Martin Taylor

Review of Golf View Hotel

This is probably the worst money for value place I...

This is probably the worst money for value place I've stayed in ever.
The staff is seriously inexperienced.
The dining here is the most excruciating I've suffered in a long time and certainly not befitting a place carrying this price tag. Slow service, dirty tables (our table had beer rings from an earlier 19th hole celebration that had taken place in the dining room and the tableware was just laid on top of the mess, and when we complained, a waiter brought a dripping, stinky rag and, pushing all the stuff aside, slap-dashedly mopped the table and replaced the cutlery on top of the now stinking, wet tabletop), order mix-ups, long periods of time where waiters seem to have disappeared, are just a few of the things you have to put up with if you eat here.
We ordered drinks before dinner and they brought the food first (35 minutes after ordering), so we sent it back and then when we'd finally had our drinks, they brought back the food, stone cold.
In all, we sat for 2,5 hours for a simple dinner and left fuming.
Breakfast took us 1 hour to have because the waiters would not bring our coffee and toast. If we'd ordered scrambled eggs we might still be sitting at the table now!
Maintenance is low and I even had a leak in the bathroom ceiling where water filtered through from the shower upstairs and dripped down the light fixture every time the people above showered. I reported this to the morning staff at the reception desk and in the afternoon, when I asked if it had been taken care of, nobody knew what I was talking about.
They also misplaced a bag of laundry and it took them most of a day to find it stowed away in a cloak room.
Unless you're a hardcore golfer and really don't care where you stay, or just want a good pampering at the spa, which is staffed independently and quite good, avoid this place.
I give it two points because the view is nice if you have an ocean-facing room.