Pros: The service was fantastic we were met by bellboy on arrival he was ver friendly and helpful to us our entire trip Great bartender service from Polo at the hut on the beach by volleyball playing area he went above and beyond toon his service

Cons: The beach not very swim friendly

Pros: I enjoyed the food. They had a variety of places to go eat. Some better than others, but overall it was good.

Cons: I understand its a tropical place but one of the rooms had a not so pleasant smell.

Exceptional

Pros: 2nd visit. Resort is fantastic. Grounds are meticulously maintained and beautifully landscaped. Resort is immaculately clean. Food options are great, staff is super friendly and helpful. Very well run resort.

Cons: Beach is so-so, but the pools more than make up for it.

Pros: The ambience was amazing, very clean, and the rooms were spacious and very nice. Food at all places were great!

Cons: There was nothing. It was a great stay!

Pros: This place is meticulously maintained and beautifully landscaped. Everyone you meet is super friendly and clearly take great pride in their work. Best service we've ever experienced. Hotel is part of a 3 resort complex - be sure to explore all.

Cons: paid wifi was not so hot

Kids club staff lost my 6 year old daughter. no manager was ever available to even apologize

Pros: I like the live music and the adult bar, DJ and the servers. The servers were very friendly and quick. Breakfast was good too.

Cons: At check-in, room is actively flooding from serious ceiling leak, dangerous and inconvenient. There are no other rooms available, so we are stuck in this one. We have wasted significant time at the lobby/front desk and in the room watching repairmen work and we can't even unpack while the water is everywhere on the floors. After the AC was "fixed" Air would not stop running at full blast all night and wouldn't let us sleep. Fridge in room still isn't working or cooling anything, eventually they changed it. The Kids Club lost my 6 year old daughter... At 12pm noon we return to check on her, and the group has already gone to the main pool. We continue on to check on her and ask if she is having fun but when we arrive we are shocked and terrified that our daughter is not with the group, and the staff ladies do not know who she is or remember her or us when we ask them to help us find her. We split up and check the entire pool area (including slides and jumps, etc) finally finding our daughter all the way on the other end of pool, something like a couple hundred meters away. Our daughter is not a swimmer yet so thankfully she had on her life vest but had we not arrived she may have been lost, taken, or drowned. The Staff Lost our daughter. NIGHTMARE VACATION!

NO FREE WIFI!!! Awesome, beautiful, many amenities between 3 resorts you have access to.

Pros: it was a beautiful resort and you were able to travel all three el cid resorts. This gave you more of a variety of restaurants entertainment pools, etc. there was an area that was an adult only inifinity pool that looked right out into the ocean. Also you must check out cenotes near by for $25/person. beautiful water, ziplines and diving area and caves to snorkel in. You don't have to do their $99 tour just take a taxi they hail for $45 total round trip all within 15 min of the resort depending on which cenote you choose to go to. Do your research since they are all different. Also check out the dolphin swimming which you can watch for free if you don't want to spend the money to touch them. Also you can go out at night when it gets quieter and you are guaranteed to see a coati. Lastly don't forget to go to the area at the back of the buildings near the road where you can find a crocodile enclosure. like I said overall the best all inclusive resort of 3 buildings in 1...that I have been to thus far in my travels of MX.

Cons: not having to pay for wifi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was ridiculous to have to pay wifi for four phones at $180 (you had to pay per device?!?!?!?!!!! Otherwise there was VERY BAD wifi that did not allow you to keep in touch with your family by phone when you separated. There was also no way for my husband to keep in contact with his business he owns. They don't put this information anywhere for you to see, except maybe very small print because I missed it... As it was my husband didn't want to pay another forty dollars for his computer with hotspot option from his phone. However, as a result spent WAY TOOOOO MUCH time trying to get his wifi hotspot to connect to his computer to do things he HAD to get done ?!?!?! :(!!! TRUTHFULLY IF THE RESORT WOULD HAVE NOT CHARGED US FOR WIFI, LIKE NO OTHER RESORTS HAS EVER DONE. I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM FIVE STARS ON EVERYTHING!! INSTEAD IT EFFECTED MY HUSBAND ALOT IN WORK AND WIFI PROBLEMS & FRUSTRATIONS. WHICH IN THE END TOOK AWAY FROM MY FAMILY 'S ENJOYMENT AND FULL RELAXATION. I know my husband could have just paid the $40 for his computer to have wifi also. Also since this was a remote smaller town area we should expect hard to reach connections and wifi problems. I just wish my husband's business didn't require him to check in with wifi and that the resort would have sucked it up and gave free wifi.

Pros: This was a very nice resort rooms were nice food was great!

Cons: Reservations for specialty restaurants were nearly impossible to get.

Very good

Pros: Breakfast was great in the two places we visited.

Cons: We had poor room service.....several days of no one coming in and cleaning up, no washcloths, no water for several days. I am sure they are short on help. We have been there 2 times before with excellent service.

A great resort for families!

Pros: We love this resort because when you stay at one, you have access to all three! We love the variety of pools available (and especially the giant hot tub at Ventus Ha). The variety of food/restaurants is good/acceptable, but was hoping that between our stay last year and this year they would've changed the menus up a bit. There are great activities around the pool, and the staff there is always friendly are always encouraging participation. We travelled with another family, and have 4 kids between us (ages 12 and 14). The private beach location is also a bonus, although the beach area does have rocks, so bring your water shoes! This is our 2nd time at this resort, but will not be coming back next year, as they kids love the area, but they want a new resort adventure.

Cons: A big con for this resort is there is a pretty big fee for wi-fi (and there is NO service in most of the resort). Most other resorts in the area do offer free wi-fi so this is a con for us. (Its offered both daily and weekly and averages 300-1200 pesos) In addition, they have a "vacation club" that tends to get priority at seating for dinners, so often when you make reservations, the only slots are the first ones (4:30 or 5:00 and the 9:00/9:30). It was very rare that we got to eat between those times. Also, don't fall for the "coupon book" that they hand out. In order to use it, you need to do the 4 hour vacation club tour/talk (and we all know those never last just 4 hours!)

Were beach people & came for the beach. THE BEACH IS ABSOLUTE GARBAGE! Nothing like the website pics or the past wh

Pros: The property was fine.

Cons: THE BEACH IS ABSOLUTE GARBAGE! No access most days we were there. Walked down the beach to another resort & their beach was beautiful & functional. El Cid dropped the ball on their beach in the last 7 years. At certain bars, the alcohol is heavily diluted and exchanged for lower grade in a higher grade bottle. NO OK.

Perfect

Pros: The night time entertainment was the best for an all inclusive resort. The pools were very clean. There were plenty of places to sit. The service was great.

Cons: It was impossible to get dining reservations and we tried right at check in.

Very good

Pros: Staff was great. Clean rooms...food was delicious....pools were great.

Cons: Beach isn't the best but pools are u for it..

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Superb

Pros: The facility and grounds were fantastic. The restaurant were amazing - especially KOBO and Aakat. Service was amazing as well. The lobby bar and music was also excellent! Infinity pools we very nice and water was heated. Main pool was great for kids and entertainment. The ruf bar at Ventus was incredible.

Cons: Dinner reservation process was very involved. You had to be persistent and very organized to even get a sit down meal. It seems like they don't have enough staff to fill the restaurants as most seemed pretty empty even though they were booked solid. In the end we got reservations on most nights.

Perfect

Very good