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Originally Posted by tropigal
I need some advice from people who have been to both resorts...
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Been to both....enjoyed them both for different reasons....and unless you're spending the extra $$$ for a Casita Suite (NOT that their other rooms aren't fine, which they are at the EDR, quite so!) I'd stay at the Riu Palace....Of course I think we had the BEST room available at the Palace without haveing to go for a corner located jacuzzi suite for BIG $$...
The Riu Palace has very nice rooms, great location with shops and stores across the street at the Plaza Playacar (including TelMex and Ladatel phones which we need to use for our AT&T phone card - but you can buy phone cards in Mexico but it IS difficult at the EDR)...and at the Riu Palace it is a $4 USD taxi ride to 5th Avenue...the EDR is quite far from Playa Del Carmen, is situated by itself (which is nice hence NO AI wristbands at the EDR)...there are several nice restaurants at the EDR and you can get a decent stretch of beach by yourselves there...the beach at the Palace is shared to some degree with the other Riu's nearby, but we NEVER had a problem with that, in fact we liked the people watching at the Palace...
You can get to many photos of these two resorts from our stay at both resorts by clicking on our "View Our Mexico Photos" link...
Either place you'll enjoy. (But I'd stay closer to PDC if it were me...)