$186 Cheap flight deals from Detroit (DTT) to Tulum (CZM)

Nice small hotel. Great pools. Beautiful area. Pretty decent food. Very nice staff. The infrastructure in room was a bit disgusting, especially the wooden floor in the shower. I had a jacuzzi in room but it was boarded and locked… They had no idea what the vip perks were. Even after 4 explanations, I got nothing. Not a meal discount, not a late check out. Absolutely nothing. There was a dude there with his friend who fancied himself a great singer. So he would play songs loudly by the pool, and suddenly break out into LOUD song himself. I took it with humor but then he had an argument with his friend at 3 am, right outside my thin glass door. After a half an hour I had to tell him to keep it down. Didn’t sleep until ten am that night/day. I would have picked the 5-10 plastic bottles and buckets off the beach, and dug a small path through the sargasso, especially on the couple of days there was none in the water. The moon and stars over sea were gorgeous.

Pros: We stayed in one of the beachfront bungalows and had our own private beach access, lounge chairs, even hammocks. THUMP THUMP THUMP My spouse is AFAB non-binary, post-chest surgery and was able to lie in the sun without a top -- something hard to do in a lot of beach spaces. The room looked nice and the bed was comfortable; toilet was separate from sinks and shower, which always helps with 2 people. THUMP THUMP THUMP Cons: The hotel next door plays really loud music from mid-afternoon until midnight or 2am, depending on the night. It's not Maya's fault, but the sound carries over the beach. We chose to go to Tulum because we heard it was quieter than Cancun, but this is unfortunately in the party district. THUMP THUMP THUMP I was able to tune out the music with ear plugs, but this meant that there was no falling asleep to the sound of the waves. My spouse had a harder time with it and had to take sleep aids because the THUMP THUMP THUMP was driving them insane. The lighting in the room is very ambient and relaxing at night, but there is almost no light by the bathroom mirror. THUMP THUMP THUMP If you want to put on makeup or shave, leave the room and find one of the random mirrors gracing the grounds around the hotel. At night, forget it. The restaurant turned us away at 5pm when they close at 6, told us to come back at 8. When we got food at 9 it was cold and underwhelming. If the THUMP THUMP THUMP in this review drives you nuts, look for a different hotel.

The property is beautiful. We especially loved the pool and the cabana beds that overlook the gulf. Rooms are great, gym does the job, we had an excellent treatment at the spa. Great staff in the spa. We also love our boy Elesio! He made every breakfast so fun. The food though was honestly really bad. Breakfast was tolerable. But the thought of eating another meal there our last night literally made me nauseous so we ordered Domino's. And it was amazing lol. Other bummer part was that the reception/management staff was standoffish at best, rude at worst. I'm sure they deal with a lot of characters, but we just felt hostility from them and it cast a shadow on the whole trip. We made the most of it, but I would never return to this resort.