Great location, substandard rooms
We travel extensively and rely on reviews such as TripAdvisor to select the hotels we stay in. Unfortunately, the reviews for this hotel really were not accurate. It seems to us that most of the reviewers never really stayed in a 4 or 5 star hotel and were overly impressed by the location of this hotel. The good points first: the location is great, right on the beach; the pool area is very nice; the front desk people were very friendly and helpful; the rooms did have full or partial ocean views. The bad points: the free breakfast promised for stays of 4 days or more was not honored; the rooms provided a trip back to the 1970's and were screaming for updating; the beds were quite uncomfortable and the pillows had hard lumps; the mirrors in the room had "stuff" on them and were not cleaned; we were able to listen to our neighbors flushing their toilets and taking showers as well as coughing and talking through the walls; the rooms were very small and with our suitcases open on provided racks, we could barely walk around the room; several of the locals we spoke to in the neighborhood had the same opinion of this hotel with the most favorable comment being that the place was "tired". After one night we checked out and went to another hotel.