Without a shadow of a doubt, THE best place we have ever holiday-ed in the world!
The Resort is picture perfect, the food is glorious, and the whole experience of EDSS is first class, we were treated like Kings and Queens from the moment we arrived till we left, in tears I may add. The Staff bend over backwards for you, the Entertainment Staff are great fun, especially the lovely Isay and Brenda :)
We were not dissapointed and the resort completely exceeded our expectations.
It can as chilled out or as busy as you want, there is always something to do, or you can lie by the pool all day and drink cocktails :) 10 out 10 and we can't wait to go back.

This is our 2nd time at El Dorado Seaside Suites and it was just as wonderful as last year. If you want a very relaxing, quiet holiday this is the place. The staff are all so friendly and will do anything for you. We had several celebrations while there, and they excelled themselves and made us feel so special. The hotel rooms, grounds, beach and facilities are absolutely spotless and they work 24-7 keeping it so. Its easy to get into any of the restaurants, you may wait 10mins for the Italian but thats the most. The food is perfect and a vast selection of tastes is available over the range of restaurants. The beach is extending slightly, and can get busy and its unfortunate but you do have to get on to the beach early to get your spot. Saying that, there are always places to relax around the pools, or throughout the garden areas. There are plenty of big comfortable beds, hamocks and sofas dotted within the grounds. The hotel has started building further suites and swim-up suites in the current grounds and on the private road to the hotel. They have also started refurbishing the current rooms. However, you do not hear any of the building works, they have it very well covered, with lovely music being played to hide the sound of the builders. You only see whats happening when coming or going to the main reception area, again this work does not interfere with any main parts of the resort. The only issue when these extentions are complete, is that the beach may get even more busy, although the new areas will have their own pools and further restaurants. We love it here, and are already looking into going back for next Christmas is possible. Also note, no rooms are Ocean View, due to the lush palm trees etc, but the Ocean Front ones are along the front, a hop onto the beach and very much still worth it. Cannot comment on the entertainment really as jet lag and gruelling days sunbathing mixed with lovely cocktails, means that, after a fantastic dinner, you can be in bed by 9pm, although I did have a big birthday while there so maybe thats just an age thing!!

The evening we arrived at the hotel it was night time and went straight to out room where we were totally blown away, we got a swim up room which was the most beautiful room I've stayed in, we were quite excited that the pool bar was directly opposite our room but thats where the excitement ended.
We got up in the morning for breakfast and were extremely disapointed, we went to the sanwicherie, the breakfast was self serve and it you wanted a cooked breakfast you had to order and stand and wait for it. This was not a problem but the quality of the food was HORRENDOUS. We tried every restaurant and they were all very poor quality food. The restaurants all look nice, food is well presented but very poor quality and when we went to the grill restaurant we were shocked to find that if you wanted steak you had to pay $300pesos extra!!! Having already paid over £4,000 for a holiday we could not believe they wanted more money from us!!
Thats not the only thing they wanted extra money from us for, in our honeymoon package our personal consierge said we were allowed a free couples massage and a free candlelit dinner on the beach, We booked our massage and were asked if we wanted to 'upgrade' which cost a lot more.. we refused. She then asked us when we wanted to book our candlelit dinner for and showed us a menu, the menu had a very small selection, she then showed us another menu which was an 'upgrade' menu and had a lot more choice... it looked better to us until she said we had to pay around another £30 each!!! We nearly choked and asked how they could want more money when we were 'all inclusive' she said it was because it came with champagne. When we booked the holiday it was advertised as gormet all inclusive (including champage!!) She then said she could speak to her manager and see if she could get it cheaper (£15 each) if we did not have champagne, we refused out right and as we had spent 30minutes already of our honeymoon sat in her office with her trying to sell us things we told her we did not want even the free candlelit dinner!
We then got a note through out door offering us free things from the spa or candlelit dinner, this turned out to be in exchange for attending a 'time share' meeting for 30minutes. We felt a bit pestered and just wanted to be left alone to enjoy our honeymoon.
The swim up pool was good but only had sun until 1pm, there was never anyone by the pool bar and the evening entertainment was very poor.
Our trip was for 2weeks but after a week we could take no more and thomsons moved us to another hotel which we have stayed at before ... the Riu Tequila.. You can't beat that hotel!!

We stayed at the EDSS for Christmas 2010 and had a wonderful time. the rooms are large with a massive jacuzzi. The mini bar was refilled daily and the room was cleaned throughly with towel animals left on the bed most days! We woke early each day to make sure we got a beach cabana but given the time difference to the UK we were awake by 6 am anyway! Service at the bars was fantastic and all the staff were friendly and constantly working. loved my first experience of snorkeling at this beach lots of colourful fish.