My Husband and I returned from the Catalonia Riveria last night Oct 10/04 and if I could turn around and go back I would. This resort has everything you could possibly want in a vacation.
The food is incredible and lots of choice. The ala carte restaurants were outstanding and the attention to detail is very noticeable. There is so much to do, or nothing at all if you want. The resort has five pools and lot of chairs around them so you never have to worry about not getting one.
They have a private lagoon and a reef for snorkling. A short walk to Puerto Adventuras for shops and you can watch people swim with the dolfins. We had a hobbie catamaran ride, no extra fee. There is so much staff you are tripping over them and they are always cleaning or sprucing up the place. The staff are so friendly and happy to help and have lots of fun. The managment is always around, checking to see if you are having a great time. We met great people and had a wonderful time, we will definatley be going back to this resort.

We are seasoned travelers, having stayed for a week or more on each of most of the Caribbean Islands, and having traveled throughout Europe and Asia, but what a lovely, relaxing, and surprisingly inexpensive stay at the Catalonia Riviera. Great food(!), plenty of good drinks, wonderfully friendly and helpful staff. Beautiful grounds. I have read a number of complaints about the food and gotta wonder what these complainers are accustomed to eating? All the food we experienced at the 5 restaurants and snackbar at the Catalonia and the Lookea was very near cruise ship quality!!! And food just doesn't get much better than on cruise ships! We'll be back next year, without a doubt. The Catalonia beats any of the 6 different 4 & 5 star resorts we've stayed at over the years in Cancun! We've really outgrown the Cancun experience, but still wanted to enjoy the Mexican Caribbean, and couldn't have made a better decision. Feel free to write for additional first hand info.

My boyfriend and I have just returned from Mexico and we had a brilliant time staying at the Catalonia Riviera Maya.

The hotel itself was beautiful, the staff, the food and the entertainment were all amazing. The people who work there will do anything for you and they constantly work very hard!

It is definately the best hotel we have ever stayed in and we would definately love to go back.

We spent two weeks there and had no problems at all.

We got blown out of Jamaica and booked this resort the night before. Five of us were travelling three adults and two babies....and we had a wonderful time. The place has 5 pools, 5 bars, a disco, a huge theatre, 3 restaurants and two buffet restaurants and a snack bar....and we use them believe me!!!!!! My only problem experienced through the stay is that we had an extremely hard time getting hot salsa...at the end of theh stay we finally got the waiters {who were wonderfully especially Marcos} to make us hot salsa....we couldn't understand being in Mexico and not being able to get hot salsa easily...otherwise the food was great....especially the deserts...we didn't get a good opportunity to snorkle due to the hurricane that passed Cuba....stirred up the water....however the day if finally got calm...let me tell you snorkle far out by the rocks and be prepared to see thousands of fish...Bring booties for the water and bring lots of sun lotion...it is expensive there and you will need it...we were using 50 and got really dark