Olas Permanentes El Zonte

The location is nice, the beach is right in front of the hotel restaurant. The lady at the reception was nice and friendly. She can help you set up surf lessons.

However, the hotel looks much nicer in pictures in real life the facilitates are old and dated. The food was terribly disappointing. They offered crab ceviche but it wasn’t even real crab ( despite the menu stating it was fresh crab and the fact that olas is an hotel at the beach so you expect fresh seafood). When I asked the waiter if this was real crab he said yes, but eventually the manager took it away. The good thing is that they didn’t charge us for it. I have an allergy to soy/surimi so this type of incidents could be extremely dangerous for someone with a food allergy. We also ordered a strawberry smoothie that had no strawberries. They need to invest in the kitchen as the breakfast was not tasty at all and lacked in flavor. Our room also had no toilet paper, which was unfortunate when you go to the bathroom at 11pm only to find our there is no toilet paper. Luckily, we had friends staying in another room that did have toilet paper. The main reason why this place gets a poor review was because of the barking dogs. They have 4-5 dogs which is nice but they shouldn’t be out and about barking from 10pm-6am. Our room was next to the parking lot and we weren’t able to get a good night sleep because of this. If they need the dogs to guard the hotel then they shouldn’t have a room next to the parking lot when they know the amount of noise their dogs make every time someone walks in or they hear a noise. Other hotels around the area where cheaper so we just expected higher standards based on what we paid. There was no hot water but that is too be expected and part of the experience of traveling in Central America. However, overall what we got was not worth the price.

Wonderful place right by the beach with great staff and Bitcoin payments available throughout.

location and comfort

service and food was bad felt like we had to beg to get help or order anything and the breakfasts were all not good.

that it was beach front property