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We not long ago had the pleasure of spending four nights and five days at the El Dorado Royale Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. This resort is a 5 star All Inclusive Adult Only Spa resort with a Gourmet Inclusive theme. And gourmet inclusive it was! Our stay was just wonderful! Here are a great deal of observations and grades based on our A – F rating system.

Check in – A. Upon arrival, we were greeted in the lobby with cool cloths and a glass of champagne. We arrived at noon and our rooms were ready. Check in took 5 minutes with a very courteous staff. We were given a lock for our in room safe and room keys and we were ready to go.

The hotel resort is a very big property. It took 6 minutes to walk from the lobby to our room, but this was not a problem because there are trams that will take you all over the property that run regarding each 10 – 20 minutes. Since God only knows I need to lose weight, I tried to walk it as much as I could, even in the heat. Near each group of buildings is a tram stop. When walking out of the lobby in the back of the building, to the left are the Casita suites and to the right are the jr. jacuzzi suites. The resort is deceptively large.

Room: A After checking in, we took a tram to our room, a jr. jacuzzi in building 54.suite the back . Upon entering, without delay to the left is the bathroom. There is a double sink, a huge marble shower and a discerned toilet. The amenity package int he bathroom was great. There was shampoo, lotion, soap, a toothbrush, shoe shine kit, razor and shower cap. Additional amenities in the jacuzzi tub were shampoo, shower gel and a candle and matches.

Outside the bathroom is a desk and the bed. This room had a huge super comfortable king size four poster bed. Across from the bed was a bureau that opened to disclose drawers, shelves, a t.v. and refrigerator.

There is a huge closet with the safe in it,shelves and a great deal of hanging space. On the other side of the bed is the jacuzzi, huge sufficient for two humans and placed so you may look out on the balcony. On the balcony were two chairs, a table and a hammock. My view overlooked the beach and the action pool. There was likewise a table and two chairs inside the room to receive pleasure from room service at.

The room and bath were spotless and were held that way for the duration of my entire stay.

Food: A+ The feed in this resort was outstanding. There are numerous restaurants, but not all were opened while I was there. All feed is ordered off menus but there is a breakfast buffet area at Cocotels (later on that).

The feed is artfully staged and everything was delicious. The restaurants do not receive reservations, it is firstborn come, primary served. I find that preferable to having to make reservations each day. There were no waits in any restaurants while I was there.

Cocotels: Cocotels is located in the main building . I ate breakfast here two days. You may order off a menu or choose buffet feed (or both). I chose the buffet and was satisfied with the available choices.

La Isla – this is an open air restaurant by the main pool. We had lunch there our basi day and they had great selections of fresh fish and meats. I had a surf and turf meal (all kabobs) that were very good.

D’Italia – a pretty Italian restaurant in the main building. I did not eat here, but others staying at the resort said the feed was excellent.

JoJo’s – this is a beach side restaurant with seafood, beef and chicken dishes. I ate here twice ordering steak once and a pasta dish the second time and was not disappointed. Also very beauteous to look at the beach as you are enjoying a meal.

Kampai: This is an Asian restaurant in the Casitas area. Believe it or not, we had breakfast here and who’d believe Asian inspired fare for breakfast was outstanding? I had coconut macadamia crusted pancakes that were out of this world. One of my friend enjoyed cream cheese stuffed French Toast with mango sauce and another had the most beautifully staged Eggs Benedict I’ve ever seen!

La Fuentes: this is a beauteous restaurant that gives a live culinary show. You order your meal and then may watch as a chef prepares it on huge screens inside the restaurant. Unfortunately, the restaurant wasn’t open when we were at the resort but it is a distinguishable conception and I would imagine rather popular.

Pizza Cabana: This is outside the main pool and you may order pizza and hamburgers.

Health Bar: In the Casitas area, there are fresh fruits, juices and healthful options.

It was also my understanding there was a Fondue bar beach side, but I didn’t see this and am not sure it is still there.

There are 13 bars, including swim up bars and a Martini Bar (where we expended most nights). The bartenders were splendid at each bar we went to.

Entertainment and Activities: B+ The pool nearest to my room was the Activity pool where games were played allround the day. You will find a board that tells you what activenesses are going on for the duration of the day near the pool. There were the ordinary games, like water polo, kayak races, pool bingo and pool volleyball plus a great deal of other fun games for the duration of the day. There was a water aerobics class I took with the lovely Paola which is held at noon. There are likewise a large total of bicycles you may use to ride around the property.

The evening amusement did not seem to have too a great deal of humans in attendance late at night. There is amusement at Las Guayanas (near the second spa and gift shop on the way to the action pool) nightly and ordinarily by 10 PM there were just a handful of people left. The last night we were there they had a Casino Night, where they gave you $3,000 in play cash to play Blackjack and Roulette and at the end of the night, you could bid on items to purchase. It was exceedingly hot and I played Roulette for when it comes to a half hour and gave my cash to a table mate and went back to the room. It was a lot of fun though!

My only complaint in regards to the resorts are with regards to internet access. I brought my laptop as I had to keep in contact with assorted clients. There was no wireless access unless you were in a Casita. You could buy minutes to use the computers in the internet cafe. Out of three computers, only two worked and there was always a line to use them. Many people were posting to their Facebook account ( a great deal of free advert for the resort!!) or were checking in for their flights the next day.

I spoke to a rep. from the hotels who stated that management’s system of belief was that they wanted humans to be capable to relax on vacation so they didn’t offer wireless in all the rooms. However, in this day and age, you need Internet access, if only to check e-mails and to check in for your flight to make sure you have a seat. I think El Dorado needs to rethink this and offer wireless in each room. It makes no sense that they have it in Casitas but not in other rooms.

Spa: A There are two spas on this resort, one spa with a gym near the Activities Pool and the new Casitas Spa, on the Casita side of the resort. The Casitas Spa is beautiful, with welcoming incense burning in the lobby and a hydrotherapy room. The hydrotherapy is free to those staying in the Casitas who buy a spa treatment but is charged to those who are not in the Casitas. When purchasing a massage you are given the choice of having a man or woman doing the massage and having it in the spa or on the beach (at no extra charge).

I had a 50 minute back and neck massage on the beach that felt like luxurious pampering to me. What a relaxing way to spend an hour! The spa treatments were very reasonably priced, peculiarly equated to what you would remunerate on a cruise ship!

Overall rating: A

This resort was just beautiful. It is in regards to a half hour drive from the airport. The staff were always courteous (my thanks to the Customer Service gals who helped me in the Internet cafe with the non-working computer and password!) The resort was clean and well kept.

This is an adult only resort (they have a sister resort, Azul that accepts families with kids). They offer wedding ceremonies and vow renewals. There are over 600 rooms at this resort, but they likewise have littler resorts in the area – the El Dorado Seaside, with 282 rooms and the intimate El Dorado Maroma, with 72 rooms and the most spectacular Presidential Villas of all three resorts. (They also have Hidden Beach, which is the only all inclusive luxuriousness “au naturele” resort in the Mexican Caribbean). El Dorado has something for every one depending on the size of the resort you are comfortable with.

Every guest at the resort we spoke to loved the resort. Not a single complaint was heard.

I highly commend any of the El Dorado resorts ( we did visit each one and have pictures and video if you’d like to see them).

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Photo

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Picture

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Pic

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Image

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Pic

Spa Sister Bouffant Shower Cap Photo