May12

Hi there! If you have a lot of spa appointments that you are booking for them, you need to pay the spa directly in advance-about a week before. If you give them visa GC's and they decide to have a spa treatment, they can charge it to their room and pay for it at check out, with any other purchases they made. They are also able to pay at the spa if they wish. As long as they see a visa logo, it should go through. You might want to check with the provider of the card though because sometimes they charge a fee to use it out of the country, or it can't convert to pesos from USD. The spa does provide gift certificates, and I'm pretty sure you can have a "resort credit" for them. You may need to talk with Lleny to see if she can work w/the front desk to deduct a certain amount from their "bill" and add it on to yours. (They pay the in house photographer, DJ and florist this way) If you call the spa, ask for Miguel. He was awesome in helping set everything up for our group and on the day of the wedding, was even running to the bar for us to get cocktails! LOVE him! The spa mgr is Nayeli---different Nayeli than the WC and she was wonderful as well! Sometimes calling them is just easier. We did a spa day with the wedding party the day before the wedding where everyone did the marine hydrotherapy circuit and then the guys got mani/pedis, and we had a choice for the girls to get either mani/pedis or hair or make-up on the wedding day. It ended up that everyone got their hair done and most got mani/pedis. Including Frank getting his hair cut and my Mom and one of our other guests getting their hair done...It was a full house! Also, I highly recommend doing a trial hair and make up a few days before if you can. The make-up on my trial, although it looked good, was just way too much and didn't look like me, and my hair was way over sprayed for it being down. We changed it up and it worked out perfectly the day of. Here are some pics of our spa day... Quote: Originally Posted by kshannon Hi everyone!!! I cant believe how fast time is flying!! For the brides who have provided pictures, THANK YOU!!!!! And thanks for all the info! So helpful! I do have a question: I am planning to give my bridesmaids Visa gift cards to use however they see fit in Mexico. They will have the option to use at the spa or for excursions, or whatever. Does anyone know if the spa, or anywhere on property, takes payment by form of Visa gift cards? I have emailed the spa back and forth but I dont think they understand what I mean by Visa gift card! Visa gift cards work exactly the same as a Visa credit card, though, right? I am hoping it wont be a problem... Please help if you can clarify!! Thanks