Adults Only All Inclusive Recommendations

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Excellence Playa Mujeres

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I've done this one and thoroughly enjoyed it. Restaurants were largely solid with good variety, so you aren't eating just the same thing every day. If you do any of the Excellence ones, make sure to ask for their house hot sauces when you go to the mexican and latin restaurants. Good amount of activities and the nighttime stuff was a lot of fun. Drinks were decent enough, while there were plenty of very sugary and water down ones, if you frequented a similar area and got to know some of the wait staff/bar tenders and tipped, I was getting some very strong cubatas. When I was there, they were partnered with Dos Equis, so they had the lager and the amber on draft everywhere as well.

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In your opinions, is the upgrade to the "Club" levels worth it? The only thing that jumps out at me regarding the upgrades is the cabanas at the beach.

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I thought it was tbh but also wouldn't say it is a "must", but it was nice. The included shuttle to and from the airport was nice. Generally, some of the restaurants will have some items on the menu that aren't included unless you are a club member. They will end up being extra charges at then end. Usually isn't a ton, but just not having to care about it and order anything and everything without thinking was nice. Had some extra pools and bars able to access as well, which made things easy when the main areas got packed. It definitely added some extra "can check out and not worry about shite" to the trip, which for what we were there for, was definitely nice.


ETA: I’ll add, the beaches for this one, while still very nice, isn’t the best there is in the area. It was much more secluded than some of the others, which we really liked, but there are better ones as far as views and quality. We had a great area by the beach bar that was almost always empty, under some nice trees so good shade. Was a great spot to post up at. However, if you’re significant other really is big on having the most picturesque beach, some of the others are a little better there.

I would highly recommend Valentin Imperial Riviera Maya as well. Food and drinks were very good. We did a swim up room as well. 6 days/nights was around $5200 flights included.

Large spread-out property, shows every night after dinner, and live music in the courtyard by the restaurants and lobby area each night after the show. We did an excursion to Xplor park at Xcaret one day while there

We chose Valentin based on friends recommendation, they had been multiple times

We are going to VIRM in October and I am looking forward to this. Not sure what to expect, but it looks like a great place. I can report back to the OP and let them know our experience once we return.

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I will be the mean guy today and I will tell you that you should search this topic, there are at least 20 threads on this very thing over the past couple of months

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I’ll add that the tigerdroppings search engine seems to only go so far back for searches. If you go to google and search “tigerdroppings all inclusives” you’ll find all of the threads.

Also, looked in the pinned destinations on this travel board.

You'll get more bang for your buck in Excellence Punta Cana vs. Excellence anywhere in Mexico, for some reason similar rooms for similar days are about $1000 cheaper in Punta Cana,

There's also Excellence El Carmen which is also in Punta Cana about a mile from Excellence PC. Its newer and nicer.

Good and bad about Atelier? Headed there next week.