Orient Beach Hotel

Nice hotel on a wonderful location but there are some things that have to be improved. Rooms nice, spacious and all with nice views. Staff is kind. But: - although breakfast was included in the booking, it was not mentioned that it included only very limited options. Only bread, some fruit and croissants and filter coffee was included. If you wanted eggs, pancakes or nice coffee, big surcharges had to be paid. How can you call this “including breakfast”? - in the hotel information was mentioned that sunbeds at the beach were included. What they don’t mention is that you can only use second row or further back. Front row is for external paying customers. Very weird. - during this time, large amounts of sargassum seaweed is present in orient bay which is annoying while swimming and produces bad smell. This was not mentioned when booking rooms. - most of the staff was on holiday for the fist part of our stay so nothing, except for breakfast, was open. This was also not mentioned.

First time to St. Martin and I am so glad we decided to stay here. Room was great, excellent view, very clean, quiet and perfect location. Within walking distance of everything in Orient Beach. Would definitely stay here again if we decided to visit SXM again.

Great hotel - spacious rooms, well kept and wonderful location. We had a room on the top floor and had great views of the beach and ocean. It was nice to have a continental breakfast available as well as beach chairs. We would certainly stay here again. The only issue - and it is not with the hotel - is while the beach is beautiful, there was a great deal of seaweed on the beach which made walking on the hard part of the sand, difficult. It seems as if it was particularly bad this time of year. It is though a beautiful beach.

My daughter and I spent a lovely 5 days at Orient Beach Hotel. I cannot say enough good things about this hotel and highly recommend it. We enjoyed our stay from beginning to end. The staff in the front office was very helpful and friendly. Junior assisted us in renting a car for the day by making one phone call and a car was brought to us within half an hour for the day. While it is not necessary to have a car at this hotel, it was nice to have for the day to go to the large supermarket and to tour the island. However, the Orient Bay Village is within walking distance of the hotel where there are many restaurants and a small supermarket. The hotel itself is 3 stories, and we stayed in a room on the third floor. Junior assisted us with our luggage upon check in and check out. The room was lovely and quite large. The room had a stove, sink, microwave and refrigerator as well as a Nespresso and a tea kettle. We did not cook in the room but it was great to have the refrigerator to keep our drinks cold. The room was spotless, and the air conditioning worked great. The only complaint I had about the room was the bed was a bit hard and we could have used more pillows. The bathroom was quite lovely and there was plenty of hot water. There was a hair dryer affixed to the wall and the only issue was that you had to hold the handle in for it to work and it was quite difficult to blow dry my hair while holding down the handle with one hand while styling my hair with the other. We asked for additional towels to be left each day and they were. The room was cleaned each day which is necessary to get rid of trash particularly if you are cooking in the room as there really were no garbage pails around the hotel to dispose of garbage. The best part of this hotel was the view and the beach!! The view of the ocean from our room was amazing. I tried to imprint it in my memory as photographs do not do it justice. While the water is quite rough on this side of the island, it is magnificent. Hotel guests are allowed access to 4 beach clubs. Cocoa Beach is currently closed which was disappointing as they are changing management there. We stayed at the KKO Beach Club every day which is directly in front of the hotel. It is a very quiet and relaxing beach club. There were always plenty of chairs with umbrellas. On Wednesday when many cruise ships are on the island, the beach was very crowded. However, the beach club had some blocked off areas for the cruise ship visitors. While they came to Orient Bay by bus by the dozens, they were all gone after lunch. While there is some concern about not having front row beach chairs, we sat in the third row but many times there were no chairs in front of us so our view of the water was unobstructed. The beach is not that large so even if you have to sit in the third row, it is not really an issue at KKO. The service was consistently good at KKO and we found no reason to go anywhere else. We also made use of the hotel pool eve