Hotel Riu Tequila

Amazing hotel for the price we paid- yes the rooms are a little dated but that is literally the only negative I can think of for this hotel. Rooms were clean, the staff are so incredibly friendly, the food was great and having the choice of the 4 restaurants was a great bonus (you can visit these as many times as you like). We thought the steak and Italian restaurants were the best, the Mexican restaurant at the beach was not good at all, we didn’t enjoy our meal here, it was like the food had been sat under the serving dish for a long time. The Chinese was ok for sushi & starters but the rest was not good but this might be personal preference. We always found something in the buffet restaurant when we ate there, lots of choice and fresh things being cooked. The lunch buffet at the beach was not great- too many flies around- we only ate here once and preferred to walk back up to tequila for our lunch. Kids entertainment on a night was brilliant, as was the kids pool. Although my son was too young for the kids club they still asked if he wanted to colour a picture and have it made onto a t-shirt which I thought was really kind. I would say this hotel has abit of everything, if you wanted a boozy holiday, the adults pool with swim up bar was always packed and sounded great fun but it also had the family side and it worked really well. Entertainment on a night was fantastic, probably the best all inclusive entertainment I’ve experienced, you can tell there is a lot of effort put into this. Drinks were fab, couldn’t fault anything with those. Beach was stunning! Plenty of palm trees providing shade, loads of beds, it never felt busy at the beach, it was very chilled. Seaweed was an issue on some days, staff worked tirelessly to clear the beach of this, just nature unfortunately. We were lucky that it wasn’t every day, would probably say it was really bad only 2-3 days of our 2 week holiday and we spent almost every day at the beach. All in all amazing family holiday and would return in a heartbeat.

It was alright. I stayed at Riu Tequila for 2 weeks and I’ve been to riu resorts many times. I would just not recommend to not go in the summer, it was really hot and the ocean was terrible. There were lots of seaweed at the shore and in the water, the water was also brown and yellow. I went to Playa Del Carmen about 2 years ago in September and the water was beautiful but this year in July it was horrible. There are about 5 pools and I really like the main one. The bus ride from the Cancun airport to the resort is about a 1 hour drive. The walk from the resort to the beach is about 10 minutes and you need to cross the rode, tho you can take the shuffle which is about 3 minutes, and the shuffle comes every 5-10 minutes. Staff are really kind and friendly and the rooms have everything you need but there was a lot of bugs in mine. The sports bar is always filled with people and always really loud but its really nice in there since theres air conditioning. The bar in the lobby (where the concerts happen) is awesome, they move so quickly and even tho a lot of times theres lines they move so fast. My room was really close to the lobby but theres a lot that are like 7-9 minutes away from the lobby which is a far walk. The food was good, but I’ve seen better. The Steakhouse is really nice, the appetisers are excellent tho they dont always cook the food the way you ask. The buffet was good, they always have the same stuff for lunch dinner and breakfast tho. I really liked the Italian restaurant tho, the fire alarm randomly went off in there which scared me but it was awesome there. Overall I liked it but I’ve stayed at better.