Came here for a solo work-from-hotel week last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had some trepidation about coming solo to a couplesy place but it wasn't awkward at all, no trouble getting chairs set up by the beach or pool for just me, no problem eating at the local restaurants solo, and everyone was super friendly.
Rate was $279.20/night for 5 nights for a basic room. I used a confirmed globalist suite upgrade and was offered the choice of either a family suite with bunk beds or an executive suite; I took the latter.
Awkward moment when I pulled in, the valet attendant motioned for me to pull forward and then walked away. I got out of my car and said "Checking in?" and he said, "oh, I thought you were food delivery." (???) Guess I look like I drive Uber Eats. Whatever. They took the bags and I checked in.
Check in agent explained everything covid-related. Housekeeping can be either every 4 days, or twice a day, up to you. Gym is open 5a-9p with attendants to monitor distancing & a sign in sheet. No valet, so park for free in the lot across the street by the tennis court. (I used the gym, it wasn't busy.) Restaurants didn't look too appealing, seemed like standard overpriced resort food but there are ample local options within short distance. (Try tacos at Lola, Dutch snacks at Cafe 080, and slightly higher end food at reasonable prices at Bingo.)
Regency Club is the small space behind Ruinas del Mar. Instead of breakfast in there, I got breakfast off the menu at the restaurant each morning, or the buffet, but I went with menu. (Try the local Papaya or Madam Jeanette hot sauces--amazing on eggs!) There were still snacks and drinks each evening 5-7pm, but the snacks were just carrot/celery sticks with ranch and two rotating hot items (some like "meatballs" were unsavory mystery meat, but the curry potato empanadas and the coconut shrimp were actually tasty). No problem to get 4 or 5 of the local Chill beers w/ lime. (They are tiny 7 ounce beers.) Club staff were awesome, provided great tips for snorkeling and local stuff.
Jerry, the tennis pro, was fabulous. I was the only one signed up for the free clinic on Tuesday and Thursday, so those became de facto private lessons and I took another on Friday.
Room itself was fine -- 466, in the smaller tower. There was a bit of noise being located above the hot tub and water slide (as in, too loud to do a conference call a couple times, without turning on the air on high to provide white noise). But overall it was clean and fresh and housekeeping was great and the suite provided some much needed extra room for a 5 night stay.
No problem checking out at 4pm.
Adults only pool is great. Beach has outstanding sand. Sign-up system for palapas seems fair to me, just grab a free one at 4pm the day before, and then you can move up if another better one is open when you actually show up the next day.
Will almost certainly return.
