2 weeks at RC is never enough. Clean as a whistle, friendly and accommodating staff. Location is perfect. The beach is getting better and better. It's a wonderful family-friendly place, love being able to eat at RI and RM as well. Flexibility is built in.

We stayed at the Royal Caribbean on a time share exchange, from 05/17 to 05/24/08; our second stay at a Royal property in Cancun. We pre-arranged our hotel transfers with Thomas More Travel, Royal's in-house travel agency; our transfers being billed directly to our resort account.

The Royal Caribbean is one of five Royal properties in Cancun; situated between the Royal Mayan and the Royal Islander. The resort has 207, 2BR-2BA, 1,448 s.f., ocean-view villas. The villas are well furnished and laid out perfectly for two couples and/or a family of six. On each side of the living area/full kitchen are a bedroom, bathroom and huge walk-in closet. The floor plan optimizes privacy for two couples. The kitchen is fully furnished and equipped with everything needed to prepare/consume meals. The villas are equipped with three televisions, CD-DVD player, two large safes, air conditioning, internet (dial up access @ $30 per week), iron and ironing board. The master bedroom is furnished with a comfortable king size bed, the 2nd bedroom has two double beds and there are two Murphy beds in the living area. Each villa has two balconies; a large, furnished balcony that can be accessed from the living area or the master bedroom and a small "step-out" balcony that can be accessed from the 2nd bedroom.

The Royal Caribbean has all the amenities you'd expect to find at a luxury resort: 24-hour front desk, huge swimming pool with swim-up bar, exercise room (fee), beauty shop (the Spa is located at the Royal Sands resort), gift shop, laundry room, guest service/business center, small children's playground, sports/activity desk (snorkel gear, golf clubs, tennis racquets, bicycles, beach towels, etc.), car rental office, travel office, lobby bar, and convenience store. There are two computers (fee) in the convenience store and there is free wireless access in the lobby. The Royal Yacht Club (off-site) offers complimentary sailing lessons and free use (one hour per day) of sail boats. Unlike other time share resorts, maid service is provided daily (except Sunday); however housekeepers do not clean the kitchens. "Spring-breakers" are discouraged from staying at the Royal Caribbean and are put on notice that un-acceptable behavior will not be tolerated (one guest in each villa must be at least 25 years of age). The resort staff appeared to be enforcing the posted rule regarding the saving of un-attended lounge chairs around the pool.

The on-site restaurant, Tradewinds, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The "Tradewinds Express" offers chicken, ribs, sandwiches, salads, etc. to go and provides free delivery. Pizza is also available from Bartolo's. There are additional restaurants at the neighboring Royal resorts (Royal Mayan and Royal Islander), as well as at the Royal Sands. Free, inter-resort shuttle service (except Saturday) allows you to enjoy the facilities at all five Royal resorts in Cancun. The shuttle also stops at Captain's Cove restaurant (accross the street) and Hacienda Sisal restaurant (at the Royal Sands). Meals at the above restaurants can be billed to your resort account. We dined once at the Tradewinds and had chicken and pizza delivered on another occasion; both experiences being a little disappointing (greasy French fries, dried out chicken and one of the worst pizzas I've ever had). We also dined at Captain's Cove. Everyone in our group enjoyed our seafood, although it was a little expensive. The day after we arrived, we took the 65 cent bus ride into town and bought a week's worth of groceries at the Wal-Mart Super Center (there is also a Sam's Club next door), returning to the resort by taxi ($14). Food at Wal-Mart was about 1/3 the cost of the resort's convenience store.

Although the strong winds that prevailed throughout the week rendered the ocean unsafe for most people, the beach was beautiful none the less. The resort has dozens of palapas with lounge chairs and there was a beach life guard on duty.

Service at all levels (housekeeping, wait-staff and front desk) was excellent and the resort was well-maintained. Despite my disappointment with the food quality, I would definitely return to the Royal Caribbean.

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After the hussel and bussel of Cancun Airport and the heart stopping ride to the resort it was like stepping through the looking glass into a world of tranquility filled with friendly, happy people. the staff were on parr with any five star resort anywhere in the world and were amoung the friendliest I have ever come across.

The rooms were spotless and nicely decorated with a superb view of the pool and ocean. The food was Really good! The margarittas were the best ever and the fun never stopped. I never really wanted to leave the resort and the times I did I couldn't wait to get back. The beach was a bit of a disappointement, it was very small and quite rocky this time but that was understandable considering the hurricane.

This was my second trip to Cancun and I must say, I know I will be back as I bought a time share with Royal Resorts this time and we will enjoy it for the next 30 years.

We traded one of our timeshare weeks to stay at the Royal Caribbean. We had a fabulous time there. The room was clean and the staff couldn't do enough to help you. They bent over backwards for us. The shopping is great too. The mall is just a short bus ride away. It only costs 65 pesos. Everywhere we ate the food was great. On the property and off the property. It was truly exceptional. We didn't rent a car, we stayed on the property. There was plenty to do. All in all it was a wonderful trip and we would love to come back here again.