I had a great and fascinating experience at Kempinski Cancun, a hotel I wouldn’t normally have chosen. And I realized that somehow I’d never stayed at a Kempinski outside of Germany before. All of a sudden the brand is much more on my radar.
I never go to Cancun, which in some ways is strange considering it’s just a two and a half hour non-stop flight from Austin on a route served by both American Airlines and Southwest. Just after Memorial Day my family caught American Airlines’ midday flight down. A late inbound meant we were delayed just a few minutes but otherwise the trip was perfectly fine.
The flight itself wasn’t super interesting. But the hotel choice was, at least to me, and worked out even better than I’d…