Becky's Review of the Hotel Marina El Cid in the Riviera Maya

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We'd like to say thank you to Becky for being so kind to share her experience with everyone at the beautiful Hotel Marina El Cid in the lovely Riviera Maya in Mexico. This vacation included a total of 19 people from 5 different families! If you like Becky's review of this resort, call or Email Us and let us plan your next long awaited vacation!  Becky was also gracious enough to share some fun photos of her vacation, so don't forget to scroll down to see them!

19 of us stayed at the Elcid resort in Mexico, Riveria Maya. 
Our stay was over Christmas 2010. The over all week was very wonderful, there were 5 families. We wanted our rooms to be closer together and that wasn't really the case(some had more people) and booked bigger rooms, although my husband and I booked our room to be adjoining to our kids (ages 20 and 12) the first night we were there we didn't have adjoining rooms but, the next morning I went to the front desk and not only were they able to get us adjoining rooms our room ended up being a honey moon suite. Some of the other rooms seemed on the smaller side.
The entertainment was really good they even had Santa arrive on a boat Christmas eve afternoon. They had nightly local entertainment which was enjoyable to all.
They had staff playing/ getting kids involved in water sports as well as beach volleyball. Also I don't think this part was part of the resort but, they had people going around with certain local animals that you could get pictures taken with.

The front desk was very helpful with taxis and arranging tours.
Over all our favorite meals were the buffets, the buffets worked well with kids we have been to a different resort where you had a better selection of restaurants and the meals were much more memorable, like I said this worked well for the size group we had. Our least favorite meal was Christmas eve which we would of been better off going to the buffet.
We booked our snorkeling ahead of time it was with a lady named Laura I think, she did great booking this for all 19 of us. We were able to snorkel in three different places.
We also booked massages with Sandra which was really getting the experience of mayan jungle massages.
For the week our extra things we did were jungle massages very worth it, snorkeling, deep sea fishing and the Mayan Ruins. 
We did have a very great week, I would recommend this resort, I feel they could bring the food up a few notches. Maybe I expected too much because of our first time in Mexico.

We did book a year in advance and gave Stephanie a price we could all live with and she was able to book the trip for the price we gave her. We felt the price was very good considering we were gone over Christmas for 9 nights. Stephanie did a very good job working with 5 families.


~Becky Bettinger