Barcelo Maya is a great resort, its located about 15 mins from the nearest town of Playa Del Carmen, there are 2 bars there that play NHL on TV, ask people at the resort I'm sure you will not be the only ones searching for them.
Oh go really early to those bars for the hockey night games, because they are always packed with Canadians.
As for the resort, I think they stop serving booze at the disco around 2am, we used to leave big tips for the cleaning ladies to get more drinks in our rooms, take the beer out of the fridge and leave a tip IN the fridge with a note "extra beer" or something like that. Its horrible beer they give you, but hey for the time you end up on the beach at 4 am and you want a cold beer. We used the plastic garbage cans in the room as coolers by filling them with ice and putting beer in those.
If you hang out at all on the beach at night, do not go in the water or even remotely close to it, there are federales who are in charge of monitoring that, you don't want to get on their bad side.
As for trips out of the resort, if you like to party, take the 3 bar party trip to Cancun which ends up at the world famous Coco Bongo's, its booked at the front desk area, you do not have to book with your own tour operator; look around there is one offering the trip for like $80 USD per person which is a steal as you get personal drive to/from (40 min drive each way) and all you can drink all night with your own personal chapperone who takes care of your group and watches over you. Tip this person WELL he/she will go out of their way to make the party awesome and get you an all important good spot in Coco Bongo's since its always packed on these crawls.
I think thats all the important stuff, its an amazing beach and a huge resort, the swim up bar near the old disco in the caribe area is a popular hangout.
Have fun!
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