Sandos Caracol Nature Resort and Water Park: Great resort

This resort is great for families with young kids. There is a lot to do without doing off site excersion. The beach is rocky but the kids love to explore in and around the rock for fish life. The kids club is okay and the night entertainment is outstanding.

Bahia Principe Escape Sian Ka'an: Beyond our expectations

Great combination of adult only with a variety of activities. Food and service are fantastic, doesn't feel like the resort is trying to save money on cheap drinks or quantity (you can put away those bubba's!). Had a fantastic time!

Las Brisas Huatulco: Beautiful Destination and Resort!!

We enjoyed our 2 weeks at Las Brisas. The resort is a bit older (1988 I believe) however is well maintained and always some staff cleaning up grounds, beach, pool area, bars etc. And doing it with a smile!!! The beaches are incredible NO CRASHING WAVES. I believe better than beaches at newer resorts like Dreams etc. which are in area as well because at this resort is at end of Bay. Not long beaches to walk on but the perfect beach if you have small children. We went as a couple and loved i [... read more]t. Could always find a place on the beach and a quiet spot if you wanted to be away from the action. Clear waters to see fish even without the snorkeling gear. Stairs could be a concern however shuttles readily available if need be. We choose to do stairs to get our daily exercise in. Free use of kayaks, paddle boards, wind surfers etc. Closest town a short taxi ride away was clean and safe, nicest Mexican town I have visited. All around awesome quieter area and we will be back!!! Weather is consistent too ... hot hot hot!!!!

Occidental Cozumel: Occidental Cozumel

Most beautiful place to go.Very safe, great staff,white sand beach,plenty of fish just off the dock.secluded area away from town.Visits by large eguanas ,coatis, and wild boars.lovely views from ocean side pools and lunch restaurant.Small buffet only down fall but still plenty of food.I have been to lots of places and this is one of my favorites.Would recommend it to anyone,young or old

Bahia Principe Escape Sian Ka'an: Relaxing Resort Sian Kaan

This is an excellent adults only resort being a part of large complex of Bahia Principe (Tulum, Akumal, Coba and Sian Kaan). Tulum and Akumal are on the beach, while Sian Kaan is more inland but with a golf course. You can walk to all of them but open shuttles are going between them every 15 minutes. The grounds are immaculate, service excellent, rooms clean and any issues are dealt with promptly. Lots of restaurants, snack bars, beach bars with drinks and snacks delivery right to your beach l [... read more]ounge chair. Beach is very well maintained and the staff (and there is lots of staff) busy constantly raking and cleaning it. Beautiful pools with bars and restaurants nearby. No annoying vendors as access to the resorts is tightly monitored by security. Excellent value for the money.

Bahia Principe Explore Tulum: GRAND BAHIA PRINCIPE TULUM - MEXICO FEB 2017

SUN/BEACH/POOLS - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO RELAX GREAT LOCATION/NICE HOTEL WEATHER PERFECT LOBBY BAR WAS CLOSED DUE TO FIRE A FEW WKS BEFORE OUR STAY/BUT THEY WERE WORKING HARD TO FIX IT AND IT WAS LOOKING GREAT WHEN WE WERE LEAVING. WISH WE COULD HAVE SEEN IT. THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD BARS OPEN LATER SINCE THAT ONE WAS CLOSED. WOULD HAVE LIKED TO TRY SOME OF THE RESTAURANTS, BUT COULDN'T GET RESERVATIONS.

Las Brisas Huatulco: Great Place to Relax

Great resort for relaxing.Sandy beaches for swimming, 3 beaches spread out, good snorkelling at a couple, big grassy area with lots of shade behind one. Nice paved Oceanside walkway between beaches. Great landscaping with planted stuff worked in with natural vegetation, lots of greenery between buildings. Less competition to reserve beach chairs, poolside chairs available all the time. Pool never busy. No beach vendors due to natural topography on both sides of resort. Controlled Vendors allowed [... read more] to set up tables only on Saturdays. About 50/50 mix of Mexican and Canadian visitors, very few from other countries. Only key staff had good knowledge of English, and only a few waiters, but they try hard, a good place for us to practise our Spanish. Overall lots of walking as the resort is spread out but shuttle rides readily available. All rooms are spread out across several ridge tops and at lot of stairs to get down to the beaches, we counted 171 steps down from our room. Also stairs up to the lobby, no elevators anywhere. The rooms are overly spacious, top floors have the best views of the ocean. Lack of advertising of activities, found out later they have a handout of weekly activities but had to request it at reception, not offered at checkin. Otherwise only daily boards at lobby and at theatre level so you had to make a special trip up the stairs to find out what's going on. Typical loud music around main pool/bar area and most activities there except water sports at one beach. Paved tennis, bball, vball and soccer areas as well as grassed soccer field but not much used. There is a beach vball court but nets never up and no one to play. Beach level bars closed too early at 5 since ocean was very warm and swim able until dark. Main bar open in evening to serve pool clients and pre dinner drinks but too hot to sit around the lounge area. Theatre shows were good but only 4 nights a week. Buffet sometimes has lineups, ran out of guacamole and yicama a few days but there were overall adequate food choices and service was generally good. Mexican was great, outdoor romantic setting by the sea, with flow through breezes. authentic food. Kasbah has terrible seating down low not comfortable, food was good, great belly dancing. Some of the waiters were slack as to service, not refilling drinks. Mediterranean so-so, nothing really outstanding but indoors and air conditioned was nice. Pescado was open air seafood, but too hot lack of air circulation. good meal but too close to main lounge so some noise pollution. Solarium another outdoor open air restaurant by the sea, good steaks. A la carte restaurant reservations were through concierge in lobby, a bit inconvenient unless you want to book them all at once. Dress code relaxed in a la carte restaurants to allow shorts due to hot climate, but too slack in enforcement, allowed tshirts and bare feet in some cases.

Riu Vallarta: Great resort!

The resort was very good. It is exceptionally clean, the staff are amazing and very friendly! The pools are a very short walk from the beach. There was good variety in the dining room and the restaurants offered a nice sit down dining experience. The entertainment was good. The two excursions we booked were a lot of fun! My only complaint would be the beds are very hard and the pillows too soft.

Las Hadas by Brisas: Fabulous 2nd stay at Las Hadas

We just returned from our stay at Las Hadas. And it was once again was a pure delight. The service at the desk, pool and restaurants was courteous, quick and always with a smile. The meals at the Legazpi restaurant were superb, better than most gourmet restaurants in the Gta. The rooms are dated but that is what them their charm. They are clean with a beautiful view of the ocean and the lovely well kept gardens. This hotel is known for the film 10 with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. So it tries to  [... read more]keep the ambiance. It truly is like no other hotel and small enough that you get to know most of the other guests. On the weekends it gets busy with Mexican families which are delightful with ready smiles and friendly holas. The rest of the week it's fairly quiet a favourite spot for folks from Western Canada and north western states who were all wonderful. I would recommend this hotel more for 40 to 70 yr. Olds especially if you are looking for pure relaxation, great food, constant sunshine and good conversation. We will definitely be returning.

Grand Park Royal Cozumel: Amazing resort

My self along with 6 others from my family stayed at the Grand park Royal from February 3-10 2017! My first impression as we arrived was "wow" the hotel was beautiful, amazing architectural design of the inside and outside of hotel! Instantly greeted by staff with a beverage! Very quick check in! Room was spacious for 2 adults and 2 children! Our view was of the main pool, which was beautiful to wake up to in the mornings! Buffett breakfast was great, two side of the buffet to get your b [... read more]reakfast from, with fresh eggs made to your liking everyday! Hotel staff where friendly and gave very quick service! Hotel grounds where very well kept and always clean! Room was cleaned very well each day! My kids enjoyed the many foods catered to kids especially for my picky children lol Dinner was very enjoyable as well, didn't do much of the lunch buffet since we stayed at the beach and pool all day and enjoyed the food by the poolside! The cafe with plenty of choices for ice cream was one of my kids favourite thing to have! A few things to improve on is more beach/pool chairs! I had to wake up at 7am everyday to try and get a chair! Another thing would be to open the other side of the buffet in the evenings! With only one side open the line up for food was very long! Didn't understand why they would have two sides open for breakfast but not dinner! I would highly recommend you book your al carte dinners right away because availability is limited! Other then that the hotel exceeded my expectations! I would highly recommended this hotel to others! Mainly family, couple and older adults! Definitely a hotel to just relax, if you are looking for a party scene I would look else where! Look forward to visiting this resort again

Las Brisas Huatulco: Great place to be

Great resort ,best benches, great tour ,people friendly very good food ,only problem no pool bar and lots of kids no additional place for adults and restaurants that was said to be adults only was not ,no restaurant no place for a romantic restaurants for adults

Las Brisas Huatulco: #2 on Tangolunda Bay

Great Staff! Good food, beverages, pool and beaches. Quite hilly. Not for those with mobility issues. Toilet and phone not fixed after 7 day stay. Nice but just not enough cleanliness to get past 4 stars. Dreams is still #1 on Tangolunda Bay!

Park Royal Ixtapa: Good but not Great

The hotel was very clean and friendly staffed. There were a few too many timeshare people all over you. Also on weekends they over sell to locals so it gets packed. The food was good but never hot. Only one buffet and one a la carte. Very lacking in evening entertainment. It was a great holiday though!! Being right in Ixtapa was awesome. I would recommend hotel as long as people know this.

Grand Park Royal Cozumel: Good Value but not helpful at front Hotel desk

Really liked Hotel grounds and building. Lots of marble and very clean. Staff friendly and always willing to help. Love the coffee and ice cream shop and also buffet and other restaurants had good food with themes different nights- Carribbean,Japanese and Mexican which were delicious. The poor experiences I had was with the Sunwing representative at the resort Arteur Calderon who did not relay information well at all. He started giving info at the airport before everyone was present and  [... read more]once back at hotel was basically absent unless he was at his desk. He is too busy to speak about anything other than outside excrusions and it was a very big deal to even get our voucher for taxi to airport upon leaving. Very self important man who talked over and over about the same thing which was very boring. We also had requests placed when booking for King beds as we were three couples travelling together. We also wanted rooms near each other but the front reception at Grand Park Royal Cozumel did not seem to have a clue about this and indeed was going to place us two floors away from the other couples. No King beds available I guess as suddenly their english seemed nonessistent although the porter in the lobby had excellent english. Really if they could have just explained we could not be accommodated as requested because it was not available we would have understood but they acted like it was all new information. This was very disappointing at the beginning of our week but like the hotel porter said "more Tequila" and that did seem to help. Would recommend this resort as it is close to town, taxi, ferry and moped and jeep rentals and so lots of fun on resort and off.

Las Brisas Huatulco: Beautiful resort

Very spread out. We didn't get a room anywhere near our friends as requested. Otherwise had a great time. Grounds were stunning, everything clean, friendly staff, beaches superb as were the pools. Good shuttle service throughout the resort.

Royalton Riviera Cancun Resort and Spa: Very fancy resort

It was a lovely resort! Much too big for my liking. Food was amazing, staff was friendly. Was not impressed with the wedding organization (for my friends wedding). Lots of kids, rooms did not get cleaned until late afternoon...

Maya Caribe Cancun: This Resort had everything we wanted!!

Our stay at the Maya Caribe Cancun was absolutely amazing! Exactly what we needed. Beautiful beaches, good food at the buffets, fun entertainment, friendly people who are always ready to get you what you need and with a smile. Our experiences at the a la carte restaurants were awesome. Food was delicious and service was great! The resort is big, which made for a lot of walking, but good to burn off the food! There was never any need to worry about getting a chair at the beach or the pool. Al [... read more]ways plenty available, which is a first experience for me and made life stress free! Only criticism I have is that the towel exchange could be located closer to the pool area, or have more than just the one location, and that there could be more bars available on the beach. Sometimes there were long line ups at the swim up bar which made getting a drink take a while. The rooms are a little dated but kept clean. All in all, it was a fabulous location and would definitely recommend it. Thank you to everyone at the Caribe who made our stay so relaxing and enjoyable!

Occidental Cozumel: Very Nice Experience !

Excellent value .....a little understaffed in the dining room but they try very hard....the grounds are outstanding! As usual there is a shortage of shade ........why is this always a problem ????? The pools and beach area need more chairs and lounges.....there is plenty of room for more but they don't want to provide ample seating for guests ....very short sighted! I don't mind getting up at 6 am to go down to the water's edge to claim a spot but a lot of people are very upset by the lack o [... read more]f available seating.

Allegro Cozumel: Gorgeous Resort

Returned on Feb 11th. This was our first time at a resort in Cozumel. We spent a day on a cruise stop a couple years ago. The resort is beautiful, well manicured, nice pools, beautiful beach. The food was good but buffet seemed to have the same food every night. The beach bbq was excellent. Our room was in block 22. Quiet room, very comfortable bed :), shower was hot and air conditioning worked perfectly. The people at this resort are very friendly and helpful. We really enjoyed our st [... read more]ay. Thank you.

Ocean Coral Riviera Cancun: Food was excellent

Grounds were immaculate, front line, wait staff and cleaning staff all very courteous and friendly. Bartenders were another story... even if you tipped them, they were slow and uninterested. All restaurants including the buffet had excellent food. Only downfall was the lack of music at the pools. When they did decide to play music, it was low and all Mexican. I understand we are in Mexico, but it was only when popular music came on, did the atmosphere liven up.