Our summer holiday this year was at the Grand Princess Resort & Spa Riviera Maya *****
Beautiful turquoise sea and super sandy beaches. The sea temperature was between 29-32c and amazingly warm!
Some meals & cocktails we enjoyed!
A few excursions – Xel Ha, Chichen Itza and Cenote (sinkhole natural spring water)
Most days we always came back to the room with a new creation! Kids loved it!
Some of the different types creatures we saw up and close! Yes the middles one is a crocodile ( but he lived in an enclosure near the beach with some turtles
I do enjoy taking flower pictures – so here a few!
A Few picture from around the resort
Now the Nitty gritty!
The Good:
- Large resort ( 3 hotels) with 12 pools ( 8 adults & 4 kids)
- Lovely Pools
- Good day time entertainment at the main pool ( where we spent most of our time)
- Clean ( workers are always cleaning and polishing)
- Rooms are a good size with plenty of room ( even for a family of 4)
- Friendly staff
- Good choice of drink including international drinks
- vegetarian options were either very good or very bad!
- Good maid service
- 9 Al a cart restaurants and 2 buffets
- If you tell concierge day before restaurant booking they will make a small birthday cake ( which is very good!)
The Bad:
- Reception customer service ( if your key card stops working you have to walk 10-15mins to reception and walk back to your room)
- You could only book the al a cart restaurants 3 days in advance – and very busy
- vegetarian labelling were not always clear or correct
- vegetarian options were either very good or very bad!
- Mini bar has to requested for re-fill
- Our kids ended up calling us from kids club to be picked up as they were bored
- Rooms A/C had issues – we could not get our above 19.8c but my cousin couldn’t get theirs below 23c!
- A lot of seaweed at the beach, however workers were clearing it up daily
- Reception can get very busy, specially during check in
