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Who has been to Unico in Mexico?
Posted on 6/12/17 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 10:19 pm
Going there in a few weeks, give me your thoughts. Thanks.
Posted on 6/12/17 at 10:52 pm to DarthRebel
Wife and I did our honey moon there a month ago. Been meaning to post a review, I'll add some pictures tomorrow if I remember.
The building and pool area are top notch, architecture and design of the pool area is awesome. Beach is okay, it's rocky so you can't really swim unless you have water shoes. Its a good laying out beach. Service is great, drinks are good, food is above average for a resort IMO. The personal concierge is a good idea, but we didn't use ours much except to make dinner reservations. Make sure you make dinner reservations early because if the resort is busy, they fill up quick. We liked the Mexican restaurant the best (it's legit, not tacos burritos etc.), fresh sushi was good at Mura House, other restaurants were good too. Wood fired pizza by the pool is a must, probably our favorite thing there . I think they are planning to use wrist bands for everything soon (like Disney), but it's not up and running yet so dinner reservations are done on paper. Unconventional, but they handle it fine.
Not sure what room you got, but we spent a little extra for the ocean front. It's not technically ocean front, but it has an unobstructed view of the ocean and is in a more secluded/quiet area of the resort. Worth the money IMO since the other rooms mostly overlook the pool and don't offer as much privacy. Highly recommend ordering breakfast to the room each morning and take advantage of the spa on the patio, the Cuban cigars at the cigar bar, and the inclusive rates for the escencia spa. They do offer inclusive rates on the excursions, but they are rather large groups. We opted for the full price/premium Tulum and snorkeling tour and had a great time and only 3 other couples were with us.
That's all I can think of of the top of my head. Any questions, fire away. I'll try to post pics later. Also, keep in mind that they've only been operating since March...so there may be some knick knacky things...but nothing that'll ruin a trip (example: mini fridge in our room was broken, didn't bother us though).
The building and pool area are top notch, architecture and design of the pool area is awesome. Beach is okay, it's rocky so you can't really swim unless you have water shoes. Its a good laying out beach. Service is great, drinks are good, food is above average for a resort IMO. The personal concierge is a good idea, but we didn't use ours much except to make dinner reservations. Make sure you make dinner reservations early because if the resort is busy, they fill up quick. We liked the Mexican restaurant the best (it's legit, not tacos burritos etc.), fresh sushi was good at Mura House, other restaurants were good too. Wood fired pizza by the pool is a must, probably our favorite thing there . I think they are planning to use wrist bands for everything soon (like Disney), but it's not up and running yet so dinner reservations are done on paper. Unconventional, but they handle it fine.
Not sure what room you got, but we spent a little extra for the ocean front. It's not technically ocean front, but it has an unobstructed view of the ocean and is in a more secluded/quiet area of the resort. Worth the money IMO since the other rooms mostly overlook the pool and don't offer as much privacy. Highly recommend ordering breakfast to the room each morning and take advantage of the spa on the patio, the Cuban cigars at the cigar bar, and the inclusive rates for the escencia spa. They do offer inclusive rates on the excursions, but they are rather large groups. We opted for the full price/premium Tulum and snorkeling tour and had a great time and only 3 other couples were with us.
That's all I can think of of the top of my head. Any questions, fire away. I'll try to post pics later. Also, keep in mind that they've only been operating since March...so there may be some knick knacky things...but nothing that'll ruin a trip (example: mini fridge in our room was broken, didn't bother us though).
This post was edited on 6/12/17 at 10:56 pm
Posted on 6/12/17 at 11:25 pm to jordan21210
Couldn't wait, so pics are below lol
Lobby:
Looking out to pool area from the lobby:
Looking back toward the lobby:
Unico beach - bit of seaweed, think the whole area is fighting it right now though.
Our room - ocean front king alcoba.
Breakfast on the balcony:
Spa on the balcony
This is the patio at the Cuban themed Palmera Lounge. They have live music most nights and it stays open til 2 am, if I recall correctly.
Tulum:
Beach club from our Tulum excursion:
Lobby:
Looking out to pool area from the lobby:
Looking back toward the lobby:
Unico beach - bit of seaweed, think the whole area is fighting it right now though.
Our room - ocean front king alcoba.
Breakfast on the balcony:
Spa on the balcony
This is the patio at the Cuban themed Palmera Lounge. They have live music most nights and it stays open til 2 am, if I recall correctly.
Tulum:
Beach club from our Tulum excursion:
Posted on 6/13/17 at 9:39 am to jordan21210
Nice. We were not doing a Mexico trip, but it was too good a deal to pass up.
Looking forward to getting there.
Looking forward to getting there.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:52 am to DarthRebel
Yep, one of th reasons we booked. I think the prices will jump once the word gets out. It's a very premium type of resort trying to establish itself with promotional rates temporarily from what I gather.
Y'all will enjoy it.
Forgot to mention they have an app that can be helpful to find events/activities. You can supposedly order food and drinks from it, but we never tried.
Y'all will enjoy it.
Forgot to mention they have an app that can be helpful to find events/activities. You can supposedly order food and drinks from it, but we never tried.
Posted on 9/20/17 at 3:06 pm to jordan21210
Any more updates on this resort?. Thinking about going here or Beloved in Playa Mujeres. Pretty torn between the two.
Posted on 9/29/17 at 5:29 pm to Billder
Just me...and my thoughts have been posted already
Check the reviews on TripAdvisor...last I saw they were overwhelmingly positive. That was a few months ago though.
Check the reviews on TripAdvisor...last I saw they were overwhelmingly positive. That was a few months ago though.
This post was edited on 9/29/17 at 5:31 pm
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