This was the most wonderful place ever for our honeymoon!!! We actually are already making plans to go back. Everything from the room, service, food, beach, everything was top notch. We honestly could not have asked for a better place for our honeymoon. Words do not even express how much we love this place. The maid staff took special care to our room with an unlimited amount of water and we even got cute towel figurines on our bed!! Everywhere we went we were waited on hand & foot. Our waiters at each restaurant were very attentive and the food was out of this world. Honestly you do not need to look anywhere else for the perfect quiet, relaxing, fun, & pampered place for a vacation. There were also nightly shows that were fantastic!!! We both HIGHLY recommend this hotel.

P.S. Bring water shoes as there are some rocks on the ocean floor.

After reading some of the "picky" comments I thought I'd finally put my review on.
We Stayed at the EDSS in sept 07 for our honeymoon, this place is heaven!!!!
What can I say the staff, the food, the drinks the rooms, the whole place is fantastic I can't believe what people are moaning at.
You are treat like royalty eaverything is done for you just sit back and relax.
If anyone has any questions please get in touch. We loved it so much we're going back this year for our 1st anniversary.

We booked our honeymoon through First Choice and the only part of our amazing holiday I would have a grumble about was the flight - The legroom was not at all what we where expecting, there was not much room so I would highly recommend either booking extra leg room or upgrading to the premium although in fairness Premium didn’t look that much better. For non frequent flyers I would suggest bringing anything and everything that would make you journey more comfortable, I wish we had bought our blow up pillow as these are not supplied and we both purchased a travel pack on board which I believe cost around £10 mainly for the blanket as I was freezing throughout the whole flight.
We arrived at the hotel after a long journey and where given a cold flannel and glass of sparkling wine – we arrived at around 5pm and our room was ready - 3615 – beautiful, massive, clean and the view over the pool was very welcome. As we where exhausted we unpacked and ordered some room service which came in about 10 minutes and was lovely I had a ceasor salad and a fruit plate and my husband had a BLT and fries, we where both pleased although I have to say I think the fruit plate could have been fresher as it did seem a little dry. We awoke the next morning at about 4am and so excited to see our hotel grounds we dressed and went walkabout – the whole hotel is very nicely lit and it was a lovely stroll although it was pitch black – we sat on a beach bed and listened to the waves – we did see a few people putting towels on beds but to be honest it was what we expected.
We had breakfast delivered for the first few days of our honeymoon as we didn’t think it could get much better – how wrong we where??? All the food is amazing and for an all inclusive hotel 5* or not you do expect to have a few dodgy experiences but I have to say apart from the Mexican which was very nice but VERY HOT HOT HOT we enjoyed all of the restaurants favoring the international, the grill and the Asian – Fantastic. The drinks where a plenty and all premium spirits, so many cocktails and shots you don’t know where to begin but I defiantly had a good go – I personally favored the daiquiris EXCEPTIONAL! All the staff are so friendly and we never passed one member without a friendly word.
We loved the pool beds as my husband is very fair skinned and burns easily and as some of the pool beds are under cover it fitted us fine. I have to say I was so surprised about the shade they offer - I have never seen another hotel like it, don’t get me wrong you could sun worship all day which I did many day but you can also find a beautiful spot with shade just as easily. The entertainment staff are great although we didn’t really go for that kind of holiday I can appreciate the effort they put into there work and whenever we saw them they where so friendly especially Marco (great fun) but if we didn’t want to join they would happily leave you to yourself not pushing you to join in like some hotels.
We had a wonderful massage on the beach and went on a few of the day trips – I would like to say I found the Premium dolphin experience a complete waste of money and really quite upsetting it feels like its all about Money as all you do is pose, pose, pose for pictures to purchase at the end but don’t really have much play time with the beautiful creatures.
We went to Xel-Ha I say to everyone to go as its such a fun day – lots of walking but so much to do but as other have said you need the whole day so don’t do a half day trip.
All in all we will defiantly return which is really not my usual thing but it was such a special place and since we don’t have any children as yet we want to fit as many of these holidays in we can. Go you 100% won’t regret it.

Excellent hotel. There were things i didn't like however you need to look at the bigger picture, there are no kids, its quiet, there are only 250 rooms and the food is not buffet. This alone makes it ideal to me.

Compare this to the other larger hotels, Barcelo for example has around 2000 rooms. If you want quietness Barcelo type resorts aren't the place to be.

Many people complain on here about the fact that you are crammed in etc, the beach is pretty tight on space however we never failed to get a sunlounger/shade/towells which are problems reccuring for other people. In fact even arriving at the beach at 11.30am there were still plenty.

Generally some people are sad anyway, who stays in the hotel for 2 weeks anyway? Hire a car and go out.