Pros: Great Pools, Beach, Weather, Buffets,Casino
Cons: No coffee makers, Noisy birds, Expensive, No Pepsi
Recommended: Yes

If you want to spend your vacation laying on the beach or floating down a long river pool, then this hotel is for you. I purposely chose this resort because it boasted the worlds longest river pool. I wasn't disappointed. My only surprise was the beach was so inviting it was hard to choose between them.

You start at one small pool, and slide down to the next, soak a while and then slide down to the next. Your next slide puts you at the swim up bar where you can have a drink or just grab your tube and drift slowly down the winding river, under bridges, past the jacuzzi until you end your journey into the final huge pool. There you might take a turn down the more serious three story water slide.

Once you're bored with the river pool, you can spend the rest of your day on a spectacular beach and watch the kids splash and play on the incoming waves. Thanks to what I assume is a natural reef, the waves are just perfect for all ages.

The other joy in our trip was the daily breakfast buffets and themed dinner buffets. This is something common to many Hyatt Resorts and something that keeps me coming back. The meal prices aren't bad for what your choices are. I wish I could say the same for the room prices. Hyatt's are unfortunately make you pay for all the trimmings.

If you're looking for Spa treatments or world class golf you'll find that here also. There's no reason to leave although you might enjoy a trip to the rain forest or a visit to Old San Juan. We went into one of the local towns for groceries one day but I wouldn't recommend it.

I enjoyed the atmosphere at the Cerromar because it was very family oriented. Even though it was just the two of us, I still feel more comfortable in this kind of environment. If you want a quieter time, the Hyatt has a sister hotel a shuttle bus ride away called the Dorado. You can stay at the Dorado and still come use the river pool at the Cerramar.

There were a few things which weren't perfect but might not keep us away.

There's a type of black bird that lives on the grounds despite all the efforts of the Hyatt corporation. It's a pretty bird but wakes up early and makes quite a racket.

Not all rooms didn't had coffee makers. Apparently, when they built the hotel, there was only so much electricity to go around. They decided to that hair dryers were more important in the morning than coffee makers. If they'd asked I would have told them, Cindi does much better with bad hair and her coffee then good hair and no coffee.

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