Mexican Hotel Gives Big Ups To Fat Folks

Where: Km. 237 Freeway Cancun-Tulum, Tulum, Mexico, CP 77780

May 5, 2005 at 7:29 PM | by juliana | Comments (0)

Perhaps realizing that people come in all different shapes and sizes, the Freedom Paradise Hotel in Riviera Maya, has declared itself nondiscriminatory and friendly to everyone, including people who are overweight.

From the hotel web site:
"Respect is the key word in this hotel: respect for nature and for fellow guests."

It's not that much different from your average beachfront hotel but there are some distinctions.

The hotel has broad doorways, reinforced furniture and extra large chairs.

The hotel features sturdy comfortable chairs throughout the hotel and hammocks on the patio and beach that will hold a 400+ pound person. Also there's a secluded beach for those who may feel uncomfortable sun-bathing in public.

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There are four walk-in swimming pools, one of which has a swim-up bar. All of the 112 standard rooms are fitted with either 1 King Size or 2 Double beds.

One large-size (and proud of it!) woman who visited the hotel in 2003 wrote this review of the hotel on her website Rancho Gordo:

"The showers are roomy (but they do tend to flood the whole room if you're not careful) and the bath towels are extra-big.... There are some nice, wide, comfy lounge chairs out by the pool, and if we were the sunbathing type, we would have felt perfectly comfortable (at 260+ and 440 pounds) laying out there in a swimsuit (something we'd be a lot less likely to do at another beach resort)."

But there were some negatives:

"They had no clue how to make recommendations for fat-friendly things to do locally, the hotel's kayaks and paddle boats were too small for big people, and they had what sounds like a disastrous snorkeling trip where the hotel staff left these guests to swim back a lot farther than they liked."

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