Decameron Isla Coral

Great Experience. The buffet offered every evening was delicious. Room was big and clean. Every employee working was happy to help. Every evening they offered entertainment and it was fun and delightful. Hotel is great for families, if you are looking for a romantic get away maybe in the off season. Would like for the staff to enforce the no smoking around the chairs outside and the not saving chairs. Overall great experience. The area of Guayabitos is great for total family, to walk around, it’s safe for any individual searching to experience Mexico and its colorful culture.

Where to begin…..upon arrival Oceanview room that I paid for was not available. After arguing (or at least trying to make myself understood as their English comprehension is extremely limited) they said the room would be available the next day. A la carte diners and buffet was mediocre at best. Buffet dining room was even closed for 4 days during our stay as they did not have enough guests to open. So even if I paid for full experience of all inclusive, breakfast, lunch and dinner was served at the snack bar restaurant with limited offerings. Shuttle to La Marina and Los Cocos no longer available. Travel to these other hotels were at our expense!! In the end I would never recommend this all inclusive to anyone!!

We are from Canada and booked this resort very last minute (just a week before we left) for our “babymoon.” We paid $2,200 each for the week which was a bit pricey for what you get, but maybe you can find cheaper pricing if you book far enough in advance. I would say this resort is probably worth spending around $1,800 for the week. The hotel is about an hour and a half ride on the bus from the airport in PVR and is mostly on a windy road. If you get car sick, this drive won’t be a good idea for you. We were torn between which of the three resorts to choose from, and I’m glad we went with Isla Coral as it was the smallest resort and the beach area was the quietest. The Marina had the exact same layout. Los Cocos seems to be a different style/layout but is not on the beach (you have to walk across the street). Arrival: We didn’t realize that there was a time change from Puerto Vallarta - the time is an hour behind. Not a huge deal but good to know! Most of the staff don’t speak English, so there is a language barrier. We got checked in but nothing was explained to us. We were simply provided our ID, got our room keys and a brochure and were left to our own devices. Food: We checked out the buffets at all 3 locations and everything was the same. The only difference between the food at the different resorts (aside from the speciality restaurants) was that Los Cocos had an official snack bar - but you can get the same burgers etc at the buffets. Buffets were good, but pretty basic. The food was good quality and we didn’t get sick, it was just repetitive. We did have two Mexican themed nights which were the best. We tried to get into the steakhouse speciality restaurant but it seemed to be closed everyday. We now think that it was only opened on Fridays, maybe Saturdays? The problems were that 1) we weren’t advised at check in of the dates the speciality restaurants were open - it seems they weren’t all open everyday 2) you have to go to the front desk at 9am in the morning to reserve a speciality restaurant, which we weren’t told about. We just got lucky one day when I went to ask about the restaurant booking procedure as the Marina was open that evening and still had a spot open for the evening and they let us book it. We aren’t big seafood fans, so we only ended up trying one speciality restaurant at the Marina called the El Dorado (Mediterranean), which was decent enough. You get access to an app where you are supposed to be able to book the seafood restaurant at Los Isla but it didn’t work for us. I would venture out for some food as the buffet gets repetitive and boring. Also, the drip coffee at the buffet was pretty weak, and there is a cappuccino machine hiding in the back of the speciality restaurant area but was pretty nasty tasting coffee. Here are some off resort recommendations, all within 10 minutes walking distance from the resort: #1 Juan's Place - actually so good. You must go here. On the beach. Cash only. #2 Toni

If you want a quiet vacation, this is not the place. Constant music, unnecessarily amplified, within hotel wings, and percussion machines and boom- boxes all up and down beach. All “entertainment “, activities and announcements in Spanish. Yoga was a dud. Pool not opened till 9:00 am, so we were only able to swim laps till the kids got in. (It was school break, so 90% Mexican families.)Nothing to do but walk the beach and read. And the food was very mediocre, cold.

Very few resort staff speak English food in buffet is redundant day after day only good was meeting Bitia and Cameron both have excellent service and went out of their way to be helpful this hotel needs a major upgrade to make it a 2 star the activities are all in Spanish and not geared to their customer base music loud all day and more geared to rap vs relaxing.

This was my first visit to Decameron Isla Coral and to any all inclusive hotel in Mexico. The food and service was amazing!! I wasn't expecting to be so close to the beach as well, which was very convenient. I also loved how close we were to local shopping.