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Mar 16, 2025Ok but there are issues
Preface my comments by the following: It's closer to 3.5 this rating. Any detracting comments are not directed to the staff who are excellent and friendly. This trip was a week long stay from March 8-15/24. 1. For approx. 4 of these days only one elevator was working (Saturday to Tuesday). I believe it was Wednesday where it was repaired. In fact one customer advised me they were caught in the broken elevator for 1 hour. When we arrived on Saturday it was broken. One elevator servicing numerous guests over several days. There are 13 floors to service. We were on the 11th. One can imagine the inconvenience this caused and the numerous lineups as the elevators themselves are slow. 2. Scant umbrellas. Tried one umbrella and it had no pin. Another guest had an umbrella but the staff had to find a makeshift pin. You look down your room in the morning and there are just a few umbrellas out. Really? Why doesn't your hotel have numerous umbrellas readily placed in the morning - instead of having to go beg for an umbrella if one is available. This is just sloppy. The scramble for chairs is pathetic enough but to have chairs with no umbrellas you just look down there and say 'here we go again.' 3. You are not told, but you must know that your room is serviced by two buttons. One pushed is red, the other is green. So there is not the traditional sign for service. We didn't know this and found out the next day because the red was pushed and forgotten (not knowing it's function). Read this and know that pushing red will mean no room cleaning. Green is cleaning. Live and learn. 4. The balcony door in our room had no outside handle. My girlfriend could barely close it and if you're not careful you could get your finger squished trying to close it. There is a handle on the inside. Looks like the outside handle was broken and never replaced. 5. The App for this hotel. Fine if you have an app and it replaces the traditional paper items such as a menu. But when your app is a glitch fest then the whole thing breaks down. One particular day i thought I'd use it. So first started with the listing of the numerous cocktails. Click on one. Nothing. This means when ordering your food I should do what? Call the guest services? lol. But then the app kept getting a 'no internet connection' false indication as it quite clearly had an internet connection. Listen guys, have a redundancy built in: paper menu. That way I can see the listing of cocktails, food etc. and order the old fashion way as it seems this app can fall prey to problematic functioning. So calling the guest services I asked if there was a paper menu and was told to go down to the main desk and ask for a QR code. Really? Then if not a paper menu in the room what about a QR code in YOUR ROOM to do exactly what should be done in your room - looking for room service. 6. This is out of the control of the hotel (with one possible exception as noted) but be aware that swimming here is not really feasible because it is very rough almost constantly. My girlfriend is the big swimmer. She went out once. Now I think the hotel next to us (not the Selection) has a breaker/buoy of sorts to mitigate the waves as I saw fairly consistent swimming there and a lack of rough waters. So I asked myself why doesn't this exist for the Coral area if indeed this hotel employed a breaker process? 7. The swimming pool is not a swimming pool. It's a wading pool. About 3'9" or so. You never see any swimming there. Just standing around and drinking and playing whatever games they have. Of course it would be stated you can use the Selection side but since you paid several thousand dollars more to be in an adult only side this basically defeats the purpose. The Selection side has all the teens, kids etc. 8. The food is very good. We almost exclusively used the buffet and a la carte at Coral. We went to two restaurants on the Selection side - The American Bisque and Mexican restaurant. Whatever selections and quality they had was easily met on the Coral side. On top of it the other side is mayhem with the running around, children, teens, etc. and you risk lineups to get in those restaurants as only one, the Japanese one needed to be reserved. In any event everything from the coffee, to breakfasts, lunches, dinners, all very well done. 9. The room, junior ocean view suite was excellent. Small whirlpool bath on the balcony is a nice touch. Again something you're not told, but the desk can control individually the AC in your room. We only found this out a few days later. None of the reviews we saw mentioned this but now you know as necessity (was freezing) made us go to the front desk and ask. If you like swimming in the ocean/Caribbean Sea/Gulf of America (lol) then this may not be the place for you to put it plainly. The pool doesn't make up for it. You are then compelled to go to the Selection side which defeats the purpose of your spending several thousand dollars more for an adult only experience. I come away from this experience noting two positives: the room and its view and the food selection.
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Mar 11, 202550th Birthday with friends
It has been a dream start to my holiday, could not have asked for a better resort to relax and party at the same time. The Coral Selection is adults only, the food and drinks are top notch, excellent entertainment courtesy of Beto and the team (shalala).
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Mar 08, 2025
Best trip to Cancun !
We had the BEST TIME!!!!! The entertainment staff was 100% the best. The first day they learned our names and remembered every day. Valery, Alex, Beto, Michel were awesome!!! Service was top level!!! The waitress Saby 10/10 so good we would leave the pool to go to order from her at the beach!!!
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Feb 27, 2025Beautiful hotel with outstanding staff
The hotel is gorgeous and on an amazing beach. Never had an issue finding a beach chair lots around. The staff go above and beyond and the service is a 5 star for sure. The entertainment by the pool is fun and we even got to enjoy a foam party. You have access to the Selection Side and the lobby there is beautiful and always buzzing. The only reason we are giving it 4 out 5 is because of the food. Lots of selection and breakfast buffet is okay but not much taste. This is understandable considering the amount of guests they need to serve. Overall the staff and the beautiful accommodations make this a top notch place.
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Feb 25, 2025
Good Resort
The staff at Iberostar was excellent, I would give them 5 stars. The hotel itself was very clean. The food was good, would rate the Italian restaurant the best, followed by the Japanese. The buffet at the Coral was very good, well stocked for both breakfast and lunch. We also had dinner there on Mexican theme night, the food was excellent. Our biggest con, and the reason we would not go back, noise. Constant playing off music during the peak of the day, loud enough to hear it on the ninth floor. Was looking for something quieter at adults only hotel. Also, lack of sun umbrellas on beach. They need one umbrella for every two chairs, this would stop the hoarding of umbrellas. I do recommend the resort itself , but not for us.