Agua Dulce Beach Resort

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 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. )

Lovely beach at a hotel that's seen better days. The pool is nice and the AC works well. Beds were particularly uncomfortable with only a thin top and bottom sheet and a thin bedspread, no mattress pad, and a spring mattress where every spring could be felt. Surely there must be somewhere else to stay.

Stayed here Wednesday 24th January 2024 no WiFi in the rooms the restaurant set up was out of faulty towers the food very unprofessional and poor service everything came wrong after we had preordered I have never seen a more dysfunctional restaurant in my years of travelling

We *definitely* plan to stay here again on our next trip! Agua Dulce staff: Thank you!!! 5 Stars – For their price category! It’s a wonderful little spot! You can’t expect a flawless castle for this price! Rooms are spacious, well kept and very clean. Mattresses are super comfy, AC is powerful and works well. We were here in Dec 2021; top COVID time, so it was very quiet, can’t comment on noise through walls, etc. It was nice and quiet. Staff are all very friendly, professional, and helpful. They helped recommend a local tour guide agency for Corcovado; Sarcos Tours, and we couldn’t have been happier with Sarcos! The vibe was good, pool was very clean, and we hung around and swam for a few hours one night. It was nice and chill, quiet, people all enjoying, but respectfully. We were surfing, and they didn’t have a problem with our boards in the rooms to prevent theft from our roof rack, as long as we rinsed them well first and put them carefully on the floor, not leaned on the walls. Important 1: The resto: We didn’t dine here. The reasons are complicated, and we don’t feel it would be fair to the chef or resto staff to comment here. It might in fact be great! Bottom line: We’d recommend considering giving the resto a shot, but we ***do not*** recommend staying here without a vehicle, and ability to skip the resto, and eat all meals in town if you chose to, as we did. We don’t recommend planning such that you are “stuck with” this resto as your only option, for anymore than a one-night stopover. AD: 5 Stars AD + Resto: Unknown… Important 2: The Wifi only works in the lobby; not the rooms. However, on our entire 2 wk trip across CR, we found this in almost all hotels, including a couple very high-end hotels. You have to adjust mentally to “CR Wifi” for your trip, or you’ll be frustrated the whole time! So it doesn’t really make sense to hold this against AD! : ) If you need constant connection, a local SIM card, or international coverage from your carrier, is *essential*. You can’t count on Wifi anywhere in CR that we found.

Nie wieder! Das war Enttäuschung pur! Das Hotel mag ja mal nett gewesen sein aber heute.. da muss sehr viel investiert & renoviert werden! In unserem Zimmer hat's durch die Decke geregnet. Der Hotelmanager war sehr freundlich und hat uns noch darauf aufmerksam gemacht. Wir waren erstmal sprachlos und ungläubig, bis wir es noch am selben Tag erlebt hatten! Neben dem Bett bildete sich eine Pfütze! Auf unserer Toilette fehlte die WC-Brille und der Deckel! Am andern Morgen, kam der Manager dann mit dem Toilettensitz an.. Die Dusche war verkalkt, es kamen nur vereinzelte harte Wasserstrahlen durch. Keine Dusch-/Badetücher, als wir welche verlangten waren sie zwar sauber gewaschen aber von Bleichmittel verfärbt. Auf einem Gestell steht Kaffeepulver zur Verfügung.. aber keine Kaffeemaschine weiss nicht, wie wir hätten Kaffee kochen sollen... Das Frühstück war das Liebloseste, Schlechteste, das wir in unserer 6-wöchigen Rundreise erlebt hatten!! Die Bedienung unmotiviert. Einen Safe hat es keinen im Zimmer. Die riesige Badewanne wurde öfters repariert, das konnte man gut sehen. Gleich neben dem Pool war eine Art Poolbar, die mit rot/weissen Plastikbändern abgesperrt war, gerade im Umbau. Toller Anblick... Ich schreibe selten schlechte Bewertungen aber dieses Hotel sollte man meiden. Wir sind nach einer Nacht abgereist.. Die Agentur, die uns dieses Hotel vermittelt hat sollte man ebenfalls in Frage stellen... CRS-Tours/TraveLocal.