Villas Playa Samara Beach Front Resort

Great location - terrible feeling place to stay. We paid ~$200 USD a night and we were surrounded by groups of people who were on Groupon tours, and even they were not impressed with the place after paying a fraction of what we paid. Calling the food was terrible would not be accurate, it was safe to eat - like a piece of dry toast during a hangover. Yes it is edible, but you won't enjoy anything about it. Having Samara so close with such incredible food choices, there is no reason to eat here except for the free breakfast. Try Gusto, Luv Burger, or Coco's Mexican - just 5 minutes by car away and all worth the trip. I know working out on a vacation is silly - but the Gym they advertise is in shambles. Only one of the machines worked and it was rusted to hell and screamed like a banshee if you tried to use it. I wish I would have taken photo's, it was funny how broken things were. The staff are robots - having a 10am checkout with zero possibility of extending is a joke. They could also not find our Expedia reservation (even though we had one printed out AND sent them the e-mail) and made us wait for 20 minutes upon checkout to verify that we had actually paid. Amature hour~

Our villa was right on the beach, with an excellent view of the sunset. We felt very safe there and the staff where great! The complimentary breakfast was fantastic, not like the continental in the US. All the food we had was great. We took a kayak and snorkel tour with Samara Aventure Company that took us to the Island we could see from our room. This resort seems to be the only one on the water in Samara. It is a short drive in to town. Great spot!

Not the best hotel in the world but it has a prime location in Samara beach and the accommodation is comfortable we had a really nice stay. Stayed in a beachfront 1BR apartment. Things worked OK. Pool was fun and activities reasonably well organized. Nice to be able to cook in room.

Hotel needs maintenance and fixing: doors don't open or close properly; the drain gets clogged; sewage pipes are too small and get clogged, three out of six lamps did not work, etc. (After having reported the said problems, the maintenance team fixed them but it took half a day before the repairs were completed: half a day that you pay $ 245 for it.) There is no TV. The kitchen is poorly equipped. Food in the hotel is extremely expensive: you can get three dinners in the local restaurants for the price of one in this facility. Staff is very friendly, however, and ready to assist you or to fix the non-working things. They also act fast. The hotel is located on the beach but the ocean in Playa Samara is very murky, dirty (polluted) and it does not smell good, either. The village Samara is about two miles from the hotel. It is a very small, kind of funky, quite picturesque place that feels like going 50 years back in time.

The hotel is conveniently located in front of one of the best beaches in Guanacaste ideal for families with toddlers and young children or seniors who don´t want to go around steep places due the fact the hotel area is totally flat. The issue I have is with the policy of staff management that the hotel administration has. I´ve been a regular visitor of this hotel during the last decade and saddly the place seems to be receding in the quality of the staff and the ammenities that they offer. The pool bar was close due to the lack of bartender, and for the check out day, my wife and myself had to carry our laugage from the villa to the parcking lot for a distance of nearly 500 mts, and as we have 3 toddlers this task was very unpleasant. The explanation they gave us was that one of the guards didn´t show up that day for no reason, so they have to put the bellboy to do the missing guy´s work.

Bathrooms with old and broken tiles, no tv in the bedrooms, old kitchen appliances.

We arrived to a pool that was not clean and a swim up bar that was not open and needed significant repairs. We (and other guests) called Hotels.com or other booking services to complain. The hotel responded, but it was very disappointing to plan on pool and bar time and not have that option. There was not enough staff working to attend to the guests. Clearly the hotel is being renovated. While the food on the menu was fair, the dining room was beautiful. Breakfast was much better than other meals. Great location on the beach

I'm usually a backpacker but was there for a business conference... I can take a lot but not ants in my bed... Killed 50 of them, next day told reception, who promised to spray bed and replace sheets... Which were not replaced (just dusted off), despite my repeated complains they were never replaced... Swimming pool was unusable for 5 days... Sometimes had to wait 1.5 hrs to get good at restaurant, etc etc... Def not worth the money, better of at youth hostels or at a decent hotel (nobody in my conference group of 20 people was satisfied, TV didn't work in any room etc etc)

Room with TV but cable, restaurante services it's slow and many times they simple forgot this,

Staff service was deficient, and the room had no TV signal form the full weekend.