Jacob H.
Yelp
Summary: beautiful facilities, great location and view from lagoon suite, but this place could use some structural maintenance and service upgrades, especially given the prices they charge and the competition they face at resorts across the street.
My husband and I travelled to Puerto Rico for seven nights to celebrate our honeymoon. The front desk attendant at night, Omar, welcomed us and gave us a tour. The hotel staff were very accommodating to our late evening arrival traveling from California and communicated with us via text. The room service we ordered in the morning arrived on time and was decent food-- overpriced, as one would expect at a boutique hotel. There are only fifteen rooms and we enjoyed the unique experience this facility offered.
It was never clear who had authority to deal with issues that we ended up encountering. There were often several people at the front desk or office behind the front desk -- other than requests for towels, all other issues had to be "checked" with some manager who was infrequently available. Some went unaddressed or follow-up communication went missing.
Our first four nights and days were truly wonderful at O:live. Generally looks great, smells great, housekeeping does a nice job, and staff are friendly.
The next two nights, however, were not wonderful. We were woken up by a pervasive and strong smoke -- either from cigarettes or cigars -- that filled the entire room, probably through the air supply or vent. I notified management the next morning- they said they would look into it and I didn't hear back. The next night, same thing-- I was woken up by the tightness in my throat, followed by my husband; the smoke was all throughout our room. I immediately called the front desk and didn't hear back. The next morning, I spoke to a manager and was assured it wouldn't happen again.
We didn't actually get to test that assertion. Just a few hours later, after a rainstorm which lasted a couple hours, we heard a dripping: there was a leak in our roof, and the water was going into the bed. The leak was coming from a crack in the ceiling that had certainly not just developed. We went and informed the front desk of the unsafe conditions in our room. Thankfully, they had another room on a different floor and area, which served as sufficient lodging for our final night. I worry about what would have happened had they not... Omar, from the front desk, helped us move and offered us his apology. Alison (?) at the front desk comp'd our two beers from the mini-bar for our inconvenience.
Other than that, there was no real urgency to address either issue. Not much of an apology or making it right by two honeymooners who saved their money to afford to have the honeymoon of their dreams at a local, boutique oasis of a hotel. That, O:live could be.