Anders Jacobsen

Review of Hospes Maricel

A beautiful hotel by the sea. Utterly luxurious ro...

A beautiful hotel by the sea. Utterly luxurious rooms (designer bath tub, private infinity pool/jaccuzzi on the terrace etc).

Delicious food: the breakfast buffet was generously appointed with fresh fruit, yogurts, eggs, local specialties etc. The lunches and dinners were of a very high standard and portion sizes were comfortably large.

Service-wise, it was OK but not 5 star. E.g. we were holding a business meeting in the meeting room behind the bar and we were interrupted at 17:45 by a member of bar staff who needed the bar tab closed by 18:00. This was unnecessarily disruptive and felt unprofessional; the hotel could have safely assumed we were not about to "run away" from our bill (we were all staying in the hotel for another night!)

Child friendliness moderate: no "baby proofing", low fences on terrace edges etc and clearly a hotel more targeting adults / couples / business visitors.

Blazing fast WiFi (speed tests near 100 Mb/s!) with no hassles (no registration, no fee, no device limitations). Great!