MrsAyon2010

Tropicante is ok, but certainly not a resort. It's a small beach with chairs etc and can be very crowded. It's in a section with lots of other beach areas. It was too crowded and small for my taste. The bathroom, while clean, was third world. It's ok, but not great.

Nit-picking about 'clean but third world-like bathrooms,' yeah that is why the world hates us Americans. SMH.

I'm not in ANY way trying to tell you not to go here. I just want you to know what's there and what the water is like. If you're expecting crystal blue clear water, like you usually do in the Caribbean, it's just not really the same and there is a lot of seagrass.

Well I'm def disappointed but I sure appreciate you taking the time to post these and explain. Your pics of the Seagrass is how it was on my other costa maya stop. I think the beach was north of the port. These website pics looked so much better than the other place I went so I guess it's the lesser evil but still. I may have to rethink that stop but it does sound like a nice place to hang out. Decisions decisions.

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Since this is your first post, I'm unsure if you are just new, this is spam, or you are truly interested in this place, but I will respond...

 

Where do you get that there isn't any seaweed (seagrass) there? We went to the malecon several months ago, which is where this is located at, and there were seagrass everywhere. You could walk WAY out in the water and still be standing in ankle deep water on top of seagrass. They had canoes where we were at and they couldn't even be used because the water wasn't deep enough and there were mounds of sand everywhere in the water. (I have to admit, it was amusing watching people try though).

Yeah I'm just new on the forum. There are lots of pictures on the Tropicante website in front of their beach bar that the shallow is light blue instead of that dark blue spotty kind of water you see where there's lots of seaweed or rocks under the water. One of the other cruises I went on to costa maya we booked a shore excursion site unseen and there was lots of seaweed under the water there and in person and on camera you could clearly see a difference in the water from that vs water like on seven mile in GC or the pics on the restaurant site that is light.

Tropicante

Where: In the middle of the Malecon, Tropicante is a restaurant owned by American Steve Uhl that also offers beach chairs and services to its customers. Cruise passengers can reserve shade chairs or sun loungers with umbrellas in advance. He says that he’s promoting an atmosphere somewhere “between Senor Frog’s and Chuck E. Cheese.”

Cost: No cost for the chairs, or minimums. Menu items range from chips and salsa ($3) to a shrimp dinner ($14). Local beers are $3.

Size: 40 loungers, with more seating in the restaurant

What’s included: Wi-Fi, concierge services (the team will bring hair braiders or temporary tattoo artists to your chair, for example, although those services themselves will cost extra).

What’s not: Massages ($20/30 minutes, $30/60 minutes), snorkeling ($25/70 minutes), banana boat ($15/30 minutes), fishing ($50-$75/hr, depending on type), stand-up paddle boarding ($20/30 minutes, $30/60 minutes), discovery SCUBA ($85).

I hate beaches where the swimmable ocean is covered in seaweed & places that try to cheat you, so I'm definitely hitting the Tropicante on our trip. SO EXCITED thanks to you!