HEART BREAK! That is how I feel after my stay at Beach Palace in Cancun....
This was my 4th stay at a Palace Resort (the other 3 stays were at Moon Palace on the Riviera Maya). My first 3 stays were awesome; zero complaints. However, Palace Resorts now has gone down hill in my opinion.
Beach Palace, room 807:
broken bathroom door handle
broken toilet tank lid
and the kicker was the leaking roof!
PRO's
-- The majority of the staff are awesome!
-- FIDEL, at the poolside bar was the best!!! Great attitude, customer service, sense of humor and attention to his guests! My kids were bummed when we weren't going to see him anymore as he had a few days off and we were leaving.
-- The view of the beach is breathtaking. The Cancun water is so many different shades of blue!
-- There are plenty of activities: kids slide, water volleyball, water aerobics and yoga, beach volleyball and parasailing and wave runners to rent.
-- The Sports Bar has two pool tables and a fun karaoke night.
-- Roof pool stays open until 1am
-- The ice cream parlor and coffee shop is a cool place for the kids to go to while playing at the pool
-- Ping pong table near the pool
-- Kids activities at the main pool
CON's
-- The seaweed is an issue. Moon Palace cleans their beach every morning whereas Beach Palace does not. The seaweed actually hurts to touch. California seaweed is just annoying but doesn't hurt to step on. Its unfortunate that the resort at least doesn't clean the sand in front of the resort.
-- Pool bar closes at 6pm
-- The big pools close at 8pm
-- There is no authentic Mexican food! If I want a hamburger, I will stay in the States.
-- The alcohol selection is GARBAGE now! My last trip to a Palace Resort in 2009 offered a lot better quality liquor. Now the Palace Resorts offer CHEAP POOR QUALITY hard alcohols.
-- Not one Irish Whiskey available
-- Palace Resorts switched to corona distributors from Moctezuma Beers which was a total step backwards.
-- Resort credits are USELESS
-- Pool gets shaded by the hotel beginning in the early afternoon
-- The gym is a joke
-- It is difficult to think a resort has a dinner dress code as you can see women walking around in thong bikinis during the day with kids everywhere. I enjoyed the view but it is uncomfortable when my 9yr son is there.
-- Have a dress code at an Adult's Only resort which allows thong bikinis during the day and pants at night; not at a family resort.
-- Palace Resorts is moving away from customer service and towards being all about money. That was never shoved in your face before.
Palace Resorts offered $1,500 in resort credits with an online booking. These credits are essentially USELESS! They mark the prices up on the few items you can use the credits on, tac on a tax and then you get stuck with some ridiculous price. Case in point, professional pictures. You can use $250 in credit but then they want $1,100+ American dollars for a usb with your pictures. The smallest package was 10photos on a cd for $240. They would not even throw in 3 extra photos at the $240 price. Such a ridiculous request right? I was not asking for all the photos for $240, just 3 more images. So instead of making $240, Palace Resorts would rather receive $0 from me and have this nice 1 star review!
I paid for an excursion through the hotel. My son got sick and we could not go. I tried getting the fee removed from my bill; sorry no such luck. My experiences in the past at Moon Palace were 100% customer service oriented.... not the Beach Palace. Thanks Beach Palace: $140 was too much to be refunded after the thousands and thousands I will pay the Palace Resorts over the coming years.
I honestly felt taken advantage of after this trip. I was on Cloud 9. After years of thinking, I bought into the time share, thinking Palace Resorts would be the one company I would feel comfortable coming back to again and again with my sons. After the astronomical picture price and then the refusal to remove the excursion fee- I regret ever purchasing a time share associated with Palace Resorts.
After years of telling friends/family how amazing Palace Resorts are (ie, convincing my cousin to honeymoon at one), I will not recommend them again. I am livid with myself that I will be giving Palace Resorts a lot of my hard earned money for decades to come as I pay for and use the timeshare I purchased with them.
Customer Service is all I care about. I will stop going to phenomenal restaurants based on poor service. I will go back to average places based on excellent service. Its a simple thing, making a customer feel like he or she is your #1 customer.
I prefer a Palace Resorts rep reads this review, void my contract and ban me from their resorts for life! (Pueda comunicar conmigo a que hora que guste)
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