Riu Santa Fe

The grounds, walkways, restaurants & rooms were very clean! It was a beautiful setting. Too many vendors on the beach make it annoying enough not to want to be there. So much smoking...nowhere to breath!

Great place lots of fun

santa fe was great staff was very nice too all around great place last time we were there we stayed at the palace total different experience santa fe if you want to have party like fun and palace if you want a more catered to feeling less kids and food is better more variety that's what you pay for but both are great in there own way

Amazing resort!!

Rui Santa Fe is a beautiful resort with good food ! The rooms are spacious and clean. We really enjoyed this resort with it beautiful view of the ocean!! The staff was amazing and very attentive. The only downfall is you cannot swim in the ocean but we went on the Lovers End glass bottom boat to Lover beach and you can swim there.

Still the best

this is a great resort the staff are the best .the only thing we found this time after 7 previous was the food at the beach sure went downhill breakfast or lunch a great disappoint. but the rest is ex. great value.EX PLACE.

Excellent resort

This resort exceeded my expectations. Staff were friendly, excellent food and drinks, hotel room was spotless and great having bar fridge. Great resort for families. Walking distance to great shopping and food.

Fantastic place to stay!

This resort was extremely clean. The rooms were great. Room service made fantastic towel creatures. Dining room staff were quick and professional. Drinks and food were outstanding. The buffet was so good I don't know why anyone would be disappointed if they didn't get into one of the a la cartes. The ocean pools had a great view of lands end. The interior pool was a little quieter, which was perfect for us. It's a 20 minute walk into San Lucas on the beach. We loved it! We would recommend this p [... read more]lace to anyone and come back without hesitation.

One of the better ones

Have never been to a Riu resort before,but would consider trying other ones elsewhere.However at Los cabos the employees are all very nice,,very good food and plenty of drink.Rooms are well kept,and every area is exceptionally clean.We rarely visit same resort twice,but would certainly return to this one..

Good

The resort was very clean, but there was no waiters around the pool to take your drink borders.There was a lot of flys at the indoor restaurants and at the pools, we covered our food with napkins and our drinks with a napkin as well as a hair elastic. we had a great time... And would definiatly go again!

Really good overall resort!

This was a beautiful hotel and amazingly clean complex. Food was good. It was easy to book into the a-la-cartes and worth it! The buffet was also a lovely dining experience with linen service, hot food stations and a chocolate fondue. Alcohol was superior and the stocked fridge was a nice touch. Weather was a touch unpredictable and cool but that is january in Mexico! If there was something lacking it was the evening entertainment....started too late and was cheesy. Perhaps something earlier? A  [... read more]beach bonfire? A Mexican fiesta? Evenings were a bit flat.

Good value

I was disappointed because my only prior experience with thr Rui resorts was my stay at the Rui Palace. But the price is cheaper hence it's unrealistic to compare it to the Palace. However I would have preferred more staff in the restaurants and at the bars.

Very Poor

We visited Riu Santa Fe on 25/12/2014 and have the worst holiday. The service at check-in was terrible. The front desk staff is not friendly at all. The pictures on resort website do not show the real resort just block 7 which is the only breach front area. If you don't have a room in block 7 you are treated like a second rate citizen. The entire resort was very very crowded. The food menu at the buffets was the same every single day. The reservations for the restaurants need to be made 4 days i [... read more]n advance. There are 3 bars at the night entertainment area and on an average it took us 20 minutes to order a drink. The beds were terrible. The rooms and the towels had this weird stale smell. We almost had to wait for hours to get a spot at the pool side chairs as they were always occupied. The resort has over 900 rooms and not enough pool area or beach area or chairs. This resort is supposed to be a 5 star hotel but our experience was that of a cheap motel. All in all I would recommend to not stay at this hotel.

Nice resort

The pools were great and lots of swim up bars. Not the greatest selection of alcohol though. Nightlife at the resort was also pretty lame. Food all tasted the same. Very nice resort otherwise and very clean. Friendly staff.

Beautiful Resort

Our family (of 4) loved this resort. The staff were friendly, food was delicious, and the view from the pool was absolutely beautiful. We would definitely stay there again. The only thing we feel could have better was if there was more of a child pool/play ground. The mini club was lacking in that area.

Great resort

We really enjoyed our stay at the Riu and were impressed with the friendliness of the staff and and the lovely grounds. There was a good selection/variety of different foods and it was nice to eat at the speciality restaurants. The only issues we had were that the beds were really hard and there could have been a better selection of red wine!

Mexico's New Hot Spot for sure.

Our fifth 2 week vacation here and will be back next year. Absolutely love this resort and area. One $ US. will get you to downtown to check out Cabo Wabo Canteena. The hurricane did a lot of damage in this area but it was not really noticeable at the resort.

Review of Riu Santa Fe

My friends and I had an amazing time at the resort. It was generally clean, staff was friendly, had a variety of food. You could hardly tell that it was effected by the hurricane a couple months ago. I did, however, find there was a lack of problem skills for some of the staff we dealt with. Otherwise, we definitely felt like it was a good pick.

Great place to go!

This hotel had great views, great staff and a good night life. Also, close to town and all the great things of Cabos! The buffets where good and both close to the large pool areas. The view from the infinity pool facing the mountains and marina were spectacular.

This resort is slipping

This used to be one of our favorite places in Mexico but now like other Riu resorts they are dumping their room cheap to locals but of course there were very few locals in the Los Cabos area so they found the American University crowd, who's only ambition seems to be to get drunk and have a good time at no matter what the cost to anyone else! Sadly when the students arrive the quality of everything departs food becomes very poor drinks get weaker noise levels go through the roof and the pools un [... read more]tenable, sad to say we will not likely return, a shame, this is not to blame the students rather the Riu chains not being able to understand the needs of their various clients.

Great place!

Food offerings were great. I liked the buffet better than all the a la carts. Lots of pools and bars to choose from depending on your mood. Didn't have a problem finding lounge chairs most days. Staff were friendly and helpful. Nice walk along to beach to town.

Great Vacation

Our stay at the Riu Santa Fe was very good. The resort itself was beautiful.... grounds very manicured and taken care of. We were in building 3. It had a great view of the courtyard pool and was never noisy. The rooms were adequate and cleaned daily. The downside is the beds. They were so hard I thought my back was broken the first night. (typical mexico) However we asked for an egg carton foam topper and it was brought up on request without asking 4 times. The other downside is that the AC was  [... read more]very poor in the rooms. We were told it was under maintenance...Not impressed but we managed. The last downside is a horrible stench from outside building 7 that you have to walk by every day to get to the 3 other pools and beach. It seriously smelled of rotten dead something. Im not generally a buffet lover but the food was good with tons of choices. The asian restaurant had great service and excellent food. The mexican restaurant however was a huge disappointment. We ended up going to to the buffet to eat. The night entertainment was pretty good if thats your thing. I personally can take it or leave it. So aside from a few very small things I loved the Riu Santa Fe and would definitely return.