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Cancun, mexico, sport on tv

stevie2006

2007-02-24 16:22:50

Hi everybody

Me and the better 'arf are off to Blue Bay Club in Cancun for 2 weeks on March the 20th. Whilst we are away Scotland play 2 vital european championship qualifiers which i'll be damned if i miss - Can anybody out there help me with the following questions.....

1. Are their pubs which broadcast live British football (I'm a Rangers fan so games are broadcast on Setanta Sports)?

2. Is Sky widely available in the pubs so i can take in the Scotland games?

3. Are there any bookies in the resort (i sit at a PC 8 hours a day so PLEASE don't recommend doing my bets online).

4. any pubs broadcast live UK horse-racing (if so are bookie facilities available)?

If you can help me out with any of this i will love you forever.

Thanks

Stevie and the long suffering Louise

P.S As an afterthought i'm also going to be proposing to Louise - Any recommendations of where to do this - Want to do the whole romantic thing.

SMa

2007-02-26 09:51:40

P.S As an afterthought i'm also going to be proposing to Louise - Any recommendations of where to do this - Want to do the whole romantic thing.

In some secluded place with a bottle of champagne on ice while the footie is on! Showing her that wanting to spend the rest of your life with her and are even willing to miss the footie to persuade her to spend the rest of her life with you will be the most romantic gesture of all :-)

SM

PS Also, hope to God that she doesn't ever read this forum herself before you go! Finding out that your request for suggestions re a proposal of marriage were an afterthought to a request for where you could watch football, horse racing and place a few bets is going to kill that romantic moment stone dead. In her shoes it would convince me that the answer should be 'No' :-)

Duncan0808

2007-02-26 13:13:01

We went in 1996, there was an excellent, "bookies" it was a huge place compared to UK type places, you could get breakfast, lunch, dinner etc, There were screens all around the room showing all kinds of action. A lot of American sports, but in 96 there wasn't a big british market there.

I have no idea if it is still there, it was on the short length of the seven on the way to downtown Cancun, but I am sure there will be other places about.

doonhamer32

2007-02-26 13:54:15

Stevie, there are a few sports bars on the strip, but I don't know if they show footie - we were there in the footie close season

stevie2006

2007-02-26 20:14:08

Thanks for all that info guys.

cheers

Stevie

charlie_ocs

2007-02-28 14:42:37

Hi there,

Sorry going a bit off topic here but we are going to Cancun in September and while we are there we are going to miss 2 of the F1 Grand Prixs. Myself and my husband are big fans and don't want to miss any of the races (especially not so near the end of the season).

We are staying in the Riu Caribe and I believe there is a 24 hour sports bar which hopefully they will be shown in - but we just wondered if there were any bars etc outside of the hotel complex which would be showing the races.

To be honest, I've not looked that far ahead yet to see which races we'll miss and work out the time differences but any help would be appreciated.

Charlie
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Pippy

2007-02-28 15:48:19

http://www.formula1.com/race/ :wink:

Pippy

charlie_ocs

2007-02-28 16:54:14

Thanks Pippy, my brain still can't function and work out what the time difference will be for the Italian and Belgium GP's but I'll get my hubby to work that out.

On the other hand, you've got me all excited now cos the season is so close to starting!!! 17 days to go!!!

Kimi Raikkonen for WDC 2007. He he

Pippy

2007-02-28 16:56:16

Yes indeed! :bow

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