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Gala Beach Resort Playacar Traveler Review :: "Great Resort"

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Summary of All Property Reviews Ratings based on answers from a total of 3 reviews (All Reviews) 10 is best 1 is worst
Feature	Ranking	Feature	Ranking
Cleanliness of Property	8.67	Quality of Property	8.67
Privacy & Quietness	7.67	Quality of Service	8.00
Courtesy & Hospitality of Staff	9.00	Accuracy of Website (marketing hype) VS. Actual Experience	6.33
Food and Dining Experience	7.00	Price/Value of Property	8.00
Safety Factor (Did you feel safe at property)	6.00	Quality of Beach (ranked closest beach if property is located off the beach)	6.67
Total Property Score: 7.60 | Average Star Rating: 3.33 out of 5

• 33% (1 visitors of 3) said they would go back to Gala Beach Resort Playacar again.
• 67% (2 visitors of 3) said they would recommend Gala Beach Resort Playacar to friends.

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We spent last week at Gala Beach Paya del Carme. We had a wonderful time at a great resort.
We celebrated our 20th anniversary. We left the kids at home. We are late late late 40's. The resort was surpriselingly full with families and couples from all over the wolrd.

We were upgraded to Gala Gold Club which gave us full ocean view room with balcony overlooking the beach. It was a great room, and the ocean view was sensational.

As other reviews have mentioned the Gala Beach has the best beach of all the resorts on the Play del Carmen beach. Wide pure clean sand with lots of shade trees. To the right of the resort the beach extends with many private rocky coves which you can easily walk to. The property to the right looks like it is part of the palace Golf club, and not developed yet. To the lef of the resort is all the other resort on the beach up to town, Playa del Carmen.

From the Gala you can easily walk on the beach into town. The day
we actually went to check out Playa del Carmen we simply took free Gala resort bicycles and rode on the side walks into town. In town you can walk and shop no problem.

For meals we enjoyed both buffets for breakfast and lunch, and had great dinners at the Italian resturant. The dinner bufet was also great as they cooked to order every night steaks, pork chops, and cicken. Plenty to choose from. No problem. We hardly dressed up for dinner. Polo shirt and jeans. Tennis shoes.

Plenty of activities if you wanted to play. We thought we would return with the kids for the Gala kids club which looked great and well organized and staffed.

The room was great, well cleaned and restocked with all foods and
everynight a new chocolate treat or wine.

We enjoyed our snorkeling trips the most. We did not go to the big parks to snorkel. We went to Akulmal which is about 25 minute taxi ride away USD $25.00. Cost to enter park is USD $6.00 each instead of $35.00 at other large theme parks. The snorkeling there on that day was fantastic. Besides turtles and fantastic angel fish, out by the where the ocean comes in we saw a giant grouperand excellent coral heads. Advice is to get there by 10:00 am as it get crowded with locals and tours from cruise ships.

After seeing all the negative reviews we could not beleive this was same resort they were talking about. Our king size bed was wonderful, and did not notice a hard bed what so ever. We slept fine. Food was great, and pletiful. Most important

'We did not get sick'. And that says alot because we ate everything including ice cream evernight at the buffet for desert.

We saw may of the other resort which also looked great, but for the package we came on American Airlines Vacations, we were totally happy with the Gala Beach Resort and look forward to returning with the kids.

For the money we paid for all inclusive at a very nice clean resort we could not have been happier. Which it was longer..

Property Review
10 is best 1 is worst

Would you stay at this property again?: ... Yes
Would you recommend this property to your friends?: ... No
In your opinion, how would you classify the "style" of this property: ... Family Oriented
Possible Anwswers: Family Oriented, Couples Oriented, Mixed/Diverse in a Good Way, Mixed/Diverse in a Bad Way

• Cleanliness of Property: ... 10
• Quality of Property: ... 10
• Privacy and Quietness: ... 10
• Quality of Service: ... 10
• Courtesy and Hospitality of Staff: ... 10
• Accuracy of Website VS. Actual Experience: ... 10
  
• Food and Dining Experience: ... 10
• Price/Value of Property: ... 10
  
• Safety Factor (Did you feel safe at property): ... 10
• Quality of Beach (ranked closest beach if property is located off the beach): ... 10

Destination/Island Review
10 is best 1 is worst

Would you visit this destination/island again?: ... Yes
Would you recommend this destination/island to your friends?: ... Yes

• Cleanliness of Destination/Island: ... 10
• Options of Activities in the Area: ... 10
• Ease of Transportation (air, taxi, bus, shuttle): ... 10
• Quality of Beaches in the Area: ... 10
• Courtesy & Hospitality of Locals: ... 10
• Safety Factor (Did you feel safe in the Area): ... 10
  
• Local Restaurant Experience/Options: ... 8
• Price/Value of Destination (Does your dollar stretch?): ... 10
  

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