Review: New Resort (Occidental Grand Cozumel)
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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Located 20 minutes out of town. This is a new resort. Rooms are in 3 story villa's with about 12 units in each unit. The villa's are quite nice as are the rooms.
Features of the resort:
Room ***** clean nice (bring a clock for the room)
Food it varies from *** to *****. There are two al ...
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Review: Occidental Grand Cozumel
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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The rooms were nice with the bathroom being very spacious. The all marble shower was very large, it accommidated two very nicely. There are non-smoking rooms and no ocean view rooms,a natural mangrove stand is between the buildings and the beach. We've stayed at several other 5 apple places and ...
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Review: This is truly heaven on earth!
Royal Hideaway Resort & Spa: (Playa del Carmen)
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Review of the Occidental Royal Hideaway Playacar Resort and Spa, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
We have just returned from our Honeymoon where we spent a week at the Royal Hideaway, February 17th through 24th, room 3112, and I must say that this is the most perfect place in every way that we have ever ...
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Review: A Touch of Heaven
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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Our trip to the Occidental Grand Flamenco was sensational.
We decided to enjoy it to the fullest and registered for the Royal Club. It was well worth the xtra cost. We had a beautiful suite right on the ocean, with our own private pool, restaurant, and office with complimentary internet service ...
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Review: JO, from new jeresy
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My family always travels all inclusives,this was one of the best to offer a family. The property is beautiful and clean. The room was comfortable and very clean. The safe we used everyday never a problem. The kids had plenty to do they had ice cream parties, parrot shows,magic shows, kids club ...
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Review: Satisfied in Texas
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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We just returned from our trip today. After reading the other reviews, we must disagree about several comments. There are public phones located close to the hospitality desk. We found plenty of shady areas to be avalible at the pool. I do agree that more bartenders were needed at the swim up bar. ...
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Review: Fantastic Hotel
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My wife & I went to Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret (ish-caret) June 16th 2003 and stayed for 14 nights. We read some negative reviews before we went and had our doubts but let me tell you this place is fantastic. The staff were very friendly and more than helpful and you can tell they all love ...
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Review: Awesome 20 Year Anniversary
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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All I can say is we had a wonderful time and don't understand the bad ratings given by some visitors. We went for our 20 Year Anniversary and will definitely go back. The water was beautiful, the staff excellent and more than willing to do what it took to make our stay as comfortable and fun as ...
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Review: You Can't Complain About Paradise!
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My partner and I stayed at the OGFX from the 22nd Sept to the 6th Oct and thought it was absolutely wonderful.
Don’t believe most of the negative reviews you read, these people got me convinced I would not enjoy any of my holiday but it turns out my expectations before I read the reviews were 200 ...
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Review: Amazing Place!
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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My husband and I went to the Allegro Resort in Cozumel, Mexico for our honeymoon. We chose Cozumel because the two of us are avid divers and loved the location. However, we enjoyed our stay at the resort So much that we decided to stay there and not 'venture out' this time (we both have been to ...
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Review: Awesome Time
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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This resort get two thumbs up. I had a blast there. I actually went in 2004. Everytime you go on a trip there will be a chance to complain about something but if you make the best of every situation and relax since your on holidays then there should be no problems. The place is not perfect but it ...
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Review: Excellent Resort
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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One of the finest resorts we have stayed at. Everything from food to international brand liquors and wines was top notch. Specialty Restaurants are best we have ever had. Staff were exceptional. Will ...
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Review: Quiet Relaxation Resort
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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Everything about this resort is fantastic. If you are typical down-to-earth people like we are, you will have a great time. Any negative reviews will generally have come from the more the fussy and possibly 'uppity' crowd. Very clean and spacious rooms, and absolutely incredible food. Great for ...
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Review: Excellent Resort
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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Buffet not the best we have had, but the al la carte's were wonderful ...
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Review: great once you get there but tends to overbook
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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this is a great resort once you get in, but they tend to overbook to fill up their neighboring and not so great sister resort, the Allegro Occidental (in which you share your food with the flies outside). They'll tell travel agents they have room, but when you arrive they'll boot you over to the ...
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Review: loved it in this hotel miss evry 1 from there
Caribbean Village Playa Dorada: (Dominican Republic)
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loved this hotel miss evry 1 i met there if i ever go bk to the dominican it will be to this hotel club on the green loved my stay ere its was amazin met loads of ppl it was bosssssss :):):)evry were was ded clean the rooms were spotless i will give this hotel a 10 out of 10 ...
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Review: Great dive experience
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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My wife, son and I visited in March 2005. My son and I were novice divers, having just certified. The dive masters at "Dive Palancar", located at the Grand Cozumel, were terrific!
The facilities, staff and food were great. We purchased a time-share on the resale market after returning from our ...
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Review: SIMPLY AMAZING
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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our family had a great time at this resort. the food and entertainment was breathtaking. The buffet was very fresh and staff consinstantly adding new meals. The weather was hot and nice ...
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Review: Had two wonderful vacations here
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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Spent a glorious week here in April 2001 and returned for my honeymoon in May 2002. This is the best beach on the Mayan Riveria. Highest level of service I've received at three different AI resorts in the area ...
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Review: We're returning...
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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We had such a great time at the Allegro last March that we decided on the plane ride home to return this March 2003. The activity staff was superb, kept guests involved & having fun. If there is a problem, say so & they will remedy it. Beach & grounds were beautiful. Snorkeling was great, swim ...
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Review: We thoughly enjoyed it
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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We stayed at the Allegro Cozumel for 8 nights after being transfered from the Caribbean Village on the mainland after 6 nights. Our group of nine, all adults loved this property. The buffet was good as far as a buffet goes and the al carta restaurants very good. The location is very good as far as ...
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Review: Some pluses and some negatives
Allegro/Occidental Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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Our room had a king size bed (very firm, no box spring) was somewhat small, dark, a bit noisy and a bit musty but we didn't spend that much time there.
Beach and pool facilities are great (get to the beach before breakfast to save a lounge chair under one of the thatched umbrellas).
Food ...
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Review: Beautiful Time
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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I don't understand the complaints on this board. Sure the rooms were not 'Grand', but you don't go to an Island Resort to stay in your room. As far as the plumbing, you are in another country which does not have the same fresh water resources and facilities as the rest of North America. If we ...
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Review: Some New Improvements
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My boyfriend and I stayed at the Occidental for one week, and in general we enjoyed the hotel and its staff. The beach was a dissapointment, but the pools made up for the lack of beach. When we arrived at the hotel at around 10:30am, we had a room right away. They showed us how to get to our ...
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Review: Great Vacation
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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We just got back from a great stay at the Xcaret Resort. My husband and I and 3 boys - ages 18, 16 and 13 would definetly go back again. The food was great at all of the restaurants, the staff was very friendly and the resort is beautiful. We were very worried about not having a big enough beach ...
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Review: Almost There
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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Not a 5 star property as it claims to be rated. My wife and I have been resort hopping in the Mexican Carribean for the past 4 years and we can honestly say that Occidental is almost there. As far as the property layout, landscaping, and gardening... it is top notch. But be warned!! To get to ...
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Review: Second Honeymoon
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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A rough start turned into a very nice vacation. We arrived too early to check in, but the hotel had temp. facility for us to manuvre anything we needed to do. We were content with the food and accomodations. What bowled us over was the activities crew. They were 110% everyday for the four days ...
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Review: Very very nice. Wonderful Time
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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I was at first hesitant about booking at the Allegro by some of the reviews I had read on the internet but after going I have to ask....where did you people stay? It was great. I am going to write this review in all fairness so other will have a clear and true idea of what this location offers. ...
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Review: Disappointing... wasted vacation
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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I came to this resort with high expectations, just wanting to rest my feet in the water on a nice beach.
The vacation ended up as a disappointment:
- The resort does not really have a beach, just a small creek on which they imported alot of white sand (the nice 'Beach' picture you see on all ...
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Review: wonderful vacation
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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i read some of these reviews, and i don't know what anyone is talking about. everyone was very friendly, and the staff was always at your service. they seat you at every meal, including lunch, and serve you drinks, even while you are sitting at the beach, which is not the usual for all inclusive ...
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Review: Overall Great Trip
Allegro/Occidental Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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My husband and I just came back yesterday from the Allegro Playacar. We stayed for one week. This is our fourth trip to the Playa del Carmen area so you can obviously tell that we love it. Overall, the resort was great. The food was plentiful and good. There were two a la carte restaurants ( ...
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Review: amazing
Allegro/Occidental Jack Tar Puerto Plata: (Dominican Republic)
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The hotel was amazing the staff were great too even though we didn't get involved in the day time activities ( games with the entertainment staff ). It is a short ride from the airport as soon as you get to the hotel you recieve your all inclusive bands and off you go! You are taken to your room on ...
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Review: It was great
Caribbean Village Cancun - Occidental: (Cancun Mexico)
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I would deffintally go back. Wonderful value for our money. Great basic hotel. Great food and nice staff!! I would go back ...
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Review: Amazing Time!
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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If you are considering a Cozumel vacation, then Occidental Allegro Cozumel should be your final destination.
We just returned and we were pleasantly surprised with the resort after last summer's hurricanes. The guestroom villas renovation is all but complete and the rooms are comfortable with ...
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Review: Beautiful Resort / Stupid Management
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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Our family of 5 just returned from the Xcaret for 10 days. The resort is beautiful. The restaurants were ok, the buffet actually ends up being the best. The pools and grounds are beautiful and well maintained. The staff very friendly. The beach is small but perfect if traveling with small ...
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Review: Occidental Grand Pineapple Beach Hotel, Antigua
Occidental Grand Pineapple Beach: (Antigua)
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I have read many reviews on the hotel and so far they have never come to a definate result. So mine will.
The resort is beautiful, I opted for the Ocean Front Room (not the cheapest or the most expensive available)and it was fantastic! The view from the balcony was spectacular with panoramic ...
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Review: Great Resort
Allegro/Occidental Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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The food, staff, room, cleanliness, bars, organization, and beach sand were all great. The only complaints I can think of is the room walls and roof letting noise in/out. The roof is thatch and the walls are typical 4 inch concrete. The units are 8 room condos. The beach is disappearing fast. If ...
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Review: Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My husband and I and another couple stayed at the Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret for the week of Jan 25 to Feb 1st 2003. We are all in our mid to late twenties. We went through Funjet and they were great. Overall the place was OK but with some flaws, they only opened in July of 2002.
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Review: Not a five-star
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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The true quality of a hotel's service exhibits itself when everything doesn't go quite as planned. My husband and I booked this vacation for just the two of us, and decided to spend extra on a nice place where we could be pampered. Unfortunately, my husband fell rather ill with a serious throat ...
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Review: Fun In The Sun
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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We went here from Feb 13-23 and it turned out to be the best vacation I have ever been on.
The staff was the best when you left their you felt as if they were your friends and you were leaving them. They really knew how to get people into whatever activity was going on and you all had fun no ...
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Review: Dissapointed
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My wife and I are fairly discriminating travelers - we normally stay at or near top of the line hotels. In Cancun, we like the Moon Palace and especially Paradisus. We decided to give Flamenco Xcaret a shot, based on some reviews and recos. keep this in mind when you read the review - it's quite ...
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Review: Turned out okay
Occidental Caribbean Village Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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My husband and I just stayed at the Caribbean Village Playacar for four nights in June. Advertisement said short stroll to the beach, which was misrepresented. It is a 10-minute open-air shuttle ride. Breakfast was always good, but we always got a day pass to stay at one of the other Occidental ...
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Review: Fun and Friendly
Allegro/Occidental Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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We just visited (Feb 2004, not 2003).The staff is friendly, professional, and fun. The meals are good but the buffet is the same thing every day. The beach is incredible. The pool is beautiful. The grounds are immaculate. The only real knock on the resort is the rooms. They are basic and ...
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Review: Watch out for Vacation Club scam!
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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The 'information' desks are really guys selling the 'vacation club.' Beware! It's a complete rip off and I expect to spend years fighting their illegal charges although I cancelled correctly and in the time period allowed (you have an unwaivable right to cancel under Mexican law for five business ...
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Review: Awesome, Would Go Back Any Day!!!
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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We went in August, for a wedding on the beach! There were 23 people in our group! We had the best time, lots of activities, lots of food, great shows in the evening! For being 3 months along with my second child, I found plenty to eat & drink! The servers on the beach were great, they are ...
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Review: beautiful resort /service lacking
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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The resort was beautiful however; I did not find the overall service very good. There is a huge language barrier!!! The beds are super uncomfortable and the quality of the food was o.k. Stick to the speciality dining at night. Make sure to reserve all your dining immediatley upon your arrival. I ...
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Review: Better than expected
Occidental Grand Pineapple Beach: (Antigua)
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Stayed here over New Year. The location is on the NE coast, so it is pretty breezy with the prevailing winds. The overall impression is that the place needs a bit of a makeover, but is by no means bad.
Our room, to illustrate this, was a bit 'tired' - for example, there was a large rust-stain ...
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Review: Spend your money elsewhere
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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This property as well as the one in Playa del Carmen has the worst food, personnel and rooms in a 4 1/2 star category. The rooms are so tight that you can not walk in between the two double beds. The rooms have a musty smell as well. The grounds are well maintained and the pool areas are nice, ...
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Review: Jan, 18-24
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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If it wasn't for the weather and the beach it would have been a disaster. Our first morning we had no running water. The telephone didn't work, and no drinking water. We didn't recieve a bar of soap until our third day, and shampoo on our 4th. Each time we went to eat, they would try to sell us a ...
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Review: A reasonable price
Occidental Caribbean Village Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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My wife and I stayed at this property from 12th-18th. It is nestled in a beautiful golf course. The property is not big and the rooms are inferior to many of the grandeur more expensive properties. Do not expect coffee maker, iron, facecloths here. If you plan to spend much time in your room you ...
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Review: vacation
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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I spent one week at this resort. When we arrived at 2 in the afternoon, our room was not ready. During the week we were biten terribly by misquitos every night in our room. Getting a reservation for dinner was quite difficult, first you had to wait in line, and then to find out there was little to ...
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Review: Disappointment
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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Myself, husband and 13year old son are fairly well travelled and as every family look forward and regard our holidays as precious,so when we arrived at the Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret after a 10hour flight from England we were shocked to be given a map and pointed in the direction of 'Block14 ...
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Review: Not a good place
Occidental Allegro Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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We were so excited, everything we had read for the most part looked great about this place. It was awful. I guess its all in what you are accustomed to. Our room stunk really bad and the a/c didn't work well. There was a live mouse in the closet that jumped into our bed. The floor was really ...
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Review: No Air conditioning problems
Caribbean Village Cancun - Occidental: (Cancun Mexico)
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While the beach is great at this resort the air conditioning and general disregard of the management for customer service is troubling. Can't say I would ever go to this resort again at any price ...
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Review: Dont do it
Caribbean Village Playa Dorada: (Dominican Republic)
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To make my story short and to the point. I went to this resort because it was recommend by expedia .com. Anyway i was robbed by its employees. The hotel did nothing to reburse me for anyhting and they actually blame me for not ording a safe box. This hotel mean while is so full of security that Bin ...
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Review: food and service
Allegro/Occidental Punta Cana: (Dominican Republic)
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Food at this resort was inedible to poisonous. At some point everyone in our parrty of 7 was sick. Even if this was caused by something besides the food the food was not very appetizing or even appealling to look at. Eventually just ate rice and beans.
The hotel staff was not very accomadating ...
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Review: horrible food
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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One of the great things about all inclusives is the food. Not this time. I actually dreaded the thought of having to eat. no selection, poorly cooked...
I never had Mexican food made with tomato sauce.
Ever heard spices? The nature park next door was great and the food looked good there too ...
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Review: Security Here a Joke!
Allegro/Occidental Playa Dorada: (Dominican Republic)
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We endured a week here mid-February. Our rooms were on the ground floor of Building 5 and one room was broken into and we were robbed! Security was non-existent - they blamed us for everything - we "left the door unlocked", "it must have been someone in your party" - "you can't prove you had ...
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Review: If only the food was as good as the staff
Occidental Grand Pineapple Beach: (Antigua)
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A week sadly was enough in paradise for me, they laughably state they have 3 restuartants, the Grill is only open a few days a week and the other two are in the same location but with different coloured napkins to diferentiate. The meat was cheap cuts and never arrived hot and the selection was ...
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Review: Service and food terrible.
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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We stayed at Grand Occidental Xcaret in January of 2006 – loved it.
This January, 2008 we brought 11 of our friends. Now it has a different name: Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret. And with the name change there are a lot of changes in quality of service and quality of food.
Now it’s not easy to ...
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Review: The Worst Hotel in the Caribbean!
Caribbean Village Playa Dorada: (Dominican Republic)
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This trip was one disapointment after another!
To begin, our plane was about 3 hours late, due to weather. When we arrived in the middle of the night, we were put into a room, which did not resemble the room we thought we had booked online. We complained, the a/c did not work, there was no safe ...
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Review: Go Somewhere Else or STAY HOME!
Occidental Grand Cozumel: (Cozumel Mexico)
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I could write for hours about all the things that were wrong but, I'll try to keep it short, here goes my top ten.
1. The girl (ANA)at check-in was rude.Promised 3rd floor room. Given 1st floor room.
2. Toilet stopped working on day two. It took 4 days to get another room. I complained at the ...
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Review: Terrible isn't even close!
Allegro/Occidental Playacar: (Playa del Carmen)
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I recently had the misfortune of going to a resort in Mexico. It was called Occidental Allegro Playacar and it was sold as a great 4 star resort. The resort looked fabulous on the net, all the reviews, pictures, descriptions were Great! Once I got there, the resort left a lot to be desired. In fact ...
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Review: A stunning disappointment
Occidental Grand Flamenco Xcaret: (Playa del Carmen)
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My family was booked for a week at this hotel. We arrived at different times since we were coming for the wedding of one of my sons. The hotel mistakenly placed my other son and his family in the Royal suites, which had been booked for the honeymoon couple. When the staff was told of the mistake ...
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Review: holiday
Caribbean Village Playa Dorada: (Dominican Republic)
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found the place awful! like a butlins in the caribbean.
rooms were not of a very high standard.
Most of the so-called all inclusive facilities either could not be found or were just out of use (ie the jacuzzi, archery, beach volleyball etc etc) and the staff did not go out of their way to help ...
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Review: Stolen suitcase 15 minutes
Occidental Grand Punta Cana: (Dominican Republic)
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Please post my review of this hotel in your website. Thanks
After arriving at the Occidental Grand on Friday, July 13 and less than 15 minutes later, one of my two baggage, which contained about 3000.00 $ in belongings of my wife and mine, got lost.
After two hours of waiting, a lady that ...
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