Hotel review

Hotel is dated. No chairs at pools. Food was not good. The slides in the kids section were only open for 10 mins everyday. Beach was dirty every morning. Nothing for kids to do at night. I would not stay here again.

Do not book this hotel

It took over 1 hour to check in and we were 2nd in line at 1am. The front desk lady refused to check in my mom in her own room saying that her room was not ready and then changed her mind and said she had to go to a different lobby in another building for someone to check her in. When she got there, they told her the original lady should have checked her in and this is now 2 hours later. Pools are not heated so they are extremely cold. They are all well over 5'7 feet even at the kids watersid [... read more]e by the pirate ship so you need to have a life jacket for them unless they are extremely good swimmers. There are no loungers around the pools and not enough on the beach. If you want a lounger, you must grab one before 715am. The APP to book a la cartes was working however, we were never able to book even right at 8am when the reservation system opened because they were always "full". Rooms are small and always smelled musty. The bathrooms were even smaller! Food was very much the same each day with 1 or 2 dishes that were swapped. During the week, there is no evening entertainment until 930pm so there is nothing to do after dinner until the night show. Weekends they do have live music or some activities starting around 8pm. Bars close really early at 1130 throughout the resort with the exception of 1 bar that I believe closes at 1230. I am not a picky traveller and have gone to places like Cuba and although their food is pretty bad, the resorts and overall experience there is so much better.

Needs Improvement

Unfortunately the resort was very underwhelming. The resort did not at all look like the pictures. Very outdated. Very overcrowded. Limited food options and cold, when available. Never any pool chairs. Staff were very kind though when they did assist (which was limited, due to overcrowding)

Three Star Resort with Five Star Staff

This was my second time at the Grand Oasis Palm in Cancun. Having had a fair amount of experience in the Cancun and the Mayan Riviera all the way to Tulum, I write this review with that experience in mind. While by facilities alone, I would call the Grand Oasis Palm only a three star, there were five star elements to it. The staff at this resort were amazing, going out of their way to make us feel warmly welcomed and saw to any needs we had with the highest level of professionalism. This posi [... read more]tive comment applies to all the staff from the beach bar, reception, serving staff and others who worked tirelessly, doing their best to make the vacationing experience as best possible. As for food service, I will only comment on the buffet that had a large selection of well prepared and presented dishes to choose from. The soups were outstanding and the variety of sushi was surprisingly good. The facility is a little weathered overall where it is overdue for renovations. The resort needs a lobby bar. Once the rain pounds, there is only one other day time bar on the Oasis side to get beverages (other than table service at the restaurants). The sports bar is limited in both size and drink selection. The busy beach bar is wonderful, but it definitely needs an additional bartender, or two. I do recommend the Grand Oasis Palm in Cancun as a budget friendly, all inclusive resort but I do see this facility as a three star with five star staff and four star buffet, therefore overall, I selected four stars for this review.

Clean, comfortable resort

Great staff, good service, food at restaurants not hot enough, but ok, lots of entertainment, beach has powder sand, waters very shallow, perfect for children and adults too. Buffet food ok, but not very hot either. Overall, it’s a good place to get away from cold Canada!

It was OK

The hotel is dated, but kept clean. The Sens side was nicer and newer. We ate at the buffet on that side almost every meal. Look up where it is on the map. It’s next to a harbor and you have large ships going in and out multiple times a day. It’s definitely not a quiet, tranquil location. But the kids loved it. The “Le Petite Chef” restaurant was a hit with everyone in our group.

The most discusting hotel worst of the worst

We arrived there and the room we got had no fridge. No microwave.. no balcony.. we had to pay extra 450$ U.S for upgrade to have a so called better room with what they called a bar service… we never recieved any bar service at all the whole 7 days we were there and they only came to bring water and drinks on our last day when we were checking out!!! Every day I was in the lobby front seat asking for water !!! Our room was never getting cleaned!!!our toilet was always clogging and takes them hour [... read more]s to come fix it and it was always clogging!! The rooms are so ridiculous and dirty and smelly!!! The hotel was full of only locals and barely any visitors from other countries! Some of the security guards were so rude !!! The food is so discusting and I I found some pizza that was cooked with rotten and green fungus molded bread and some fruits that was very rotten and moldy and I bring it to the server’s attention showed it to them and told them to remove it as people can get very sick and possibly die and they just agreed with me to my face and apologize and then they never did anything about it and I watched the cook add more in the buffet after they ran out as I watched so many kids and older people eating it and I took pictures and showed it to client services and again nothing was done about it!!! All the food was sooo bad and discusting and rotten and it was the same food very single day!!! I even et to leave but was stuck as they wouldn’t refund me for any of the days and there was no availability any other hotels as it was spring break!!!! I had to take my kids and go out to eat in other restaurants downtown as I couldn’t take any risk in that hotel!!! I wish I could download pictures of the food u would throw up just looking at it!!! It was vacation from hell!!! The beach was light blue water at 6/7 am but by 10 am it would be brown and yellow and soooo dirty because of all the boats literally beside the hotel and water was full of engine oil and motor fumes and gas leaks and would turn the water brown it was so dirty and u would find broken glass bottles and cigarettes butts all over the sand ! It’s definitely not a place for kids or a place to enjoy!!! I been to Mexico 4 times now and now I will never ever go back !!! Worst stay of my life!!! If there was a no star on this rating I would’ve been selecting it because this hotel doesn’t even deserve the one star!!! Don’t understand how this place still open!!! I guess that’s why it’s all locals there!!!

Amazing Resort

The resort was clean, spacious and top notch service. I highly recommend this resort to anyone. The staff where awesome and the food was even better. Could not of asked for a better week in the sun and sand.

Great resort!

We had an awesome time at this resort! The rooms were very clean, the food was delicious (lots of variety) and the staff were fantastic! Would be great if there was umbrellas around the pool loungers as that sun is intense. We would definitely return to grand oasis palm!

Cancun

Hotel is fine just be prepared to wait a few hours for your room when you arrive paid a tax of $77 dollars us waited a long time at the airport to get to my hotel when it was time to leave mis communication language barrier my ride back left had to pay 40 usd for cab or I would have missed my flight

Disappointed in the resort, expected better from an Oasis

First I want to shout out to the staff, who were friendly and gracious. Our room - rock hard beds, outlets that wouldn't hold a cord, cut lamp cords. House keeping was good. Buffet food and selection was marginal at best, mixed drinks awful. Pasta restaurant passable. Coffee shop amazing. Of all the places in the area I have visited, this was by far the least value for the money paid. It was not a budget price. We have stayed at other Oasis resorts with outstanding results which ma [... read more]de the disappointment greater.

Medium level resort

It was a medium level resort and was lower than my expectation. There are much better resorts with this price in cancun. Busy restaurants with not qualified foods. No responsible staffs in lobby. Most of them they did not know English !!! I don't recommend it.

Awful

It was worth experience Staff were very rude Food was very bad and we were always more than one hour on the line to get into the restaurant and long lines of people. The staff didn’t speak English and didn’t understand what we needed and didn’t care about guests at all. We reserved the tour and they took our money and did not send us confirmation and information about transportation and we lost the tour. On the last day unfortunately they did not send us transportation to get us from h [... read more]otel to Airport, even we talked with them the day before on the phone and confirmed, but they didn’t care and we were late at the airport to come back to Toronto Nobody was responsible for anything in the hotel, I talked to front desk and they did not care and were really rude to me and our family. We were 23 people as a family and friends and everyone unhappy. We wasted our money and our time at this hotel

Good Resort!

Hotel was ok, room was overlooking the pool/ocean but was loud some nights and rowdy. The restaurants that required reservations were a drag as you’d waste an hour trying to make them. The service was great whether you needed information in either language but some of the restaurant workers were confused with their hours as they worked in multi establishments…house cleaning was hit and miss, varied times each day…resort was clean

Not impressed at all

I booked with Grand Oasis Palm, paying a higher price than other family members who booked oasis palm. when we arrived we were told Grand Oasis and Oasis where now in the same building, but that Grand oasis guests had better rooms with more modern furniture. What a joke ! Room in the first floor had better furniture. We didn’t even get an ocean view so we payed more a lot more for nothing !! Buffet for Grand Oasis was pretty much the same as the buffet for Oasis, again we payed a lot more  [... read more]for no difference. We did not bother to try anything else as we felt we were Just overcharged for nothing. i was told I could use both Oasis and Grand Oasis amenities but guess what, there was only one crowded pool as the “grand oasis” building and pool became and adults only resort, not for us. Most of the people at the hotel were good but a few, believe me, they should not be the on this business, they have no idea of how to treat people! Please DON’T FALL on this trap. It is a waste of your hard earned money. I’m actually putting a formal claim as this is false advertisement. !! And please Oasis Palm or Grand Oasis palm Mgr. DO NOT BOTHER to reply with your copy and paste/ FIT ALL response, that I would never come back or recommend this place.

Excellent resort!

Fantastic service in all departments; top-notch gourmet food and beverages; Adults only; great beach; tastefully renovated premises; satisfactory tennis court; etc. My only complaint, and it is a major one, is absolute lack of acceptable entertainment; and the little of it there was, came with horrible sound system; lousy performers and a totally incompetent DJ, who was either deaf or totally amature for the job. "Turn the volume to MAX" must have been the only thing he learned in music school! [... read more]!! In fairness though, the only positive in the entertainment category over our 10-day stay was the externally-sourced Circus night, which we enjoyed very much.

Disappointing

I was disappointed by this hotel. My wife, my 2 year old daughter and I were looking forward to this trip as a way to decompress, have a bit of fun and reconnect. First night there, we get woken up at 2 in the morning by drunk people shouting in the hallway, second night there we realize the bar outside close to our room plays loud music until 11:30 every night, and 2nd morning there, that they've begun renovation just outside our room with (jackhammer starting at 8 in the morning and going  [... read more]on until 2 in the afternoon every weekday). In light of the lack of sleep, my daughter was throwing tantrums after tantrums, which meant, neither my wife nor I were really able to relax. We spoke with the hotel about relocating to a quieter room but it seems they were more interested in selling us an upgrade (at high price to a location just as noisy) rather than solving the issue. The rooms themselves are also quite small, and no balcony or bigger bathroom unless you pay a premium. With two luggages, a stroller and a crib, pretty much the whole room is filled. In addition to this, Hotel babysitting services only start at 3 years old. If you want access to the Kid's shallow pool area, your child has to be supervised by one parent; no two parents can be present at the same time and there is no chair for parents to sit in that area. Foodwise, I have coeliac disease so my choices are limited to begin with, but they were more limited in that hotel than other hotels i have been to in Mexico. Furthermore, having only chosen the Oasis Palm (and not the Grand oasis Palm option) a lot of restaurants weren't accessible to us. It did not however make any sense to pay a premium to have the grand Oasis Palm option as most of these extra restaurants were 16years+. In any case, we felt we had tasted everything there was to be tasted after 2 days there. Service was not consistent, nor always as friendly as you would expect.For one of the restaurants, we had ordered white wine. It took 15 minutes for the server to come with wine glasses, and he had poured red wine instead. Instead of fixing his mistake right away, he then went to clean another table and another, etc. The daughter was getting fussy (she was hungry) so we ended just leaving that restaurant after 25 minutes of sitting down, with no food for her nor wine for us. We finally managed to get relocated to another hotel by speaking with Sunwing customer Service. We got transferred to another Oasis hotel (Grand Oasis Tullum). A much calmer resort where the service was much friendlier and my daughter was actually able to sleep.

Great Time!

We travelled as a group with 8 adults and 3 children (4,3 and 2) This was our 4th consecutive trip as a group. 3rd time to Mexico but first time to Cancun. This resort was amazing for children and families! We loved that some many are snack bars and food restaurants were open all day. The staff were so good with our kids, very helpful and patient. My 4yr old actually turned 5yrs while were there and the staff went over and beyond at the buffet to help set up and party for him. He was so happy a [... read more]nd so excited. There is so much for kids of all ages to do at this resort. My 4yr old and 3yr old loved the balloon animal maker!! The resort is clean, the food is good and we noticed while walking the beach that our beach was well kept compared to others. I would definitely reccommend this resort to other families. Thanks for the great memories! Kristie Wright and Family

Great Family Resort

We travelled with 8 adults and 3 kids ranging from 2-5 years old and there was something for everyone. The grounds were gorgeous and the property is oceanfront. Rooms were clean and not musty smelling.

Great family resort

Lots to do with the kids/ family. Was an interesting mix of families, adults and millennials/ college students as well as nationalities. Overall is fun for everyone! Multiple pools provided ample places for kids to swim and play and the kids club was great for them to go play and dry off and take a break from all the swimming.