Melia Tortuga Beach - All Inclusive

Amazing hotel with amazing programs during night. Lovely personnel, special thanks to the waiters at pool bar number 2 namely Bruno, Ricardo, Lizito and Flavia. We would love to return to this hotel again. Thank you for amazing experiences. Last words: No stress! Barbora and Pavel from Czech republic.

On arrival we checked in at reception and paid to upgrade to the VIP package, at a cost of €50 for adults (3) and €30 for children (1), totalling €180 per day. See photo for listed benefits. We then booked the various restaurants etc for our weeklong holiday with Wagner (VIP manager). We were then given the key cards to our villa and shown on the map where our 4 bed beachfront villa was located and told our luggage would follow. On arriving at the villa, none of the key cards would open the front door, but we managed to gain access through a patio door that had been left unlocked. We then tried to use the phone in the room to contact reception, but this was not working. My husband went to the Cabana restaurant/bar to ask if they could call reception to inform them that our keys didn’t work. Abruptly, he was told NO you have to walk back up to reception to sort out!! Our bags arrived and we trudged back up to reception to get new key cards and inform them that the phone and tv’s in the villa also weren’t working. They were unable to immediately fix the keycards so we were given one normal metal door key, to use between the 4 of us. They also said that the phone in the room had not worked for some months and they would come and look at the tvs, which had no remote controls in the room. We then asked how we were meant to contact reception or order any 24hour room service from our room without a telephone and were told to WhatsApp Wagner or Heidy if we wanted anything!! This obviously turned out to be impractical as they would have days off and didn’t work 24hours. The villa was promoted as having a fully equipped kitchen. Yes there was a kettle,fridge, microwave etc, but not a single item of cutlery or crockery etc to use to even make a cup of tea, let alone a saucepan! The other items that were obviously missing from the villa were, bathrobes, bathroom amenities such as tissues, cotton buds, decent amount of toilet rolls, fans in 3 bedrooms as air conditioning only in master bed and lounge, table and chairs on the patio and to be honest it just seemed dirty and bare. We messaged Wagner, to request the missing items etc and problems with the villa but he had already gone home for the day, but he passed the messages onto to Heidy to resolve. We were tired from a full days travel and just went to signora sassi for dinner and thought we’d sort it out the next day as we weren’t getting much help from reception, who just stared at us blankly claiming they didn’t understand. In using the villa overnight, we realised just how filthy it was, with what we hope was insect blood on the walls, fungi growing in the showers, ticks and cockroaches in the bedrooms, mold growing on the disgustingly stained mattresses, grease stains on cushions and curtains, filthy floor, stained bedding and towels, we once again trudged up to reception and demanded to see the manager, Mr Luis Miguel Goncalves as our youngest daughter had also come out in a rash basicall

This place is dirty. They haven't changed my bed sheets in five days, but still made the bed with the dirty linen. I've asked three times today (twice to the manager) for clean sheets and every time got a smile and "yes yes" but my bed still has dirty linen and smelly pillows. Don't go if you value hygiene.