Melia Las Dunas Dec 08

Melia Las Dunas Hotel what can I say. I read first some reviews on Trip advisor before going ahead and confirm this hotel with my travel agent. Most of the reviews were positives and I ended up booking this hotel. There were others but the travel agent insisted this was the best hotel in Cayo Santa Maria so I decided to go by his suggestion.

The hotel it self looks very nice, beautiful gardens, impressive huge lobby, rooms are large and to a normal standard they are fairly clean.

The food not bad there was a good variety on the buffet reason why we did not bother booking a la carte restaurants which are free as well but you have to go to the reception and book it from there the day before and you are allowed 3 bookings if you stay a week.

What went wrong?

What the travel agent did not mention is that the hotel is jam packed with families each of them with about 10 kids. Really I am not exaggerating here. It was mission impossible to find a sun bed by the beach or swimming pools. These families had about 10 sun beds each and were not using even one.

I hated to seat my butt in the sand and then roast like a chicken everyday because I could not even find a shady place.

Ok, I know I am sounding like a grumpy old man and I apologize if I hurt someone’s feelings.

My point is if you don’t like resorts full of kids then do not go to this hotel cause you are going to be running into them every minute.

Apart from that everything was nice.

Cayo Santa Maria is a very nice and unspoiled beach area my only regret was not to have stayed at Melia Cayo Santa Maria instead of Melia Las Dunas Hotel.

Written by anon on January 14th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Melia las Dunas review

We have just arrived from our trip to Cayo Santa Maria in Cuba. We stayed at Melia Las Dunas Cayo Santa Maria.
For the Cuban standard the Melia Las Dunas is a formidable hotel. Since the arrival to the resort the attention of the personnel was superb in every moment.

We did find though that the room we were given was not very clean I don’t know what happened with whoever was supposed to set the room ready for us but whatever it was he/she did not do a very good job. We complained immediately at the reception of the hotel and in less than ½ hour we were in a new room with all our luggage. The remainder of our stay went on without any problems whatsoever .The food is good, stupendous personnel, impressive beach… we really had a good time.

I do not share some of the bad reviews that you can find in trip advisor. My recommendation is if you go to Cuba don’t keep your expectations to high and you will be surprised.

If I had to highlight just one good thing about this hotel it would be the super friendly and super efficient members of the staff.

Written by Davies on January 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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