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Reviews of Flamingo Marina Resort

3 out of 5
Flamingo Marina Resort
Playa Flamingo, Cabo Velas, Guanacaste

Reviews

5.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 23 out of 126 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 24 out of 126 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 16 out of 126 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 27 out of 126 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 36 out of 126 reviews" "

5.8/10

Cleanliness

5.8/10

Staff & service

4.0/10

Amenities

5.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Shara

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

2/10 Terrible

Joanne

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

joe

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
everything is wrong about this place
Stayed 10 nights in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

William

Business traveler, Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel is a SCAM
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Darren

Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2024

4/10 Poor

Christine

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property is old and supplies nothing. No coffee maker, no shampoo ect, old towels.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

2/10 Terrible

Phillip

Business traveler
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beware
NO fridge for insulin, ice for insulin, hot water, bar(or pool), clean pillows (Yellow from sweat), breakfast or restaurant, vending machines, bilingual staff. I left after one night even though there are no refunds.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Wade

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Maria F

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Christine

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The pool is falling apart, there is no restaurant or bar as was advertised in the photos. The hotel is pretty much abandonded, the beds were absolutely horrible and were like sleeping on a piece of plywood! The sheets and pillows had stains on them. We asked for a refund immediately after checking in, but we were denied by the owner. Overall terrible hotel, I wouldnt recommend this place to my enemy!
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

4/10 Poor

Rachel

Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

4/10 Poor

Vadim

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

2/10 Terrible

Fong Yi

Traveled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We booked a Junior suite for a weekday. We arrived and there was no one at the property, no one was at the lobby/reception. The security guard was the only person there. Swimming pool had no water, really the place was not as described. We checked out immediately and went to another hotel close by. Expedia did a great job helping me. They call the hotel but obviously no one will answer then the agent helped to arrange the refund and also gave me member rewards to compensate the bad experience. Thank you.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

ELizabeth

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

2/10 Terrible

carlos

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very misleading
Not as advertised. No customer service. Not a resort at all with misleading amenities! Booked 3 nights and left after first night. Our front door had only one very loose handle with chipped wood around where it had been jimmied. Broken chair in room and no jaccuzi.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Katherin

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

4/10 Poor

Rosa Isabel

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pésimo
Pésimo atención , no hubo servicio de cuarto , ni siquiera dan lo básico , las toallas con huecos, no había coffe maker, terrible. Los baños sucios y para colmo ni siquiera tienen teléfono en recepción y solo vimos en todo el hotel como dos personas trabajando no se podía uno comunicar
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

May-liss

Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Todd

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
great vacation,, Destination,, Enjoyed the property and the resort, Safe place for the family, Made great memories
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Grettel

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Mercedes

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was only 1 security guard and felt unsafe There was only 1 other guests and they checked out early too. There were giant cockroaches in the room. Totally disgusting! I'm calling Expedia to try and get my money back.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

6/10 Okay

Eddy

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good swimming pool, private beach and big place to enjoy with children and teenager
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lanai, Bend

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Dated building but views were breathtaking. The staff were super friendly. Bring your own shampoo/conditioner.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Teresita

2/10 Terrible

Adrianne

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Ricardo

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022

4/10 Poor

Carolina

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

Erick

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excelente
Excelente atención del personal lugar muy tranquilo con vista espectacular
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sergio

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Good
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
unclean and insufficient by all means
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

2/10 Terrible

Rosibel

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel en remodelación y obras.
Aún cuando escogí una oferta de $ 88 por día, me cobraron $131 por día de viernes a domingo y por el día lunes $ 137 (si fue por cargos o comisión es DEMASIADO). Un lugar en obras, la ducha sumamente sucia y solo un día de limpieza. Lo único que puedo resaltar positivamente es la atención del encargado.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2022

2/10 Terrible

Andre

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

2/10 Terrible

Lesli

Traveled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awful experience
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2022

6/10 Okay

Johnny

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property has been pretty much abandoned by the owner. Lacks cleaning, painting and overall maintenance. They only have one person per shift doing everything. You can see how overwhelmed they feel just by talking to them. We paid around $300 a night for this hotel based on good experience we had years ago, but it was sold and the new management hasn’t been able to keep it up. Note. Employees were really kind.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2021

2/10 Terrible

Vipul

Traveled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
view was the only thing good. Old Ghoast town. I would not stay even free. Orbitz should remove from their linsting.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2021

4/10 Poor

Tim

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible
I would never stay here again. Wifi horrible and there was no free breakfast as advertised. In fact there was no restaurant, bar or anything else. The pictures make it look nice but the place should be bulldozed. Stay away.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020
Response from Management on May 2, 2020
We are sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your stay. Your stay included free breakfast, and we personally informed you of the time and location of breakfast. We also provided you with the free wifi password.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
The beautiful view is undeniable and being in that pool is wonderful. The room was clean and had AC. The staff I met were great and really friendly, although sparse. The important parts were just fine, and as advertised. I was disappointed with how run down the rest of the hotel was. It was obvious there was once a restaurant and bar. There's a sign saying the place is for sale for redevelopment. Small problems everywhere and it seems they're not looking to fix them. A couple examples: Hot water runs down the shower wall from the tap constantly. There are gaps around the doors letting the heat in so the AC has to work hard to keep up. These things are easily solved and would save the hotel money, but don't affect the guests much.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020
Response from Management on May 2, 2020
Thank you so much for staying with us and taking the time to leave your comments. We appreciate your feedback on the small improvements to the room. We are glad that you enjoyed your stay and loved our unbeatable view!

8/10 Good

Ingrid

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We really liked everything about the hotel, except for the construction of the marina noise going on right now.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2020
Response from Management on May 2, 2020
Thank you so much for staying with us! We are so glad to hear that you enjoyed your stay. We cannot control when there is construction on different properties, but we always do our maintenance work at strategic times to be courteous to our guests.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
We enjoyed the helpful staff, the location and the price. The rooms were very clean with fresh towels supplied daily. It is a shame that they show a full Monkey bar in operation, where it has been closed for a few years. The restaurant is breakfast only. We loved the breakfast and Oliver who served us each morning. Amy was very helpful and we told her we will be back. Thank you for everything.
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2020
Response from Management on May 2, 2020
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts here. We are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your stay and found our staff helpful. We hope to see you again soon!

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The place is dated, needs a lot of renovations
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

2/10 Terrible

Peter

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Awful
It was terrible. We left a day early. Photos are 15 or 20 years old. There is no restaurant. First room they gave us was filthy. Linens old. Price was a total rip off. You need to check out the properties before you list.
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Margarita

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

4/10 Poor

Susan

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overpriced and run down
Overpriced for a very basic room with no toiletries, chair nor even a table. Hard beds. Bathroom was recently redone and was good. Property was very very run down. The word ’resort’ needs to be removed from this hotel name.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

2/10 Terrible

cynthia

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really bad experience
Nasty hotel, a/c didn't work, no wifi, building is old , with no maintenance at all and stinks, they should shut down this hotel and you will remove from hotels.com
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
The girl in the reception was really nice. Private beach was cool
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Management on Mar 23, 2019
We are happy to hear that you enjoyed the private beach and our friendly staff!

8/10 Good

Yaqueline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2019
Response from Flamingo Marina Resort on Feb 22, 2019
Thank you! We hope you stay with us again soon!

2/10 Terrible

marsha

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disgusting Hotel
This is the worst hotel I have ever stayed at! The restaurant was not open the rooms where old and the beds very uncomfortable there was only a half roll of toilet paper in the bathroom and no other rolls around. The hotel is very, very, very run down. Not at all as the pictures describe on the website. I felt ripped off having paid $160 for this room it was more like a $20 room. I would not recommend anyone to book this room.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019
Response from Flamingo Marina Resort on Feb 22, 2019
We are sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your stay. We wish you the best of luck in your future travels as we have never heard of a $20 room that includes a beautiful waterview, easy access via paved steps to a secluded beach, multiple large pools, kayak equipment, use of tennis courts and equipment, and gated secure parking--especially in an exclusive area like Playa Flamingo

2/10 Terrible

Nelson, Florida U.S.A

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bad experience 😳😳😳 dirty place, i will not recommend.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sergio

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Hotel is in a great location but you have to walk up a little hill to get there if your walking. EVERYONE needs a lil walk on vacation. The hotel has its own beach and its BEAUTIFUL. Just a few minutes walk from your room. The hotel was very quite when I stayed there. Its slow season. The pool and Jacuzzi was super clean. In fact the whole place was super clean. The view from my room was breath taking. ALL the staff was Great. The manager Romero took time out to help out with my cell phone issues and got me a good rate on a cab. The maids accommodated my time to come and clean. Didn't want early morning cleaning. The bed mattress could be more comfortable but life's unfair and not perfect so get over the lil stuff. I had a great time and will be back.
Stayed 7 nights in May 2018