Iberostar Selection Esmeralda: Unforgettable vacation

We stay in Iberostar Selection Esmeralda for a week in December and have a great time. The hotel is new, has modern rooms and well maintained ground. The beach is beautiful with white sand. The food is good and tasty for Cuba, pizza is excellent. The resort provides professional show everyday. The staff is friendly. Special thanks to Adriel who helped us with better accommodation. We will return to this resort again.

Memories Flamenco Beach Resort: Would not recommend for families

I'll begin by saying the beach was fabulous. Needs to be cleaned of sharp objects but water was great. Staff was rude even after tipping $5+ each time. No water, two days in a row intermittently which is not fun when you're with children. Rooms have black mold and their solution for this health hazard were to paint over it after many complaints. Food is GOD AWFUL and surprisingly (not really surprised) "improved" on travel day back home. Spoke with several other and they had the same issues.  [... read more] *Avoid at all costs*

Memories Flamenco Beach Resort: Wish the management worked harder

We have been to this resort in the past and had a great experience however, this time it was really bad. We had no water for a few days and most importantly the rooms were not clean at all. There was black mold everywhere and once we addressed it, they just painted over it. I have been travelling to Cuba for 15 years and the staff at every hotel were always lovely but this time the staff were careless and if the didn’t get paid a tip, weather it was a restaurant server or at the bar or cleanin [... read more]g ladies they would not serve us. It’s sad to see such a lovely resort be in this shape. Almost every person in the hotel was complaining. Hope this feedback is helpful to improve the hotel services.

Melia Jardines del Rey: Melia Jardines del Rey

This resort should not have a 4.5 star. During our stay Dec 7-14 2024 repetative food and menus in restaurants which weren’t all open. Toilet paper often empty in lounge and rests rooms. Towels in room often not replaced. Rooms need upgrading. Fridge not restocked daily with water and beer. Resort itself is beautiful and workers are lovely and pleasant. Beach is beautiful but hard on feet getting in due to shells and coral. Would not return to this resort. Would try others since Cuba beaches ar [... read more]e beautiful.

Grand Aston Cayo Paredon Beach Resort: Great Resort

I really liked this resort. It's quite new and modern. I liked the layout as nothing was too far away. Buffet, snack bar and pools were all within a couple of minutes walk. The beach was maybe five minutes, no longer. Lots of beach chairs and palapas. There are a lot of staff at this resort and everything was clean and well looked after. Public bathrooms were fully stocked with toilet paper, soap and handtowels or hand dryers. My bedroom was very spacious and clean. Bed was super comfortable and [... read more] the best bed I have slept on in 10 visits to Cuba. Buffet was the usual Cuban fare but we did have eggs all week and good choices of pork, chicken, beef and fish. Maybe lacking a bit in fresh vegetables but that's a supply issue. Friendly, attentive servers , in fact all the staff I encountered were really nice. Would return.!!

Grand Aston Cayo Paredon Beach Resort: Come here. You won't regret it.

This was the best vacation of all the times I visited Cuba. A wonderful hotel, spacious, clean rooms, including everything you need. Wonderful beach and pool. The food is complete, if without any special nitpicks, then everyone can find something to their taste and desire. I plan to go back there again.

Sanctuary White Sands: A Caribbean Gem!

This resort is a Caribbean Gem! A very well appointed hotel with fabulous staff. I must say the Butler service was outstanding. We were lucky to have Carlos and Federico take care of us. They were most attentive and took care of any concerns or needs we had. Our Sunwing Rep, Beatriz Tornet was very helpful. We had a medical emergency with one of the guests in our party. She did an excellent job in closing the communication gap and coordinating too many things to mention here. The pool was sp [... read more]ectacular and well kept. The buffet and a la Carte was wonderful. All the staff work very hard to make sure you want for nothing. I hope to return next year!

Sanctuary White Sands: Brand New Resort

The Resort was brand new just opened in march 2024. The buildings and grounds were perfectly manicured. The food was great. so many choices if you say food is lacking your way to fussy. We had a few issues with the front desk and the maid service. I have ulcerative colitis and a half a roll of toilet paper just does'nt cut it. i let the front desk know this at least the first four days in a row. nothing changed. Also we went on an excursion and asked for a wake up call which we did not recieve.  [... read more]one small bottle of shampoo (individual) every 3 or four days. when i asked for soap they said they didnt have any they had body gell. We recieved none of that either. my wife took two small soaps off of maids cart so front desk mislead us. bottled water still seemed to be in short supply as some days we got it and other days we did not. Beer seemed to be in better supply as we always got two beer in our fridge every day. thank goddness we brought our own soap shampoo and toilet paper. the first four days of our 11 day stay the ocean was way to rough to go in. My phone would not work thank you so much Beatrice sun wing rep for letting us use your phone to check on our little ones. we sat in the same section at each meal until a busboy picking up dishes knocked over a full glass of wine on my wife. all napkins were gone and she had nothing to wipe up with. He didnt come back so she could clean up. She was fuming. We brought it up to one of the managers. Nothing seemed to get done. great resort with a few issues. When we landed in cuba we changed most of our american money for cuban paseos. didnt find a single bussiness that took cuban paseos. They do not want Cuban money and all prices are in US dollars and if you try to pay in Canadian beware you will pay whatever exchange rate they feel fit to charge. Do yourself a favor just bring american money . .

Iberostar Coral Esmeralda: Nice resort

Me and my husband went to this resort from Nov 29 to Dec 6 and overall we liked our stay.Our suite on the level side was amazing very large with ocean view block 7.Our cleaning lady was amazing always have our room clean and well decorated.All the employees that we have contact to were very friendly and helpful.The entertainment team was amazing especially Brian always making us feel welcome. The beach is very nice beautiful colour.The lobby bar and piscina bar very nice and friendly,but the bea [... read more]ch was very poor and the staff it wasn’t friendly not even a smile.The downside was the food no variety very poor at least the wine/drinks were good.One week was enough ! The hotel have to improve on their meals/food otherwise is going to lose customers because you one but next time won’t go back,just beach,rooms and friendly staff is not enough everything was to balance.

Sanctuary White Sands: Lots of Potential- missed the Mark

At first glance the Sanctuary White Sands in Cayo Coco appears to be a beautiful, new resort. The people are lovely but this resort falls short in a few areas. Keeping in mind this is Cuba and expectations are definitely lower knowing the difficulties they face. Food in the buffet is the same on a daily basis, so we booked the la car restaurants 5 out of the 6 nights- the food is definitely better at the a la carts! Housekeeping is basically non existent; they make your bed and that's about it [... read more]. Towels are not available to be replenished so if you are expecting clean towels you need to ask and might get them every 3 days if lucky. We threw our dirty towels, after 2 days of use, on the floor and when we returned we found the same dirty, damp towels folded and left on the floor. When we requested new towels we were sent towels that stunk and we could not use. We finally got someone to give us extra pool towels to use. The pool appears large and nice but after a few days you will notice the same items that were at the bottom of the pool are still there and it appears they have no pool vacuum to address this issue. This leads to our biggest complaint about this resort.....SMOKING. If you are a non smoker do not go to this resort. They allow guests to smoke everywhere, even though they say there is a designated smoking area off to the side of the lobby bar the entire lobby smokes and they do nothing to enforce the smoking section. The tables and chairs, not even a year old have burn marks because of this; such a shame. One night we were surrounded by smokers and I asked the manager to enforce the no smoking, he did and 5 minutes later someone else lit up but nothing was said- completely hopeless. They allow smoking in the pool and guest butt their cigarettes on the pool deck which ultimately make there way into the pool! Yes, cigarettes butts in the pool. Even at the pool swim up bar you cant' sit there unless you want to be surrounded by smokers! Absolutely disgusting. Same at the beach, lots of cigarettes in the sand. The resort was at 50% capacity during our stay but they do not have enough beach chairs even for that. I got up at 7am one morning and went to the beach, all the chairs taken! The staff on the beach said people get up at 5am to save chairs- we gave up. Only way to get a chair at the beach is to go after lunch when people are packing up. I must say that if management actually cared about taking care of this resort it would be a beautiful place but after only 9 months of being open it already shows wear and the toll of smoking everywhere on the property. They need to invest in a pool vacuum and more chairs for the beach.

Memories Caribe Beach Resort: Just OK

You still get value for what you paid for, but recent general Cuban issues are definitely visible. Based on previous reviews I expected it to be a bit better. Fortunately weather cooperated, so it made all other issues less important. Food was fine like for Cuban standards. Saw it much better, but it was before covid era. Shower in our room worked, but water pressure was so weak (during all stay) that it was really challenging to take a shower, regardless of the time, morning, afternoon and/or e [... read more]vening. Lack of toilet paper in public washrooms, so be prepared to carry some with you in case you need it. Mosquitos also want to eat you up, especially after 5:00 PM or early in the morning. Repellent is a must to have. It definitely saved us. Rooms clean and spacy, however "open concept" of bathroom-shower-sink area was in my opinion a bit too much of extravagance. No privacy whatsoever. Evening shows so, so. Now a few good things for a change. Very nice beach and obviously gorgeous ocean. No issues with finding shade under palapas. Tons of them available any time of the day. During low tide you can walk hours alongside the ocean as far as adjacent hotels. Very, very nice walk if you like walking of course :-). Hotel's grounds very nice looking and kept clean by Cuban folks working hard every day. Pool and area around it also nice and clean. Seems like pool itself has been renewed recently as it looks really, really appealing. Best Spanish coffee definitely in the lobby bar. As always, very friendly Cuban people make you feel being welcomed and try their best to serve your needs. All and all, we had a very good time in this hotel.

Vila Gale Cayo Paredon: Nice experience

The staff are very nice and kind, the whole experience was amazing. Beach is beautiful. You just need to ask them to change the towels, but other wise the room was cleaned every day. They didn't have any issues with the food and there was no shortage during our vist.

Grand Aston Cayo Paredon Beach Resort: Amazing Beach Resort

Everything is rate 5 star the only down of the resort is the food same every day since we stayed for 7days doesn't change the menu.I would suggest I'd they change the atleasy 4 different menu in a week they get more tourist to visit the resort

Hotel Mojito: Amazing resort.

Beautiful hotel but to much mosquitoes and too much flys in dining room areas even on food.i been second time.Otherwise room service was very good. Everybody was friendly and helpful. Thesort was very clean. I’m recommending and coming back.

Sol Cayo Coco: Resort amazing, clean, well kept, waitresses and waiters very good, a la cartes terrific.

The lobby was impressive, large, airy, and comfortable, with an excellent bar. Bartenders were great, as were staff in general. Room was clean and bed was very comfy. Entertainment impressed us. Though first time, I would go again.

Memories Caribe Beach Resort: Very nice place

Awesome staff, nice looking and welcoming. Loved it will be going again! The ocean was awesome and the pool was very nice. The staff had constant activities aswell as various music. Loved the experience!

Memories Caribe Beach Resort: Overall Great.

Relatively small yet spacious, so everything is close, 2 minutes to the beach, 2 minutes to the restaurant, 2 minutes to everywhere. Beach is good, plenty of room to take a walk, plenty of room to rest.

Grand Aston Cayo Paredon Beach Resort: Great time

Great time spent there. You go to Cuba to have a great time but also to help our fellow Cubans. Based on Cuban standards, food was good, beach was excellent, service was average, rooms were clean! Will we go back, gladly!

Grand Muthu Cayo Guillermo: Good but not the best food

The hotel itself was very beautiful and the rooms were nice and got cleaned everyday. Most of the workers were nice. Amazing pool and beaches. The food had no good taste to it. Overall the hotel was nice but not good food.

Grand Aston Cayo Paredon Beach Resort: Beach is breathless!!

My sister and I stayed at Grand Aston, Cuba for one week in July 2024. This is the perfect resort for beach lovers and anyone who loves to spend time at the pool. The beach is amazing to say the least and there are plenty of pools to accommodate everyone's needs and wants. As for the foodies you will be disappointed because of the lack of fresh food, insufficient variety of alcoholic drinks, daily shortage of essentials and no waiters at the beach or the pools. In regards to the entertainme [... read more]nt we truly enjoyed the adult shows held during the evening at the lobby bar and the dinner event hosted by Air Canada. The resort itself is new, modern and clean. The rooms as spacious and cleaned daily. The staff works really hard and for long hours every day so please leave them a tip as often as you can with paper bills since coins will not be exchanged in any banks in Cuba.