Ohhh ladies, I hate to throw in bad news, but FI and I stayed at Playa Los Arcos in March of 06 and had a TERRIBLE time.
Yes it was affordable, but our room was the size of a king bed plus a foot on each side. Joe had to duck to get into the shower. And the shower was probably 2 feet by 2 feet, when using the toiled you had to sit sideways otherwise my knees hit the sink.
The first time I showered I had to talk myself into it. I went in and got out as quick as possible. Then Joe goes in. He comes out with a smirk on his face and goes "I can't believe you didn't freak out about that huge cockroach in the shower" me "what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The next night I woke up to use the rest room and walked the 3 feet to the bathroom and flipped on the light. 3, yes literally 3, cockroaches went scurrying across the floor in each direction. I FLIPPED out. These f*ers were huge. How could you possibly go back to sleep after seeing these ugly things scurrying around? I couldn't.
Also, the ONE bar closes at 10pm. That's great considering we thought we were at an AI. Also, the AI service SUCKED. Since some of the guests were a la carte and some were AI, the AI guests got treated as if they didn't exist.
I wish I had taken pictures of how horrible the room was......... I could go on and on about how much we hated this place.
There are so many places in PV. Please consider staying somewhere else.