6/10 Okay
Julia
Travelled with family
3 Nov 2024
Liked: Staff & service
This is a very average hotel. Not sure Marriott should put their brand name to it. There is really no good reason to stay here unless you're scuba diving with Aquarius Diving, which is on site, as we were.
The good stuff:
The staff are VERY friendly and welcoming.
When we asked for extra pillows, they arrived within 5 minutes.
The bad stuff:
The beach is clean but very small. The pool area is soulless and bare.
Every communal area of the hotel was FREEZING from air con set far too low - when it was windy and chilly outside, indoors was even colder!
The choice of food is very poor in the evenings. There is the buffet, mostly Middle Eastern food and has limited choices, and the Italian restaurant, which is good but plays terrible loud music that they seem to think is Italian but definitely isn't!
The Surf and Turf restaurant by the pool has a good selection of food but is not open after 5pm. Bizarrely, the room service menu offers MUCH wider choice of food than any of the restaurants.
Breakfast is VERY average. The pastries are all tasteless and there is always a queue for any kind of egg dish. The egg chef burnt my fried eggs every morning. Maybe if they cleaned their pans occasionally, that would help.
Bars - hopeless service at the island bar but great at the other bars. But the cocktails are poor and so weak I doubt some even contain alcohol, and they offer daiquiris yet have no crushed ice.
Honesyly, I'd book somewhere else if I were you.
Julia
Stayed 8 nights in Oct 2024