At the heart of a sprawling resort village, this enormous complex offers some of the cheapest prices on the north coast. It's a bit shabby and totally lacking in personality, but hey, it's on the beach. The rooms are clean and the buffet restaurant has decent variety, but the ambiance of the ‘specialty’ restaurants is undermined by sub-par food.
There's a variety of levels of membership-like benefits and regardless of your class, from elite to hoi polloi, all share a beautiful half-moon bay and white-sand beach. Because so many guests say yes to the somewhat annoying time-share rental pitch in exchange for access to the ‘VIP’ half of the resort – basically roped-off portions of the beach filled with Miami-style day beds instead of beach chairs – the non-VIP parts are less crowded.