Loved the lagoon acces suite. Restaurants were great. Food was delicious. Staff very friendly and helpful.
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This resort is older but has a beautiful landscape. Several complexes have water features inside as well as garden sculputes and special sand drawings. Guest have family wishing them anything from happy honeymoon to happy birthday. They get a special artistic drawing in the sand outside their room. The resort has close to 500 rooms. I took half a day just taking pictures. There are 3 restaurants, one which I liked best on the beach, overlooking the ocean. One a japanese restaurant served also very good meals. One was located outside in the garden for elegant dining. Buffet breakfast was amazing from cakes to soups, fruit and lots more. I found it to much and what I did not like when people filled their plate to the rim and then left half of it. When you stay more then a week you get fruit welcome in the room welcome drink and a choclate every night. However an imported apple and a gone bad tangerine did not impress me, choclate at night was missing the last few nights. Also a half hour extra massage when you book for an hour. The massage rooms have partly open rooms. But the one I was in the noise from children in the swimming pool was not so great. Apparently they will change the locality for their health spa. Bikes for rent for 3 dollars an hour are real old and only a few available. The biking trail is also a walking trail and it can get busy. There are no markers to show you anything and I got lost outside the complex in a not very pleasant village. The beach has a high and low tide and when the water is going out a lot of garbage is swimming and left behind from plastik to paper cups. Natives are throwing everything away, which is a shame. It was not to busy when I arrived however the last 2 days the European school holiday had started and it got very crowded.

The best things about this hotel are the beautiful gardens and fountains, the location, being right on the beach, and the Japanese buffet available at one of its restaurants; the breakfast buffet is also excellent, as are all the staff serving in all the bars and restaurants. The rooms are clean and comfortable but a bit tattered round the edges. The potentially stunning lobby area is bizarrely trashed with some ugly Disney style mural clingling to the ceiling. And the hotel has a bit of a split personality - although most guests seemed to be honeymooners, the sorts of loud pool-based activities on offer seemed more apt for a Med kids club. Similarly, at night, almost every bar and restaurant has some sort of entertainment (avoid block 2 if you want quietness, away from the bar musicians) as if guests must be distracted away from each other whenever they eat or drink (but I did like the xylophone gently beckoning everyone to breakfast). The beach is probably the best way to avoid this - and it is a lovely beach. The staff round beach are also very accommodating, arranging loungers and drinks. It is a very large hotel but, from most angles, seems to hide its vastness so you don't seem to be just one of thousands.