Anyone worried about the large sand bags on the beach?

[ekcmexico]

do they have them at Playacar Palace? Anyone know?

[Laur13]

my photographer said he would cut them out of our pictures so I'm really not worried

[Applehead Studio]

yeah these bags have some purpose and they catch your eye at first but they dont cause too much havoc at all. I had a B+G out standing on them (slippery!). I wouldn't worry about them too much. If they really bother you, a good photog can remove them from the photos anyway.

 

Good luck and congrats!

 

liam

[Laur13]

great thanks!

[PaulSchrank]

The only reason the sandbags exist at resorts is because they didn't build correctly. When the resorts clear the trees and mangroves to build right up to the water they, destroy the root structure that holds the beach together and resists erosion. When the roots disappear they need to put the whales in the water to protect the beach. It makes me a little mad. The bags are permanent and not seasonal.

 

We shoot weddings up and down the coast here. I'll start making mental notes of the sandbag-whale-free resorts so we can compile a list in this thread.

[AKH2011]

Playa - That would be amazing.

We're not so much worried about them being in pictures as we're getting married in Tulum most likely. But I'd just like to know which resorts have them in the water and even more which resorts suffer from bad beach erosion. We're ulitimately looking for a resort thats All inclusive but not massive and one thats got a nice white sand beach free of erosion and sandbags.. Maybe thats too much to ask but if we're asking people to spend money on vacation and trip we'd like to know what we're getting into. Because obviously all of the resorts show gorgeous beach pictures and don't mention anything about the current state of the beach so its impossible to know.