4 years ago
Lovely rooms, always left clean and tidy. Pools an...
Lovely rooms, always left clean and tidy. Pools and area surrounding kept clean too. The main restaurant has loads of options everyday at every meal, there's always something you'll like and plenty of it. Food is pretty good for an all inclusive, I'd give it a 4/5 stars... only because the desserts look better than they taste! Lacking a bit of umph
There's nearly always food available, especially if you upgrade to the adults only "premium wristband"! Upgrade is 12 per day, and despite some minor flaws I'm still glad we did upgrade, it's worth it if you're not travelling with kids. So the premium wristband gets you access to:
- the 2 adults only pools
- the nudist pool
- The gym, sauna, steam room
- free drinks until bar closing (you get cut off at 11pm with the other wristband and have to pay for drinks until closing)
- one day on a balinese bed (Google it) 10-6pm overlooking the ocean with bottle of brut and fruit (think this is usually 30 per day)
- one meal in each of the other restaurants (one is adults only)
- free snacks all day available in the adults self serve bar (yes that's self serve alcohol!)
- free WiFi across whole hotel (decent strength too, could watch Netflix!)
Probably a couple of other bonuses I've forgotten about but you get the idea!
All of this was great apart from the restaurants, they give you a meal in each... One of the restaurants has a set menu that literally consists of one choice per course - there are no options, you like it or you don't! And the other is a buffet which looked good but we didn't manage to book in as it's not open everyday and we left it too late to schedule it in.
They make out like the restaurants are a big seller of the wristband upgrade and for us it was, we were a bit disappointed with what was on offer when we went to book.
The evening entertainment was on the whole pretty good and child friendly! 1 of the nights was a disco, 2 were Disney productions of Aladdin and lion king, 1 was a fun family betting event (hard to explain but was the best night!), 1 was a group of motown singer's, 1 was a male singer in the reception area...
There's a kids club if you need it, the animacion team are great! They run activities for adults and kids most days like aquagym, aqua cycling, darts, water football, etc.
To summarise, a great hotel for families and for adults travelling without kids. Upgrade is worth it but don't get your hopes up about the "exclusive" restaurants. Get your towels out early if you want a spot by the family pool, adults only pools are not so busy.
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