Best Beach in Playacar?

snowdog · 05-19-2002

Hi all,

I want to take my wife back to Playacar for a 3-4 night trip. We've been to Allegro (back when it was Diamond Resort) and Reef Club on Cozumel. Allegro's beach was good, Reef club's wasn't that great at all. My wife really loves the beach and I'd like to find an AI in Playacar with a really fantastic beach, i.e. soft white sand, not a lot of rocks, clean, etc.

Any recommendations?

TIA

DaniP · 05-19-2002

Snowdog-
I think you found the best of the beach in Playacar already! My husband and I stayed at Allegro and we loved the beach. I was surprised one morning when I got up to see the sunrise. They have a hotel employee walk up and down the beach cleaning up whatever was washed in during the night at about 5:30 a.m. You'll wake up to nothing but perfect white sand in the morning! He also did cleanup in front of the Royal Hideaway, which is also an Allegro Resort. We walked the beach to Playa Del Carmen one night and the sand got a lot rougher up the beach. Good luck!

snowdog · 05-20-2002

Thanks for the reply, DaniP!

cewles · 05-30-2002

We were just in Playa in April and the beach in front of the Allegro resort is quite erroded and the beach chairs seemed to be quite cramed together because of this. If you chose an AI further down the beach (south) from the Allegro you will find better beach and much more spacious. Check out the Rius, Royal Hideaway, Iberostar...these have much nicer beach property than the Allegro in my opinion (and I am a beach fanatic). As for rocky shoreline etc there just isn't any on the Playacar beach.

TNTIII · 06-24-2002

We just returned from Allegro Playacar, and found the beach to be fantastic. The sand is soft and clean, both on the beach and in the water. We swam out quite far from the shore and the sand was just the same under our feet there as it was on the beach. No rocks, no coral. We also walked up and down the beach (almost all the way into town one day) and found the beach at Allegro to be just about the best. Only advice if you are going to sit on the beach all day, is to get to the beach early in the morning and place your towels on the chairs you would like, then they will be yours for the entire day. But even when we didn't get to the beach until afternoon, we always found three lounge chairs together, but just not under a palapa. The beach at Allegro is probably the best we've ever enjoyed and we've been to quite a few in the Carribbean, Bermuda, Mexico and Florida (not to mention the beautiful beaches of our home area New England). So, go back to Allegro and enjoy!

annrawa · 10-03-2002

Where is the Alegero in terms of the Royal Gala?
Ann

leenga · 10-03-2002

We stayed at the Riu Yucatan in Jan 2001. We thought the beach was very nice. When we walked up and down the beach we noticed that ours was the best around, way better than the Iberostar's next door to it.

10-03-2002	#7 (permalink)
leenga toe in water Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Outside of Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 40	Riu Yucatan We stayed at the Riu Yucatan in Jan 2001. We thought the beach was very nice. When we walked up and down the beach we noticed that ours was the best around, way better than the Iberostar's next door to it.

05-19-2002	#1 (permalink)
snowdog sandflea Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 2	Hi all, I want to take my wife back to Playacar for a 3-4 night trip. We've been to Allegro (back when it was Diamond Resort) and Reef Club on Cozumel. Allegro's beach was good, Reef club's wasn't that great at all. My wife really loves the beach and I'd like to find an AI in Playacar with a really fantastic beach, i.e. soft white sand, not a lot of rocks, clean, etc. Any recommendations? TIA

05-19-2002	#2 (permalink)
DaniP lost on fifth Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 13	Snowdog- I think you found the best of the beach in Playacar already! My husband and I stayed at Allegro and we loved the beach. I was surprised one morning when I got up to see the sunrise. They have a hotel employee walk up and down the beach cleaning up whatever was washed in during the night at about 5:30 a.m. You'll wake up to nothing but perfect white sand in the morning! He also did cleanup in front of the Royal Hideaway, which is also an Allegro Resort. We walked the beach to Playa Del Carmen one night and the sand got a lot rougher up the beach. Good luck!

05-20-2002	#3 (permalink)
snowdog sandflea Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 2	Thanks for the reply, DaniP!

05-30-2002	#4 (permalink)
cewles toe in water Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 57	We were just in Playa in April and the beach in front of the Allegro resort is quite erroded and the beach chairs seemed to be quite cramed together because of this. If you chose an AI further down the beach (south) from the Allegro you will find better beach and much more spacious. Check out the Rius, Royal Hideaway, Iberostar...these have much nicer beach property than the Allegro in my opinion (and I am a beach fanatic). As for rocky shoreline etc there just isn't any on the Playacar beach.

06-24-2002	#5 (permalink)
TNTIII very sparkly Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: No. Providence, RI Posts: 31	We just returned from Allegro Playacar, and found the beach to be fantastic. The sand is soft and clean, both on the beach and in the water. We swam out quite far from the shore and the sand was just the same under our feet there as it was on the beach. No rocks, no coral. We also walked up and down the beach (almost all the way into town one day) and found the beach at Allegro to be just about the best. Only advice if you are going to sit on the beach all day, is to get to the beach early in the morning and place your towels on the chairs you would like, then they will be yours for the entire day. But even when we didn't get to the beach until afternoon, we always found three lounge chairs together, but just not under a palapa. The beach at Allegro is probably the best we've ever enjoyed and we've been to quite a few in the Carribbean, Bermuda, Mexico and Florida (not to mention the beautiful beaches of our home area New England). So, go back to Allegro and enjoy!

10-03-2002	#6 (permalink)
annrawa beachaholic Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Michigan Posts: 356	Where is the Alegero in terms of the Royal Gala? Ann

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