http://www.tripreviews.com/ TripReviews - be in the know before you go! Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:59 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/images/tripreviews_logo_white.gif http://www.tripreviews.com http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:41:39 -0800 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/423037 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:38:47 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/422759 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:48:26 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/422747 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:43:40 -0800 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/422416 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:12:38 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/422255 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Tue, 31 May 2011 15:46:01 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/422030 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Tue, 03 May 2011 10:48:18 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/421924 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco
I can't say enough good things about the Huatulco area . Beautiful beaches, great diving and snorkeling and perfect hot weather- a truly tropical experience.

The Dreams Resort itself is in a perfect location on the beach and has enough (perhaps just enough) palapas for the number of guests at the hotel. In my three visits in the last three years (once when it was Gala) I have never once not found a palapa on the beach. The hotel is a bit more serious this year about enforcing the rule of losing your palapa after 30 minutes of leaving it, but this is a good thing for late risers like me.

The rooms at Dreams are fantastic. Flat screen tv, dvd, minifridge, etc etc and I would rate them as highly as a luxury Canadian hotel, such as the Whistler Westin.

The only problem with this hotel is the food is not at a 4 or 5 star level, but saying that they have made significant improvements over the last year. The food in the buffet last year was really bad, except for breakfast. This year that food is actually very good. There still isn't as much variety as you will find at other five stars, but I was perfectly happy with the buffet food this time. The Japanese restaurant was just ok and the Italian restaurant was pretty bad. Flavourless, undercooked ravioli.

As for night life, the hotel has a central bar in the reception area which catches the breeze and is often very busy. Nobody goes to the disco. Just down the street is the Tipsy Blowfish which can find any pro sports game you want to watch and has a good variety of cold beer.]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:17:31 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/421172 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:31:59 -0700 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/421164 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco
I often like to try somewhere different but this is one place where I will definitely go back to!!

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The rooms have been renovated and are complete nice comfy beds, flat screen TV's, mini bars that are restocked daily, huge walk-in shower (no tub), duel sinks and nice ocean views (if you upgrade). There is nightly turn down service as well.

I didn't use it, but the Spa looked amazing! The gym was not too bad, some free weights, tread mill, bikes, etc. They have a daily spinning class as well at 5pm. There is also a hair and nails salon next to the spa and gym.

The restaurants where all pretty good. The ocean side buffet during the day doubles as an a la carte restaurant some nights with nice ocean side dining. The Spanish restaurant was good as well was the Japanese (surprisingly). The decor of the Japanese restaurant was the nicest of all of them, very modern and open air with a beautiful bar. The Italian restaurant was the most formal of them. If I had to give this hotel one bad knock though, it would be the buffet. I stayed RIU's before and their buffets were better.

The beach and ocean here are fantastic! The water is surprisingly clear for the Pacific coast and there are a ton of fish right off the hotels beach. The snorkeling was great, I even saw a huge sting ray. You can feed the fish right on the beach, tons of them at your feet in just a couple feet of water.
The sand is nice and golden and the waves are calm because of the bay. We took out kayaks and went around the whole bay, some of the house over looking it are pretty amazing. There is also sailing and jet skis.

Dreams Huatulco is great for couples and families. Singles would probably find it too quite as there is not much in terms of nightlife. Definitely a great resort that I would recommend!]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:11:03 -0800 http://www.tripreviews.com/review/420699 http://www.tripreviews.com/hotels/Mexico/huatulco/dreams-huatulco There is a lack of entertainment, which didn't matter to us as we do a fair amount of traveling and you can only see so many shows in the resorts.
All was wonderful, we will defiantly be returning......
Thanks to Victor and Santiago, we will miss your wonderful service at the bar.Until we return...
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