Have very mixed feelings on how to rate this hotel.
Will try my best to summarize all aspects so you can judge for yourself and take proper advice.
Valet parking top notch!
Location, very good and will explain the beach later.
Front desk very good!
Got my room at 3:30 no problem, was ready and clean!! Staff asked if I wanted room house keeping which is important for me. So far so good!
Bell boys Very good as well!!!
Room was in a nice 8th floor overlooking city and some water. Size of the room was pretty good, had a balcony and I think all if not most rooms have the same layout, so this was good. Room was clean, bed was good, good duvet and good pillows (extra pillows ordered feather).
Bathroom was good, double sink, tub and shower separate, shampoo dispenser, hairdryer, and plenty of towels, good quality towels. Water in the sinks could have more power!
There is a good working fridge, a Keurig coffee maker with plenty of coffee, tea and bottled drinking water.
Night stands could use more outlets!
Terrace furnished and spacious for the type of room.
Breakfast, here comes tricky parts....
Since Covid, all hotels have cut down on buffet which is understandable, but please, we need quality and some goodies with the breakfast... croissants?? Bakery?? All of these inexistent, even at a cost, which should not be the case for what they are charging already.... Service was good both days, food, below average... simple eggs were super over done even though I asked for them runny... pancakes were also not great, the type that crumbles... coffee was good ILLY brand, so very good. Fruit was good and whip cream also quite good. For what they give you now super over priced!!!
Pool, the pool areas are ok, towels are ok, chairs are ok, these were clean and staff all over was good.
Beach, oh my! Here is the not so good part of this hotel, you can hop on a golf cart that can take you and other NON guests to the beach and back or you can decide to walk which is a good 15 minute walk that is very nice, so walking is a good option!
If it rains, these carts are not the best option so you can get stranded at the beach for quite some time as the line forms and it can take forever.... Remember these carts do NOT belong to the hotel and can take out of the hotel people that park next to the hotel, so they cannot control what happens there.
You arrive to a structure that has restrooms and a bar area where guests can sign to the room or pay with c card... you go down stairs and go to a table that can give you towels, well if you can call these towels!! Maybe rags is a better term.... Of most I got, and I chose mine trying to get the "newer" ones, they all had holes or were torn!! What a shame.
The beach chairs are good and look pretty recent, that was good and it is first come first serve, there are plenty and if not they do have others stacked up just in case.
The day we got there, weather was not great and The Beach Boys told us that umbrellas (they cost $15 plus tax) were not available for that day as there were wind gusts that had blown away several..... for me, just crap, we stayed and saw that other people that brought theirs had them on with absolutely NO problem! This part of the staff was really worst than mediocre! If it wasn't for the beginning of my review, this rating would have been 1/5.
Next day, it was a beautiful morning and it had chances of rain for 4 pm, so at 1ish I heard one of the boys say, do we take out the umbrellas?? WHAT??? management, don't give bad staff the power over what happens at your hotel!!! We are talking absolutely NO cover from the sun without them....
The beach experience is a negative for this hotel, fix this and you will have better ratings than what you have.
The property is not bad and we are looking for a weekend beach hotel near Miami.... This can be it if and when you fix the beach problem!!!
At the hotel you place a wrist band that "guest" but for me not so valuable... the only real place needed is the beach and i saw many people grabbing towels and chairs that probably were not guests at the hotel.
All in all this hotel could be very good if they fix this beach issue.
One last positive point, (yes, over with the beach!!!) is the checkout process is very smooth, you can leave Lugage at valet and they will store it in a dedicated AC room until you need them, so we had a bad with change and grabbed it to shower before heading back home.... This process was impeccable, we went to the gym, very nice and clean, showers nice and clean and plenty of GOOD towels there, so that was a plus!!!
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