Paradisus Playa del Carmen - Riviera Maya

A wonderful stay with an amazing Concierge. Request Jonathan! He was amazing, great with the kids, set us up right, checked on us daily, and felt like a fun uncle to the family. Alright, now the review: We stayed at the Family concierge with Swimout pool. Our location of the room in the pool was splendid. We had dual lounge chairs and ample pool before the main walk way. Definitely better than some other room locations. The room was spacious; had a very large pullout our two girls stayed in, a kitchenette, dining room table, and a large master bathroom with large Roman tub and a huge shower with dual rain shower faucets and handheld faucets as well. There was also three sinks to the bathroom, a kids area and adults. Plenty of storage in this specific room!!! The food throughout was one of the better all inclusives we have been too, while the buffets are the average food, the restaurants were more upscale or elegant plates. Felt more like a restaurant on the Las Vegas ***** than Mexico. The food at these restaurants were much better, and the service was outstanding almost every time. We had an awesome waiter at the Bana Family(Jhony) algo went above and beyond to take care of our picky daughters. And Neomi At Cielo Mexican restaurant was awesome As well. Very attentive and gave us some much needed advice the first night. The buffets were pretty empty when we went(end of May to first week of June), Eva was amazing, we looked for her everyday and was the friendliest and helpfu

Very clean, employees are very nice. pools and water park wete great. A la cart restaurants are delicious.

I feel bad leaving a negative review but This was such a poor experience, I feel like people with young kids need to know. We were a group of 11. 3 families with a total of 6 adults and 5 kids, 2 under 2 years old. I don’t want a generic response from the resort, I just want young families to know. Pros - Nice large rooms - Staff are friendly. - Nightly entertainment is better than most resorts, the kids liked it. - Beach is cleaner than most resorts Cons - Food poisoning in our group on two separate days. When we let the manager know they said “food poisoning does not exist on this resort”. - Food even without food poisoning is well below average for resort food. Not much selection and very little for kids. - A la carte reservations were all very late, even if you get to the reservation counter as soon as it opens. Difficult with young kids and impossible to have a group dinner with our group of 11. - The pirate ship pool was open the first day and we spent the whole day in it and was closed from day 2 to the end of the vacation with no heads up. Our group had 5 young children so we were left to the large pool with nothing for kids. The water park is geared towards big kids and unfortunately our kids didn’t enjoy it. - Staff opened our room door even with the do not disturb sign on. I was changing in 2/3 of the instances. This was very uncomfortable. - Loud wedding right outside our window one night. - Constantly trying to upsell, it gets tiring.