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26. November 2023
We booked at the Las Casitas Village at El Conquistador Resort to take advantage of the closer proximity to the tours we were doing and we wanted somewhere with two bedroom rooms. I wasn't aware of all the sites they had available, casitas was the option we found at the time we booked. It is further away from most restaurants and the spa and water park. The resort is a massive place. We checked in at the main lobby, but we could have checked in at the Manor house. They sent a “butler” on a golf cart to show us to our room and then around the resort. Our casita had a long patio and it looked out at the ocean, unobstructed. We could dry swim gear on the patio each night. There was a full kitchen, a dining table, a living room space, two bathrooms and two bedrooms. The non-master room has sliding doors with slates so you could not completely black out the morning sun. Some pools were only for guests of the casitas, including one they said was open 24hrs. The grounds are beautiful. They have a sprawling golf course, a cable car down the cliff to a marina, a private island, and many pools. They have a water park with three slides, a lazy river and shallow pool. The slides were for those 48’’ and taller - they appear to be strict about this. On the first day we were there my son could go on all three slides and each measured him. The next day he was not allowed. They brought someone in special to measure after some protest, she put a stick on his head to their measuring line. They agreed the stick was on the line - and for that reason he was too short (because the stick was on-top of his head so the stick being on the line wasnt enough as it rested on his head …). It is an advertised rule of 48’’, it wasnt a surprise rule, but it was a surprise situation to have “just made it” one day and just missed it the next. Most of the pool areas in the water park, including where the slides land are well below 48’’. They would give you towels at the water park and on the private island so you didnt need to bring those along. There was beach towels in the casitas if you needed them for areas that didn't provide them. While the resort has many very pretty pools, if you want to go to the beach you need to take the ferry over to Palomino Island. The island and the ferry are part of the hotel. Because we were in the casitas, our butler just reserved some ferry times (outgoing) each day. We were able to make it out one day - the island has a restaurant and a well groomed sandy area as well as a un-groomed area. We saw hermit crabs and chickens. We didnt find the iguanas, but heard there was some. We didn’t snorkel, but there was an area to do that. They had lots of restaurants and bars, but overall all five of us found more we didnt like than we did like at the restaurants (we tried Brisas, Ballyhoo, Market @ La Marina, Oasis Bar and Grill, Palomino Bar and Grill). Maybe because of the size of the resort, it was hard to find staff that knew what
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