This new hotel is in a great location, within walking distance to 5th Street, the beaches, and the local community. A+ for location! There is also a beautiful and expansive supermarket right under the hotel to get whatever culinary needs you require. We were upgraded to a balcony room as Bonvoy Titanium,.The price point of the Aloft was also a value, and it is a good bargain in using Marriott Bonvoy points. Javier that checked us in was lovely and gracious, and all staff were pleasant and professional. Aloft is an unusual hotel--one that wants to be a wanna-be hip W Hotel and also a Fairfield Inn for Gen Z'ers. It didn't do either very well, unfortunately. The staff wanted to do well, and perhaps there are still newly opened growing pains that will be worked out. Housekeeping was promised daily, but on 3 out of the 5 days we had to call Housekeeping after returning from the day;'s activities to service the room (which they did right away when called) but this was a big fail. The purified water dispenser in the nice gym was often empty. And generally the upkeep of the hotel is not or was not a priority. It's nice and new and ”hip looking” but metal surfaces and walls by the pool on the 4th floor are rusting already, and little bits of trash on the hallway carpeting remained for the 5 days which showed they didn't vacuum the common areas as often as should be. Room A/C and common area A./C were great! 4th floor pool has city and sea views in the distance and we could often see Cozumel and the cruise ships anchored there in the far distance on most days. I wanted the stay to be great, but it was good.
Absolutely shocking, do not stay here! The experience from start to finish WILL be a bad one. Avoid like the plague. Let’s start at the beginning…. There were two people in front of me checking in when we arrived, it took the two staff just over 30 minutes to book these customers in. The staff (Raul and Cecilia) appeared to struggle to use the IT system and could not manage to work the card machine either. They held me at the desk 20 minutes before giving up and requesting I came back later to pay….. this was no speedy process either. They also ran a seemingly archaic paper system alongside the IT setup, just to slow things down a little further. There were no towels in the room, we rang reception and asked for some - only to be told that they had ran out. We had to ***** one of the beds and use the bed sheets to dry ourselves after washing. Very late on that night we managed to get hold of a couple of towels and when we got up in the morning to shower there was no water. Now I travel plenty and understand that there can be issues with water feeds, this is exactly what the staff blamed it on. Well, until I went to the restaurant opposite and found out that they actually had water. The breakfast was appalling. I wouldn’t feed it to a pig, in fact I’m not sure that a pig would eat it. Plenty of shell in the scrambled egg though, if that’s your thing……? A small tanker came and left, the hotel then had water. I’m not sure how long it will last, only time will tell. (Edit - it ran out again the same evening). I was lucky enough to rinse the soap from my burning skin, I have attached a picture- you can see the water is selected at full flow and also the minimal volume of water coming out of the shower head. The staff appeared to be anything but bothered about all of the issues and unfortunately couldn’t care less about putting things right. On the plus side the location is ok(ish) and the room was clean…. This clean room could be fully enjoyed upon managing to open the door. The key card system seems to have a bit of an issue. You can get the lift moving after swiping your card a small number of times, getting into our room though was a different story and always took around 20 to 30 swipes. I forgot to mention the pool, sat in the shade and very dirty. Nothing like the pictures we saw. This is not a review from a disgruntled customer, I am not that person. 2 nights of shocking accomodation will not spoil my fairly lengthy trip. I would stay here again, if it were $20 a night. £320 for two nights in this place - absolute robbery! There are some outstanding Air b n b’s around here for far less dollar and in a totally different league to this hole also, do yourself a favour and book one of those instead.
I took my extended family to Playa del Carmen for a fun week. I booked 4 separate 2 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms suites at Anah Suites but were given 3 suites at Anah Downtown and 1 suite at Anah La Playa across the street. They were overbooked and our concierge, Daniel Jimenez, tried to accommodate us by offering to move us to the La Quinta by Anah on 5th Avenue & 40th, but we realized that the current location was actually the best since it was close to everything. Daniel was really accommodating and the staffs were really nice! The suites were offered at a good price for the money, however, it is close to a busy street. I let the rest of my family stay at the suites at Anah Downtown and we stayed in the suite at La Playa across the street. Our room was clean but one of the toilet wasn't flushing in 1 bathroom and the shower barely worked in the other bathroom. This was annoying at first, but wasn't a big deal since we spent most of our time outdoors doing activities. Be warned that nearby streets are constantly busy (noise all day and all night) and for our trip, the other guests were coming home at 3:00AM in the morning and making a lot of noise. Playa del Carmen is very close to Xcaret, Xplor, Xel-ha, Tulum and a lot of cenotes that were really fun to swim in. We will definitely do this again soon.