BOTTOM LINE:
Solanas Resort
NOTEWORTHY:
By coming here after the season was over we found the crowds were gone but so was the fun and excitement.
BACK STORY:
Waking up this morning we had daylight to clearly see our unit. It was old, worn and dirty. There was a fist size hole in the bottom wooden frame of our bedroom sliding glass door. Termites had destroyed the door. There was no weather stripping around the front door so there was a light gap all around the door. The stove had a rusty hole in the front. The refrigerator rocked when the door was opened. There is no door on the freezer section of the refrigerator. These are not acceptable standards of the US...BUT, we are not in the US! So, we chose to air to the positive and not be critical. We are thankful for our opportunity of visiting this area and having a roof over our heads.
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| Living space |
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| Kitchen |
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| Bedroom |
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| Exterior bedroom door |
Tourist brochures and comments by locals painted the picture of the Punta Del Estes area as being comparable to the French Riviera where celebrities vacation, where shopping is like Rodeo Drive and the beaches and water clarity are like Hawaii!
We left our resort excited to go explore. The town of Maldinado was on the way to Punta Estes and large enough to walk around in.
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| Uruguay flag |
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| Center of Maldinado |
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| church in town square |
Perhaps it was the rainy weather that put a damper on things, but we found the area depressing. There were three public beaches with brownish sand. The rest of the coast was rock. There was a lot of resort/hotel construction going on including plans for a "Trump Tower" by Donald. The building gave hope for growth. Unfortunately most of the existing buildings had fallen into ill repair and were boarded up or simply abandoned. Graffiti was everywhere.
We will return on another day to check out restaurants and shopping.
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