Hotel Americana Condesa Reviews

Having decided to treat ourselves to first class flights we arrived in Mexico feeling relaxed. Well worth £199 each extra.
The trip to the hotel from the airport was uneventful and quite organised.

Out hotel was as we expected from reports from other friends that had already been before and had come again on this trip. Very luxurious.We had a very large, clean room overlooking the lovely pool area.
We had come looking for luxury and relaxation and certainly found it here.

THe food was of a high standard and we were told that the drinking water was fine to clean your teeth but we made good use of the 'all inclusive' to get water whenever we could as it was very hot. The only thing i could say was don't expect the food to be too english as they are very much still catering towards Americans and serve most things 'mexican style' but still thoroughly enjoyable.

The entertainment side of the hotel is still a bit hit and miss as there were also delgates from a large convention at the hotel staying as well and they commendeered the use of the rooms available for entertainment which was a shame as we had been told that this was quite a good evening. Also the dining room for breakfast became extremely busy because of the delegates (who were given preference over the other guests because of their timetables -which as quite unfair)

The saxaphonist in the evenings in the bar became a bit boring after a while. There was very little else to do if you did not go into town at night.

THe only downside of our holiday was the weather which was unusually wet (but certainly not cold 40+c)and we had a small moonsoon towards the end of the 2nd week which was quite extreme for us 'Brits' as trees fell down and rain poured in through the frame of the patio doors (due to very poor design)which did spoil it slightly as the staff could not keep up with having to mop up all the excess water in the bedrooms concerned. But they did supply plenty of towels to soak it up at least. But out of 14 days only approx 3-4 were actually too wet to go out.

The trips were very well organised. We did the dolphin swim over on the island of women which we thought was the best value and the visit to Chichen-Niza ruins (very very hot but brilliant- but it does take nearly 3 hours on a coach to get there from Cancun)

THe town of Cancun is very busy but great fun, especially at night with lots going on and the bus ride is really cheap only 6 peso each - 35p wherever you get on or off. Very good value and there are hundreds of them every five minutes. The markets are a bit all the same but worth a look around, you have to haggle then walk away of you dont get them to agree a price- they soon change their minds.

All in all we had a very enjoyable time and very relaxing. Would definatley go again.