I love this place! The people are so nice, and the food is great! Pretty nice rooms, the bathrooms could use some work. They have newly renovated suites which are really nice, and the view is nice from EVERY room. Beautiful view of the beach, and close to a lot of nice shops. Right across the street (not a busy street) from a bike rental shop and the cyclopista (bike path). Right near a nice golf course too, and the hotel next door has a program where you can swim with dolphins. Near casinos and clubs. Has cool events every night at nine, including auctions and a mini-casino (Children are allowed to attend) Really nice loacation, as well as amenities. Also, really cute guys. :)
Visit the Park Royal Villas and become a member, if you can. Really great place!

You will be diving into Timeshare Shark infested waters. Park Royal is notorious for kidnapping tourists under the guise of free meals, etc and whisking them away to strong arm sell a timeshare. Well if you stay here - you are there. They will hound you during the whole stay to buy a timeshare. They are seated outside the elevator, at the hotel entrance, around the hotel, in the lobby just waiting to pounce on you time after time to buy a timeshare.

It creates unnecessary stress for you your holiday vacation.

The hotel is nice, the food is good, the ocean is fun.

But who needs to be constantly pressured to buy a timeshare?

I talked with Park Royal timeshare owners there and they said the timeshare management is a mess. You cannot reach anyone on the phone. When you do pay your annual fee, they keep hounding you during the year to pay it - yes, their record keeping is that bad.

I would avoid Park Royal properties like the plague.

Royal Villas are located on the property of the Barcelo Hotel. Beautiful property right on the beach front. The villas were air conditioned, hot running shower and a nice view of the Pacific Ocean. Our villa was facing the mountain side but had a balcony facing the ocean.

This was our honeymoon get away yet had the 2 full size bed.

Downside: beds were bit stiff, tv was in ok shape, and we did not have all inclusive.

Barcelo had 2 restaurants, a club and three pools,

Been to the Villas twice, and its recent renovation makes a huge difference. I'm from San Francisco, so I'm used to good food - and the food here has gotten loads better since my first trip 2 years ago. The rooms are very luxurious and the service is very attentive.

For us, it was a great home base from which to get to the great beaches and explore Ixtapa/Acapulco/Guerrero, We saw some slightly fancier places, but were more than twice the price. We thought this was a great value.

Anyways, compare them to the others on TripAdvisor before you take my word for it.