Lovely resort

We enjoy it very much very nice location close to beach staff was very friendly food was good Hotel staff very cooperative Rooms were very clean and maintained The beds were just OK I took a foam mattress with me and was glad that I did

Jan.26,2017

Just returned from our fourth visit to this hotel and this time we brought the family. The staff was very nice and accommodating. The hotel was fine. The beach was great and the weather was perfect 6 out of the seven days we were there. The buffet quality has deteriorated somewhat since our last trip but was still acceptable.All in all we had a great time.

Fantastic quiet resort

This was our 10th trip to Cuba, every trip to a different resort. If you are looking for a quiet, off the beaten path resort with fantastic staff, good food, great beach, ample snorkelling and SCUBA then this is the place for you. It is a bit further from the airport, 2 hours or so one way. This seems to turn a few people off the resort but if you seek relaxation this is the place to be. There is nightly entertainment on the open air stage next to the 24 hour snack bar/pool bar, a mini club  [... read more]for the kids, bicycles to rent, the standard but downsized entertainment you will find on any Cuban resort. The smaller size of the 180 room resort somewhat limit the entertainment side. If you are the sort of person who requires a slick Broadway production every evening then perhaps Broadway is where you should go. One buffet, one a la carte, 3 bars (one a 24 hour with the best ham and cheese sandwiches on earth), a disco and a nautical center are the main attractions. The buffet food is good. Not just Cuba good but the best we have found at any Cuban resort. And the a la carte is even better! I don't know if it is because it's a smaller resort so food prep is easier managed but it's very good. You won't lose any weight coming here. The rooms show their 18 years of age but they are clean and comfortable with air conditioning that will freeze you out of the room. I read many negative reviews about electricity and water in the rooms. There is zero issue with either. The power went out once for an hour, likely due to the high winds that afternoon. The water is plentiful, very good pressure and will burn the skin off you if you're not careful. There were never any shortages of hot water or water pressure, even at peak times. We are beach bums so not a lot of time was spent in the pool but it was clean. Meticulously clean, in fantastic repair and comfortably warm. I'd say a pretty good pool if you're so inclined. But with the beach they have the pool is a distant second best. Probably 40 or so meters wide and over a kilometre long it would easily serve another resort or two but it's all yours. The only comparable beach in Cuba is Playa Pilar. The water is shallow for quite a ways, 100 meters and it's finally to your waist. Just beyond that the reef is found, great swimming and snorkelling there. If snorkelling and diving are your thing the nautical center is front and center on the beach. They offer all sorts of water sports, snorkel, fishing, boat tours and SCUBA, including lessons, open water certification courses and night dives, all at very reasonable prices. Of all the resorts we have been to in Cuba this is the first one we will go back to. I'm not saying it's the best for everyone but if you want a simple, laid back vacation with good food and great people this is the place to find it.

Well...

I travelled alone. The Nightly entertainment was basically a band or singer every night & quite boring. The Wi-Fi was not available for 3 days. Electricity kept failing for periods at a time. The resort is a long 2 hours away from the airport (via small town roads where you had to stop often to pass horse & buggies carrying locals - Time warp!)... On the Plus side... The beach is beautiful & the hotel grounds are well maintained.

Lovely Resort

We really enjoyed our trip to Villa Covarrubias over the Christmas break. It is a low- key, quiet resort with a lovely beach and beautiful grounds - exactly what we were looking for. The rooms are large, sparsely furnished, very clean and have balconies or terraces. No room is far from the beach or the main hotel area. The food was fine - more fresh salad stuff than at other resorts we have stayed at, which was good for us, as we are vegetarian. There is no sightseeing or shopping available near [... read more]by and the hotel is not close to the airport. It is a 2 hour transfer. I found the drive really interesting, but it was definitely hard on children, after the flight form Canada. This is a superb place to relax and read, walk along the beach, swim etc. All the staff were awesome.

Amazing resort

This hotel is just perfect spot for people who wants to be far from noise of every day life.It is located 40 km from the closest city of Puerto Padre,and it is siting on untouched white sand beach.It is perfectly clear water,untouched nature around resort,clean air and lots of beautiful locations for snorkeling and diving.As well, who like deep sea fishing, it is possible to organize those tours in the hotel.There are some seasons over the year when you can catch big sword fish or big tuna fish. [... read more] Personally, I had that opportunity, and luckily sword fish brake the line, it was so big that it was scary to think how to pull it to the boat.?? Beside this,kids can enjoy shallow water and sand,as well a pool that have three different depth. Service is very good,for the stars that hotel have,food as well,assortment of vine,beer,and Rom is also good. import drinks are served as well. Basically you can find everything that is described for hotels with 3+ star. Rooms are very spacious,clean,sat TV, Internet over WiFi, ambulance,massage,tennis court , store with regular assortment, beach closed and open restaurant, pool bar 24 hours with food and drinks, lobby bar like hide spot ,disco with A/C, etc. This resort is for anybody who is not looking for small details,and lets not forget, the price is also super for this offers, so who like to rest and party on his way with family or friends there is enough space. I am there last 16 years and I will still be present. It is yours to discover....

Extremely clean

Easiness to get around,clean everywhere . Only thing not very pleasant is that after flying 4 hours you have to be driven for over 2 hours to get to the hotel which is tedious and tiring travelingis treaturous boring and too long

Amazing friendly staff

I have stayed at the resort 4 times and will stay again. The staff is amazing and friendly The beach is great. The hotel is about 2 hours from the airport but the drive is interesting ..............

QUIET PARADISE

Best beach, best diving, best people but you need to know that you won`t probably go out of the site during your stay. The food is Cuba's food but if you're lucky and go fishing, they can cook you finsh. You can also purchase lobster at the reception.

Comfy & Relaxing

This is the place to go for a one week get away. If you are fancy smancy don't go here, if you want a place to walk the beach, swim, beach comb it is great. The resort is small, uncrowded and well laid out. The road to Brisas Covarrubias has been repaired and is in better shape than many in Nova Scotia. I traveled alone (first time) and was met at the airport and driven by cab to the resort, I thoroughly enjoyed the 2+ hour trip as the scenery is so wonderfully Cuban. My room was clean and large [... read more] with a balcony which had an ocean view and I felt very comfortable there. You don't go to Cuba for the food, but I found there was more than enough to choose from and the fresh papaya, pineapple and bananas are SO good. The main buffet area is enclosed, I prefer the open concept as it's so nice to eat outside. The beach is gorgeous, even with rough surf you can swim and be safe as it's shallow for quite a ways out. The snorkeling is not great, but I should have paid 12 pesos to go out on a boat off shore for an hour. I'm more a beach person, the pool was quite small however it had a great kiddie pool . Surprisingly I had a wonderful Sunwing rep at the resort, Renee went above and beyond to make sure he met everyone, answer any questions and provide insight into tours being offered. He arranged on his own for 4 of us to visit an organic farm and spend time in Puerto Padre, the closest small town and came with us as tour guide. In all I had a great vacation my only disappointment was that the snorkeling wasn't great from the shore. I felt safe, relaxed and well treated.

This is a hide away Resort located away from evryt

Grounds - Swept, Cleaned Everyday. Pool - LOVe Salt water Pool, like being in the ocean. Great Coffee and the wonderful smiles by the lovely Cuban people. Nice facilities, Bars, Special Restaurant. Great Ham-Cheese Burger - Excellent Cook

Pretty nice resort

grounds were well kept up until the weekend arrived and the locals came and showed such disrespect throwing garbage everywhere and being very loud and disruptive. Staff was friendly and always smiling.

Great Resort

Grounds were kept clean employees worked hard. Locals came on the weekend and were quite messy though seem to have no respect and threw trash and glasses everywhere. Excursion booked in advance and indicated that transportation was included but was not they wanted 120 CUC ( pesos) too much is I cancelled as did 9 other people this week.

Worst resort I've been to

This resort was very run down, the smell of sewage in the room was only the least of it! I've been to Cuba 9 times and this time gave me my first negative view. The Cubans were really rude and always served first which I found to be completely uncalled for! The only good thing I can say is the weather was amazing! Everything on the resort was falling apart especially the pool. I will go back to Cuba but definitely not this resort!

Not great

I travel to Cuba often and have never been disappointed but this hotel was by far the worst. Our room smelt of sewage , power off one night, no water one night the food was inedible we mostly ate potatoes rice and cucumber. This place definitely needs a overhaul. For all the people I'm sure will say it's Cuba don't expect a ritz I don't but this was by far the worst experience along with the flight

A nice and quiet resort

First of all you have to take into consideration that it's Cuba and everything is slow over there and not the quality that we have in North America; nor the price either. But the beach and the water is great.

Very disappointing responses from management

We paid for VIP stay for two weeks. Hotel room was not VIP standard; nice and big, but kid scribbles from a marker on the vanity, no drawers to put clothes in (there was space to hang items), when we had issues which we tried to speak to management about, it was a continual "we'll check into it" and no-one ever got back to us (or checked into it!). I went back everyday during the second week, with no satisfaction. At 3 p..m. the day before we left (at 6:00 a.m.) there was a note stuffed into our [... read more] door about a return guest dinner in 3 hours - we think it was a badly timed attempt to smooth things over - my husband told them we had been there for 2 weeks, so we felt they were a little late. We never did get the wake-up call we had requested. Entertainment at this hotel is almost nil - we've been to other Cuban resorts with really good offerings before dinner, after dinner, then the major show. There was nothing here until 10 p.m., sometimes later, and it was just one band. The restaurant could not accommodate everyone - line-ups for breakfast and dinner. Food was o.k., salads plentiful, soups excellent, bread freshly baked, good ice-cream - but few utensils to cut cakes, spoon puddings, etc. Often there were no glasses for juice, soup bowls had run out, and dessert dishes were non-existent. The a la carte restaurant was very good, and we enjoyed our two dinners there. The staff were all very nice and as helpful as they could be, and our rep, Abel was very consciencious. The two people giving massages were WONDERFUL. The resort is favoured by Quebecers, and we estimate at least 75-80% of the guests were from that province. Unfortunately a few of them (not the resort's fault!) decided that they could smoke in the dining room while the rest were trying to enjoy dinner. We had been there once many years ago, had a wonderful time, and thought it would be interesting to visit it again -- but because of the lack of interest on management's part to address our concerns, we certainly won't ever go back. We have been to Cuba many times before, and are familiar with the way things are done in the tourist resorts. We don't demand a lot, we appreciate what the try to do for us, and usually really enjoy our visits, which are a minimum of 2 weeks, and up to a month. The beach was really nice, and sloped gently into the ocean, so it would be fine for families with children. At low tide you have to walk quite far out to reach water deep enough (waist) to swim. The bottom of the pool is peeling away in places and needs replacing.

Great disappoinment

The accommodations were terrible. We visited 8 rooms before settling on the best of a bad lot - broken furnishings, doors that don't lock, mold on walls and ceilings, bad phone, bad TV, missing furniture, bad mattresses. Most serious issue - rationing of water for washing and toilets for the 2 weeks we were there. The front line staff in hotel were not informative, not helpful and simply shifted responsibility and blame to other authorities. The manager of the hotel was nowhere to be seen. Altho [... read more]ugh the beach front is spectacular, there is shortage of lounge chairs and many of those that are there are broken and unusable. The daily cleaning effort of debris washed up overnight is halfhearted at best. The pool liner is broken in many places and needs to be replaced.

Beautiful Beaches

The hotel is average if you book here make sure you upgrade to VIP with an ocean view room, beautiful beaches, friendly staff, if you are looking for a vacation with not much to do this is the the place great place to relax and unwind

Value trip

If you are not a picky person you will have no problems going to this resort!! Excellent people and beach plus beer are all you need for fun in the sun. Food was ok. Bingo and games at 4 o'clock is a blast and shows are entertaining!!