we first checked in on Saturday and knew that we would be pressured and that it would be long. Just not that long. Much of it wasn't too painful, mind you. Our Presenter (or pressurer) was named Melissa and she was our age, American, very sweet. We first took a golf cart tour of the entire resort grounds (it is massive) and she took us to (free) breakfast at a yummy buffet restaurant on the grounds. Then she took us to the new resort, The Grand Luxe, which you can't even buy into except as an upgrade once you already own with the Grand Mayan. Uh-huh.

These pics are the view from the backside of the Grand Luxe. Jack Nicklaus is building a golf school or something like that out there, it is apparently going to be very nice.

After the tour and food, we spent the next 4 hours being pressured by about 7 different people to buy into the Grand Mayan. (Wanna know their first offer? $98,000. HAHAHAHAHA!!) Not sure how many times we said no, but it got old after awhile! Once we made it out, we had earned 50% off excursions, 50% off massages, 10% off our entire hotel bill (Including all meals that were charged to our rooms), as well as the upgrade to ocean view that we had gotten when we checked in. The guy who booked our excursions told us that the Grand Mayan gives the most high pressure talks and it is known as "buy or die". He was impressed that we didn't buy OR die!! Was it worth it? Barely, but yes it was.

This is just a pic I took on our little tour of one of the wave pools. Pretty cool!

After we made it out, we were exhausted and spent the rest of the day at the pool and then dinner.