Victor, David and the rest of the front desk staff were
always friendly and helpful with suggestions on places to eat, things to do and
making sure taxis were always available to take us to our early morning excursion
meeting points.
The rooms were clean.
But they are too small for a rollaway bed. When you have parents and two teenage boys,
one boy will probably be sleeping on the floor by choice. They did provide us with extra blankets and
sheets and comforters for the floor but while rough, it never convinced the
boys to share the bed. It would have
been great if the hotel had a small cot or something, especially if you brought
Grandma along.
The breakfast was your basic free Hampton Inn breakfast:
make your own waffle, toast, cereal, and fruit but they did include a couple of
hot plates with potatoes and eggs.
The Hampton Inn is in a new shopping area called La Roca. The
hotel is so new (three months old) most taxi drivers didn’t know where it
was. However, they all knew where La
Roca was. The shopping area has a brand
new movie theater with first run movies (we watched Wonder Woman for 70 pesos =
$4), good inexpensive restaurants from pizza to Mexican to Sushi to a TGI
Fridays, and a Suprema grocery store and Sam’s Club all within a block of each
other.
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| View of La Roca from hotel |
The only drawback of the Hampton Inn is that it is nowhere near beach
or water access. If your dreams of Cancun are spending your days laying on a
beach all day drinking Pina Coladas, this is not for you. But if you want a
clean friendly hotel with free breakfast surrounded by good inexpensive food as
a base for your excursions, I recommend the Hampton Inn.
The way we planned it was to stay here at the beginning of
our trip and do our major excursions to Xcaret and Chichen Itza then move on to
a beach hotel to drink those Pina Coladas.
Note: At the time of this review the Hampton Inn is the only
Hilton property in Cancun. It opened in
April. So if you have a free weekend night certificate through the Hilton
credit cards or points to use, you now have a place to stay in Cancun.
