The Most for the Least!!

I love this small, intimate hotel. The fact that the same guests return year after year speaks to its popularity and homey feeling. Set on top of a hill, it looks down over the sea and the town of Chivirera. You have to be able to do the 300 steps down to the private beach with the bbq lunches. It's worth the climb. But there is also a lovely small pool and hot tub right on the grounds. The facilities are simple but quite adequate. And the staff are absolutely wonderful. Warm and helpful with re [... read more]ady smiles. A delightful and economic holiday. Ive been here twice and will definitely go again.

Wonderful, friendly resort

The staff are amazing, friendly and courteous. They treat you like family and will try their best to cater to one's needs. The resort is near a town which is within walking distance and very safe to walk around.

Great find!

I loved this hotel. The staff was amazing, the food was very good and plentiful, the rooms were pleasant and very clean and best of all, because of its small size (only 35 rooms) it was very intimate and like being with family. I would definitely go back.

Great time

Very small resort, not for the party type. Perfect for me and my family. Loved the staff, fellow travellers, beach and proximity to town. Food was simple but excellent. Local musicians made the evenings very cultured and enjoyable. Will definitely be returning.

Different kind of vacation

Small resort, friendly people (stuff & guests). Small, but never crowded, amazing beach, around three hundred stairs to get there (good exercise); no noisy entertainment. Recommended for everyone who likes quiet vacation.

Lovely quiet little resort

Rooms: basic, but fine for sleeping. Nice terrace off every room. No bad views. The 200 block is the best. Food is fine - sometimes items are not available, but we were happy with the choice and portion size. Beach is lovely - great lunch. About 260 steps to the beach mean you work off the extra calories you ingest. The best thing about this resort is the fact it is very small and quiet - no loud music thumping or people trying to get you to dance the merengue.

New management, unfortunate changes

After nearly thirty years of annual visits to Cuba, mostly at all-inclusive resorts from Havana circling the island to Santiago de Cuba, we thought last year that we'd finally found the ideal place: Los Galeones, a 32-room lovely hotel on top of a hill, 300 steps up from a beautifully secluded beach. Since no guests under 16 are permitted, this resort stood out among all the others as a very peaceful, quiet place where one can actually relax and enjoy a conversation with friends, read a book or  [... read more]even just sit and listen to the ocean. Of course we had to return there, and did for the latter two weeks of November, only to find that it's under new management. How sad to discover that this new man is determined to kill the uniqueness of the previous Galeones by turning it more and more into the over-all loud and obnoxious "entertainment" that's now a daily routine. Even down at the beach he insists that a band should play, every day, during lunch, while there is no escape from the earsplitting bands at the upstairs dining room every dinner. We discussed this new development with a number of regular "repeats" at this resort and concluded, that they will no longer be "repeats" if things don't return at least for 50 or 60 % of our time there to the former blissful quiet ambiance that made it so special.

Los Galeones

The 300 steps are still there; the hill (driveway) is still very uneven; but the hotel itself has been updated with new mattresses and some flat-screen TVs. Still have room for improvement, but it is so small and intimate that you meet your fellow guests in an hour; food is no longer excellent, but still the best we've had in Cuba. Best staff ever; maintenance crew were always available for the smallest thing; a few blips of power outages (lasted about 10 minutes each) but occurred in the mornin [... read more]g so didn't need to get flashlight out! For R&R the best ever; for active people, you will get a work out!

Truly amazing!

Small, intimate, with truly personal service from staff obviously very happy to have you as their guest, and a veiw that is as good or better than any anywhere in the world from every room! I know, it sounds too good to be true, but check it out, I promise you won't be disappointed.

Excellent stay!

I went on short notice after a death in the family for rest and recovery. It's a small modest hotel. The rooms are comfortable, the pool wonderful, the food very good and the staff delightful. It's a sister to a larger resort so if you feel like crowds and more eating choices and bigger pools, you can do that easily with a quick trip to the other resort. There are regulars who have been coming back for years and I found this at first tiresome but it is a large part of the charm. It is a couple o [... read more]f hundred stairs down to the beach so you plan for it when you go. The Manager Eddy has been there for 20 years and goes out of his way to make your stay comfortable. I would come back.

Very nice and relaxing!

This was a very small resort and the service was excellent. The food was very good and was al a carte. The grounds were lovely. The pool was a little small but we are not pool people. We had the beach to ourselves most days as there were 300 stairs down to the beach. We would eat our lunch and stay down there most of the day. The stairs might be difficult for some people. We would come back to this resort.

Relaxing spot

The resort is small and relaxing and although it is a long bumpy ride to the location from the airport when you get there you feel like you are at home. There is no loud music, or entertainment and you feel like you are isolated but the staff is very friendly and attentive to all your needs that you forget that there is little to do other than relax and enjoy the scenery.

Great for the over 60 crowd

This was our fifth visit to this resort. The resort itself is adults only and quite small, only 32 rooms all with great views. If you are looking for non stop entertainment, water sports and a very large beautiful beach then this is definitely not the spot for you. But if you are a senior, want just to relax, read and soak in the sun it is perfect. There are just under 300 steps from the resort down to the ocean where there is a small beach and a very small pool at the resort level. The beach is [... read more] good for snorkeling but not swimming as there is a lot of coral and rock. There is a beach bar and a barbecue lunch is served at the beach, so once you make the hike down you can spend the day. Unfortunately when it's time to climb back up the sun is usually at it's hottest :) At the beach you will be visited by goats and this year two mother pigs and their piglets also visited daily. The rooms are clean and the staff is very friendly. The road from the airport to the resort has improved 90%, the food is good for Cuba but if you stay longer than 1 week it does become very monotonous as the menu repeats itself. There are singing groups that come at dinner time and they are always very good. We travelled with Hola Sun and never once saw our rep either at the resort or airport which was very disappointing so we were unable to book trips off the resort. Los Galeones has a sister resort Sierra Mar which is about 20 minutes away. A shuttle bus (when and if it's running) will take you there in the morning twice a week and return you in time for dinner. So you can spend the day at Sierra Mar and your bracelet from Los Galeones is all you need to eat and drink there. From Los Galeones you are able to walk down the hill to visit the village of Chivrico and this is a great experience. The weather is usually quite hot in March (when we have gone in the past). All in all we had good time but are undecided at this point if we will return. I see that the next questions asks if we would recommend this hotel to a friend, I will say yes because we are seniors but I would definitely not recommend it to our children.

Simply peaceful!!

Beautiful resort with stunning views all round. Very clean rooms and friendly staff. Great resort if you're looking for peace and tranquility. The beach was clean and very quiet, there's a little rock pool off to the side with about 5 different types of fish.