Sandos Playacar All Inclusive

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Jose Angel
10.0
/10
Reviewed 13 week(s) ago

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Pasamos dos gra des noches. Gracias
Jannette
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10.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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Family friendly hotel, lots of food options, and amazing staff.
Jorge
2.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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No recomiendo este hotel es el peor Que fui
Kok Aun
10.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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The resort is on the beach, it's a short walk from the main pool and ocean snack bar. Food at at the buffet restaurants as well as other restaurants were great. I would rank the Steakhouse at the top follow by GourMex, French and Italian. Italian restaurant is the only one with no air conditioning, it's pretty hot and humid in summer. Staffs at the steakhouse especially Jordan and Issa were fantastic. They went extra mile with their service My wife and daughter are not steak person and I was surprised they love the steak here. My favorite steak were the Vacio and Picanha. Restaurant reservation was easy, just use the Sandos Apps. I had the confirmation in minutes. During the stay, I received courtesy call every day asking if I need anything from the hotel. And they responded to my request in less than 15 minutes. The nice thing about this resort is very family friendly, didn't smell any smokes at all. The night entertainment were great and watching World Cup final with free flow of drinks and tacos made the whole trip worth it. Every washroom we visited at every corner of the resort is super clean and pleasant. I even noticed the cleaner even clean every spot of the couch and seats. That level of attention to detail was unbelievable. Overall, it's been a great experience staying at this resort. Kudos to the staffs that made this resort a great place to stay. 5 of of 5 star!
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Jose
10.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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Gracias Eyter Julio de 2026 Gran servicio por parte de Eyter y su gran equipo de colaboradores (Argel, Juan, etc.) Siempre estuvo atento de manera profesional, proactiva y genuinamente para que nuestra experiencia fuera maravillosa y así lo fue. Gracias, gracias, gracias
Tina
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Family
6.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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Decent stay overall. Pretty chill place. Bed was fine. Disappointed with à la carte restaurant reservations. Was told none available and felt I got the run around. Can’t reserve prior to arrival. Then no spots available, but oddly enough if I buy a bottle of wine or other things, there may be spots available! Next day I was told since I bought through Expedia, there was something to do with that on dinner. Shouldn't matter where I paid, either there’s spots available or not. So got stuck with the buffet half the trip.
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Maribel
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4.0
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Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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When we got to Sandos, we were tired after a 9 hour flight. We waited more than 35 minutes to be helped for check in. We were being by passed by other clients until I asked the receptionist why was she attending others before us if we were in line. She then told me she would be with me. After a while, she did it again, so I told my son to walk over to the next available receptionist before someone else, who was not in line, take over our spot. That's when my son got yelled at by a receptionist named "Ramses", he yelled at my son saying he was rude, when in actual it was Ramses being rude. It was horrible. Also, we were not able to eat at most of their all inclusive restaurants because we were not "elite" members. Also some pools and beach areas are also considered "elite" members only. The front desk needs more support and insure that they help check in customers in one section only and check out customers in another section.
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Mark
8.0
/10
Reviewed 14 week(s) ago

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This was my family's second time staying at this resort, both times for one week. We enjoyed it so much the first time that our family wanted to stay here again. However, this will be our last. The experience was a good bit different. Multiple restaurants had changed with quality down, the main pool by the beach was sand filled and for half of the week cloudy green, and the beach was unusable due to the mass amounts of seaweed that they did not seem in a rush to clean up as we only saw one small crew working at it with no dent being made as you had to walk through 10+ feet of 1 foot deep seaweed to get to the water, which was then still all seaweed for 20+ feet out. The biggest change this time was the service. Our room had three different issues (phone, safe, sliding door), which took three days to fix and three different maintenance people. Bamboo Island (biggest pool) is where we spent a ton of time both times, and the bartenders this time around were not friendly, to say the least. A night and day experience from our stay two years ago. The pool bar looked like there had not been any maintenance done since we were there last time, and tiles were coming off all over the place. Lastly, they had two trams with three carts attached each last time, but only one this time, making getting around the resort a nightmare with wait times. Overall, a decent stay, fun shows at night, and good service in the restaurants, but it has gone downhill enough to not be considered again.
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Paige
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4.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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The good: Room was decent and air conditioning worked well. Most staff were kind. Gym was okay. The burrito buffet was nice and open late. Shows were generally pretty good at night. The bad: Not quite as advertised, such as mini put, teen club and overall experience. Beach was horrible and they seemed to give up cleaning the seaweed. Food was not very good and several family members fell ill immediate after eating on a couple occasions. Resort prioritized their premium guests and seems to not really care too much about their average guests. Smoking area right below our balcony and in the kids area were not well placed and made enjoying the patio difficult. Service at restaurants and bars was very hit and miss. Often couldn’t get drinks made due to not having correct drinks/mixes stocked and bartenders were often rude. Some dinners I couldn’t even get a water refill until I was almost done my meal. At check in they were already pushing to upsell on their packages and we were asked 3 more times by different staff to take us on the “tour” to sell us this in the first 24 hours. The outside main sports bar was not well maintained and at one point a worker grabbed all the pool balls off our table saying we were done playing cause her shift was over (at 10:30pm). The inside sports bar which was formerly the teen club (that is still advertised as such) looked unfinished and desolate. No room service at all (recently removed). Room had almost no storage for clothes.
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Michael
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with Children
10.0
/10
Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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My family and I had the best time! All of the resort staff are friendly and helpful. The sargassum made the beach unpleasant, but that’s not the hotel’s fault. My kids loved the family pool and the nightly shows.
janisse
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with Children
2.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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The food was awfully and I could not get a reservation to any of the restaurants they said all full and I found out they were half empty apparently unless your elite your restricted to a lot of areas they want you to pay for the membership . So unhappy with this trip
Jasmine
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with Children
8.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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Needs a little coordination when it comes to checking in. No one was in line just everyone bunched up in front of the check in desk.
Devin
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Family
6.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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Room was clean but dated. The online app required to make reservations for dinner is difficult to use and dodgy in its ability to work. Is an extremely disappointing situation not being able to book dinners and finding that availability for dinners was most of the time full. A couple of nights we were unable to book dinners at the à la carte restaurants which are highly advertised and some were even closed. Will not stay here again, even though this was our second stay here.
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Alex
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with Children
10.0
/10
Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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The rooms were clean everyday, and the staff was great.
Clint
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with Children
6.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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All but the front desk staff were excellent. The room was nice but so far from everything. When I asked to upgrade to another room closer to restaurants and beach and they told me it would be $2200 more on top of the 4k I had already spent. We didn't get to see or access half of the resort because you had to be platinum so that was a bummer. We could only get into 2 restaurants because they said there was no availability even though both restaurants we ate at were not even 50% full. We had to take a shuttle to get to even the buffet and they only ran 1 shuttle at a time so we had to wait 15-25 minutes everytine we wanted to eat or go to another pool/beach. This was very cumbersome and wasted a lot of time of our trip. Good things....food was good, waiters and servers were great, room was clean. Bad things....front desk staff were unhelpful, resort was super spread out and we're were in front not by any restaurants or the beach, had to take shuttles everywhere, pools were not clean and one was even green, ocean had sargassum everywhere and couldn't get in it, didn't get to see half the resort because we were not platinum, long wait times for shuttles, could only eat at 2 of the 8 restaurants. Been to Playa del Carmen numerous times and have stayed at nicer resorts. For the money this was not a good value. Unfortunately, my famiky and I will not stay here again
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Mitzi
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2.0
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Reviewed 15 week(s) ago

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We had the worst experience. A wall frame fell on my face while I was sleeping, there was a HUGE spider in our clothes and our baby had bug bites all over his body. We told staff and just said “but are you guys okay”?
Cayetano
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with Children
8.0
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Reviewed 16 week(s) ago

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Had great food. Clean pools and great environment overall.
Pascual
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with Children
4.0
/10
Reviewed 16 week(s) ago

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Tha AC kept leaking we reported it thru out out stay it didn't get fixed. We were only able to make 1 reservation for 1 restaurant.we try renting the bikes and we had to wear tennis shoes which was not listed on the app were you get the information.
Veronica Alexandra
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with Children
10.0
/10
Reviewed 16 week(s) ago

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Las mejores vacaciones
Ana Karina Regalado
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with Children
4.0
/10
Reviewed 16 week(s) ago

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DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY COMING TO THIS RESORT. Choose any of the RIU properties in Playacar and you'll be better off. I guess I'll start with the few good things about this resort. The family rooms are very spacious and clean. The location is very good as it is beachfront and within walking distance to shops and a short taxi ride to Quinta Avenida. It has multiple pools including slides for the children. There's an app to make reservations for restaurants. Now for the bad: The check-in process is super slow, there were only 2 employees doing check ins and would take at least 10-15 minutes with each group. The whole resort feels very dated and navigating throughout is complicated. While there's several restaurants listed in the app, it is nearly impossible to make reservations for them (and several were closed). The food in the buffet restaurant is terrible both for lunch and dinner. The desserts were the only decent food there. The breakfast food was ok but nothing extraordinary. The few "stations" they had for omelettes or pasta or ceviche were slow and mediocre food at best. We managed to get a reservation at the El Gaucho and the steaks were average. The restaurant itself is very dated. The food sucks basically. While there are several pools, the water is hot and not enjoyable unless you're just there to get drunk. For the pool bars there's usually only one bartender and very limited options. At some point they ran out of ice and didn't bother restocking.
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