Wonderful People

The resort itself is very tired and could you a complete over haul. The beach is not great and can be quite difficult to get to, very few lounge chairs and very little shade areas. The pools are small so you have to get up very early to get a lounge chair and pray someone doesn't remove your towel. The shows were pretty good at night, but during the day was only water aerobics. Food was good, pizza was very good. The staff are absolutely amazing and go way above and beyond to help make your vaca [... read more]tion wonderful. I would go back to Mexico but not this resort.

We left feeling like family!

We had an amazing 8 days at Dos Playas! The view was spectacular, the staff were amazing. Most of the staff have been there for years, and were always smiling and laughing with each other and guests! The food was always great with something different every day. The entertainment was fabulous, and the beach was awesome. We had an oceanfront room, that was clean and the bed was very comfortable! If we go back to Cancun we will definitely return to Dos Playas!

Memorable resort

Unostentatious, very well-run small hotel with a human dimension in quaint and charming surroundings. The reception staff members are outstanding in their desire to make your stay comfortable. Motivated, helpful and well- meaning employees who like their job. A special thank you to Cesar Viberes for his mastery of cocktails! Cool, clean rooms, with comfortable beds, amenities functioning as they should. Particularly nice and tasty variety of foods, vegetables and meats to satisfy even celiacs (G [... read more]F). We are world travellers and rate Dos Playas Faranda as 10/10 for value. Highly recommended.

Nightmare

Staff were the best thing about the hotel. Our safe broke 5 times. I got sick. Puking my guts out. Luckily I had anti biotics in my bag. I had a fever so it was food poisoning. No gloves for food handling every where. It was a 2 star at best. I could go on but do not go here. Really do not go here.

Great location

We were in room 1604, second closest room to the main road. Surprisingly, the road noise was minimal. However the fellow with the megaphone trying to sell excursions started at about 7 am, thankfully only intermittingly. Our room was a little dated, but functional. Wifi was spotty. The shower only had hot water, no way were we able to budge the cold water tap. It was fine, it did not get uncomfortably hot. The girl that cleaned our room was super nice and helpful and did a great job. The  [... read more]majority of the staff at the bars, servers etc. were very good. The food was great on certain days, especially the Mexican Fiesta night. Other times I was filling up on salads which is not normal for me. I do not like onions and can be a picky eater, so my view of the food might not be accurate for others. At times there was a fair bit of waiting to eat. The grounds were fantastic and the Iguanas added to the authentic Mexican vibe. The ocean and beeches are very good, the waves never got too rough which they tend to do on other areas of the hotel zone. The pools were very nice and they have activities to get you up and moving.

Mixed feelings- overall not great, should be classified as 2 star

Overall my experience was not great. A few good points though.. Food was fantastic. Although not huge rows of options as in larger resorts, everything they offered was delicious. A lot of typical Mexican food in the buffet. They had pizza and sushi snack bar open until 6pm. And another restaurant open different schedules. And then sushi again open for dinner. Very tasty and overall fast service with that most days. Drinks were great at all the bars. They have much better options and flavo [... read more]urs vs what you find in Cuba. Beach- Water was swimmable. Some days calm with light waves and blue green colour. Boats come in and causing waves so other days created more waves. Always has been swimmable. Seaweed not a huge problem. Little can be found and was cleaned daily. One day seaweed was noticeable and more in the water by shore so was annoying to swim in but was due to heavier waves from boats. Sand was pleasant and white on the beach just not much beach area. Entertainment- not much going on in the day. They have small team that do little couple zumba dances around the pool or some demonstrations for cooking. Nothing very interesting or entertaining. Would be good if they danced with people in evening as some other resorts do to keep people entertained. No games going on. For families- nothing really for kids. They have 3 pools. All quite cold as surrounded by buildings and shade. So not enough sun and water in pool was usually cold. ( We were there in January 2026). Main pool often dirty with floating leaves and things. Chairs around pool, it's never enough chairs. About 12 chairs and people reserve with a towel and aren't there most of the time. Layout is strange. If you show up with a stroller or wheelchair, not going to be able to use it much. Lots of stairs, lots of bumpy pavement. This is not a resort that is great for people with mobility. They have a paved slope for getting around to a few of the buildings. But you will not be able to get into the main buffet as stairs to get in. You also would not be able to get to the beach at all as plenty of stairs with many holes and cracks and uneven boards. Room- Our first room was disappointing # 1003. Faucet is built to spray water all over counter even when on very low. Shower pressure not great. Soap and shampoo provided. Never enough towels. Always something in the room not functioning well. NOT ALL ROOMS have balconies or terrace. This room 1003 has a window only and felt like a prison cell. The worst part was that my room we discovered had BED BUGS. I will be writing to Tripcentral privately to address the situation to Air Canada Vacations with photos of the little critters I caught and the bites they left on us. Took 3 attempts with the hotel to get room changed. The first time they came in with their own Mexican version of OFF spray and did a little spray in our room. The second time we approached front desk about this they advised they will fumigate while we are out for the day... we continued getting bitten until I believe was 5th night. Woke up to see a bed bug crawling on my son. After picking it up and killing it, we stayed up practically the whole night and found 4 more and killed them too and brought to reception. With this proof they managed to offer change of room for next day. Better room in same category #1403. Much bigger room still on ground level with a terrace. Only downfall is one bed bug traveled with us and showed up later that evening in new room. Location is good. With stops for dropping off/picking up people was about 40 minutes from CUN airport. 15 min bus ride to central square. Overall this is a place to recommend to people that are ok with just the bare minimum. Don't care to get much tan or prefer doing excursions. Like good food and drinks. Don't care for much entertainment. Don't mind possibly sleeping with bed bugs. Not recommended for kids, not recommended to people with mobility issues. The hotel also wanted to charge us for a broken lamp shade that was not our doing. Check out was unpleasant and seems like they are trying to milk money off tourists here and there for things that people did not break.

DO NOT GO TO THIS HOTEL

The hotel is a dump. Unsafe in my honest opinion. Pools are gross. Clientele in the only restaurant is buffet and we saw a person use their hands to pull out food, luck her fingers, then grab some more. Everything was gross, really gross. I tried to get tripcentral to change the hotel prior to leaving after we saw a YouTube video. Tripcentral employee said cannot change hotel, so we chanced it. Upon arrival, we immediately wanted to leave. The air canada guide on site said he would try t [... read more]o make a change for us. He came back with price quotes more than DOUBLE what we paid for the original trip to only change hotels. Total cost if we moved would have been over $6,000 for 2 peeps. That’s a gouge! So we stayed. Air Canada vacations ruined our vacation. Will NOT use them in the future ever.

It was good

Rooms were old and outdated, website said mini bar. All that was in it was 2 Bottles of water. That’s it. Was upset as we went as a group of 4 people with 2 rooms. Asked to be side by side. We weren’t even on the same floor. They would not help us out on that. The food was it and miss. Desserts We’re good. Beach was beautiful. The staff for the most part were pleasant.

Amazing Resort

The staff was amazing. Rooms clean and comfortable. Very nice pool. Loved the pizza snack bar and the Mexican restaurant does an amazing breakfast. The resort is just the right size for anyone that has mobility issues. I would go back

Cheap trip

Overall you get what you pay for. For the price I would say it matched the resort. Had a few pools but they are not heated. Pools are clean though. Little lacking in lawn chairs but they do maintenance on the ones they do have which is good. They were cleaning the sarcasm off the beach daily. Buffet was geared towards Mexican but could always find enough to eat. Breakfast was decent with an omlette bar and fresh made waffle bar. Rooms were ok. King size bed was comfortable and they brought so m [... read more]any extra pillows. Wifi is over most of the resort. A little spotty or non existent by the beach bar. Could use another wireless access point there.

Hotel dios playas faranda

When we first got to this hotel I was very surprised at the size ! It was small villas which we found more cozier. Rooms are cleaned everyday, towels changed ! I love where the safe is situated , easy for me to reach ! There is the main buffet dining room , there is an a La carte Mexican restaurant , pizza place and Japanese. The food isn’t bad in main dining room, lots of varieties. suggestion for the japanese restaurant to have ramen noodles on menu and also sake to drink ! 2 days in a ro [... read more]ll , they didn’t have gyoza

Very decent place!

Location is great, beach is pretty good. Rooms are OK - very clean. Staff is mostly super friendly, especially cleaners. Special thanks to the chef from Sushi restaurant - cool guy, the lady from reception is also so nice! Food: depends on a day. Some days they had pretty decent food, especially fruits and vegetables. Some days food was not fresh. Recommend to take some plates with you (I did luckily lol) as their plates are reusable and are not cleaned very well. Meat is mostly not edible :-(.  [... read more]Great thing is that they have unlimited pizza from noon to 6 pm which is quite delicious (though pizza folks are not super friendly, but that’s OK - they make great food)!!! And they have sushi too (though not super fresh).

A Great Location

We were apprehensive but after arriving we were pleasantly suprised with this resort. Small and packed with amazing entertainment, five restaurants that were all good (sushi bar, pizza bar, a la carte, buffet and the hamburger, hot dog bar) open hours coincide with most tours. I don’t drink so can’t speak of the bars but there was three of them. beach was great. you won’t be disappointed.

Amazing stay

Had a wonderful time at dos Playas Faranda. Weather was warm, people friendly, food varied and tasty, activities from 10-9 everyday. Close to the city, and just great all way round. Will book here again

Great Resort

The rooms were clean, the air conditioning worked well, bed was comfortable and there was always hot water with great pressure. The resort is older and could use some maintenance (holes and uneven in some of the walkways). Food was good, although a little more variety would have been nice. However, you could get hamburgers, hotdogs, pizza and sushi during the day. Nightly entertainment. Beautiful, swimmable beach. Two things we would like to have seen is more chairs on the beach, however w [... read more]e always got one and a place to go at night that was covered. The buffet restaurant closes at 10:30pm and there is no where covered to go after that. It rained one night so people just went to their rooms.

Amazing

What do you think about your stay? The facilities and the services were excellent. The beach had sea weed but the general view was great. The big pool was under construction so we made do with the smaller pools. If you love Mexican Food and drinks then it was fantastic.

Really good food and really nice people!

Let me first start by saying if your uncomfortable speaking spanish or trying to speak spanish then this might not be the place for you. We have very limited spanish and most of the staff doesnt have very good english but we always made it work and got what we needed or wanted with a little extra work. They had mexican night (all in spanish) but it didnt matter we had such a blast watching the dancers and the comedian. Everyone had a really great night. The food signage is in spanish but we knew [... read more] the basics enough for a good idea of what we were eating... and it was really good! I have been to all inclusives before and the food is generally boring and blah to accomodate a multitude of palates... but this was flavorful! The selection was small but there was always something good to eat! The crepe cart was dessert for the evening nightly. The beach was really nice and not a lot of people on it. Rooms were clean. It was a 3star but a solid we would 100 percent go back to 3 star. Next time my husband and I will learn more spanish though so we can communicate with everyone better.

Good resort for the money

The resort is nothing fancy but the food is good, the rooms are clean and air-conditioned, and the pool area and the beach is tidy. The staff are nice and helpful, but it's best to come prepared with some basic Spanish. And don't forget to tip! The location is a short bus ride away from the hot spots of the Hotel Zone and downtown. There is also a tour sales agent hanging out in the lobby and the Isla Mujeres ferry terminal is next door. So if you're looking to add more variety to your exper [... read more]ience, you have a lot of options. Overall, a good budget getaway and I had a positive experience staying there.

It was ok

Staff is chill. But the hotel rooms are small. Our room had many problems like broken A/C, leaking toilet, no hot water and no shower door. The beaches weren't good either and there's no 24hour service

To be expected...

A few positives... the food is good, the ocean is beautiful, and it's a pretty good location. The negatives the beds are extremely uncomfortable, the bars close at 12 and unless you are willing to throw a few pesos for every drink and meal the service is subpar. Pools were freezing, we didn't see anyone in them all week and the walking paths are not in the best condition. All in all it's what you would expect in a 3 star..you get what you pay for.