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Sooo this is Alex and Ben's story from Tulum! There are two parts to this story: The Plan, and what actually happened lol.
Right then. The Plan was to head from Palenque to Tulum and spend the day there, then turn up at cancun airport to get an overnight flight to LA. So we got the bus at 8pm and headed overnight to Tulum. Arriving early in the morning we headed straight to the beach, stashed our bags in a nearby hotel, creamed up and hit the white sand, checking out paradise. It was pretty empty as it was only like 8am, so we got the best pick of sun loungers (actually massive mattresses) and started our sun bathing sesh!
Everything was running smoothly, all we had to do was lay there and soak up the sunshine and wait for the day to end so we could head to cancun and catch an overnight flight to LA to meet up with Ryan and Al.
However, as you can imagine we were pretty tired having just spent 12 hours overnight on a coach, so like the prats that we are, we fell asleep in the blistering heat, and consequently burned to the max! Ben had it worse than Alex, due to the fact that he turns red if he even looks at the sun lol. So as we packed up our stuff and headed for our bags, thats when a day in paradise started to turn into a a day in hell!
The full effects of the burns didn't really kick in at first. We hit the showers after the beach to find that Alex's shampoo had exploded and covered his bag with an essence of juniper and elderflower LOL. So yeah he had a sticky bag. After a thorough cleansing we headed to get the bus to Playa Del Carmel, where we would get the bus to cancun airport. When we got the the bus station in Carmel, we had missed the last airport bus by 5 minutes :( so we had to get a bus into cancun to get another bus to the airport. It was on this bus journey that the real horror began. Ben's burns were a deep crimson by now, and sun stroke was settling itself upon him. With a headache and stomach pains he made numerous trips to the toilet on the coach, leaving little presents for the other passengers each time. haha!
By the time we reached Cancun bus station, Ben's condition had worsened tenfold, and he was in no fit state to even carry his bag around, so its a good job Alex has enough muscle power to carry both lol. While Alex sorted bus tickets to Cancun airport, Ben headed once more to the toilet for another sesh of you know what. Both ends lol. So we got the bus to the airport to catch an overnight flight to LA, but when we got there we were told there weren't any flights till 6pm the next night, so we took a taxi back into Cancun and stayed the night in a Hotel. All of this was a huge inconvenience and took an unnecessary chunk out of our bank accounts! But we soldiered on and kept telling ourselves "Things can only get better". You dont know how wrong we were lol.
So we got to the aiport the next morning and were told there was a flight with Delta airlines at like 3pm. So we queued for about 30mins and started the booking procedure. As Alex went to get more cash from the ATM, Ben was told that there wasn't actually any room on the flight and we had to go to Alaska airlines to get a flight at 5pm. This really pissed us off because we had timed the Delta flight perfectly, and Ben was still in no state to do anything really. So we headed to Alaska airlines and ended up paying over the odds for the last flight to LA. Surely nothing else could happen now? To find out more, wait for the LA blog!
ARSUNU!
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