Sandy Villas
Address: Puerto Morelos
Playa del Secreto, Mexico
Tel: 878787
Fax: 878787
Email: sandygardenvillas@hotmail.com
URL: Sandy Villas
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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.
Cool vacation
Traveler Review By: Vitaliy Vaysfeld from DALY CITY,CALIFORNIA
Date of Visit: January 2007
I found a lot of negative reviews here but we enjoyed our vacation from 01/13/07 to 01/20/07. I was there with my wife and adult daughter (23).
When you go Playa del Secreto you need to realize that it is in boondocks. It’s actually tiny village between Puerto Morelos and Playa del Carmen. I counted 5 functioned villas there and in the morning I was totally alone on beautiful long Caribbean beach. . So it is really remote place and don’t expect to meet many people there and have parties. It’s probably not good place for families with small kids especially if your kids don’t have real village experience.
You have to have rent car there – there was not grocery store there. Although I met a couple that use taxi. Our manager helped them to call taxi. But if you want to be independent it’s better to have car there. Playa del Carmen has pretty good supermarkets where you can buy everything what you need. Rent car is expensive in Mexico because a lot of taxes and expensive insurance. I rented Dodge Stratus in Hertz and I spent almost 700$. But we explored Yukatan on our car and saw Coba, Chichen Itza, Valladolid and many remote Mayan villages. Definitely we drove several times from Puerto Morelos to Tulum.
Our 2 bedroom villa #8 was in pretty good condition. There was running cold and hot water, all 3 toilets worked perfect. There are convenient king beds and good sofas there. All necessary kitchen utensils were excellent and we cooked without any problems. Air conditioner was perfect so we really enjoyed there. But you need to realize that it’s really exotic place so don’t be surprised to meet lizards in your bathroom.
Now about beach. Sandy’s villas are not directly on beach – you need to walk 5-10 minutes to convenient beach place. There are not convenient palapas or shadow places on beach and it was issue for my wife. There were moderate waves and it is not good place for snorkeling. You have to have reef shoes to swim in the because there a lot of stones in the sea. I enjoyed swimming in the sea but my wife was not happy - waves were too strong for her. But shell collection is truly unique there. We found huge and small shells in perfect condition. By the way we really enjoyed snorkeling in Hel-Xa.
There are really wild crocodiles in close by mangrove swamps but they are not dangerous if you don’t touch them. I took couple good pictures of them.
Feel free contact me if you have any questions.
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