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Tamara H

Great spot- you get what you pay for

Reviewed Apr 25, 2023
If you want an affordable beach vacation with 5 star beaches and 5 star staff and better than average accommodations and food, then you will enjoy yourself. If you are looking for a luxury vacation with top of the line beddings/food etc, this is not it. Cuba as a whole and the resort is suffering tremendously. Food is scarce and what is available is going to the resorts. They had a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the island in 2017. The county depends on tourism and received no foreign currency during covid to help rebuild. The lack of foreign cash and inflation is making it difficult for them to import food etc as well. A number of villas and resorts down the beach were not open. I am not sure if this is a result of repairs required or low demand. The benefit was I was not having to wait in in long lines and rushing to the beach at 5am to reserve lounge chairs. While I missed the party time atmosphere a bit, the quieter and relaxed environment was a unique treat. Their cell network at the resorts is 3G. As such, I brought down some perfectly functional older cellphones (with chargers) that are worthless here and used them as gifts. Also, Canadians, leave your loonies and toonies at home!! Go to the bank and withdraw some $1 dollar USD bills for tipping. Cubans will accept but can not use coins. As a result, they have to try and find people who will exchange the coins to bills. Please make some effort and save them this aggravation.
Date of stay: April 2023
Room Tip: The hotel website says there are bus shuttles. These are only available through the travel...
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Jose Yustas, Director General at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this review
Responded May 3, 2023
¡Muchas gracias por su comentario!

Desde Memories Santa Maria estamos encantados que hayan disfrutado de su estancia con nosotros. Nuestro personal es lo que realmente hace que marquemos la diferencia y que seamos especiales.

Atentamente, La Dirección.

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Reviewed April 19, 2023 via mobile

Amazing beach. Beautiful gardens. Nice pools. The animation team was very kind and fun ! I like the fact that there was animated area and more peacefull one. Perfect balance ! The staff was very polite and attentive. I was there with my mom for one week and it was a wonderful trip !

Date of stay: March 2023
Trip type: Travelled with family
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Jose Yustas, Director General at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this reviewResponded April 22, 2023
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¡Muchas gracias por su comentario!

Desde Memories Paraíso estamos encantados que hayan disfrutado de su estancia con nosotros. Nuestro personal es lo que realmente hace que marquemos la diferencia y que seamos especiales.

Atentamente, La Dirección.

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Reviewed April 17, 2023

When going to Cuba, be open minded & lower your expectations!!
Go for the beach ( it is glorious & divine) & drinks. It was our second time in Cuba in 2 months & my girlfriend decide to try Memories Paraiso Resort.
In general the resort is ok..

Positive points: close to market ( 5min walk), nice pools with good entertainement , most of the things are at a walking distance , rooms are nice but lower your expectations!!
( our room didn't have a phone , no air conditioning until the middle of our week, card deactavated twice, stain on the sheet & shower curtain. patio door didn't lock.)
Most of the staff is friendly & kind!! specialy Junior (at the front desk!) & thomas
( bartender at the pool & beach) they wer our favorite! Great service from both! ( the resort need more employees like them)

Negative points: information is never clear, the buffet ...... the buffet... lol well it is what it is.. cold food... sometime hard to tell what it is and hard to tell if it's cook or not.
Verry salty & oily food
You will eat better at the grill at the pool & beach. Breakfast wise, you can have eggs after a 15min waiting time in the lineup. if you are lucky , maybe you can find pancakes. beacon is nevers cook but you can ask the cook at the egg station to cook it more!
like i said earlier , you need to lower your expectation so you won't be disapointed.
On our final day , some employees wer on a scaffold painting the lobby at 4pm on a saturday while everyone was waiting for their transfer at the airport! lobby was full and they wer asking us to move with our lugguage so they can paint overhead!! . I know that they have a job to do, but painting a lobby when it's full of peoples ....Really!!

Diamond Club is needed if you want to have a better service for the rooms ( early check in & late check out, water, beer, soft drinks in the fridge, but expect that , it's not worth it. Diamond club section on the beach is more crowded than the regular section.
and the special section at the buffet is not different from the regular one.

In general we had a nice week but would not consider going back to that resort.

Room tip: Bring snacks .. HDMI cable & phone adaptor to watch movies on tv Bug spray Peanut butter or Nutella for breakfast lol
Date of stay: April 2023
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Jose Yustas, Director General at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this reviewResponded April 18, 2023
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¡Estimado Cliente!
Gracias por haber dedicado tiempo en dejarnos saber sus impresiones, lamentamos enormemente que no hayamos estado a la altura de sus expectativas, vamos a revisar sus comentarios y vamos a trabajar para revertirlo. Esperamos que nos den otra oportunidad y nos informen a su llegada para hacer de su estancia algo inolvidable.
Atentamente, La Dirección.

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Reviewed April 17, 2023

Our vacations in Memories were super excellent, a great experience, lots of fun with their entertainment guys, the service of their workers was great, very attentive, without a doubt, we will return to Cuba and to Memories.

Date of stay: April 2023
Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Jose Yustas, Director General at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this reviewResponded April 18, 2023
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¡Muchas gracias por su comentario!
Desde Memories Paraíso estamos encantados que hayan disfrutado de su estancia con nosotros. Nuestro personal es lo que realmente hace que marquemos la diferencia y que seamos especiales. Atentamente, La Dirección.

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Reviewed April 16, 2023

the rooms need alot of tlc like working fridges and safes.the workers are still top notch and the reason me and my wife keep coming back from Alonso,Chino and Viktor at the lobby bar to Dabe cleaning the pool all treated us like part of the family.this side was very queit and laid back. the buffet got a little repetative pretty well only chicken no milk at breakfast last 2 days but i understand there are problems in cuba but we need some sort of variety.Lastly i would like to give a big shout out to new manager Fernando who made sure we had all the little problems fixed he is without a doubt the most engaging member of management i've met in ten times here . hopefully sunwing can fix some of the issues with the rooms.

Date of stay: April 2023
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Jose Yustas, Director General at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this reviewResponded April 18, 2023
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¡Muchas gracias por su comentario!
Desde Memories Paraíso estamos encantados que hayan disfrutado de su estancia con nosotros. Nuestro personal es lo que realmente hace que marquemos la diferencia y que seamos especiales. Atentamente, La Dirección.

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Reviewed April 14, 2023

The rooms were spotless, all staff was very helpful and friendly. The amenities were all clean and readily available for use. The night entertainment was great, Carlos was really helpful and an amazing member of the staff, he definitely deserves a raise! Overall I’d recommend this resort to anyone looking for a nice peaceful, relaxing getaway

Date of stay: March 2023
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Jose Yustas, Dueño at Memories Paraiso Beach Resort, responded to this reviewResponded April 16, 2023
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Muchas gracias por su comentario!
Desde Memories Paraiso estamos encantados de que hayan disfrutado de su estancia con nosotros, esperamos verles pronto de vuelta para disfrutar de nuestro personal y nuestras amenidades!!
Atentamente, La Direccion.

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