Agua Dulce On The Beach - HOTEL IS CLOSED!

We showed up for a booking.com scheduled stay to a closed resort, it had a wind storm and had been closed for more than 2 weeks. The owner did not notify, nor when contacted via FB care about people traveling thousands of miles to no accommodations. Although we showed up early and found other accomodations many folks would really struggle to do so. We did manage to see the so called resort and the exterior and so called ocean front rooms were a joke at best. Stay elsewhere, this place is a 2 star resort(hotel) with an unethical, foul mouthed piece of trash for an owner.

Recommend not staying here. Upon arrival manager told me they overbooked, and I could not have the oceanfront bungalow I had reserved on Booking.com. Obviously, I was not happy and told him so. He offered to give me a large pool view room for $500/ 3 nights. My original reservation was for $596/ 3nts. So I showed him the price on Booking.com and it was only $138 for 3 nights. He told me he would honor that price. He canceled the Booking.com reservation and I paid him $138 cash. Once I returned home, I noticed a $360.03 charge from the resort. This is so shady. I never even gave him my credit card. Breakfast was terrible. There was a pic of a hammock. When I asked where the hammocks are the manager showed me a closet and told me I had to set up and bring back after each use. Go elsewhere!!!!!

We needed up here die to do a scheduling mishap and for the price we could have ended up in a lot of worse places. Rooms weren’t luxury by any means, but they we clean and spacious. I liked that they all had patios with chairs. The pool was clean and the grounds were well attended to. Most everyone working there seemed not to excited about being there. The dirt road next to the hotel is great to walk and lots of parrots and macaws frequent the property in addition to a decent population of black iguanas

We recently visited Agua Dulce On The Beach on a cycling tour of Costa Rica and it was without doubt the worst hotel of our 2 week tour. The rooms are very dated, beds poor, showers were cold/luke warm and WiFi hardly worked at all. The restaurant was a shambles and the evening meals and breakfast were terrible. Service was pretty much non-existent. It turns out that the hotel management have leased the restaurant to another party and have no control of the quality and service. Crazy. The swimming pool was closed for most of our stay because the management had not replaced the filter and the whole thing turned a horrible worrying colour so that they were forced to close it. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

We enjoyed our two night stay. Daniela at reception was incredibly helpful checking us check in. Mitch was very welcoming and a lovely host. We saw bioluminescence on the beach at night which was amazing. Would recommend this hotel. P.S Mitch, go Canada go!

We enjoyed a fantastic few days over Christmas. Carol on the front desk was excellent, she quickly helped with all our questions and requests.||The pool is perfect, shallow for the kids, also a decent length so you can actually have a swim!||The beach is so close and so empty you wouldn’t believe it! The food and smoothies in the restaurant were delightful.||Chris and all of his team were fab, we will certainly return!||(we had no problem accessing the hotel in the Mitsubishi ASX hire car, just drive round the big lot holes. )

Hotel is right by the beach, with beautiful view from our pool view room. Amenities in the room was very basic - fitted sheets kept coming off. Very friendly staff and the restaurant food was quite good. |This hotel is about 3 miles from Puerto Jimenez - not a big distance, but the unmetalled roads were washed away by the rains - luckily, we had an AWD SUV to navigate the potholes. Should not be an issue during dry season!

I’ve stayed there for 5 years ever summer ! The best people you could ever ask for! I loved it more than any place I’ve ever been!!