Food is reasonable, especially in the area where there are many restaurants under one roof. Pools are cool, but not cold (we were there in March).

We have always used water out of the tap and from the pitcher in the restaurants. However the best deal in the resort are the large bottles of water housekeeping will put in your room. We asked for 10 bottles! for other nervous family members and the cost was only 25 pesos a bottle ($1.20/bottle). I would recommend that, and ask housekeeping to keep you stocked up. They will only charge for what you open.

We expected to see a lot of sargassum in the water so it was not a surprise. However, whatever seaweed made it onto the beach was cleaned up throughout the day by hand and mechanized vehicles. Because of this, the black itself was very clean. There was some sargassum floating in the water, heavier in some places than others, but honestly it wasn’t bad. It was nowhere near as bad as in previous years. We always go snorkeling off the beach as there is a lot of fish around the pier pilings and artificial honeycomb reef. We had no problem getting out to deep water from the beach without having to swim through any seaweed. To be honest, we like to sit on the beach to see the ocean but most of our time in the water is always in the swimming pools.