Joel Benevides Review of Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront
It's good but should be great. I travel almost we...
It's good but should be great. I travel almost weekly and admittingly am hyper-critical of hotels so take this for what it is. Let's start with the bad. First, at check in they will ask if you will be parking a car. We said yes and they gave us a tag for our window. They didn't mention that it would be a $9.00 parking fee. In big cities, I get it but in the middle of nowhere? We were paying $250 a night and they ding you for parking? On top of that, we didn't find out until we got the final bill. Second, they were doing construction in the room next to us so all day we heard loud drills and noise and men outside on the platform of our room smoking, talking and laughing. I understand that needed construction happens but when you are paying that amount per night you expect better. To top it off, when I went down to the lobby to discuss they immediately changed rooms for us. Great, but if you had other rooms available anyways, why stick us in the room next to construction in the first place? Third, the views, unless you have an ocean facing room, your view is going to suck. They will say all rooms have an ocean view and while you can see the ocean from every room believe me, they are not ocean views. Our first room view was a rooftop platform that the workers were on and had ladders and other construction materials. The second room, after they moved us, was a view of the parking lot. Yes in the far right corner of the window we could see the ocean. All of these things alone are not bad but when you add them all together, again, at $250 a night/300 after taxes and fees, you expect better.
On to the good. The hotel itself is great. The breakfast buffet is legit. The interior restaurant is very nice. The tiki bar is great. Outdoor seating, pool, smaller tiki bar on top of the main one towards the beach. Quiet beach. Ice cream stand inside. There is definitely no need to leave the hotel once you are there. If it were not for the issues above, this would be a 5 star hotel hands down.

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