We spent a week at the Fiesta Americana in Cabos San Lucas and had a spectacular time. We stayed in a 2 bedroom villa and found it to be well decorated and spacious. The resort itself is gorgeous, well managed and with plenty of things to do. There are 2 infinity pools, a swim up bar and atleast 7 jacuzzis scattered around the resort. The service was great, and the drink prices fairly reasonable. The breakfast buffet was incredible, but a little pricey one a daily basis ($23). But, if you plan well, a good buffet can hold you over to dinner. The massage facility was gorgeous as was the gym. Cabo San Lucas was not that large, so no great attraction for us. We ended up spending most of the time relaxing at the resort. Highly recommend the place!!

From the get go, this place showed signs of being the wrong choice. The cabs from the airport are rediculous as they overstuffed 10 people and their luggage into a van.When arriving at the resort there was not a single valet offering to help my wife and I with 3 suitcases and 2 sets of golf clubs. They watched us drag them inside to check in and over to the "VIP" table, fighting our way through the numerous flies in the lobby. The one good thing is that we were upgraded to a suite in the grand club, which was very nice, as we were honeymooners. The valet though, which we finally got to help us to our room could not stop talking about the girls in the bikinis everywhere and how it was a real party scene and what not, in front of my wife, which was a pretty classless move.We were roped into sitting in a sales pitch for a timeshare by the VIP table with promises of a sunset cruise and atv'ing. I thought the cheesy sales people at the airport were bad, but didnt think that the resort we were staying at would do the same thing, call me stupid as we fell for it. They promissed a 45 minute breakfast, non-pushy pitch, which was way way understated as it was a 3 hour ordeal with numerous offers and counters to our objections. The sales guy said that we were his first appointment ever (which turned out to be conicidental, as 2 people we spoke to who did it as well had 2 different first time sales people). When we rebuffed everything he had, he brought in his "closer" who was an older woman who would not take "no" for an answer. Besides the annoyance of the proceedings the pitch was robbery as they wanted 25 grand down on the spot for a 40 year share. Skip the presentation no matter what they offerThe food at the resort is mediocre at best and overpriced.The pools were nice and the beach was nice, but the ocean is a bit too rough to swim in.Unfortunatly there was a convention going on when we got there, so many kids and what not.On the 5th day, my wife became suddenly ill. We went to the doctor at the resort, who was friendly enough, but had a pretty weak grasp of the English language. Not a problem as we are in a foreign country afterall. He was a nice enough guy and determined that my wife had appendicidice and arranged for an ambulance to take us to the "hospital" in San Jose Del Cabo, where she underwent surgery. I am thankful for him for the diagnosis and thank God she is fine. The only problem I have with this is that after the surgery I learned that there are 2 large hospitals in Cabo San Lucas, which is an equal distance if not closer town to the resort and he sent us to a 2 room clinic in San Jose. As it turns out, he was affiliated with the clinic as a partner and he was apt to make more money by sending us there rather than to a large hospital in Cabo San Lucas. The clinic did not have the neccessary technology for laser surgery, so she had to have it preformed the old fashinoned way, which added 3 weeks of discomfort to her recovery. We were also required to stay in Cabo an extra 3 days as per the doctors instructions. The resort was fully aware of the situation but didnt do anything to help out. The actually called our room and wanted to move us out of the suite to a differnt smaller room to make a profit on people arriving. It was only after they determined that the room that they wanted to move us to was not wheelchair accessable that they kept us in our original room. I know of other resorts that will give you a break on the rate in a situation like this and try to accomadate, but not one thing was done to help us out in any way at all. So much for service.Thankfully we had a week at a differnt resort in Mexico prior to this experience, but as far as the Fiesta Americana knew this was our entire honeymoon and they did not do a thing.Never again would I stay or recomend this resort.

Spent a week at the Fiesta Americana Grand in the timeshare suites (we're HGVC members) over Thanksgiving 2003. The resort is very beautiful and well maintained, and the pools are wonderful. After dark they begin heating the pools and it's terrific. We sat for the timeshare presentation the first day, got a free breakfast from it, and got a $60 US credit at the Rosato restaurant, which was FABULOUS. Fantastic food. A previous reviewer mentioned the noise from the air conditioning units if you stay in the upper building - they were fairly loud, but if you kept the balcony doors closed they weren't bad. The management is obviously aware of this problem, as they were in the middle of constructing what looks like covers or shields over the units while we were there. So, this problem may go away very soon. We rented a car for the week and definitely made good use of it. I think the trip to and from the airport probably paid for the car, then we made numerous trips into town for shopping, groceries, and a late evening dinner, so I highly suggest a rental car. We had a great relaxing time here, and found it to be very uncrowded and not too many kids around. This could be due to the week we chose. If you want to make sure to have super-good maid service and quick responses from the valets, you must tip at this resort. We learned this about halfway through the week. Once we started leaving decent tips ($1 or $2 US), our maid service got quick and thorough and the valets retrieved our car much faster. We've traveled to other destinations where tipping made no difference - but it was notably different here. All in all, a very nice place to stay. We will go back.

RCI Vacation Club exchanged my 1 bedroom at Villa Del Palmar for a studio at Fiesta Americana Vacation Club claiming this was all they had. After 2 days of complaining to them a 1 bedroom miraculously became available. The VC is away from the hotel & requires a golf cart ride. The studio apartment is small with no usable terrace. The walls are paper thin. The photo in the RCI book and on their website is of the hotel, which was lovely, not the VC. The beach cannot be used for swimming. Food is overpriced. Be forewarned.