The hotel looks amazing. Our favorite shots are of the pool and the wild lobby. Oh yeah, and the suite is pretty sexy too.
Now is great time to stay at the Tides because room rates (and demand) have dropped to a reasonable off-season price. Which means for $395 a night you can get a studio suite facing the Atlantic and Ocean Drive. Holla'! We're going to Miami!
Your significant other is going to be maaaaadddd if you say no to this retreat.
Like most couples chained to each for more than a decade, our relationship could stand a tune-up. And so can we. And while a romantic and spiritually enlightening package called The Art of Re-Connecting: A Couple's Retreat at the The Tides Riviera Maya sounds dreamy, it'll remain that way for us. A dream.
It is totally worth it if you and your special someone have an extra $7,460 laying around the house. It's on the Mayan Riviera amidst tropical forests and pearly-white beaches, first of all. With a luxurious six-night stay at an exclusive resort, number two. And it comes complete with your own private 1,000 sq. ft. palapos (translation: a kick-ass villa).
The renovations at the Tides South Beach have been going on for what seems like forever but we got a snapshot of the view from Room 702 and we can't help but stare at it all day long.
Seriously, if we stop posting for the rest of the afternoon on HotelChatter it's probably because we have a severe case of Cubicle Dreamin'.
While the hotel is nearing the completion of a $14 million restoration (finally), the pool is still not opened. That's expected to happen by May 1st. We'll see. First it was to be done in January and then in March. In the meantime, you can use the pool at the neighboring Hotel Victor or hello! The beach!
The Tides South Beach still hasn't opened their pool area and won't do so until March 15th which is sad because high season is flying by!
A tipster sent in these renovation shots of the back of the hotel which we admit is never a flattering angle. Still the hotel's website does its best to be honest:
We recently debuted our first and most significant phase of a $14 million restoration effort. The pool will not be available until March 15, 2008 and you might experience varying levels of construction noise. We sincerely apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Note: This pool was expected to be done in January.
Fortunately it seems prices have come down. We found rooms for Feb. 25-28th at $399 a night for an oceanfront studio suite. Granted those are weeknights and the following weekend those rooms and those rates weren't available.
So far it doesn't look like the reviews have suffered on TripAdvisor but a few of them seem highly suspicious to us. The only recent one we trusted was the one which mentioned that the hotel has partnered with neighboring Hotel Victor for their pool.
Thus, we wanna know: Has anyone stayed at the Tides in 2008? If so, tell us how it went.
This is a shot of the Presidential suite at The Tides Zihuatanejo which has a 435-sq.ft. terrace with its own private infinity pool that overlooks the ocean thus offering up 180-degree views of Zihuatanejo Bay. Overall the suite encompasses 1,465-sq.ft. and has two bedrooms and two baths. More on the suite from the Tides website:
An expansive open-air living area is intricately tiled with marble and inset with natural pebbles and features an over-sized wicker daybed, two comfortable seating areas, a complete wet-bar and a gorgeous private infinity pool with panoramic views of the bay.
Of course, a private infinity pool comes at Forbes 500 prices. The Presidential suite costs $1,150 in the low season to around $1,700 in the high season.
But don't give up hope yet. All suites at the Tides come with their own private infinity pools. The lagoon suite is the smallest of the bunch ranging from 700 to 800-sq.ft. High season prices start at $875 a night and include a private terrace with outdoor infinity pool (a teeny one), a separate sitting area and lagoon views. When we hit it big, we're coming here...in the low season of course.
Zihuatanejo is a mouthful of a town on the southwest coast of Mexico, a few hours from Acapulco and next to the Cancun-like planned resort area of Ixtapa. The Kor Hotel Group recently took over one of the two top resorts in town, Hotel Villa del Sol, and turned it into The Tides Zihuatenajo. (The other player nearby is La Casa que Canta.)
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