Incredible! HYATT ZIVA CANCUN, Full Tour + Review!

I can feel it Well, we are landing in Cancun guys, and we will be giving you a full review of the amazing Hyatt Ziva resort But first obviously to get to your resort You have to navigate through the airport many online guides as well as the transfer company I used warned of so-called Pirates in the airport that hassle you and try to sell your stuff or even pretend to be your tour operator and take your money To be honest, I didn't encounter any of that. Maybe I look too unapproachable We used a company called USA transfers to get from the airport to the hotel This video is not sponsored by them, but some people may wonder if the company they're using is legitimate So for your information USA transfers service is good and costs 80 US dollars or so Return from the airport to the hotel zone about half what the hotel quoted me upon arriving at the hotel This is what you are greeted with baby credit show from number one Literally made a run for it and try to jump straight in the pool, but I don't blame her This resort is pretty incredible It has ten dining venues seven bars and lounges three infinity pools and a private beach as well as unlimited food and drink But first, let's take a look at the room. We booked a garden view room with two queen beds It costs 25 higher points per night So that's 50,000 for two nights and then we booked another night with money for about 490 US dollars in the room. You'll find a large TV some quite interesting artworks and ornaments There's this little bench for hanging out on the usual phone and alarm clock There's a ceiling fan a desk you can use for your laptop But the best thing is the doors open out onto this view. I asked the bellboy. Isn't this a sea view room? But this is apparently what is listed as a garden view on their website since there is a garden before you get to the sea The bathroom is classy, but lacks a bathtub There was one defect in the bathroom that I'll talk about later in the video now to the pools and the beach I feel your heart beat lead me straight to you It's strange The first area we checked out was one of the two private beaches the water is Incredibly clear and you can see little fish swimming all over the place This is the beach with the lighthouse, which is one of the iconic features of this hotel Next we checked out the main pool by our side of the hotel. This pool actually has a swim-up bar There are bar stools under the water. I really love this feature for kids They have this mini water park adults aren't allowed on the slides. By the way, I got in trouble for this shot Then for an extra charge you can also swim with dolphins in a pool right next to the kids water park Back on the beach. You can borrow kayaks and paddle boards I didn't do this because we had two kids to take care of but they do have this big white mountain thing that I was Curious about the whole trip. So on our last day I decided to climb it There were a couple of amateurs struggling to get on at the bottom But fun fact credit Shifu is a qualified rock climbing instructor So it was a piece of cake even with one hand while I filmed very wobbly though. I'm on the top of the big white See down there see One two three When we came back to the beach on our second day We were treated to a surprise and we came back from outside to discover that Wow They have done this wonderful romantic Gesture on the beds. We said it's our anniversary. You should always say it's some kind of Event when you're staying in a hotel and it actually is our anniversary. We didn't just lie about that It is our anniversary later in the month So we said it's we're here for our anniversary and look what they did this wonderful beautiful romantic rose petals Isn't that nice? Now let's have a look at the restaurants the first night we ate at the buffet called El Mercado a great selection I particularly like the grilled steak and lamb. We had breakfast at Tradewinds, which is a bit more of an upmarket feel We discovered baby credit Shifu number two likes some weird foods. What are you? What are you eating onions? How are they? Are they good? Do you love it? Yeah, you love it, right? Oh you dropped it on the floor On the second night we had dinner at Moongate an Asian themed restaurant where they have tieban Shao or hibachi grill It's pretty impressive with massive flames and chefs that chop up the food right in front of you But if you've had tieban Shao in Asia, I've had it in Taiwan and Japan. You won't find this authentic at all I actually just ordered some pretty plain beef cooked in a wok and it was really tasty because the meat was good quality For lunch we ate at the taco place right on the beach. This was one of my favorites Then for snacks every day, we would swing by pasteles. It's a candy shop with sweets cakes and a chocolate fountain I would get my cappuccino at Casa del cafe right next door The coffee is really good, but they show fake news on the TV, even though it's all inclusive I do recommend tipping we withdrew 80 US dollars from the ATM in the hotel using the Charles Schwab debit card The ATM charges a $12 fee but the Schwab card refunds those fees so it's a real must-have for overseas withdrawals we then took the US dollars to Reception and they converted them into pesos for us to use for tipping and buying stuff at the market It's nice to have lots of 20 peso bills to give out as tips I would often give 20 at the coffee shop and leave 40 on the table after a meal If the staff saw me tip they would always put their hand on their heart to thank me On our second day, we went out to a local market within walking distance of the hotel This is a rather intense experience. Every store wants to use high-pressure sales techniques to get you to buy stuff We're good, thank you and all the prices are over inflated So you absolutely have to haggle start at half the price. They originally quote We're finished, thank you They might haggle you back up a bit But I wouldn't recommend going above 65% of the listed price for the item hidden amongst vile tat You can find some actual nice stuff with cultural value to get Let's see Looks good. Yeah, pretty cool Yeah, I love it. But if you are easily convinced to buy things I would suggest you limit your time here other than this market the surrounding area doesn't have much to offer Do you really want to come all the way to Mexico only to eat at Hard Rock Cafe or Hooters? You can do that at home if that's your thing Now let's conclude this review there were only a few things I didn't like about this hotel So the only thing about this room that really sucked was that listen to this Can you hear that the toilet is kind of making a sort of kind of noise and Literally, it does this all the time like the I think the system is Leaking water into the bowl, right? So it's automatically filling up a little bit Literally all the time. So the other night when I was sleeping I was hearing this noise I hate annoying noises when I'm trying to sleep and I had to do something about it And yeah, look you can kind of see I don't know if you can really see that but it's actually Constantly just pumping water and what happens though if you pull this it stops so Yeah, I was thinking about what I could do, right? I mean you could ask you could go and talk to reception about it I'm sure they offer to give you a new room I mean that or they'd send a plumber, but that's probably not likely They're not like you're gonna be able to fix it within a short period of time So they probably just offer you a new room now. I can't be bothered to change rooms Look, look how much stuff is already like all over this place I mean for us to like already clear, you know, clear up the room and go and leave I don't think that's gonna happen. So what I did I devised this little hack where I use this and I'm just gonna put it. I need two hands to do it. Okay, I'm gonna do it and then we'll cut Okay, there we go. It's done. So basically I just fix it by putting that In the system to force this thing to stay up So, yeah, that was any bad thing about the hire but really it's a tiny tiny Thing and I am totally sure that if you went to reception and ask them about it They would probably let you change rooms. So it's really not a big deal It's just that I would fix it myself do something like this rather than go through the hassle of actually having to change rooms But other than that, it is actually a very nice bathroom. Then there was one other thing Yeah, so this is a wonderful Paradise Beach. Have a look over there You can see the lighthouse and everything very very beautiful and I think about this place is so the Sun sets Like over the land so it doesn't set over the food. It sets like behind some buildings over there We won't show it. It's gonna be really bright over there, but we're coming up to sunset now So you don't really get that nice sunset like you do in the Cayman Islands because that face is West Whereas this face is East so you get the sunrise Which is what we saw with the drone shots, but you have to get up at like 6 a.m. To see it From that point of view, it's not like great, but the beach does look beautiful in the sunset. So just check it out This meant I had to get up at about 6 a.m. To get these beautiful shots It was worth it, but I'm definitely more of a sunset guy than a sunriser The beach does look beautiful at sunset, but you don't get to see the sunset over the sea In total this hotel was amazing not as high-class as the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman My most recent trip to the Caribbean before this one But it was a lot of fun The fact that it's all-inclusive means you can order whatever you want without having any thought of how badly your wallet will be hit Or if your credit card will be maxed out If you come with kids, you'll meet a lot of other families who are up for hanging out all round It's an amazing vacation atmosphere. The staff are very friendly and speak English to a reasonable level I did speak some Spanish while I was there But actually I wish I had brushed up on my Spanish a bit more before I went Some of the waiters were very happy to hear me speak a few words and really encouraged me to practice my Spanish with them And I wish I could have taken it beyond the basics. So I would thoroughly recommend this resort It's a great use of your Hyatt points If you got the Hyatt credit card from Chase the signup bonus will put you at almost two nights here I would recommend three nights though In total using points and a little bit of cash for the hotel and a business-class flight from New York I got a $4,000 vacation for about $1,000 guys If you're interested in getting these amazing experiences for free or at a huge discount Why not check out our selection of travel and hotel credit cards from our partners in the links below? I'll leave you with a few more shots of this incredible hotel