eddy, booby, toepick

[Bernadine]

Mexico recs?  We're now leaning that way, more bang for the buck.

eddy  @booby  toepick

ETA- and anyone else, of course.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Well I would hope so, it's your honeymoon after all... Rimshot! (That's what she said) hooooo!

[Bernadine]

Hahaha!

[jeekerbeeker]

I stayed at Excellence Playa Mujeres in 2012 and had the best experience.  Loved everything about it!

[toepick]

I stayed at the Royal hideaway playacar in playa deal Carmen - in 2002! But recent reviews seem to be great too.

It was easy to get to from Cancun, on a beautiful beach, with good food and friendly staff. No kids! We lounged around for three full days doing nothing, recovering from the wedding, and then ventured out to town, and on an excursion to Tulum.

[pollyprissypants]

We stayed at El Dorado Royale in Rivera Maya in 2011 and would go back in a heartbeat. The staff was so nice and the food was great.

[eddy]

We did Secrets excellence for our honeymoon.

For more barebones resorts we like the Catalonias.

[Bernadine]

Feb 18, 2014 21:30:19 GMT -5 pollyprissypants said:

We stayed at El Dorado Royale in Rivera Maya in 2011 and would go back in a heartbeat. The staff was so nice and the food was great.

How is the beach there?

I looked at Excellence.  It looks really nice, just a tad higher than what I was looking to spend.

[IrishBelle]

We really liked the El Dorado Royale. The food was really good and the service was excellent.

[suzyp]

Feb 19, 2014 8:23:04 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

Feb 18, 2014 21:30:19 GMT -5 pollyprissypants said:

We stayed at El Dorado Royale in Rivera Maya in 2011 and would go back in a heartbeat. The staff was so nice and the food was great.

How is the beach there?

I looked at Excellence.  It looks really nice, just a tad higher than what I was looking to spend.

You don't get waves and the beach is a bit rocky, but it was fine.  The beaches at all of the resorts in that area are similar.  We honeymooned there and loved it. 

We went to Excellence Playa Mujeres for out 1st anniversary and didn't like it. The place was nice, but the service wasn't great, the rooms weren't really beachfront. You could see the beach bu they were far away. And we had a lot of meals were the food wasn't very good.  The el dorado brand calls itself "gourmet all inclusive". The food is good. We only had one bad room service meal. 

Lots of people here like excellence, but there's no comparison with the el dorado

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Feb 18, 2014 21:25:14 GMT -5 toepick said:

I stayed at the Royal hideaway playacar in playa deal Carmen - in 2002! But recent reviews seem to be great too.

It was easy to get to from Cancun, on a beautiful beach, with good food and friendly staff. No kids! We lounged around for three full days doing nothing, recovering from the wedding, and then ventured out to town, and on an excursion to Tulum.

creepy- I did the exact same thing in the exact same place in 2002-- minus the wedding part

I love PDC

[sneetch]

We stayed at Secrets Capri in Playa del Carmen for a quick getaway two years ago. AIs aren't really my thing, but the hotel was really nice, the beach was beautiful and the food was decent. They were building Secrets Maroma Beach at the time, which was supposed to be even nicer.

[eddy]

Also I almost booked Valentin Imperial Maya this time around. It looks nice.

I use the message boards on Tripadvisor.