Barcelo Montelimar Beach

Customer Ratings & Reviews

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating

3274 reviews

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  Do not pre pay for this hotel!

  Pre payed then attempted to get a refund 7 days prior to arrival. This hotel completely ghosted me. I asked booking.com to intervene but still no communication from the hotel. Please learn from my very expensive mistake and DO NOT PRE PAY!

  Sep 07, 2025
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  24-8 through 31-8 stay

  I had a very relaxing and enjoyable stay at Barcelo Montelimar. The value for the accommodations and amenities was outstanding.

  Sep 01, 2025
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  Nice landscape. Very friendly staff but terrible beds and dirty rooms and restaurant lines.

  This hotel has very nice landscape. Beautiful garden areas with wildlife (exotic birds mostly). We even saw a small eagle behind our bungalow. The staff is very friendly but the beds are terrible and the rooms are dirty. On top of that you have to make lines at the only restaurant that serves your meals. There is no meal variety. Management appears to be resigned to only serving local guests, not international guests.

  Aug 07, 2025
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  Bad Behavior at nice facility

  I have stayed at this resort 4 times in the last ten years. It’s a great location with nice facilities and very good food, but the resort has no way to control the bad behavior of its guests. There is roaming security on the beach and security posted on the resort borders as well as an entrance guard who checks his list of guests upon arrival, but inside the resort there have been many examples of bad behavior. On our last trip there were half a dozen pools for ALL ages and just one small pool “para adultos only” and yet there was a continual influx of families with small children into that one pool. Periodically a nearby lifeguard would stroll into the adults-only pool area and patiently explain that it’s FOR ADULTS only and then those people would argue with him. After the guard left more children would enter into that pool and not just sit quietly but splash, jump up and down while their parents sing songs of the revolution and the guard would not return for another 20-30 minutes. Bad-behaving parents teaching their children its okay to break the rules and annoy older adults, especially gringos. Ugh. The “bungalows” are nice with comfortable beds and usually warm shower water but twice I have been awakened, including my last visit, by drunken guests usually young men. There is NO security to prevent this from happening. I had to go to the drunken young men and ask them, “por favor mas tranquillo” at 1 am. I have stayed at hotels from San Juan del Sur to Ometepe Island, Granada and Managua and have never had so many problems with other guests, national or international, but at this Barcelo beach resort the guests behave differently. Maybe it has something to do with being an “all-inclusive” hotel where people line up like pigs at the feeding trough and nights are not too expensive? If the prices were doubled would there be a different collection of guests? I don’t know, but I wont be returning to this resort again.

  Jul 20, 2025
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  Food

  The room was dirty, the food was bad, the room phone not working, the door key not working, we are three people and only the put on the fridge on soda and one water

  Jul 07, 2025