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Address: Puerto Morelos
Playa del Secreto, Mexico
Tel: 878787
Fax: 878787
Email: sandygardenvillas@hotmail.com
URL: Sandy Villas

Type of Property: Villa
Beach Location: Beach Front (Directly on Beach/Water Front)
Island: Mexico

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Summary of All Property Reviews
Ratings based on answers from a total of 5 reviews (All Reviews)
10 is best 1 is worst
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Feature Ranking Feature Ranking
Cleanliness of Property 7.40 Quality of Property 6.60
Privacy & Quietness 5.20 Quality of Service 5.00
Courtesy & Hospitality of Staff 5.80 Accuracy of Website (marketing hype) VS. Actual Experience 5.20
Food and Dining Experience 4.80 Price/Value of Property 6.00
Safety Factor (Did you feel safe at property) 6.20 Quality of Beach (ranked closest beach if property is located off the beach) 6.80
Total Property Score: 5.90 | Average Star Rating: 2.80 out of 5
  • 60% (3 visitors of 5) said they would go back to Sandy Villas again.
  • 60% (3 visitors of 5) said they would recommend Sandy Villas to friends.


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Not Kid Friendly!
Traveler Review By: Anonymous from chicago, Illinois
Date of Visit: March 2006

We recently stayed at Sandy's Villas, the first night someone tried to break into our 2bdrm villa, we have 2 small children and to say the least this scared us right out! We told Christina the mgr about it the very next day and coincidentally her partner manager later that day asked US for the key so he can make a copy of it in town! Did they realize theirs' may have been missing? Someone definitely slammed our door shut in the mid of the night. There were mini taranchula spiders, don't know the correct spelling but described them to another local and that is what they were. These were IN our villa, along with geccos found dead in corners of the villa, and alive on the ceilings again IN OUR VILA. Don't stay here without a car, there is nothing around even in walking distance. The mini store they have took 2 days to find, and this was after my husband had to drive into Puerto Morales in the rain, in the dark searching for a store to buy toilet paper! They do not supply it after your first roll!! This was very stressful to be worried about the insects, and break in the first night, the pool was too deep for our 2 year old which they said was great for kids, even a picture on the website which strangely looks like the manager and her kid...hmmm. I wouldn't go back. We even went and stayed somewhere else in Cozumel and tried to call them to check on things, let them know, etc and NO ONE EVER answered their phone. We tried for 2 days and even upon our return to gather our things NO ONE was around, OFFICE was closed up and Christina's house had no signs of a car, people or anything. This was a pretty creepy place to stay. We had no working cellular phone in our villa which was promised in the ad, we literally had to beg for one (with little kids you need this) and finally the manager hunted us down and still charged us $10us to even borrow it, which was suppose to be included in the rental. I would have liked to ask for a portion of our money back but I could not find anyone to talk to. I will not be back there nor refer anyone there.

Property Review
10 is best 1 is worst

Would you stay at this property again?: ... No
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

Property Service Rankings: (Average Ranking = 3.90)
  • Cleanliness of Property: ... 8
  • Quality of Property: ... 8
  • Privacy and Quietness: ... 10
  • Quality of Service: ... 1
  • Courtesy and Hospitality of Staff: ... 4
  • Accuracy of Website VS. Actual Experience: ... 1
  • Food and Dining Experience: ... 1
  • Price/Value of Property: ... 3
  • Safety Factor (Did you feel safe at property): ... 1
  • Quality of Beach (ranked closest beach if property is located off the beach): ... 2

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

Destination Rankings: (Average Ranking = 6.75)
  • Cleanliness of Destination/Island: ... 8
  • Options of Activities in the Area: ... 5
  • Ease of Transportation (air, taxi, bus, shuttle): ... 3
  • Quality of Beaches in the Area: ... 10
  • Courtesy & Hospitality of Locals: ... 10
  • Safety Factor (Did you feel safe in the Area): ... 2
  • Local Restaurant Experience/Options: ... 8
  • Price/Value of Destination (Does your dollar stretch?): ... 8

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving Rankings:
Did you Snorkel during your trip? ... Yes
Did you Scuba Dive during your trip? ... No
10 is best 1 is worst

Snorkeling Ratings

Scuba Diving Ratings

Water Clarity ... 9 Water Clarity ... 0
Health of the Reef ... 9 Health of the Reef ... 0
Overall Experience ... 10 Overall Experience ... 0
Would you recommend snorkeling here? ... Yes Would you recommend diving here? ... N/A


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Re: Not Kid Friendly! - by: cristina massalongo
I have 2 small daughters , the first one have 2 years and 4 months, she playing in that pool since she was 3 months older, she swim every day there, like other 1,000 kids we had since we start to rent this place.
We built and leave in sandy's villa since the 2001, during hight and low season, and since we leave there nobody never ever have tryed to enter in our villa (that is in Sandy's Villa to)sometimes we leave and our sliding doors open but never nobody was inside to stoled something, I dont want be not nice , because this is not my intention, but i need tell the true about our place, we rent it since the 2001, we have write on the web site that is secluded quiet place!! we advised people about drive distance from towns, this vacation spot , it is for families and persons that like peace and quiet away from the crowds, this is what we offer on our web site, and this is the only true.
About spiders........this is mexico!! guys, there are spiders , snakes, skorpions, monkeys, geckos, iguanas, crocodiles, exc..exc....this is part of this country , there are different season in the year when this kind of animals appears, but are not poison there are only cople of snakes, ( but we dont have here in villa sandy's of course) and you can see them in a zoo, in puerto morelos.
It is tipical leave with geckos in the villas as there are lots everywhere, this is the reazon why lots of hotels in playa del carmen are called, IGUANAS, THE GECKOS, exc.... exc....
What I like to said is that not all the guests are the same, most of them knows what they want and what expectation have from places , other really fews fortunatly dont know.

About toilet paper please, I dont have idea about what he said, as we always have provide toilet paper, since the first day until the last one , all guests that asked me for toilet paper always had it!!!!!!! I hope that some to my guests have a time to replying to some of this review, because soo many of them have wonderful experiences here in villa sandys , they write about this place like paradise found, and this is the reazon why I have to add my review, because what i read about it is not fair...

About Cell.Phones we provide cell phones new!! to all our guests, the $10usd he said payed it was the money he used for make his phone calls, we dont make money with phone cards, as we buyed for $10usd and we resale for $10usd it is a service we give, guests can buying phone cards everywhere in playa for the same amount and have the same minutes.
In the end, I wish to reply to this guest of mine that (I know who is he, and I had received him in our office 2 times a day and when it was not him it was his wife "strange cuouple" )
I live all the day around between the office and my house in Villa Sandy because my 2 small daughters and because Villa sandy's it is not only an office for me but is my home, soo all my guests know where I am, and if Im not in the office there is on it a message for guests, "If im not here Im home" 80 meters distance from the office.
I wish this guest had e.mailed me to me directly or call me, I saw them lots of time but they never tell me nothing about how bad was their vacation, so this is something that had surprised me, anyway Im very sory they had a not positive experience, but 1 guests disapointed in 1,000 of guests happy make me think that maybe we are not soo bad like this 1 or 2 think.
Im sorry again if people that read it think that im not nice, because Im , I always working very hard for my job for this villas that we built and we love, our daughters are born here, this is magic for us and for many friends of us, I wish to let you know that everybody is welcome in this place and to think that the world is beautiful because we are not all the same, by the way im not anonymous, Im Cristina Massalongo thanks for listen me.


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