I've been around this and other boards for several years now, and many of the people here know me as a guy who always makes an attempt to speak the truth. If you have read any of my trip reports in the past, you know I tell the good, the bad, and the ugly.

How about you setting me and my family up with a complimentary 7-night vacation this coming summer, and in return I'll come pack and write up a monster of a trip report about Playa Maya. I'll give every detail (good or bad) about your resort, from the eyes of a long time regular! You would have your very own Playa Maya Expert right here on this board!

I hated to even suggest this idea, but I figure that sooner or later somenone would come up with it and post it!

Hey Tim, this sounds like a good job for me! I'll be the "CARM Secret Guest" and I'll spend time at each hotel in CARM, then come home and write a review on each of them! You start setting up my stays (no more than 7-10 days at at time), and I'll just make my work schedule at my new job adjust to my trips to CARM. You gotta have priorities in life, and I'll make all these FREE TRIPS to CARM #1 on my list!

We could call this "Notes from the Bandman"! I really like the way that sounds! Let's get this idea in motion ASAP!!!

as long as i don't have to cover any of your expenses. tim

hola Steve. maybe you need to advertise on this Site. it's ben my experience that this Site is half Cancun oriented and half Riviera Maya (including PDC) oriented. why your hotel has not been talked about here, i really don't know. tim

Well after just losing my previous more elaborate response when this site and my copy of Safari decided that maybe they didn't like each other so much after all, I'll make this one shorter and sweeter.

Basically, thanks, especially for not attaching the newbie. Some sites can be pretty bad, you know, and I took a risk with that admittedly self-serving question. Also thanks to Bandman for the intriguing suggestion, but I think we'll probably save the money and hope for a future guest to post somehting here, or perhaps for any former guests lurking out there to speak up someday. That should be a bit more authentic and reliable (no offense intended at all) than the reaction of someone who got a free week in exchange for putting up a reaction! (Seriously, I don't think we'd offer a free week to Fodors!)

best,

Steve Ryberg, Manager

Uh, that should read "attacking" the newbie, of course, although I similarly thank everyone for not attaching me, as well!

Steve

I'm always looking for a visit from Santa with free tickets to Mexico!!! We'll be sure to check you out on our next visit to Mexico. I went to a site about your hotel and it looks nice!

It looks very nice, so I'm sure once people are aware of it and a few stay there, you will see lots of mentions in your report via trip reports!

Beautitful place!

Fran in NY

what FREE week might THAT be?

better for him to advertise his property on this site so that people find out about it more quickly?

i would think so.

I'll vouch for Steve and his lovely wife and their very nice hotel on the beach in Playa!
We stayed at Playa Maya last summer, we were only going to stay a day or two and then try another new place, but we were so comfortable there, that we stayed!
Anyone have any questions about Playa Maya, I'd be happy to help.

"(Seriously, I don't think we'd offer a free week to Fodors!)"
I would hope not!

Thanks Laura! Should've thought that you had actually stayed here. Perry's already a return guest, too! (And incidentally, Mr. Murphy did come by our place to pick up his map the other day, so that worked out just fine.)

Thanks to Fran, too, for the nice comments. Actually, we have lots of trip reports and comments on other sites, we just don't have them here, thus my original question.

Now another question: does John NSB work for this forum?

Steve

sigh to be fiar, sometimes she does. but that mapa business keeps her pretty busy.

John is one of many Regs here. i'm the chief gofer. tim

Although I've not stayed there (wanted to last week, but with Bruce's injuries, we decided to stay put on Isla Mujeres for the whole week), I have toured the property and had dinner there. A beautiful property - right on the beach in PDC - food and service were great.

I know others that have stayed there. I've not heard a complaint about Playa Maya from anyone, and I myself was impressed. Hopefully I'll get to stay a night or two my next trip down, and then I could give more detailed information.

FYI - this board has LOTS more info than PDC - posts here range from Cancun to Isla to PM to PDC to Akumal and Tulum. Also, many who post here regularly have their favorite spots and/or own condos, etc. A bunch of great people - I even got to meet several of them last summer at a chatters get together in MSP. Tim and his "crew" here are a NICE bunch of people - the tone of this board is almost always positive - without a lot of the garbage that goes on with many boards.

i try to keep it positive. thankfully, i have alot of Good help! tim