Tanis Macala says she and a friend were sexually harassed by a male employee of the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Hotel and Spa, where they were vacationing earlier this month. (thesinglechick.com)

A Mexican resort vacation turned into a nightmare for a Saskatoon woman who alleges she was sexually harassed by a hotel employee.

Tanis Macala said she was attending a friend's wedding at the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Hotel and Spa from Jan. 20 to 27 when on the second night, a male staff member entered her room and made advances at her.

"He started to try and take my clothes off, and then he began to touch me in places that he shouldn't have," Macala told CBC News on Sunday.

"He kept asking me, 'How do you like this? Is this good? Let me touch you.'"

Tried to come over again

The same employee harassed her and a female friend — the same friend who was getting married — over the next few days, according to a post Macala wrote on her blog on Saturday.

In the first incident, Macala said she repeatedly asked the employee to leave her room. She later grabbed his work radio and yelled at him to leave, which she said he did.

But Macala said a couple nights later, she was returning to her room when the same man phoned her to announce he was coming over.

Macala said she ran out onto the beach, but he drove up behind her in a golf cart, asking her where she was going.

Macala said her newly-married friend was inappropriately touched by a resort employee on another night.

Friend was asked to leave

Macala said resort management did not take their complaints seriously, despite the amount of money they had spent there.

The managers even asked a friend to leave the resort after she grabbed the man's arm while trying to apprehend him, Macala said.

"They said to my girlfriend that assaulting a staff member is completely unacceptable; it will not be tolerated in the hotel," she said. "We looked at each other, like, in shock."

No one from the Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya Hotel and Spa was available to comment on Sunday.

Macala said she is warning people to be careful while on vacation. She is advising against travelling alone, even at five-star resorts.

"I don't want to paint a bad picture about Mexico as a whole because it was very select few individuals that we were dealing with," she said.

"I guess the whole point I want to get out there is to be safe."