The Rey del Caribe is a real gem and a boon to travellers wanting to spend one or more nights in Cancun Centro (downtown). The rooms are very good value with a small kitchen where you could cook if you wanted to - I doubt many people do! They're a good size, clean and comfortable.

The price includes breakfast which is served in the central courtyard area, a delightful green space well planted with trees and bushes. There's a small pool with loungers and two hammocks. The staff are polite and helpful but unobtrusive.

It's best to pay cash as they make a 4% surcharge for credit card payments.

The location is good, close to the bus station and local buses. But it's definitely NOT a beach hotel - it's a bus or taxi ride to get to the beaches.

Would definitely stay there again if passing through Cancun.

WARNING: DO NOT GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS TO REY CARIBE'S ONLINE RESERVATION PAGE.

I sent an email to Rey Caribe enquiring about vacancies and did not receive a response. So I bit the bullet and booked online at Rey Caribe's reservation page. Rey Caribe require credit card details for the booking. The reservation page promised to respond within 24 hours to confirm reservation. After a couple of days, I emailed Rey Caribe to advise them that since I did not receive a response, I will take it that there were no rooms available (at this stage I was thinking how rude and that I will be writting to all the travel guides to whinge).

Lo and behold, a month after I return from Cancun, I receive my Mastercard statement showing that Rey Caribe have charged my Mastercard! I am now fuming at thier obvious scam.

This is a great little hotel in the City Center away from the sprawl and opulence of the hotel zone. Great service and smiling faces. Yummy breakfast; cozy simple rooms and of course the awesome garden and pool. Lots to do if you are interested in real Mexico vs hotel hideaways.

We stayed at this hotel for 3 nights after a week on Isla Mujeres.
While we wished we had planned to stay longer on Isla, we were pleased with this property and enjoyed exploring in downtown Cancun. The hotel property is beautiful and the room was quiet and very clean. A few tiny ants on the wall were the only bugs I saw, and to be honest, I expected to see more crawly things in this tropical climate than I saw my whole trip. The employees at the hotel were reserved, but friendly enough and helpful if we had questions. If you are looking for a trip to the beach, this is not the place unless you are willing to take a bus or taxi, which we did one day and it was tolerable. One word of caution.....the closest Mercado to this hotel is Mercado 23. It is scary, dirty, nasty, smelly, etc.! This was the worst experience of my whole 10 days in Mexico. Other Mercados in the city might be better, but don't let yourself be caught in this one. Overall, I've seen all I care to see of Cancun, but WILL be back next year for more time on Isla Mujeres....my kind of place!