La Playa Orient Bay

Beautiful beach access and good restaurant on the beach

Fantastic 2 weeks stay at La Playa hotel. Amazing and safe location. Convenient place with good restaurants very close (walking distance). Super hotel team. The receptionists are amazing totally dedicated to your wellness with good advices for visiting the beaches of the island, arranging your booking (tours, car rental and restaurants). The manager totally concern by offering the best stay in the hotel. Definitely an hotel and an island to choose if your dream is to spent good time in the Caribbean. Iskra&Philippe

The beach is beautiful and resort with free breakfast is in great shape. Sargassum Sea **** can be a disappointment though. About 7 Beach bars but food service shuts down at about 4pm because the little Village has about 10 restaurants that open at 5 pm

We stayed at the hotel for 7 days. Very good location - 120m-150m from the room to the beach. The air temperature was 27-28 degrees, water 24-25 degrees. Near the hotel, at a distance of 2-3 minutes walk, there are 11 restaurants with good food, but not very cheap. There was a lot of seaweed on the beach, but they were removed in the morning (a tractor took out the seaweed, but for some reason only from the beach of neighboring hotels). The hotel has very friendly and helpful staff, except for the beach worker and the hotel manager. I was surprised that usually companies spend significant amounts of money on advertising, and the hotel manager made every effort to lose customers. There is no shade on the beach at all, the umbrellas are very small (one umbrella for two sunbeds) and it only covers half of one sunbed from the sun. Many umbrellas are old and rusty... It seemed to me that they still remember Napoleon Bonaparte :))). When checking into the hotel, each guest is given a card for a beach towel, which must be taken and returned only at the reception (150 m from the beach). You don't want to lie on a wet towel all day, you need to go and change it every time, but after two times the manager forbids changing the towel - she says that there won't be enough for other guests. The hotel positions itself as a 4 star, but the breakfast is 2 stars! There are no vegetables at all for breakfast (and this is in the south), no fish (and this is an island in the sea). There are only eggs, bacon and fried sausages (these are from the hot), only one type of cheese and one type of yogurt, but very tasty bread. There was a lot of mold in the room. We asked to remove it, after the second request they changed our room, but for some reason to a lower level. There are no slippers or robes in the rooms. Terrible internet, which requires a reboot after a short time. The entire hotel area and rooms are very clean. They bring 1 bottle of water, 1 tea bag and 1 coffee capsule per person to the rooms. If guests want an additional tea bag, they must pay 1.5 euros. The whole atmosphere of the hotel feels frugal and poor. I really regret that we went to this hotel!

Staff wasn't friendly at all! At the beach, you won't be able to see the staff to order drinks. If he was around, and maybe ask customers if they want anything, hotel would make much more money! At the beach bar, bartender was kind of rude. Breakfast was complimentary, but don't get excited, not many choices, very very basic ! Rooms we like, clean and good size! Beach was nice. That's it. Wouldn't go back again!

The hotel was the same as the pictures on their website. The room we had on the third floor was excellent with a nice size refrigerator and freezer which we used only to store some wine, water and I made some ice just because there was an ice tray. The hotel had a very convenient large ice machine. The staff were very friendly and helpful for the most part ,we had some miscommunication issues with the staff replenishing the coffee in the room but they made up for it by giving us some extra. It was no big deal. Only other issue was that when we went to lunch the first few days at the very convenient beach side restaurant the staff kept asking us if we had reservations even though the restaurant was never fully occupied. We then said we would like a reservation every day for lunch and the issue ended. The restaurant had many tables available every day so I’m not sure why they made such a requirement. The breakfast was a nice meal with a great view. Very relaxing way to start the day. There are many restaurants (8 or 9) for dinner a short walk from the hotel as well as a two small grocery stores which also sell wine and spirits, a good pizzeria ,ice cream shop, bakery and deli. Everything you would need plus a beautiful beach.