Been to Mexico several times, Cabo is my least favorite because its become so commercial. Our room had a great view of Los Arcos- when the flippin cruise ships aren't posted in front of it! Beach is nice- but the current is too strong for swimming, took the taxi boat over to lovers beach (Los Arcos) to swim. Also- the locals have gotten ridiculous on the beach- hassling you to purchase things (including drugs! I was shocked, this is 15 ft from the steps of the hotel- going to the beach). The food: breakfast buffet is pretty good, but everything else sucks! I don't understand for the life of me- why these mega hotels in Mexico- cant do Mexican food right! Oh, and everything is extremely overpriced (food, drinks, etc). The way that the hotel is shaped- its terrible for relaxing. Each floor is open in the middle & goes around in a circle, so you constantly hear music & people being loud on the 1st floor in the sports bar. Also- the stage is right outside by the pool- so every night, you can here the music & the guys on the microphone (we were on the 8th floor). The staff was OK, but I wouldn't go back to that hotel. Mater of fact- I think I'm done with Cabo- period. (If you want a fun little spot to eat- try the sushi place in the same Plaza as WalMart. They have some really impressive rolls in there, including the "Diego Roll" & they have great customer service skills).That's it Cabo... PEACE!!!

Travelled Dec 1 to 8th. A trade through Interval, We went with friends who have never travelled outside of Canada our ages are between 55-69. Our room had a great view of the ocean when the cruise ships were'nt in the bay. Our room was nice but the kitchen was small and no oven just two burners so if your planning to cook think small.
The thought was if you stay at one of the resorts you can play at the other two which are on the same property....not, so this was a little disheartening but ok.
Check you bill if you are signing for drinks at they will automatic put tips on even if you have already tipped.
Sevice was good in all areas of the resort.
The beach area was always full of the locals selling their goods so if that bothers you don't sit on the beach as the roped off area is small.
It is very close to walk into town and also you can take a collectivos bus for 9 pesos per person which is great too.
All in all this resort is very good.

I went with a group of ten people. I have been to Cabo San Lucas before. I have stayed at other timeshare properties before. I will never again stay at this property. There are 3 or 4 massive hotels in this 'gated' community.

When we checked in, the hotel was clean and beautiful. The beach access is excellent. The pools are lovely. The rooms are average. A little musty smelling. Overall, we were happy. After our check in, we were hungry after a long day of travel. We went to the Italian restaurant and asked if we could get a table. We were told it would be an hour wait (about 80% of the tables were empty). We didn't understand, but were polite and asked if there were other restaurants on the property. We were directed to the buffet.

The buffet was $35 per person plus drinks. We asked about the other hotels and were directed to another restaurant that charged an average of $45 per plate. So after walking around two hotels, we decided to just bite the bullet and pay for the buffet. The pineapple and pork taco bar was excellent. Everything else I ate that night was mediocre at best. After dinner, we ended up back at one of our rooms to have drinks on our balcony. It was around 11pm at night. We received a noise complaint. We apologized and said it would not happen again. It didn't. We received no further complaints.

The next day we went to the front desk to ask if they could look into our phone. It wasn't working and we wanted to be able to communicate plans with the rest of our group. When we gave our room number to the front desk, the gentleman there only want to reprimand us, again, about our noise complaint. He was very rude and just kept going on about the noise and we kept apologizing. He told us he couldn't fix our phone. We walked away frustrated. They did fix our phone a couple days later.

Other small Complaints:

- When we went to the restaurant for breakfast, they really apply pressure to buy their $25 breakfast buffet. Every time we were told "you can have the buffet now, but if you want to order off the menu it takes 30-40 minutes to get your food". I guess I could be grateful they warned us, but that wasn't the way I took it. It felt like another sales pitch.

- One day the hotel ran out of tequila. In Mexico? Their hotel store was fully stocked with tequila. But, we aren't allowed to go buy it and make our own margaritas to bring to the pool.

- You can't order anything at this hotel without being asked "do you have a gold card?" And when you don't, they want to tell you how to go get one. Constant pressure.

- The onsite excursion rep, wants to sell you excursions at a reduced priced of you attend the sales breakfast. Finally, someone in our group gave in and went to the breakfast. Then when we went back to book our excursions, the rep told she can't actually book them and we had to go to another office in another building. Her only purpose there was to get you to the breakfast.

The food from the menu's was over all pretty good. The food at the buffets was overall pretty bad. The one exception I have with the menu's is the pool menu. Everything I had off this menu was terrible. I could have made better tacos at home.

The bellhops out in front, to call you a taxi or help with your bags were very friendly and informative. I thought they were the best staff on the property. They should be promoted to work the front desk.

Overall, the entire experience was very sales pressure heavy. I have never been to a timeshare this bad. We spent our entire week there feeling targeted because of our one noise complaint. I would never again return to this property.

When looking for an All-Inclusive resort I exchanged several emails back and forth about price. We did get a good deal, or I thought we did until I found out Villa del Palmar's only word is "UPGRADE" We were told we could get an ocean view room if available but that would be about $1000 extra. We decided on looking at Wal Mart. The first day they only had one restaurant open "sports bar" due to rain, second day they only had one restaurant open for breakfast "sports bar" and only one for dinner because of an employee Christmas party. Third day both were open. Drinks are made with rot gut liquor unless you asked and they had something a little better. Drinks were weak service was slow. There are a few that were very good and polite. The ocean view from this resort was great. You look right at lovers beach and everything going into the marina. Beach sand was hard to walk on, felt like quick sand. Besides all that just take in the ocean view.