Crown Paradise Club: Background
The Crown Paradise Club Resort & Spa is 9 miles from the airport, on the quieter south end of Cancun's giant Hotel Zone. The Crown Paradise brand also has the family-friendly Crown Paradise Club Puerta Vallarta, and two adults-only resorts.
This is a busy resort, with a large seven-story main building; you won't find extensive landscaped grounds, but you will find fun zones including waterpark (within the kids' club area), multiple pools, and minigolf.
"All-inclusive" option includes the typical features families expect from an AI: meals, snacks, drinks, multiple restaurants; daily activities such as pool games, tennis clinic, biking, aerobics, etc.; nightly entertainment; "non-motorized" watersports such as sailing, windsurfing, kayaking; kids' club.
And a few extras, too: Baby Club (see below); kids' waterpark; and unlimited golf at Cancun Golf Club at Pol-ta-Pok.* (Greens fees are complimentary; golf cart rental is mandatory.)
This resort also has "adults-only" Crown Club rooms with extra perks, and an adults-only pool.
Crown Paradise Club, for Families
Features that families will like include:
- Mini Club for ages 4 to 12
- Baby Club, for ages 18 months to 3 years
- Teen area, with activities and water slides, for ages 13 to 17
- 24-hour room service
- "family-of-five" friendly: three kids under 12 can share parents' room
- kids' water park with Pirate ship and 8 water slides
- games room has pool tables, air hockey, Nintendo Wii
- the Crown Paradise Club doesn't allow "spring breakers"
Keep in mind about the Crown Paradise Club
- guests comment that rooms could use updating*
- waves can be rough
- water park is in the kids club area, which means parents can't hang out while watching the kids play
- some people like boisterous pool-games; some not
- look for promotions offering "complimentary golf lessons" (for adults, and for kids)
Find out more about the Crown Paradise Club
This brief profile is meant to introduce this resort to family vacationers; please note that the writer has not visited in person.
*Always check resort sites for updates! Golf dates may be restricted.
*photo courtesy of VacationKids.
