3 years ago
Stayed at this hotel once for 18 nights in Septemb...
Stayed at this hotel once for 18 nights in September 2013. Only stay here if you hate having money in your wallet. Costs are cut everywhere and they really squeeze you for money.
To give you an idea, it is $8 for two weetbix (as in 2 weet bix bricks). Outrageous. The portions are that small, and the menu very limited.
Housekeeping didn t change our sheets for the first 10 days; we had to ask them to!
On arrival, my Mastercard debit card wasn't accepted as a valid credit card, despite it functioning as one everywhere else, and so $200 was taken from me as a security deposit for the duration of the stay.
Nothing is complementary; everything costs money, even getting an internet speed higher than 256kb/s. I couldn't sleep the first night because the bed only had one duvee, which made it too cold. We had to request another blanket. Even though the room was called King Deluxe, the bed itself was in fact two mattresses pushed together.
They went out of their way to put a passcode on the TV so that DVD players and game consoles couldn t be plugged in. This was so guests were forced to use their movie service. This was despite their telling me beforehand through email, quote, It is possible to hook up Video game consoles with some changes to the setting on arrival done by the Maintenance department. After calling maintenance to the room, they told me without courtesy that this could not be done.
One night, I called room service but was redirected to reception (because room service was understaffed), who said they could take the order. We waited a full hour and called again to find the order hadn't been taken. We weren t charged after I suggested we shouldn t be, but then the eggs were runny instead of cooked hard as I requested.
The next day room service couldn t be reached for 30 minutes of calling. Was told this is what happens if you call late in the morning.
One of the waitresses acted in a manner that indicated a bigoted attitude.
The pool was closed on the only truly sunny day of our stay.
The people in the next room got away with making obscenely loud noises, slamming the door repeatedly at 3am, until we complained three times.
There was an irritating minibar check almost every day.
The main positives include fairly high quality food, lots of power points in the room, and a good view of the beach.
Overall, it simply doesn't provide value that corresponds to the extremely high cost.