Absolutely. Awful.
We stayed in room 227 from December 30, 2025 to January 4 2026.
We'll start with the good. The room had a beautiful view of the beach.
Now for the bad
We did not do the all inclusive (thank God!)
We arrived around 9pm on the 30th and we're just excited to get a drink and some food before heading to bed. When we checked in, the front desk staff explained that they had two restaurants on site - One more casual, and one nicer dining. The beach bar was open and we got a margarita and a daiquiri. We're in Mexico, so we figured those are pretty basic drinks to nail. They were horrible. More to add on that later.
We headed to bed and at 6:30 in the morning we're woken up by the sound of moving tables and chairs. The café is directly below our hotel room. Mind you, we sleep with a white noise machine and the sound from the moving chairs was so loud, it woke us up. That happened EVERY MORNING at 6:30 am. So much for relaxing sleeping-in on vacation.
The next day we headed to the beach. The beach is very quiet and nice for this area as long as there's no thumping music being played. This hotel was advertised as a tranquil beach hotel. But there was a stereo blaring music all day long every day. Unfortunately, there were no umbrellas. Anywhere. So if you're sitting at the pool or you're sitting at the beach, you're in the sun. (Somehow a couple umbrellas appeared after 4 days. Not sure where they were the first 3 days)
None of the staff came over to see if we needed drinks the entire day, any day. We were expecting much better service since we were paying almost $500 a night. When we went and ordered drinks ourselves, they were, again, absolutely awful. To the point where we were questioning whether this was a joke. We couldn't even finish them. My girlfriend just started drinking beer because it was something they couldn't screw up. I guess one way when you're running a hotel that has all inclusive to reduce costs is to make sure the drinks are so bad that no one wants to order too many of them. Great cost cutting measure. The kindest review I can add for the bartenders is they should go back to bartending school. Or get another job.
We did New Year's Eve at the hotel and it was fun. The party was great. The food was good. We did meet one couple at the party who had been coming there for three years. They said the Nice restaurant at the hotel hadn't been open in three years. So basically, when we checked in and the staff explained they had two restaurants, they knew they were lying, and this had been an ongoing problem for years.
The real problem occurred at 2:30 in the morning when a yacht that was docked on the dock in front of our room started blaring music so loudly that it reverberated throughout the entire hotel. I can sleep through most things and at 4:30 in the morning when the music was still blaring I got up, got dressed and went down to the lobby to complain to the hotel staff. They explained they couldn't stop it. The music continued until sun up at 6 am. When we finally got to sleep, and then got up later, the people on the boat were now using a karaoke machine and using the F word and the N-word repeatedly so loudly you could hear it 100 yards in every direction. When I went to complain to the hotel staff, they said that they weren't responsible for the yacht as it belonged to the hotel next-door. If I'm running a hotel and someone is blaring words like that, ruining my guests' experiences, I'm going to find a way to make it go away. The manager at the hotel did not offer to comp anything for the horrible night sleep and horrible experience.
Additional room features for the room were AC that did not work (we left the AC running all day long at 70° to test it out and came back to a room that was 77°), and a leaking shower above us with water running down the wall from the shower above us. (I had a washcloth that was up against the wall and it accidentally touched the water leaking down from the shower above and turned brown.) There is a gym, but most of the gym equipment doesn't work (treadmill didn't go faster than a slow walk). They kept running out of beach towels (we got some on day one and never saw any more the rest of the trip).
We went up to North Beach one day and had some of the best drinks and beach experiences and excellent food. Get this, it was literally so bad in our hotel that we were willing to pay a taxi to drive us miles multiple days to enjoy the beach and pay for drinks and food than stay at this hotel. If you're coming to Isla Mujeres, do not waste your time anywhere near this hotel. Go to North Beach.
We would've been better off at a motel six. read more