Sunscape Dorado Pacifico Ixtapa

The staff was great. My classes were not advertised as well as they have been at other resorts. The resort was very clean. Staff was super friendly and very helpful. Beaches were beautiful. Lots of activities and shopping outside of the resort.

I taught yoga on the beach - gorgeous setting. Spotify worked on my phone and used Bluetooth speaker. Friendly team, very chill and casual. Really responsive and helpful. Not a lot of promotion for my classes but I walked around and introduced myself to guests throughout the week. It was a really nice vacation!

I loved the resort and this area of Mexico! Very pleasantly suprised. Only one yoga class in the morning. The staff was so friendly. Went as a young couple and enjoyed the tasty Mexican food, cheap but quality massages on the beach, refreshing dips in the pacific and of course the sunsets! Perfect week, great place to just chill! I hope to return someday.

It was a beautiful experience! I loved teaching and I loved the hotel staff and the ladies who participated in the classes. It was off-season for this resort and I ran into no other Americans, which was fine. I am bilingual and met many fun and interesting families from all over Mexico. They only scheduled me for one class each day at 9 AM. This is probably because it is the hottest season of the year. My classes for small because, as the staff told me , "Latins don't get upearly when they're on vacation." On Friday we had a great master class on the beach with others Zumba instructors. It was a blast! It was a beautiful resort with a great pool, wonderful food, delightful staff , And deluxe accommodations! Zumba classes were held on a wooden platform and it worked out well for the small classes. I don't think it would be completely safe to have large groups on that small platform as there are no railings.

Spent 1/18-1/25 at this resort. The entertainment staff are very nice and all the staff were friendly. Due to the guests at this resort and the limited equipment, this resort would probably prefer a Zumba, Yoga, or aqua fitness instructor rather than a group fitness instructor. If you are an aqua fitness person, it will be hard to beat Carlos' water fitness class! They have a small "hotel-sized" fitness center with a couple treadmills and elliptical machines, 3 yoga mats and one fitness ball. They weren't interested in my offering any kind of cardio or conditioning based classes like listed on the resort information posted here. I taught a 9am stretching class on the beach and they yoga mats and towels to put on top of the mats. Class on the first day had 6, then with a little recruiting the rest had 12-18. When asking the guests if they preferred 45 minutes or an hour, they all wanted 45 minutes. I taught using combination of toning, balance, and stretching with some relaxation at the end which they all seems to like. Anytime I did "toning", I gave them modifications for an optional stretch. Guests at this time were mostly English speaking however there were a few Spanish speaking guests that I recruited and they help me learn how to count in Spanish backwards. The food was good, I felt safe at the resort as well as in the airport and riding the bus. One of the highlights of the trip was the Massage huts on the beach south of the resort. For $15 you can get an incredible full body massage. I went almost everyday. The staff made my guest and I feel very welcome. We had numerous invitations from a variety of staff members to join them in activities outside of the resort. We got to meet their families and see areas that we would not have seen otherwise.

There were both pros and cons to this experience. PROS- SOME staff members were extremely attentive, welcoming, and helpful. They made me feel welcome. While others, even some on the entertainment staff, did not communicate much with more, nor made me feel that I was a part of the community, or even happy to be there teaching for their members. Another con would be, that my schedule seemed to change every single day, which was very disheartening and difficult for me to even make any other plans or experience anything outside of the hotel. I wanted to make everyone happy, so I sacrificed enjoying the trip, because my teaching schedule wasn't set from day to day. If I knew that it wasn't going to be the same every single day, I may have considered something else. Lastly, and the most shocking, is that they pulled me off the schedule, and I found this out through their flyer and not through someone coming to me professionally and explaining why. Especially after receiving such great feedback from the members. So, overall the experience has been very confusing and poor communication, however, I choose to focus on the few positives and the few individuals who have made my time here welcoming and memorable. Now, I think I can understand why one staff member stated that they don't receive too many instructors often. I rated a little higher on here than I wanted to, only because I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Even with how some of them have treated me, I want to focus on the good. I am humble and grateful for the experience.

The resort was FABULOUS! The service and staff were the best. The room was clean and comfortable. I could not have asked for better service. Teaching was intense because both classes, 9:30am Cardio and 12 noon Aqua (taught on the pool deck), were taught outside in 95+ heat. But the staff, once again, helped and did everything possible to insure everyone had fun. I would recommend this destination to everyone.