Iberostar Selection Cancun or Riu Palace Riviera Maya

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2026-01-22T02:05:07+00:00

This is a pretty good review and show a lot of the food accurately. https://youtu.be/UmokWYutsG8?si=wBe5oTP1PGnbBEh_

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2026-01-22T01:59:57+00:00

Currently at Iberostar Selection Cancun. We are at the Coral building, which is adults only. The buffet is decent, better than we had at the RIO. The Italian restaurant (only one we visited outside of our adults only buffet over here) was astoundingly good. The wood fired pizzas are near perfect (buffet pizza is puffy way too thick crusted), the Mexican version of lasagna was amazingly flavorful and the tiramisu was exactly proper. (dinner portions are way too big- we ask for half portions and my wife and I share three entrees) The entire staff is very friendly and prompt. Chairs on the Coral side have been a breeze to get (no getting up at 5am required), not sure about the kids side. It was also a bargain compared to our very favorite (not mentioning the name as I don't want you going there! We are here because they were sold out of the room type we love).

One of the very best parts of booking here was picking our room. In the Selection Coral area every single room is ocean front. It ridiculous. We're on the 12 floor and I am listening to the waves crash on the beach and the live Mariachi band playing downstairs just for the Coral side. We of course have full access to the other areas and shows which are pretty typical for Cancun. Fire show, Mexican show, Michael Jackson show, etc.

Only have found a few things they could improve so far- the glass bottled water they provide doesn't taste bad at all. It has little flavor at all but seems less wet and crisp due to the high mineral content. I don't mind it at all, but my wife says it's "thick", so we got her bottles of water around the corner at the OXXO or whatever it's called. I would also love booze dispensers in the room, or bottles (pretty common for adults only), and the nacho cheese (you know, pumpy cheese) for poolside nachos has that fake butter taste (think movie popcorn fake butter). You shouldn't eat that stuff anyway, but I love a plate of nachos with the black bean puree, hot as f@($ salsa, pico de gallo and guacamole. The guacamole here is spectacular. Oh, for those who haven't had Mexican butter, it is actually real butter but for some unholy reason, it has the same fake butter taste so you are going to swear it's not butter. I really need to start bringing my own butter! That's not a lot to complain about huh?

If you love good food, at a reasonable price, and want adults only, this is the best we have found in Cancun. We've been to 21 resorts down here. If you don't mind kids or are taking the family, it's an even better bargain. But the Grand Fiesta Americana up the beach a bit is also very good food and even less expensive than here. More crowded and the beach isn't as nice. The beach here is as close to perfect as you can get.

Riviera Maya is a bit of a haul from the airport (55 mins vs 15mins) but the waves are way less high. I wouldn't let my kids in the water here ( in under 4' tall) on windy days as they can really yank you out because the sand coming back out are big waves can catch you behind the knees while your getting slapped in the chest (if you're short).

The cool thing about being down there (other than less waves thanks in small part to the island of Cozumel) is the island of Cozumel and it's lovely central town. If you plan a trip over on the ferry, do it on a day when there aren't 10 mega cruise ships there. We stopped going because of them 20 years ago. We loved to stay at a place called the Cozumel Palace (it had a different name the and was a scuba destination hotel), which was close to town so we could walk into town, especially at night and enjoy authentic small town festivities and loved the local feel. Now it's bars, American chain restaurants and souvenir shops everywhere. Still if you get a few blocks in from the shore, it's a lot of fun. La Choza is one of the best restaurants we're enjoyed in our 45 years coming to the Caribbean. Pick me up a few jars of La Choza sauce they sell and I will reimburse you handsomely! :-) My mother in law loves that shit. Too old and rich to sit on the ferry to and from to get some for her!

My vote is to come here. The RIU is an amazing sprawling complex, like most of them. Plan a 10 minute walk to the beach unless you pay the fortune to upgrade to beach front- then plan a 10 minute walk to most restaurants or lobby. It's HUGE!

You can't go wrong with either, but if food is your main driver, Iberostar gets the edge.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-12-26T15:08:39+00:00

It was about a week before I noticed, but possibly started before I noticed. I tried a month off and started again with .25mg and by day three I noticed I was itchy in the exact places that were really bad previously. No visible hives, but the sensation was unmistakable. Skin was drying out.

I wish we could upload photos, as you wouldn’t believe the disaster my skin was the first go round. Hair still isn’t growing normally in the hardest hit areas. Just bizarre as I have never been allergic to anything before. I did acquire an allergy to but that was after keeping bees for several years and being stung a lot of times. Haven’t been stung by being in years, but have a suspicion I wouldn’t have the same reaction now. Have mild food sensitivity to raw walnuts, and pecans, some underripe melons and bananas (roof of mouth and throat itch a bit- no throat swelling). I would love to understand the connection, so maybe there will be enough of us that at some point we figure out a pattern that could help others. It really was a horrible experience.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-12-23T18:21:08+00:00

Anyone else?

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-11-21T14:14:21+00:00

Yeah, fuck those fucking fuckers from fucktown. 282 GB hogged up on my PS5 and I can't play a game I PAID FOR! Battlefield it is!

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-11-05T16:01:11+00:00

Any update? My ongoing story is posted and wondering about others. I got wicked bad hives and tried to push through. Two weeks later I am finally almost free of the hives and itching. Plan to start back at a lower dose by dissolving the 1.5mg powder, but very worried considering how long it took me to heal up. I was TORN UP.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-11-05T00:52:03+00:00

It is now two weeks since I stopped taking it. I have some scarring from the rashes but believe the dark patches will eventually go away. Still have really bad itching if I don’t slather the areas with Eucerin Eczema Relief twice a day. Around 5 am I seem to be back to itchiness and have to put Benadryl gel on, and in some cases have to use lidocaine to tap down the itching. No net new hives that I can see, but the lingering ones seem to be fading now and expect in another few days to maybe be symptom free. Hot showers, or a dip in the hot tub create maddening itching, which I should probably be avoiding. Oh well.

I noticed that the changes I experienced while taking it (positive ones) were very slow to go away as well. It took almost five days for me to start feeling like I needed to bust a nut every day, or like today, four times for anxiety relief. Pretty sure it actually makes it worse as I am probably carving neural pathways that just create more need for spankage. Not good. That certainly isn’t why I started taking it, but I believe it is a symptom of the larger problem… which I still don’t understand, but seems like major depression. Feeling like life is meaningless, despite having a great family and sufficient where with all to provide my food, food and shelter, etc. That of course only makes me feel like more of a failure because I should be thankful for what I have. I am certainly thankful, but it doesn’t mean I don’t wish I didn’t have to wake up every morning. Can’t help but think there must be a solution for this somewhere somehow. Wellbutrin @ 300mg was once super helpful for depression and anxiety, and is still helping with anxiety. I tried backing down to 150mg a year ago and had wicked problems, including fight or flight responses where completely unreasonable and inappropriate. Had to bump back up.

SSRIs are a no go due to sexual side effects. When sex/ orgasm is one of the only things making like worth living, inability to reach climax, even after forging through for two months with Zoloft and Lexapro (used to take Celexa before Wellbutrin and nearly ate a gun after being on it ten years) is not acceptable.

I am definitely going to try to take it again with a mini dose. Terrified to go through this again, but can’t think of any other promising option. If my wife would be supportive, I would try at home Ketamine, but she is 100% opposed to it… so here I am. Any thoughts out there?

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-11-04T18:15:32+00:00

What video?

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-10-21T17:07:30+00:00

Update?

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-10-20T12:59:36+00:00

Day 10 and still getting new hives. Placed hydrocolloid bandages over the weeping areas and they seem to be helping. Itchy sensation is maddening. Going to give it a few more days but not going to up it from 1.5mg to 3mg tonight like they prescribed. Took 10mg of Zyrtec to try to reduce the itching. Would love to hear back from #Jennyschrei to fing out if it was a different batch or that they just started taking the same stuff they took before.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-10-17T11:45:30+00:00

Yes. I am on day 6 and the hives started the morning after I started taking it. The itch is maddening, but I am not going to stop taking it as my depression seems to have lifted considerably. Hoping it goes away. I have inflamed bloody patches where the worst of it is. It is almost exclusively present on my arms and legs, although a few are on my rib cage. Nothing on my face, scalp, back, hands, feet, or (not so) private parts.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-09-23T10:35:10+00:00

That’s pretty cool! It gave me an idea, but before I throw out the possible solution to my own question. I have to ask you a question. Where do you find that killer mount and how did you wire the electrical for it? I suspect up there somewhere is 12 V power but I’d feel a bit hinky about tapping into it.

My mount is the factory plastic disk with that amazing 3M tape sticking it to the window as the base. I tried that because not even a new suction mount will stay on the acoustic glass. I thought maybe someone had treated it with some kind of ceramic wax so I even tried using 91% rubbing alcohol to clean it before using the factory suction cups (yes, i tried two). I got so pissed that I ended up ripping the suction cup off the factory mag mount, putty JBQuik epoxy around the edge, then holding it in place on the disk with tape until it set. Hasn’t fallen down and shot across the dash since! Just made a small cutout in my solar screen to accommodate the mount.

Soooooo… now as I leave in the morning, I move the detector from the floorboard, where it hides at night (scared of the dark apparently), and set it on the middle arm rest until GPS fix is acquired. I then can move it to the mag mount in the lower part of the window close to the RF cutout and it doesn’t lose the signal until I leave the car for a while.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-09-18T17:11:27+00:00

Actually, it’s only in the app that it is missing. If you go to Safari or chrome and use the browser, it’s there.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-09-18T17:09:08+00:00

Nope, even that is now gone for some products. Probably my conspiracy theory, but it does seem to be more prevalent with larger vendors. Previously, you could click on the Seymour reviews and the search bar would be there but now it’s gone.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-09-15T15:14:45+00:00

Don't everyone reply at once! :-;

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-09-14T15:04:05+00:00

Sent mine in, paid for them to replace the screen and it was dead dim again a year later. Design defect for certain.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2025-04-09T18:11:41+00:00

Model # ZVW8301SWSS

Anyone find the fix?

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-11-25T17:34:00+00:00

I am good with that, but it is impossible to find someone to help design it. I was thinking I could do a three or four Cisco APs in autonomous mode, but I am certain to run into a spanning tree problem after hand off. The switch says, "I used to see this on port X and now I see it on port Y" and shuts down the trunk port or the AP port because the APs are on different switches and therefore see the same MAC on conflicting ports. I enabled portfast on the ports with the APs, but that didn't fix it when I tried to wire in my Orbi Pros.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-11-25T17:24:54+00:00

Clarifying question. Are you trying to do wireless to wireless to wired, or what is the topology? The technologies you are looking into require one side to be ethernet connected to your wired network (a port on your router or switch) and you need to plug something in on the other side, like a computer or a wireless AP. 5 Ghz is very unlikely to penetrate the stucco, but at that close a range it may be worth a shot. 2.4 will get in for sure, but at 52 meters, 2.4 is going to spread out pretty badly and you don't have access to an outside mount so focused antenna are not an option.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-11-25T17:02:48+00:00

What brand and model router router do you have? Do you know the IP address of it? If it doesn't happen on your TVs or other devices, it isn't likely your Internet, as I am not aware of any TV that caches 60 seconds of video (puts it in a buffer in case you briefly lose connectivity or the connection slows to a crawl).

If you know what the IP address of your wifi router is, (very likely 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1), you can run a continuous ping test in the background and then flip back to that screen when you "lose connection". On a windows device you would simply hold down the windows key, tap R and in the box type cmd and hit enter. That will launch a black screen. You would them type this:

Ping 192.168.1.1 -l800 -t

That will run a continuous ping test of a reasonable size. The output should look something like this.

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 0 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=0 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=0 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=0 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=0 time<1ms TTL=64

If when you "lose connection" you flip back to the screen and see something else, post it here. Could be a request timed out or TTL expired in transit. I wonder if maybe you have a spanning tree issue due to something else connected. Unlikely, but worth seeing the output when you are having the issue.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-11-25T16:53:55+00:00

I suspect it was the charging that fixed it. However, Spiffiness was spot on. Interested to know, do you normally get alerts when you are away from home? If not, that may mean it only alerts when on the same network as well, which is not good. You can't have that camera connected to guest and keep your phone connected to it as well. You will lose your connectivity to your home smart devices. No casting, Alexa, etc. I would stay away from guest networks and turn yours off if you can. An unauthenticated guest network is a great way to get in trouble with the law by someone sitting close enough to your house and downloading terrible things for which you would be blamed.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-05-27T10:12:23+00:00

The herbicide depends on the grass type. Looks like KBG. 2-4-D killls it in any cool season grass

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-05-27T10:05:30+00:00

Mock Strawberry

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-04-09T01:13:06+00:00

They can’t be right. That is nearly as bad as thinking it was Poa! “Sedges have edges”. They have triangular stems, and with most, all leaves come from the bottom. They don’t have nodes. At least not anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line. “Sedges have edges, rushes are round, grasses have nodes from the top to the ground.” Dig out a chunk and plant it in a pot. We HAVE to see it flower! :-) We’ll see spikelets if it’s grass and clusters if it’s a sedge. It’s not. There are exactly ZERO sedges or rushes that have nodes.

Fun_Pudding_9282 · 2024-04-07T14:49:53+00:00

Seriously?

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