We had a very smooth check in and the front desk was great! Getting into our room, we had to walk down the street, through the El Carmen restaurant, through the Luciana restaurant and then to our room. The room was fine, it was clean, but it wasn't updated. Our unexpected surprise was that we could see the ocean from our room! First negative- There aren't ashtrays on the balconies. Someone threw a butt and it landed on my shorts, ruining them! Next, there seems to be a feud between the two restaurants. When you book the hotel, it says you can use both properties. I was told to move from a chair because it was on the wrong side? The man at the Luciana got me a new appropriate chair, but then aggressively bad mouthed (inc. excessive cursing) the owner of the restaurant next door. (After this point, the workers at the El Carmen restaurant began blocking the walk way between properties.) On the last day, we couldn't get a chair. We had to check out, so we were only hoping to get 2 lounge chairs until about 10 am. Basically buying food/beverages wasn't enough. We watched the workers pocket money and then people, who arrived after us, obtained or reserved chairs. There were many empty chairs when we left to shower before checking out. Lastly, when we went in to shower, the water had been turned off without warning. When we went to check out, a worker did show us a shortcut through the hotel so that we wouldn't have to walk through the sand with our luggage.
