Coral Sea Resort & Casino

The best part about the hotel is the staff The Hotel manager, Alan was very helpful with locating an iPhone charger. The chef at the seafront bar prepared a nice curry for me. The rooms are basic. I had to calm in housekeeping to change my sheets when I checked in as they were stained. WiFi barely worked. Public areas are rundown. The restaurant breakfast buffet looked sad.

I stayed here for 10 days on a work related trip to Honiara. The room was sea facing and the airconditioning and internet connectivity was a nice upgrade to the place i had stayed at on my previous visit. The food is nice with the option of two restaurants on site. The staff are pleasant and eager to assist. The road was under construction (no fault of the resort) so getting in an d out of the premises was slightly difficult. The pool is just next to the reception so may feel slightly 'exposed' to the elements and visitors. We had to move out after a tsunami watch alert was given for Honiara (on our own accord) but were struck by the lack of an evacuation plan by the staff. All in all, a nice stay , especially when compared to the other places I have stayed at in Honiara.

I stayed on this property for a week and was okay by any standard...no real wow factor....the room was clean and confortable with friendly staff but a few issues to note:|*Transport from hotel to airport and vice verse is provided at a fee of $150 SBD. |*No breakfast included with room charges etc. ||Had a few problem with my dinner at the restraunt having to send it back to the chef to correct a fee times... my dissapointment is that this is one of the pricier hotels in the country but service could be matched to ensure a memorable stay for guests as well as prompt a returnee option. My room though was cleaned daily and had a great ocean view. Could be a draw card....

Not sure about the rooms, had lunch, drink and used the swimming pool. Very nice place to stay at for an afternoon and chill. Good food (steak) and drinks

The property is generally well maintained and clean. It's particularly nice compared to the surrounding neighborhood (there isn't even a street outside right now). Rooms were spacious and everything seemed to work well. There were a lot of bugs inside, but rooms come with mosquito spray and Raid, so that must be their normal. Front desk staff was very friendly and helpful. Restaurant staff is a mixed bag though. We had good service the first night in the restaurant even though they appeared very busy. The second night was a struggle though. My friend ate her entire meal before mine even arrived, it was difficult to get drinks, 30-40 minutes to get a bill to pay. It appeared as if it took 5 employees to figure out how to get a glass of wine. There is often more employees than customers.

Stayed here for 3 nights recently whilst away for work. The hotel is a great place to stay, modern, clean & tidy. The staff were excellent and really friendly, easy check in. I prearranged collection from Honiara airport by the hotel shuttle bus which cost $150SBD per person per trip which is worth it as the hotel itself is a fair way from the airport. This journey can take anywhere from 30 mins to 2 hrs depending on traffic! The room I stayed in was on the 3rd floor of the main block and had a view of the sea, nice little balcony, really nice room, modern, comfortable, clean and well equipped. Comfy bed, large TV, desk to work at, A/C, nice big bathroom, fridge, tea & coffee making facilities, comfy chair and table. Wi-Fi worked pretty well although was temperamental at times. I ate in the restaurant for breakfast, lunch & dinner & all the meals I had were excellent, good value & high quality with good portion sizes. There is a pool but I did not use it & also a casino. There is a terrace bar/restaurant closer to the water and a small garden with a kids play area in. There is security on the main gate night & day and there was often evening entertainment in the open plan bar area which was good. Caught the shuttle bus back to airport at the end of my stay which again is recommended. Overall, a good stay at a nice venue, but Honiara itself is not a particularly nice place/area.

The personal is good ( a part the manager who is a extremely rude man). Prices are so expensive for the prestation. Just go away from this place

Just stayed at Coral Sea three different times this month, as a hub between flights to different places. And it was a welcome respite from some of the basic places I stayed in Vanuatu and then in the Western Provinces. ||I’ve had a couple of previous trips to Guadalcanal… and have stayed in some of the OTHER, much older, well-known hotels back down the road closer to Tulagi Dive which I found dated, run-down, over-rated, and very over-priced. Then I discovered Coral Sea Resort on my December 2018 trip when it was quite new and stayed a week and couldn’t believe the difference - new, modern, well-appointed, clean and very much to 1st world, western standards which the other places I’d stayed and inspected were not. Especially for the price (some charged about the same or even more than Coral Sea but for much lower quality, I couldn’t understand it). |Not an entire surprise, I’ve heard it’s Australians behind Coral Sea Honiara, same company as Coral Sea Airlie beach in QLD, so that would explain it (I didn’t corroborate that claim but it’s logical… also heard the casino is run separately by local Chinese interests which is also no surprise, and perfectly fine). ||Fast forward six years and Coral Sea still feels like an oasis in an otherwise… uninspiring town that you’d only go to for the diving, or for business - not a city you’d normally take the wife and kids. The staff are still very friendly and helpful, I certainly didn’t experience any of the issues a small minority of reviews mention. They still do the bush lime welcome drink on arrival, and staff still help you with your luggage (bit strange they didn’t add a lift/elevator for the 3-story block when building less than 10yrs ago but probably very expensive to install and maintain in such countries). ||The pool was definitely in action this month but I never had time to use it, Solomon Airlines flights being customarily delayed so arriving hours later than planned, only to check out next day to fly again. Agree with others commenting it’s sometimes full of “non-guests” paying a day rate - but that’s standard practice elsewhere, and it’s a little elitist to say locals shouldn’t be allowed.||I didn’t have time for breakfasts though had two good dinners - but one average dinner (the “imported chicken breast” was tough as rubber - I wondered if it had been frozen and thawed quickly to cook for me, or just overcooked - but that’s better than being undercooked, and nothing I’ve ever eaten there has made me sick so they seem to have good food hygiene and use filtered water etc. ||I did find the main restaurant service was a bit slow… they took ages to take my order and then the food took longer than you’d expect for the number of diners. Not as attentive as the front desk staff. ||But today was a real treat - being Xmas day they did a huge Christmas buffet I just had time to enjoy before dashing back to the airport. Looked like every expat in Guadalcanal and their families were there. Very impressive. The duty manager (I wish I got his name, young chap with glasses) made sure I could partake before my airport transfer which I appreciated. Oh and some complain about the airport transfer service - I think it’s great. New air conditioned vans, my driver waited for my 45min late flight from Gizo last night. And SB$150 is less than the $200 I paid a non-air conditioned taxi last week after the driver gave up waiting for my 2-hour+ late flight from Santo which was fair enough! (You’d think they’d check latest arrival times given Solomon Airlines are routinely late?). But yes if it’s per head I guess if more than one of you it’s cheaper to split a taxi - but less comfortable! ||I still think ALL accommodation in the Solomons and all over the Pacific is overpriced including Coral Sea, considering local wages, local prices of basic foodstuffs etc. - for example the hotel I’m sitting in now in Brisbane is much nicer and much cheaper, but I’ve had it explained to me that the cost of building materials is even more insane in such countries than in NZ, AU etc., and that the cost of supplying basics like running water, Wi-Fi and especially electricity to hotel rooms far higher than in our countries. I heard the same in Vanuatu. So that said I’m surprised Coral Sea doesn’t have the key-card slots inside the door to your room you need to put your card into to turn on the power to your room (as common in many countries including the west for decades) - to stop unthinking guests going out for the day leaving their a/c, fans, and lights blasting. Cut the hotel’s power bill and you can make the room rates more realistic for the developing world, right? Even the much more basic hotel I stayed at in Santo had that system, of sorts, so power only on when you’re in the room. ||But overall I still rate Coral Sea Resort, Honiara.