Dreams was more than I could have ever wanted! My husband and I traveled to Dreams for our honeymoon May 7th through the 13th. I was a little skeptical after reading some of the reviews on here, but as soon as we arrived I knew that it was going to be awesome. First of all, the shuttle ride to the hotel was great!! As soon as we arrived at the front the staff came and got our bags and we were greeted with champagne!! Everyone was very friendly!! Our room was ver spacious and gorgeous!! The refrigirator was restocked everyday with drinks and our room was always clean!! We were really afriad that the food wasn't going to be any good after the reviews we had read, but everything we ate was delicious!! The drinks were also awesome!! We would recommend the Miami Vice!! Everything about Cabo and Dreams was absolutely wonderful!!! I have no idea why anyone would ever complain!!! I LOOOOVED IT!!!!

The Airport
We weren't quite sure what to expect from Mexico, neither of us had been there before and we definetely were timid about all the "time-share" people. At the airport you will get bombarded by them, all looking quite official, telling you that you must stop at their check point. Just look forward and keep walking.
Make sure you book your travel ahead of time!!! When you walk out of the security area you will see all the men waiting to pounce on you...just walk to the right door that says group travel and don't talk to anyone. Outside there will be lots of men with signs for various travel companies. Make sure they have your name on their bulliten board. Once you are with them, it gets MUCH better.

Arrival:
When we arrived at Dreams we were a bit early for check-in, but they took our bags, told us our room number, and off to eat we went. On the way we got stopped by one of their sales people....I should have known better but when I asked her flat out if she was their timeshare person she said no. It wasn't until we were sitting at the bar with her did she explain that she was there for the "vacation club"! Are you kidding me? There is no difference. There are other people with the Hawaiian shirts that will book all your activities. If you speak with the people from the hotel that have clipboards with your name and room number on it (looking official of course), you will get stuck listening to all the things SHE wants to tell you about. We were able to get out pretty quick by telling her that we were not going to book anything for at least 2 days, that we just wanted to go and relax. We then went off for a very good first lunch near the pool.

The Room:
Once we were in our hotel room, we were so happy to see that we did actually have an ocean view...I was a bit skeptical. We were on the 5th floor and looked out to the ocean from the left side of the hotel. I point this out only because, I am glad that we were not facing the center. There is music and other activities out there at night and I wouldn't want to be distutbed by them. I have three complaints about the rooms(mind you they in no way impacted our enjoyment while there). 1. no free wi-fi, and paying for it was such a pain, that we didn't even deal with it 2. the water pressure in the shower could have been better for the quality of hotel 3. the towels were rough- when I go to a nice hotel I am a towel snob...I want them to be nice and soft. These were not.

Pools, Pool-Bars, and Pool Service:
The pools were clean everyday and it never entered into my mind that they weren't until I saw another review that stated this.
Some guests at this hotel were quite rude. The hotel makes it clear that you aren't suppose to reserve your pool seats and then go off to eat breakfast or lunch. However, each morning we would come down to a sea of blue towels and a book here or a different (non-valuable) personal belonging there, to make sure no one took "their spot". This made finding a good spot difficult (especially if you wanted shade or a seat right at the pool). This is not the hotel's fault, it was all the inconsiderate guests that were incredibly annoying. We did find that if we could get a spot that was somewhat okay, people would eventually leave and you could snag their spots. A lot of time people leave their towels behind so it is hard to tell if they are "taken" or not. We eventually went with the theory, if people did not leave personal belongings there and the people seated near them didn't think anyone was there, we took the chairs.

The service at the pool was quite good...the cost? A dollar tip everytime they come by with your order. If you don't want to "splurge" for that service...walk to the bar that is very, very close to you. You can also not tip and hope the people next to you are nice enough to tip so that they are sure to come by. Interestingly, I heard a couple younger couples complaining about the tipping but as with any service industry anywhere, tipping is appropriate when someone is waiting on you. For more specifics about tipping they had a book in our room about Mexico in general and they gave suggestions that I thought were quite reasonable and cheaper than I personally tip in the U.S. The food around the pool is pretty basic. If you want a real lunch you will have to go sit at one of the tables. They aren't as tough on the dress code as they seem. The one near the seafood place is really warm compared to the other one, and is good to go to if you want to be at the bar and the shade since the in-pool bar is covered. They also had some really friendly men running the bar there. I would also highly recommend the Barracuda on the beach. The barstools are swings!! I think this is very cool. The main pool bar is okay, but it is the busiest pool so you sometimes have to wait.

Food:
Room service: ok, highly recommend the dessert. Breakfast was good but the buffett is much better (go to El Patio). The other room service food was okay, we didn't order much from them.
The restaurants were great. We ate at the italian place 3 times it was so good and the service was amazing. The asian restaurant was only okay, not a lot of variety but they did bring us food randomly that the chef wanted us to try, which I thought was pretty spectacular. The El Patio has a different buffet every night. We went on Mexican night and made sure we sat down about 30 minutes before the show was going to start. So by the time we were done eating, we had perfect seats to watch the show (the show was only okay, but the waitstaff didn't push us to leave so we sat longer than we would have if we didn't have good seats).

Entertainment:
Most of the evening entertainment we didn't go to. There was a guitarist by the main bar(near the check-in area) that was awesome. He would take requests and had people up and singing with him. He plays 5 nights during the week. There is also a movie on the beach each night, although we didn't do that either. However, it looked like a lot of fun if there had been a movie I wanted to see. You get to sit in the pool lounge chairs and relax...much better than a theater :)

Honeymooners:
If you want to be recognized as a honeymooner, you must bring your marraige license (or a copy specifically). We did not do this and didn't really care in the end. I heard from another couple that the breakfast in bed wasn't all that great (and you can get champagne for free at the El Patio buffet) and the romantic dinner for two wasn't worth the cost because you aren't really all that alone. We found that the host or hostess at each restaurant gave the best seats to couples. So we always had the best view in the house, without having to even ask. So make up your own mind, but even though I thought I was going to be really disappointed that they didn't recognize that we were honeymooning- it didn't ruin a moment of the trip.

Other Tidbits:
-The beach is beautiful and has these amazing huts with hammocks under them.
-The sun is very different than it is in California where we live. If you burn, you need to put sunscreen (we used 30) on every 1-2 hours and everytime you come out of the pool. Trust me :)
-Take the BUS!! They try and sell you the transportation into town for $6 a person per way. For $2 each person per way you can take the bus and be a bit more adventurous. We did it for both Cabo San Lucas and San Jose (get off where it says Center and not where someone else at the hotel tells you to get off..we missed our stop because of that). San Jose is much nicer than San Lucas unless you like to party (which the hotel does a boose cruise thing 2 nights and for $20 they will bring you to 3 bars with no cover- we did not do this). I say that because we found a lot more original artwork and upper scale stores in San Jose. It has a small town feel with one main street that is pretty clean and lots of friendly shop owners.
-ATV- we did this and thought it was a lot of fun. We went with a company that is at a beach on the pacific side so it takes a while to get there. However, it was worth it!!

I would recommend Dreams to other people!

My wife and I live in London UK and wanted to visit Mexico and came to Cabo for a relaxing vacations.
Mexican staff are very friendly and for sure you have sometimes a language barrier here at Dreams, but all in all we had a fantastic time.
One thing bothered me at that time of my vacations, we saw many people fighting to get floating matreses and worst was that almost everyone did reserve it's own. Some times two. Why? The hotel is not renting them, they are to be used by anyone at anytime, but no, some folks just took them for themselves.
This was rude! Still we want to come back again and enjoy the corteous service, clean rooms, flower petals on top of your bed (tell them you are on anniversary vacations, they will do wonders), good food, service staff could be more corteous I guess they need training, friendly front desk staff and the weather...just great.

My Husband and I and another couple just vacationed at Dreams Los Cabos from June 24th to July 1st and would not go back to that hotel. We took the trip through Apple Vacations and the rating that Apple gave this resort was far from 6 Golden Apples. From the minute we got there we had nothing but problems. First of all, we made reservations in January of 2006 for a June trip and were not accomadated with the money we paid and the requests we made so far in advance.
When we got there, they told us there were no King Beds for the couple that was traveling with us. Then when we tried to talk to the people behind the desk, they were not understanding at all. They did tell us to try back the next day and see if they could change the other couples room to have a king bed, and that never happened. They were never able to locate a room with a king bed. To make things worse for both of us, when they say "Ocean View", they fail to mention that you could have any view as long as the ocean can be seen even the slightest bit.
Then when my husband and I checked in, they gave us the keys to our room and let us enter into a room that had already been used and not cleaned up yet. It is not a problem if they would have asked us to just wait for our room to be clean but they never mentioned the room needed to be cleaned. By the time we did get house keeping to come to our room to clean it, we had waited 4 hours. Then during the week, we had issue getting our rooms cleaned before 6 o'clock in the evening. They were not accomadating with house keeping at all!

During the days that we were there, the service was slow, the bar tenders acted like they did not want to even be there, and when we would try to speak to them, they acted like they did not understand us.
The food was good, but it took forever to get people to wait on us during the lunch and dinner hours. Then once we would have our food, we had some of the staff wait around to see if they could get a tip every time.
The resort was clean in most ways, the spa was very very nice.
We actually found better service and sometimes food when we dined off the resort, but when you are paying for an all-inclusive that is not what you plan to do.
Over all, we had a good time because of the people we were with on our vacation, but we would not recommend the Dreams resort to any family and friends in the future.