I was nervous to go to Mexico with my kids.I’ve never felt more secure and safe at riu yucatan, which is a 3 min walk to the beach! Everyone is on point here. Hard working, welcoming, friendly, amazing cooks and food lots of options. In fact we ate the buffet almost everyday it was so good. Beach is beautiful and groomed Qmorning, rooms cleaned restocked when you want. There were monkeys close up and coatis (they look like mix of a cat raccoon lemur tail, and agoutis (they look like a giant guinea pig/rat) it was fun seeing them all!! You can see these walking towards the beach through the mini jungle. Kids loved them. Age 14,11.The grounds were beautiful with flowers, clean pools. even though it was spring break it was still great with the kids. and for littles! The fun events the employees put on at the pools workout, dances, pool volley, beach volley, a neon party on Fridays and a foam pool party on another day. we didn’t wanna go out and explore because it was so nice. we did do a 4 hour fishing trip, and a cenotes trip. Always book through the hotel that way the employees can get commission because they work extremely hard at all of their jobs there.
(That’s my take^) You don’t have to have dinner reservations first come first serve. There’s 24 hr snackbar. Fun shows at night, Michael Jackson, karaoke, live bands,singers, dancers and access to all rius 6 min walk to gaited community mini shopping mall. Put towels out early 630-7am.Riu Yucatan exceeded my expectations!
