Crown Paradise Club All Inclusive

Awful. This resort a fair few good reviews before we booked back in January so it seemed alright but a week or so before we left on the trip, it all started sounding not great. We get there, even worse. The food at the buffet is barely edible (even by all-inclusive standards). The tables and chairs are dirty and old. The service is barely existent. The reservation site/qr code was impossible to use unless you’ve done it before and there are very few spots available (probably unless you’re in the adults only side who seem to get preferential treatment with that). The management needs to address this as it is a big frustration and piss-off, quite frankly, as someone paying for their food to be included and feeling like we need to go off resort to eat remotely decent food. We were only able to get our room cleaned one day out of the 7 we were there, and they never replenished the cold drinks (and obviously I’m mainly concerned about the drinking water). They absolutely cater more to the locals than they do the travelers. So, to be honest, I did like the locals do and didn’t tip much because it wasn’t even good anyways. The drinks were mediocre at best. The main pool was decent but overrun by rude children (I was there with my young children so I’m obviously not being overly judgy with that one). The kids pool is dangerous for the parents to go down the slides with the kids. I quite literally flew into the railing on the one slide when I tried to go down the adjacent side to my 3yr old daughter. The water is murky in that pool too. We checked in at about 7-7:30ish the first night and on our last day I asked about a late checkout being that we didn’t leave until nearly 6pm and was planning on leaving for the airport at about 3pm. Well they said we could if we paid an additional $50 USD per person. Hard pass. An absolute joke to end our awful experience. The take away: we’re not hard travelers to keep happy but this resort repeatedly disappoints in all areas.