Occidental Tamarindo - All-Inclusive

This is my 3rd times in Costa Rica, beautiful country and I love it. At this same time, this is my 1st time stayed at this hotel. Wow , wow, wow. Let me first say, I hope I had a way to give this hotel negative zero stars, but I don’t therefore this is a `100 ZERO STARS HOTEL. Since it is an all-inclusive hotel so let’s talk about the food, 1 buffet for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Everyday they have the something for breakfast, lunch and dinner. On various occasion, they will switch the spot where the chicken is and put beef and switch the beef spot put chicken there, but it is the same thing. NO OTHER CHOICES. Beside 1 ala carte restaurant oh mine, mine, please do not go there. we try the ala carte restaurant it was like eating raw soap. Food was so disgusted. everyone was leaving after the first bite. I could not understand why they were leaving, after I receive my meals, oh boy we left after half bite. At this all-inclusive hotel, every guest was hungry because they all went into town looking for food. We saw many of them eating at the nearby town call Tamarindo Center. Now lets talk about the beach since this hotel is a beach front hotel. Fist all if you are looking for the beach front hotel, you are in the wrong place. This is a ROCK NATION NOT A BEACH. In other to swim, one must go in the middle of the ocean along with the SHARK, because it will take at least 20 ocean miles to get nice beach, which lifeguard on duty say not a good idea. Therefore, you will need a construction boot to swim on the rock. Near the beach aka ROCK NATION, they have a snack bar , which always crowded with FLIES not human but flies , therefore, the guest where force to sit near the ocean to watch the ROCK every day. Yes we did too , but after the 3rd day we went on excursion on ATV bike that was fun. Best thing there is the ATV bike. , horseback riding was ok beside that we had to put ice on our groin area , after just 1 hour ride. The horse was so skinny, we felt so sorry for them. The horse stop when they want and how they want we just accept it because they were tired and hungry . But it was fun. The rooms were clean, they promise us an ocean view room, glad we did not pay extra to watch the mountain ROCK but we did get a garden view , which was not garden view, it was a king jungle views wild bush , but its ok. We did not complain at all. No smoking no where in the hotel except on the highway if you smoke . For me no problem it was all good. Not to mention, the Ghost activities on the property. Everyday , walking by, you feel, heard, someone or something or footstep no one there. Hmmmm. Wifi if you have business to take care of it please do so before entering this hotel. They should put a sign saying that WARNING NO WIFI ZONE. At night time in the lobby you may get lucky that if there are no ghost activities that night. In closing don’t let the beautiful pictures of this hotel on the internet fool you. Remember that those pictures do not mention the ROCK NATION, FLIES ALLEY, NO WIFI ZONE, KING JUMGLE VIEWS AND THE SOAP DISH FOR A LA CATE. Thank you for staying at this hotel .

This is my 3rd times in Costa Rica, beautiful country and I love it. At this same time, this is my 1st time stayed at this hotel. Wow , wow, wow. Let me first say, I hope I had a way to give this hotel negative zero stars, but I don’t therefore this is a `100 ZERO STARS HOTEL. Since it is an all-inclusive hotel so let’s talk about the food, 1 buffet for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Everyday they have the something for breakfast, lunch and dinner. On various occasion, they will switch the spot where the chicken is and put beef and switch the beef spot put chicken there, but it is the same thing. NO OTHER CHOICES. Beside 1 ala carte restaurant oh mine, mine, please do not go there. we try the ala carte restaurant it was like eating raw soap. Food was so disgusted. everyone was leaving after the first bite. I could not understand why they were leaving, after I receive my meals, oh boy we left after half bite. At this all-inclusive hotel, every guest was hungry because they all went into town looking for food. We saw many of them eating at the nearby town call Tamarindo Center. Now lets talk about the beach since this hotel is a beach front hotel. Fist all if you are looking for the beach front hotel, you are in the wrong place. This is a ROCK NATION NOT A BEACH. In other to swim, one must go in the middle of the ocean along with the SHARK, because it will take at least 20 ocean miles to get nice beach, which lifeguard on duty say not a good idea. Therefore, you will need a construction boot to swim on the rock. Near the beach aka ROCK NATION, they have a snack bar , which always crowded with FLIES not human but flies , therefore, the guest where force to sit near the ocean to watch the ROCK every day. Yes we did too , but after the 3rd day we went on excursion on ATV bike that was fun. Best thing there is the ATV bike. , horseback riding was ok beside that we had to put ice on our groin area , after just 1 hour ride. The horse was so skinny, we felt so sorry for them. The horse stop when they want and how they want we just accept it because they were tired and hungry . But it was fun. The rooms were clean, they promise us an ocean view room, glad we did not pay extra to watch the mountain ROCK but we did get a garden view , which was not garden view, it was a king jungle views wild bush , but its ok. We did not complain at all. No smoking no where in the hotel except on the highway if you smoke . For me no problem it was all good. Not to mention, the Ghost activities on the property. Everyday , walking by, you feel, heard, someone or something or footstep no one there. Hmmmm. Wifi if you have business to take care of it please do so before entering this hotel. They should put a sign saying that WARNING NO WIFI ZONE. At night time in the lobby you may get lucky that if there are no ghost activities that night. In closing don’t let the beautiful pictures of this hotel on the internet fool you. Remember that those pictures do not mention the ROCK NATION, FLIES ALLEY, NO WIFI ZONE, KING JUMGLE VIEWS AND THE SOAP DISH FOR A LA CATE. Thank you for staying at this hotel .

The resort itself was clean and nice with a beautiful beach. The pool is a good size as well and was clean! The rooms are a good size and are clean. That ends the positive part of my review. WiFi is only in the lobby of the hotel. The ice machine outside of my room never worked. I had to ask 3 times to get the safe in my room opened before anyone came by. The area that provides towels for the beach and pool ran out of towels...every day. The food options and availability are limited. Breakfast starts at 7am and lunch is not until 1230 and dinner not until 7. If you eat early (like I do) you have long periods before food is available again outside of the snack bar, which mainly offers fried foods (fries, onion rings, jalapeno poppers, chicken nuggets, etc). The fruit did not look good so unless you want to eat fried foods as snacks every day between meals, you are stuck. The drinks at the bar were okay, but often times the bar was understaffed so you were in a line of 15-20 people to get a drink. Also the snack/bar area often ran out of seating. I have travelled a lot and stayed in resorts in multiple countries and this one lacks in service. I would recommend another resort in Costa Rica...same view but hopefully better service.

The resort is beautifully kept and clean the people are so friendly. We enjoyed the buffet and the al la cart meal very much. It is more. Towed on the weekends. We took a taxi to town 3 times for 5.00 each way which the resort handled for us. This was just a great time. Went on the excursion to Bunena Vista. Was so great. Our tour guide Hansel was just the best! For the price, you cannot go wrong!