This hotel has tons of stuff for the kids!
First and most importantly for the kids - the pools! There are a bunch of little pools winding around the buildings - we didn't swim in any of those. There is a bigger, main pool we swam in a bit. But most of our time was spent in the "pirate pool" or at the water park.
The pirate pool is right by the sunrise grill, so parents can get a cold drink while the kids swim. It was also shallow enough that both of my kids (5 and 7) could touch the bottom, alleviating the need for an adult to be in the water with them all the time. The kids loved the pirate ship and would play for ages.
At times, staff come out and do fun things by the pool like give airbrush tattoos or hand out balloon swords. Only drawback for this pool is that some people do the thing where they get towels first thing in the morning and put them on the sunchairs and leave them there all day to "reserve" their spots. Like 5 people will be in the pool and every chair around it has something on it.
If you're in the reserve, there's an additional pool with a swim up bar on the other side of Olio. It's heated. Which means it feels like bathwater so no cold entry but it's not gonna cool you off in the heat.
The water park is lots of fun. There are 5 or 6 waterslides - all appropriate for young children and not scary, plus the typical play/spray area in an island in the middle of the pool. Both my kids went down all of the slides and had a lot of fun.
Note about the resort - you can flush the toilet paper. In case you were wondering...
There is a kids' club and my kids loved it! They asked to go back repeatedly. We would drop them off for a couple of hours and get some much-needed recharge time. They did fun stuff like an eco-tour (learning about the plants and animals around the resort), building sand castles, pool parties, making pirate hats and other crafts. They do nighttime care but you have to reserve it in the morning and they show the kids a movie.
I didn't exactly save the best for last - the beach. There was a lot of sargassum when we were there and it doesn't smell pleasant. We didn't spend a lot of time at the beach because the kids love the pools so much but it wasn't really somewhere you'd want to swim. The staff works to clean it up so maybe it's better later in the day but we didn't check it out at that time.
They also have photographers on site that will do family photos on the beach. You don't pay to have them taken but it's $20 each for the ones you want to keep. I was glad we did it and again, it's not high pressure sales but we got some great shots and spent a bit of money on them.
Next up - Xenote (cenote) tour by Grupo Xcaret
Travel on!
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