Bahia Principe Explore Coba: Resort was awesome

Dining great rooms were great shopping was close and affordable the jewelry shop was perfect pools were good didn’t really like the beach but we totally adapted lol too far from the airport but agian we adapted

Ocean Coral Riviera Cancun: Nice resort. but aggressive with joining on hotel club and seaweed on beach very smelly

Very nice resort. I understand pushing hotels clubs and times shares but pretending my brothers room was not ready in order for us to stay through a discussion on the hotel club was a big turn off. The not enough chairs around pool and beach was crazy unless you got up at 5:30 and saved chairs you were pretty much out of luck for the day. Now the worst is the seaweed. So much seaweed I know its not the hotels fault but using the tractor to clean some of it during the day caused the worst smell  [... read more]ever. The 10 foot pile beside the privilege area does not incline you to join the H10 hotel club

Grand Sirenis Riviera Maya: Loved this resort!

The Grand Sirenis is a huge property that provides multiple areas for relaxation or fun! Lush vegetation provides a natural habitat for many animals which we loved! A beautiful natural cove at the beach provides shelter on rough days and snorkelling off the beach! Multiple restaurants and several concierge’s to assist with bookings or to answer questions.A whole variety of activities day and night! Many bar tenders and servers keep you well hydrated. All staff wore masks indoors and outdoors [... read more] and hand sanitizer was available. It’s the other guests who don’t always respect the rules but they can’t control that. If you love music and dancing hopefully they will have the silent DJ one night, it is an absolute blast!! We would go back tomorrow if we could!

Bahia Principe Explore Tulum: Amazing time at Bahia Tulum

We were very pleased to see how Covid conscious staff were at this resort. All staff wore face masks 100% of the time. There was hand santizer available everywhere. Tables in buffets were sanitized after each diner. Guests were not permitted in buffets or restaurants without masks. When we left to go on excursions all transport and venues took temperature and again, staff were masked and guests had to be masked for entry. Very Covid safe!

Blue Bay Grand Esmeralda: I would advise skipping this one...

Overall, I would recommend skipping this resort and paying the extra $200 per person for something a little nicer in the area if you're planning to take the time off work/school and come all the way to Mexico anyways. More specifically, the beach is unusable with obstructed views, seaweed and constant red flags on the beach making it impossible to swim. The resort is far too big (even for my parter and I who are in our 20s and very active). Be prepared to walk, and walk, and walk. If you forget  [... read more]sunscreen in your room, be prepared to derail your entire afternoon (likely an hour) just making the hike back to your room to retrieve it. It is just very impractical getting around the resort as the "shuttles" never come, are completely full or reserved for members only. The layout of the resort is very bizarre (the restaurants and rooms are SO far away from the beach and pool, and by far away I'm taking a solid 15-20 minute walk one-way). Personally, I would not recommend this resort for families with small children or anyone with any sort of mobility issues. There is nowhere that has any shade if you want relief from the sun which was a huge issue for us. A small area on the beach has little shaded cabanas, but of course these were for members only. The rest of us had to fight for loungers (not too upset about this one, we recognize that happens at many resorts) but there was absolutely no lounge area around the pool that was shaded. After a couple of days getting burnt to a crisp, we struggled to find any place to go on the resort to relax and have a break from the sun. The front desk is not helpful if you have ANYTHING that goes wrong in your room (or the resort in general). The rooms are very old and dated. You will be lucky to not find a stain on a pillow or on your sheets. From everyone we spoke to staying at the resort, everyone's room had some sort of issue (toilet paper roll kept coming out of the wall, shower spout wouldn't turn, phone in room wasn't working, mirror on the wall was cracked, patio door wouldn't open, room smelled like mold, etc.) The food was very standard, nothing exceptional or unique to it. I've been to resorts that have little taco stands in the afternoon, ice cream bars, grilled food by the pools.. this resort had nothing like that. It was your standard buffet food. You need to book the a la cartes 2 days in advance and get to the lobby no later than 11am or all the reservations for the next day will be gone (forget about same day reservations). This requires a lot of pre-planning that you don't really want to have to think about when on vacation. As a small aside not about the resort, it's starting to get very obvious that the pick-up times on the day you are leaving the resort are ridiculously early. They want to pick you up from your resort 5 hours before your flight to account for "travel time" and picking up other guests at neighbouring resorts to get you to the airport early enough for an international flight. While I do appreciate this, you end up sitting in the airport waiting for your flight home for 4 hours. As a result, every tourist is seen spending a ridiculous amount of money on the airport food (burgers and fries were $33 CAD with a bottle of water being $8 CAD). It seems strange that we all have to do this when we are coming from an all inclusive and could have been eating an included meal from our resort? Almost made us want to just arrange a private taxi/shuttle to get to the airport at a more reasonable time (2 hours before our flight). The money we would spend on a private shuttle we would save on all the airport food from being there so early.. could it be the resort, transportation service, and airport want you to check-out of your hotel crazy early in order to spend $$$$$ at the airport?!? You do wonder why a 4/4.5 star resort is so much cheaper than the other 4/4.5 star resorts listed online.. it's because this is a 3.5 star resort at best, honestly. I would really advise skipping this one.

Royal Hideaway Playacar: Amazing Resort

This was our 5th visit to the Royal Hideaway. Yes the rooms are a little tired but they are spotlessly clean. The grounds are immaculate. The people make the resort. They are so kind and work so very hard. The food was fantastic. All staff wore masks and we did too. We would go back in a heartbeat.

Ocean Riviera Paradise: amazing resort

I was very please with this hotel the grounds are beautiful the beach not so much as there's loads of seaweed at the moment but still can go in .....the hotel has many restaurants and all the food I ate from room service to the restaurant and buffet are 10 out of 10 perfect dishs Flavor portions great I was in the elbso side adult's only I had swim out the swim out need a great clean but they did clean when there I used it all morning and afternoons in the pool I have to say I travel a lot and [... read more] the booze at this hotel is not watered down love it the rooms are clean and done twice a day I don't have one bad thing to say I definitely will go back 😀

Bahia Principe Explore Akumal: Honestly Amazing

The hotel grounds are absolutely amazing. Our room was neat and clean. Room service came everyday to clean and replenish towels. Masks were worn in main lobby indoor settings and when walking into restaurants ! I loved how organized everything was. I went with 2 other adults. Buffet not as good as the restaurants which you do need to book reservations for. Bring water shoes to the beach lol. We did thank God. Beach was clean. Overall 4.8/5 ! Loo

Bahia Principe Explore Coba: Amazing resort

Everything from the food, amenities, hospitality, the whole resort, the drinks, pools, entertainment, service, accommodation, activities all all ala cart restaurants . Everything !!!!!¡¡!!!!!!!!!¡!!

The Sens Riviera: Peaceful and FUN!

We absolutely loved our stay. We have come to admire a smaller property closer to the beach with less walking. We upgraded to the Sunscape pool area with outdoor tub! Woke up to birds and iguanas daily - a peaceful paradise. We had no kids with us, but the kids area were vast and several with Dino and pirate theme and an arcade. One of the things I most enjoyed was no braclets and no a la carte bookings. First Come First Serve and no disappoints. Did I mention the SPA! You deserve it.  [... read more]Special shout of the friendly staff, Uriel was very helpful, SPA staff amazing WINE CELLER DINNER SERVICE, Roberto and Marcello top shelf.

Iberostar Selection Paraiso Lindo: Great Hotel if you like walking

This place is beautiful. If you have scent allergies the check in/out can be hard as the lobby is horrible . Luckily the rest of the resort doesn’t smell like that. The pools are gorgeous ( If you don’t get a chair before 8 am you will not have one at the pool - beach is better) Food is good . However, if you are a diabetic there are not a lot of whole grain options ( they have gluten free items but as a diabetic that isn’t good to me . Entertainment is fun - some people are hard on the e [... read more]ntertainment but the shows are upbeat . You have to walk miles to get anywhere . The golf carts that drive up and down are great . We were not lucky enough to have a clean room daily . Dirty linen, shampoo etc not filled and 2nd day the door was left unlocked - no apology at all even though they checked the door lock to see that no one from our room had come in after the cleaner . The safe was broken and the guy came twice to fix it - not fixed . We tipped first 3 days then stopped . 4th day - no toilet paper in the room ! Luckily we had another room we could lock up our stuff . If we had not had that I would have been really upset . My other 2 friends rooms didn’t have same problems with cleaning . Take taxis to places instead of booked excursions. Drivers that consierge can take you anywhere and stay all day for a few hundred $ the entrance to Tulune for example is about $4 US . You can then go somewhere else same day . We went to a beach to snorkel .

Secrets Akumal Riviera Maya: Nice resort. But don’t think we will be back

We stayed here for 10 days for our honeymoon. Worth the price? Short answer is no. The pillows are terrible so you should probably bring your own. Rooms are nice. I don’t think the shower has ever been cleaned given the state of the glass door. Which is a big pet peeve of mine. Beach is nice. Lots of seaweed right now so you can’t swim out far at all. Everyone mostly stays at the pools. You’ll need to put a towel on the pool chairs by 8am if you want a seat for the day. They fill up  [... read more]quick. Restaurants are OK. Not very big menus not a lot to choose from. They have dinner buffet but only set them up outside by the pools. So unless you want to eat there with the wind and mosquitos you have to get room service(which is very good) or go to a restaurant. They called us a lot for turn down service. Which I’m not sure why. The rooms have a do not disturb button on them which is nice. We missed our welcome meeting because we felt we didn’t need to go. Our do not disturb sign was on as we had left for breakfast so we didn’t want our room cleaned yet and we see that they came into our room anyways and left us a note saying we missed our meeting. That put a bad taste in our mouth. We spent a lot of money on this trip. They didn’t really seem to care it was our honeymoon. Made comments that we were “young” (28&29) we had our travel agent let them know a head of time that this was our delayed honeymoon. We saw everyone else arriving all week greeted with champagne. We were not lol. We were given a top floor room in villa #7 at the very end. Right across from the club that goes until 1am. Also overlooks the service building which smelt like hot garbage some days. Coco cafe is amazing. Better than Starbucks and 24 hrs. Pools are clean. Service all day is great. I don’t usually leave lengthy reviews like this. But we spent alot for this trip and it was long awaited.

Barcelo Maya Colonial: Ok Resort

Resort was clean, breach was nice. I had to go to the front desk at least 5 time for a new key card. Some staff were awesome, but some were just "there". Buffett, pretty good service, Jose was awesome during the suppertime seating. Buffet food was the same pretty much every night, no theme nights, just pasta, thin steak, chicken and pork, served the same each night. They did have a rotiserie chicken that was really good!! The a la cartes, hard to get a decent time we had 2 at 5:30 and the other  [... read more]was 9pm. The food was ok. Only 2 serves at the beech bar, ment for a long wait some days. The main lounge out front.....very dated. I've been to a number of Barcello properties and they were great, this one was not great, but it wasn't 4.5stars in my opinion. The Beach Buffet, we had a family of 9 the Manager would not allow us to sit together 'Max 8" he said. we would have been ok with this if he could have explained why...he could not. Every other place we ate on the resort...no issue, they always made it work, but we had to fight every day with that guy, otherwise 2 kids would have to eat at their own table. It made no sense why this was only happening at the one buffet. oh, and the buffet was usually less than half full, this really pissed us off, day after day.

Ocean Riviera Paradise: disappointing resort stay

The beach was extremely disappointing, there was so much seaweed, not enough chairs and every time i turned around there was someone trying to sell me a massage or souvenirs, etc.. The lack of service in the buffet was a real shame, they could get a drink order right because of the language barrier from spanish to english and extremely under staffed. The excursion (tulum ruins, cenote, snorkeling) was well done, our tour guide Jesús was amazing, we did find the cenote and snorkeling a bit rus [... read more]hed and wished we could have spent more time there. There were only a few fish species to see unfortunately. The restaurant lines were long so we resorted to the buffet a few times for dinner. When we did eat in the restaurants (steak house, italian and blue moon) there were only a max of 5 main entrees to choose from and there was very little wiggle room to change something on the dish (baked potato to mashed potato for example). One of my biggest upsets was the lack of consideration for those with food allergies. I have a severe tree nut allergy and everything in the buffet was not properly labelled or every chocolate dessert was made with hazelnuts (same with the crepe station). Many of the restaurant dishes also had nuts and were not able to made without them which limited my choices. Unfortunately I will not be going back to this resort, nor do i recommend it and most likely will not return to Mexico.

Bahia Principe Explore Akumal: Great resort

The service at this resort is amazing and the staff are extremely pleasant. The food at the buffet and at the a la carte restaurants is amazing - could not ask for more! The only thing that is not great is swimming in the ocean - perfect for family with small children, if they wear water shoes, but not so much for adults. The pools make up for it as you can get a quiet spot or a very active one. Really enjoyed my stay

Wyndham Alltra Playa del Carmen: Great Week!!

Overall this property offered everything needed for a wonderful vacation! The beach is practically non existent so if that’s big on your ‘need’ list then this place is not for you! The food, coffee, drinks, rooms, linens and facilities in general were fantastic! Location and proximity to 5th Ave were also great! We had a fun, fun week!

Valentin Imperial Riviera Maya: Amazing Quiet Resort very relaxing

This hotel offered great service from the moment we arrived to check in till the time we left. I think by far the best service yet. Pool staff were friendly, great service at the restaurants, maid service and shuttle service. Always smiling and happy to accommodate you. If you are looking for an adults only more quiet mature crowd then this is the place.

Barcelo Maya Colonial: Amazing Resort

This was our 2nd time at the Barcelo Colonial and enjoyed every minute of it. It is a beautiful resort and the grounds are very well taken care of. The workers work very hard to make this happen. Barcelo is very family friendly and have lots of stuff for kids. They had a mask mandate of wearing your mask to all buffets, ala carts, going inside shops or any indoor spaces which made us very happy to see. This resort is very large but for some reason it doesn't feel to big and it is very easy to ge [... read more]t around. It has everything you will need here without leaving the resort from swimming with turtles, seeing fish on the reef and much more. For an extra cost you can go bowling, zip lining and to the flow rider. We are already planning our 3rd trip back next year. Thank you

Secrets Maroma Beach Riviera Cancun: Great resort

Incredible resort. Staff are amazing. Grounds impeccable. Beach beautiful and if any seaweed removed immediately. Nice and quiet and not too many people around. Food not the best, but okay, for the price would have expected higher quality/

El Dorado Seaside Palms: Fun holiday

The good: We stayed on the Palms side versus the seaside suites and much preferred the rooms and the beautiful grounds where the palms is situated. The Palms side is also where most of the night life occurs and also where the beaches are better. Night life and entertainment were great. The food was better depending on the restaurant selected - the Asian and Italian restaurant up by the main entrance lobby were the best. Make sure to wear very light clothing for the Italian restaurant as it te [... read more]nds to be exceptionally warm. For the most part the service is good and the staff are very friendly. The entertainment up at the pool was also a lot of fun. The not so good: The seaweed! No matter how hard, or how many people worked each day, the seaweed did have a negative impact on the beach experience. We were at this same resort 2 years ago in early March and the beaches were beautiful. Unfortunately not this year. Both my husband and I got diarrhea - a first for the many Karisma resorts we have travelled. We spoke to another guest who had a similar story but we had not eaten in the same restaurants. Despite this we had a great holiday and would still consider going to this resort again but perhaps more in January or February to try to avoid the seaweed.