This was my first trip to Cancun, and my first all-inclusive experience. Myself and two of my girlfriends (all in our mid 20's) spent three days at the GR Solaris in April. The hotel is beautiful and it's in a great location. Right on the beach, two nice pools, a swim-up bar. An important note: in order to get a beach chair by one of the pools, you have to put a towel out by about 7:30am. This is what we did the first day there, but the second and third day we decided to spend the day at the beach. This was great! You can get to the beach at whatever time of day you want to and there is always room. The lifeguards put up big beach umbrellas, you're right on the ocean, it's a one minute walk up the stairs to get cocktails and food (also a waitress comes around to take drink orders.) The beach is great! The beach is also more independent then the pool areas. In other words, at the pool areas there is always music playing and the entertainment staff are constantly doing activities where they try to include the guests (i.e. water aerobics, water volleyball etc...). At the beach, you do your own thing.
What I didn't like about the resort was the food: You have about six different restaurants to choose from and the food was terrible at all the restaurants. Yuck! Don't go for the food.
There were a lot of families. So if you are single and in your 20's, don't expect a party atmosphere. I had no problem with all the kids, but just know that there's not a huge night scene. You can do night excursions to different clubs in the area, but it costs extra and if you've been drinking most of the day, you're probably going to be too tired. However, as three "taken ladies" we didn't mind the lack of night activities because we were getting away to see each other, catch up, and relax on the beach. And this is exactly what we did.
Finally, if you're just planning on staying at the hotel, three days is plenty of time. Plenty! Three days of laying on the beach, drinking and spending time with my girlfriends was perfect. I think if I had spent much more time there, I would have started to get bored.
Overall, great experience: clean, big room with private balcony, facing the ocean. Gorgeous! But don't go for the food. It was awful!!!

We were at the GR Solaris from April 1-8 2008. We had a great time the resort was very clean and welcoming. We had two children 5 and 8 with us and they had a great time as well. The 8 yo loved the kids club. Beaches were nice and sandy compared to others with large rocks. Very nice pools and room, food like the rest of comments was soso...good breakfest though. Overall would recommed to all families.

We just got back from the GR Solaris on Friday night. The hotel was very nice and clean. The rooms were big and roomy. Loved the large walk in tile shower. The beds were hard, but still comfortable. We did not see any entertainment at night, so cannot comment on that.
The downside:
the non carpeted hallways made it so that you can really hear people talking when they walked by.
the food was plentiful, but NOT high quality by any means. Some items were very good, others not.
did not like the fact that reservations were required for the nice restaurant and pants required. One of our party had to go and buy pants so that he could go in there.
as long as you call your alcohol, the drinks were good, otherwise they use cheap liquor in the drinks.
the beach was small and the ocean very rough
the lounge chair issue out by the pool was ridiculous. I had to go down at 7:45 am to put towels on our chairs to reserve them. then I came back 20 mins later and someone had put their PERSONAL ITEMS on our chairs. I was shocked.
then they came up with a rule that no chairs can be "reserved"xat the adult only pool.
the bathroom floor by the pool bar was so slippery and not cleaned up on a regular basis.

I would not stay at this hotel again, but I like variety and would probably go for a more UPSCALE hotel. We are all adults over 50 and did not have children with us. For the price, this was a GOOD place to stay.

We stayed here april 3rd thru the 10th. Overall we had a very enjoyable time. The service, food, and staff were pretty good. There were also a couple of negative issues which I'll address below.

Several of the negatives, I'm sure, can be blamed on the timing of our trip. The palce was packed to the roof with high school age and younger kids. It was kind of like being trapped in a week long school recess. Of course with all those kids, this meant that the pools were always crowded and it was tough to get a decent lounge chair. The most annoying thing was the rooms, though in every other way they were very nice, they seemed to have been built with absolutely no soundproofing. You could hear almost everything being said in the adjoining rooms, even when the people were speaking in normal tones. Which kind of made you feel like you had to whisper or turn the TV on, just to keep the neighbors from overhearing your own conversations. Worse yet was that the noise from the hallways could get extremely loud at times. So, If you're a light sleeper, expect to be awakened several times a night.

The timeshare folks were a little persistent at first, but be firm with them and they eventually get the message. We did talk to one couple who listened to the pitch. They said the price started at $40k and dropped to around $28k during the next hour and a half of haggling. So if you don't want to spend that much money for a timeshare. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your vacation time listening to them, tell them no right away.


Although it is older, I do like their their other property the "Royal Solaris" a better.