Mac2012

Hello, Congratulationss on your wedding.

I am actually planning on having my reception at the Crown Paradise Club.

I am very curious how the private reception area looks like. Do you happen to have any photos of your reception?

And how were the menu options for the reception? Was the food good?

Your feedback is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
 

Originally Posted by vacationsrthebest 

My review of Crown Paradise Club Cancun with 35 guests:

 

Hotel- 7; The hotel was clean but some of the rooms needed to be updated. We had some guests with updated rooms that were really nice and others with cracked floor tiles etc. We received a free upgrade to the Crown Club room with a hot tub and mini bar in our room and had been somewhat updated in tile etc. Our room was on an adults only floor in building 2 which was nice. The hotel is close to the airport and easy location to get on the bus and head to nearby shopping etc.

 

Food- Buffet & Snack Bars 6, Restaurants 8; The buffet food was average. They change up the food served at different meal times but from day to day many of the same items were there. The restaurant food was good....only problem is you had to make reservations and could only do it a day ahead of time, so you had to plan ahead and keep hitting redial or walk to the concierge desk and stand in line. Our 35 guests also thought the same as us for the food. The room service was really good and only took about 30 min to get to your room.

 

Bars/nightlife- 7; The bars were average for a hotel with families. There was a pub style bar that we went to the most and that was fun. It's also connected to a dance club which had a great DJ and hosted our after party for guests that wanted to dance more after our reception. If you tip $1 every other drink or $5 to start with your bartender takes care of you with strong drinks all night long. There is also a nightly show in the theater but I thought that was more for the young kids or the 50+ ages.

 

Pools- 8; There were 2 family pools, 1 kids pool and 1 adult pool. We only went to the family and the adult pool. The adult pool was great and had it's own bar and was on the non-ocean side which was less windy and stayed sunny later into the day.

 

Wedding Coordinator- 9; Evelyn was really easy to work with via email before the wedding and usually got back to me within 24 hrs of my email. She was running around a lot the day of the wedding so she wasn't easily found.

 

Ceremony & 4 hr Private Reception with a DJ 10; the value of the ceremony and quality of it was great!! We were very impressed with all that we got for free and choose to upgrade to a private dinner reception which was totally worth the $30 per person fee. We also got a wedding cake for all of our guests and that was only an extra $40, well worth it. We pd extra for the flower wedding arch and that turned out great too! The DJ was pretty good and all our guests danced the 2 hrs we had him for.

 

Flowers- 10; I used the florist that the resort used and they were beautiful! Like I mentioned above we paid extra for a flower arch at the ceremony and it was HUGE and well worth the $150. The BM flowers were only $20 each and GM flowers were $6 each. The Bridal bouquet and Grooms flower was free with the pkg we qualified for because of our guest count per night.

 

Photographer- 10; We used Ivan Luckie (he is mentioned on this forum) He was awesome and well worth every penny!! We were charged a resort fee of $150 to use a non-resort photographer but that is cheap compared to some resorts that charge $500. Below is a pic from one of our guests as I don't have the pics from Ivan yet.

 

Make-up & Hair- 10; I used Norma Perez with MAC cosmetics in Cancun (she is mentioned in this forum). She brought a hairstylist and they were both awesome and not expensive. I paid $200 for my hair and make-up and the BM's were $50 for hair and $50 for make-up.....well worth the money! The resort did NOT charge me a fee to bring either one to the resort.

 

 

Overall my vacation, wedding and honeymoon was a 10 because of all the many friends and family with us and the awesome excursions we did!!! It was well worth the money and the budget we had to work with for ourselves and our guests. We wanted to stay around $1,000 a person for 7 days with airfare at an all inclusive and Crown Paradise met that. I probably wont stay there again unless they make upgrades to the food and hotel rooms.

 

Hi Norma83,

Yes, you're more than welcome to come around and take a look. 

and make sure you say hello. hehe ;- p

 

Originally Posted by Norma83 

Hi Mac2012 -

 

How exciting to have booked your wedding date!  Your wedding is actually 3 days before ours   We're also getting married at the Chapel and having our reception at the Albatros Terrace Roof Top!  Maybe we'll catch a glimpse of your wedding

 

Enjoy your planning!!

 

-Norma
 

 

Hi KernsWR,

Unfortunately we are spending alot more if we stay at a different resort. We didn't get a package because their packages have things that we really

don't care to have. Instead we chose the "A LA CARTE" it's $60pp but we extended it for one more hour which was $25more pp. so now it's $85pp. I know ridiculous right?

But i'm not planning on spending on flowers, centre pieces or other certain details because to be honest it actually already looks really nice the way they set it up. When we were there

in November this resort had like 3 weddings going at the same time every single day. So they are really good at what they do.

Don't stress to much about the resort. I'm sure you will have a great time.

Mayra.

Originally Posted by KernsWR 

Hey Ladies, 

 

After all of my research on the best production designer regarding our wedding invitations (I was so frustrated I even thought of making them myself but I don't have the time or creativity to do so), I want you all to know I am currently working with "Concepts and technology". They are based out of the Philippines, but you will find the Philippine peso to US dollar exchange rate is pretty good when ordering invitations. I am having an 8-page passport invitation with mini boarding passes as our RSVP. If you want to contact me about how the layout looks, just PM me and I will email them to you. We just approved the final draft so they will be sending me a sample for a full approval so I know what type of materials they use. I found them through another bride who's passport invitation I liked. The material is not cardstock either. They foil-stamp the cover and it feels like an actual passport! I can't wait for the sample and the finished product. Here is their website:

 

http://conceptstechnology.multiply.com/

 

As for Mac2012, how much will the wedding be if you and your guests are not staying in GCR? I wish we had visited other resorts as well but we just visited GCR and The Royal. Hopefully I won't be disappointed for my wedding. I fell in love with chapel so that was the main reason I chose GCR. Unfortunately when I did my research, they were like top 15 in Trip Advisor and were fairly cheap compared to other resorts.. but now they're ranked as 23 and prices are getting higher! *sigh* Trying not to stress over it and that I hope I don't regret my decision in choosing this resort. 

Hello Ladies,

We have booked our wedding at the Gran Caribe Real. We are so excited. 

It will be on May 2, 2012.

The Ceremony is at the "Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel" at 5pm.

And Reception at the "Albatros" Roof Top Terrace(Green floor) at 6pm-10pm

My WC is Katia Nunez and she has been very good so far. She has been replying back to all me email so far.

We have decided to stay at a different resort with all our guests. My Fiance and I did a site visit for one week to "The Gran Caribe Real" last November 2011, and we didn't really like it at all. We felt that their amenities weren't as good, their main pool was tiny, And there weren't many restaurants to choose from. We are travelling with approximately 45-50 guests and this is very important to us as we are staying for a whole 7 days. Instead we chose "The Great Parnassus" which we also did a site visit in "November 2011" as wel.

The hotel is very nice with a little bit of everything for everyone's needs.

It has a childrens pool with pirateship and slides, an adult pool on one of the top floors, and the main pool which is alot bigger.

It has several restaurants and bars to choose from and a creperie. All the rooms are also very spacious. 

As you can see it has alot more to offer compared to the "GCR"

But let me tell you that the Chapel is absolutely stunning at the GCR. I fell in love with it!!!

Their Terraces are also very beautiful. I chose the "Albatros Terrace"(green floor one) because the scenery is absolutely

breathtaking when you're up there. Previous reviews have said that it can get pretty windy in the evening but that really doesn't matter

to me. We will be partying, dancing and drinking the night away that i'm sure it won't be an issue.

I Hope this little review has helped out any of our future GCR Brides 2012. I will be posting more as the date gets closer. I just pray that everthing goes smooth on our wedding day. = )

Happy Planning!!!!

Thank you everyone. Does anyone by chance have any information on this resort?

 

 

Hi Norma,

 

Were also getting married in May 2012. and started planning it early aswell.

the earlier the better!!! LOL

Don't know the exact date yet but probably mid May.

we are planning a trip to Gran Caribe in mid November to check out

the hotel and find out the details.

I will definately let you know how it goes.

 

 

Hi my name is Mayra and were planning on getting married at the "Gran Caribe Real" in May 2012.

Not exactly sure the date yet, but I am super excited but nervous at the same time. So much planning to do!!!

 

Any negative or positive feedback would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.