Melia Cayo Coco Hotel Review - The Grounds & Swimming Pool

So I've talked about the cold flight, the warm welcome and the beautiful room, so what about the rest of it?

The Melia Cayo Coco Hotel Grounds

Well what can I say? The grounds and gardens of the Melia Cayo Coco Hotel are absolutely stunning. We didn't get a lot of time to have a look around before the sun went down. But we did have a walk up to the beach (will I'll talk about in a bit). The walk way up to it was amazing at dusk. You'll find yourself carefully walking up to the beach as some of the decking is a bit wobberly - but nothing major. At the end of the walkway is the watersports hut where you can get free scuba trips.

All the walk ways are beautifully lit up at night so you can't fall into the lagoon. And when you've had a night on the all-inclusive cocktails you'll need as much help as you can get! Trust me! As you walk back after swimming in the sea or the pool you'll find yourself stopping off to have a look at the fantastic flowers and the occassional lizard - they're quite cute really.

The gardeners and teams that the Melia Cayo Coco employ are terrific. They're all friendly and make the place look fantastic. Behind the extremely large swimming pool there's a walkway over a large water-feature which must be a 100 yards long. In there you'll find a few fish and (when we were there) a crab that came along from the sea!

Behind that water-feature is a hill (with a gym in). On this hill you'll find the wedding gazebos where you can, of course, get married. But you can also have romantic meals up there in peace and quiet. It's really nice up there as they have a fantastic garden full of very colourful flowers and a great view accross the swimming pool.

The Melia Cayo Coco Swimming Pool

This has got to be one of the best features of the hotel - a fantastic swimmingpool that is nice and shallow so stays warm. From one end it slopes in from a few inches and reaches a maximum depth of about 5ft.

In that pool you can simply relax and float around. As there's no kids at this pool you can enjoy it without getting dive-bombed or splashed to heck. You can save the later for the game of volleyball that is played every afternoon at 4pm.

Now it gets hot in Cuba, very hot. The people at the Melia Cayo Coco Hotel know that not everyone wants to lay in the sun all day. So they've made at least 8 shelters where you can still laze in the hot weather but keep youself out of the sun. These are great as you can simply drop yourself in from your sunbed and into the pool without hardly moving - fantastic.

But if you fancy leaving the pool, try the Melia Cayo Coco beach.