Gran Bahia Principe Akumal/Tulum/Coba - POST HERE!

[TATrisha]

obviously I'm more towards AKumal. I LOVED Akumal. It's slightly newer than Tulum and I LOVED my wedding site. It was perfect!!

Yuritzia is terrible with e-mail communications, but once you get there she delivers 110%

[harv0136]

Thanks for all the info. I am leaning more towards Akumal mostly for the beach site. I read some reviews about the beach being rocky and not so great. Did anyone else have this experience? How far is Akumal from the disco?

[TATrisha]

It is true. The beach is pretty rocky. It didn't stop our guests from playing it in though.

One really nice thing about the beach being rocky is that the wedding location on the Akumal side is NOT swimmable. Which means you don't end up with bikinis and speedos in your wedding photos!!

 

The disco is pretty much the same distance from all of the resorts. They all require a tram ride and it's about 10-15 minutes total.

[Martha]

One last question before I leave. I know the poolside reception is $17 for the first hour per person for the bar, right? What about the second hour? Is it still $17 or a smaller amount?

 

I am going to bed in a little bit because I have to be up at 3am, I hope someone can help me!

[1kpaine]

Who did you use for photography? I've email Claudia Rodriguez a couple times b/c I hear she's the best but she hasn't responded. Any other suggestions?

[Jen_S]

We are bringing Evan Baines (hes on this site) from the US.

[eeyor_78]

Hi...I am new to this...I am looking to have my wedding in April and was trying to find more information on some of the packages they have at either Tulum or Akumal? also I was reading that you have to take a blood test whats with that? I am also looking for some pictures of both wedding locations at both these sections of the resort. Any help you can be would be greatly appreciated...

[Sunsierra]

1kpaine - We used Citlalli of Claudia Rodriguez. It took a few days to get an intial response from them. Were you using the email function from their website? If not, here is the email address I have for Claudia: [email protected]

 

eeyor_78 - I think the blood test is required because you cannot get married in Mexico if you have AIDS (this is what I've heard). We went with the legal ceremony at home and just had a 'vow renewal' there so we didn't have to take the blood test. There are lots of girls on here that did have the blood test and they have said it is no big deal at all.

 

The wedding locations for Tulum are on Page 2 of this thread. This is what the Tulum beach location looked like for our wedding:

 

 

I'm pretty sure the packages and prices have changed since we went but here they are anyway:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gran Bahia Principe Wedding Package.doc

Gran Bahia Prinicipe Renewal of Vows.doc

Bahia Spa Prices.doc

[Sunsierra]

Okay, I finally found some pictures of inside the disco. They are from this website.

 

The dance floor (they had white lights on the pillars when we used it)

 

Picture of the DJ booth

 

The pictures don't do it any justice (our pictures of our first dance look A LOT nicer than these do - I'm sorry I can't post them, they are on a friends camera).

 

ETA: I think these pictures are from 2006 (I don't remember the blue on the ceiling).

[TATrisha]

I had the blood tests done and it's not a big deal at all. They actually used to require blood tests in the US too... but have since stopped. Basically, I was told you can't have STD's, AIDS, or be brother & sister!