Barceló Maya Beach - All Inclusive

The Barcelo Maya is a great all inclusive resort with surprisingly great buffets. It is ideal for families and couples alike. The service staff are incredibly kind and attentive. The restaurants are about on par for all inclusive style restaurants. The Lindo stood out and the other booking choices were fun with great experiences. The hours for the buffets could use an evaluation, it would be nice to keep them open for longer hours to all the families that did not choose premier option. The rooms were a bit outdated but the A/C worked and housekeeping was attentive and very detailed. The pools were clean for the most part. There is volleyball in and out of the pool that you can rent balls for at the hut by the beach that you get towels at. Also, the gift shop in this hut has better prices.They could use 1 to 2 more staff at the swim up bars during peak times in the afternoon and evenings. We found that just quickly getting out of the pool and going to the walk up bartender in front of the buffet lodges, was much faster. The shows are fun throughout the week, Michael Jackson and Karaoke night were very entertaining. The mall and merchant booths are fun at night after dinners. The merchants are willing to negotiate and they have nice keepsakes and typical tourist type gifts and clothing. The wave ride, mini golf and bowling are fun options. During the day mini golf is free and bowling is BOGO, so a good time to go. There is also food and bar that is 24 hr in the blowing alley.

I really enjoyed the proximity to the beach. The services of cleaning the room was top notch. The food could use a little upgrade, but was good.

Extremely disappointed in this place. The check in was a nightmare the receptionist was rude from the second I walked up, she was not trained correctly because had no idea about anything when it came to the resort. They have these nice restaurants that you have to make reservations for I asked if the food at those restaurants were included in the all inclusive she said no that it was extra, so we just made one reservation on our last night there to one of them out of 4, well when we get to our reservation we find out that it is included, meaning we could have tried all of them, because trust me the buffet food that we thought we only included was not all that great. Our room was Uhg the ac didn’t work, the hair dryer sparked and basically killed all the plugs in the room including tv, and fridge then I’m told they can’t change my room till 3 pm the next day so there goes our first day at this place, when they finally change us the entrance door needed like 3 people to push this thing open it was so hard to open and close but atleast the ac worked. At check in I was charged more than what ******* said, which I did not make a big deal about until this girl calls me at 930 pm to tell me that I still owe a very low amount like why would you call so late for that amount I found that so unprofessional. The market tries to up charge everything. The place won’t let you use outside transportation because they want you to pay their expensive prices.

Was a very nice resort with friendly staff and clean facilities. A good amount of choice on things to do. Buffet food was marginal, but restaurants were good.

This was our second time going at the same time of year. It was a great trip and a super place to go with your family. Kids will love it along with the adults.

Charged extra for kids despite putting their ages in on the ******* booking platform