Sandos Playacar Resort & Spa!

[icecube88]

Maded plans to stay at this resort! Does anyone what activities there are to do doing the day as well as what kind of night life if any they have in the area... Thanks for any help...

[icecube88]

Does any one know how far Coco Bongo would be from this resort..Sandos Playacar Resort and Spa!

[Ajkh]

We stayed at this resort a couple of years ago. It's a fairly large complex with an older building closer to the beach, and a much more modern area of rooms called Riviera Suites further away, closer to the road. We stayed at the Riviera and the room was excellent.
Activities are just "ok"... nothing too exciting going on. Don't have very high expectations. Just the usual volley in the pool, bingo, etc. Night shows also "so-so."
Personally, I did not care so much for those activities. The beach is phenomenal there! Especially if you take a walk South of the resort it's like a "calendar picture scene"
That's what makes this place really worthwhile!!
Food is all right, service very nice as in all Mexico.
No disco on site. Very family oriented.
Did not go to "Coco Bongo" but basically, you're very close to Playa's downtown area where there are tons of really nice bars and great atmosphere everywhere. You should be able to have a fantastic time at the Sandos! Enjoy!!

[icecube88]

Thanks for the info..Ajkh...Sounds like i'll be looking outside for activities..LOL..

[GCPSgirl]

We stayed there last december and really loved it. Its the last resort on the beach and you can walk miles if you work at it.....many of gcpsgirls "dirty" photo's were taken down this direction. Great beach, which is what we love so we stay out there all the time.

They have a good entertainment staff. Lots of water sports out in the ocean. You are a $5 cab ride to 5th avenue....its just a couple miles or so. You just drive by all the Riu's, etc....and you are there. Same for CocoBongo's. Resort will get you there, but you get yourself home. We do coco's 2-3 times down there, as its the only "cancun" type club in Playa that we like.

Not a ton of nightlife at the resort, but its laid out nice. We stayed in the beach resort part....We have sent a few friends there. Food was very good. Only problem was paper thin walls at our room, but only had someone beside us one day, but holy smokes....we heard every word. Would have had to have moved....hopefully that is not a common theme there, and I've never really seen reviews stating that. We've stayed at 3 resorts on that stretch of beach, and would rank the Sandos the best....all about the same 3 star type places.

All in all....great place to enjoy a week. Not temptation at all, but a fun resort for the price.

[TNCJ1]

Cool. We just received an email from this resort trying to get us to come down on a timeshare pitch. The price is like 500 for 5 nights. Tried to find the resort on Expedia to do research but it doesn't show up on there. May have to give this a try and just tell them that we will have to visit again to make up our mind on the time share that we wont make our decision on just one trip.lol. Sounds like you enjoy the hotel.

[icecube88]

WOW..Wish i had that deal...LOL... Thanks for all the info... What's the distance and time from this resort to Coco Bongo??? I think i got my daytime activities covered..looking for some night time activities.....Has anyone done the Party Bus from this resort? What's it like??

And Yes... GCPSgirl...I understand this resort is NOT going to be like Temptations!!! LOL

[GCPSgirl]

cocobongo's is a 5 minute drive. Have not done a party bus.

[icecube88]

That's cool..5 mins is not that bad...LOL.. I was thinking it was more. Party Bus goes to senor frog..Carlos& Charlies and Coco Bongo..Looks like fun...Still thinking about it!!

[fitmaria]

We are several months late on this post, sorry.
But, we really enjoyed Sandos. Took the kids. Lots of topless on the south end of the resort and a long stretch of undeveloped beach going south for as far as you can see. Good value for a family.

[Bama-fan]

Travelocity has some great deals going on for Sandos Playacar Beach Resort. 7 nights with airfair from Atlanta to Cancun non-stop $402pp. We just booked ours for May, and thinking about booking another for September. It has to be some kind of mistake but they have charged the trip to my cc already

[missnbluebay]

I think you may have just caught travelocity in a mistake I just checked and the cheapest I could find was 264 per peson per night and that did not include airfare. nicely done

[Bama-fan]

I bet your right, but us and 4 other couples got booked during that mistake

[missnbluebay]

Congrats to you and the 4 other couples

[NeedSunNow]

We also were able to take advantage of the Travelocity Deal. We'll be there 5/18-5/25... Stayed at several other places up and down the Riviera,, but our first time here.