Melia Cayo Coco Review - The Bar & Free Cocktails

When I go on holiday and stay in an all-inclusive hotel I try and take advantage and try as many drinks as possible. It's just in my nature. Life's to short to stick to beer! Especially when the cocktails were as strong as they were!!!

The waiters and waitresses would come over and take your orders and bring you whatever you wanted. They were also willing to give advice as to which cocktails were the best. You weren't asked for tips. We just gave a few Pesos at the end of the week to say thanks as we had a really good laugh with them! They really added something extra to the holiday.

And to be honest there was a great deal of choice. In other all-inclusive hotels its not always been easy to know what drinks you can ask for and which will incur an extra cost. Yes that's right - some of them you have to pay for. But its understandable as all-inclusive in Cuba is totally different to all-inclusive in Spain. Some drinks are just much more difficult to get hold of given the economic climate over there. But, you won't need to ever dip your hand in your pockets for drinks - just the occasional tip if you think they're worth it - and they are!

The bar is large, you could say very large, but they are expanding it as it was fairly full when we were there and that was when the hotel was only a third full. There are tables set for couples but there are also sofas for larger groups. These tend to get full up during the end of the week as people start to get to know each other.

It's a perfect place for an intimate night as well as they have these little sheltered areas where you can sit almost uninterrupted. You can see one of them in the pic here, but it's not the most secluded. There's one next to an artificial waterfall to the right.

The bar is fairly well stocked. They have beer on tap (sheesh - I can't remember what its called but it was local and very nice!!). I also worked my way through the cocktails. The Mojitos where great, I loved the Ron Colins, I'm not a big fan of Daiquiris (but Laura loved them). The Cuba Libre was nice (I think). But it was the Whiskey Sour that I really loved. In fact I used to take a couple (of drinks) back with me at the end of the night!

Also there was some entertainment in the bar - which I'll talk about later. But I must mention the piano player who was great. He played some old favourites, some show tunes and some newer songs too. He really made the bar a great place to be.