Aimee T.
Yelp
Let me begin by saying that before this last week I had not been to Cabo in 10 years and I stayed at a very different all-inclusive resort. That being said, I thought the overall resort, minus the golf coarse and spa, because we did not experience those, was nice.
Once you get past the city and all the bustle it was a very pretty drive on the side of the mountain. We checked in on a Wednesday afternoon at a smaller area that was next to the Market where there is food served, I believe, until 10pm. For us and our group, everything, aside from the dessert counter at the market, was included in our package. They had a ton of alcohol options everywhere you went, within the package, that are not extra charge. Don Julio, Belvedere, Bacardi, Bailey's and of coarse non-alcoholic options just to name a few. One thing that I liked about this resort is that you can buy an all-inclusive package or you can go without and pay as you go. You could also upgrade your alcohol per drink, i.e. instead of drinking Don Julio which was included, you could pay roughly an $8 up charge for Patron. Similarly, if you wanted to eat a 'special' at the breakfast buffet you could pay for that meal instead.
It was very simple to add tips to your "room" which goes onto your final bill. It was easy to screenshot any bill after signing, to also help you keep track. There's nothing worse then leaving an all-inclusive resort only to have a huge bill of extras at the end. Outside of our package we paid $117, that's it. But is was very easy to stay inside the package because there are so many food and drink options.
Due to the location you can imagine that there are a ton of hills and the resort is quite large. They had these multi-passenger carts that you could call at any time to get you where you wanted to go. Throughout, they had little stops that you could sit and wait for a cart to come by as well. They were running constantly so we never had to wait too long for a ride. I loved this feature because after a few margaritas, I didn't exactly want to climb stairs and hills to get to my room. But, also it gave us a chance to take beautiful rides through the resort. Usually the drivers were really nice and if your energy was up then they would bring theirs up too which was fun. However, bring a ton of $1 because they do work for tips too and getting small change there was difficult.
I tried a ton of food as you can imagine. Let's start with the Market. The pizza, hummus (which was made fresh after I ordered it), Cuban sandwich and Ham sandwiches were so good! At the Cafe they have a really large breakfast buffet that was amazing. You have so many food options. Everything from eggs and chilaquiles to refried beans and french toast (which I was told was delicious). We ate and had drinks at the pool and the food was good, not your typical sandwich and fries options. I tried the mango shrimp wraps, shrimp ceviche, chips and guac and a side of fries to round it out. They were all fresh, except for the fries, which were not. And I will say that in general the food portions were generous which cannot always be said at an all-inclusive.
Room service was not good. The eggs were dry and the beans were way too salty. The "toast" was a weird texture and the portions were small. I wondered if they gave me gluten free toast instead because it did not taste normal. They gave us no napkins, ketchup or silverware. We tried the Asian inspired restaurant that is on property and is included in the all-inclusive package. The sashimi on top of the sushi rolls was not bad. Words you never want to hear when you refer to food, least of all sushi. It was dry and did not look or taste fresh. The rolls and flavor combos were good but they were loaded with rice, I think, to compensate for the small/lackluster fish. The miso soup was not good. It was their take on it which had huge chunks of tofu (fine) seaweed (given) but they added noodles which was too much and took away some of the unami flavor.
The last thing I will say about the food in general is that a few people in our group got food poisoning, which is the absolute worst on vacation!!! It was narrowed down to a suspicious tasting club sandwich that all three of them ate. I don't know about you but I do not go back to restaurants after experiencing food poisoning, period.
Another drawback was that you cannot swim at the beach directly behind the resort because of the waves, it's too rough. The beach is really pretty though and you can sit and hang out there. They were also able to set up a private birthday dinner for our group which was so cool. They have many pools at the resort though so I didn't feel like I was really missing out on not swimming in the ocean.
I wish that I could give this place a better review because there are some things that are very cool here. But given the overall experience I think this is fair.
