Great resort experience

Valentin Perla Blanca is beautiful and we thoroughly enjoyed our week there. The bars were stocked, food was good especially the a la cartes and the grill at the beach. The beachfront is amazing and the entertainment was very good. Hope to return soon.

Great Week in the Sun

Spent a week at Perla Blanca from Feb21-28, 2024. Beach, sun, and ocean were fantastic. Hotel staff were all kind and courteous. Yes there were shortages of various things, but this is to be expected for the Island of Cuba where their primary revenue stream is tourism and ALL resorts are recovering from the "COVID Pandemic". If you want "fine dining", go to the south of France or Italy. If you want beautiful quiet beaches, great ocean water, and somewhere to "unplug" for a week, come here. All t [... read more]hings considered it was an enjoyable stay.

Amazing place

Perla Blanca is a beautiful place. Nicest beaches I have ever been too. People of Cuba are fantastic and so kind. The hotel has everything you could want to make your stay in paradise exactly that. It's a hidden gem on Cayo Santa Maria.

One of the best resorts in Cayo Santa Maria

The hotel is tastefully made and designed. Loved the garden and the landscaping work. Rooms are clean and spacious. The food is great- it is cuba so you have to come with an understanding and willingness to try different food than your usual. The seafood they served was absolutely the best part. Freshest calamari I have ever had in my life. Entertainment team worked really hard koodoos to all of them. The only problem was the repetitiveness. Maybe through in a karaoke or some more engaging activ [... read more]ities in between for a change. We got to see the other resorts on the island and came to love our own much better. The ocean and beach get A+ no need for my words. Very friendly staff. Keep in mind if you want to see the city and the “real” cuba you have to leave island and that’s 48km. So renting a car is a must, or get one of the excursions. We rented a car because we like having the freedom. Excursions don’t take you deep into the city, only main squares. If you like to learn about people, their living conditions and real cuba I highly recommend renting a car for one day and go to Cambarien and Remedios. Overall I recommend.

Best bang for your buck!

You can not have high expectations when going to Cuba as there are shortages of some food items,but you will never starve. Valentin Perla Blanca has the best staff,especially the Lobby Bar -Victor,Adislen and Sarah, along with all the others, work as an efficient team. Lobby bar entertainment ,prior to dinner, is top notch. Bbq at the beach is fantastic! Need to get more chairs at the beach,as many broken. Second time there and will go back.

Paradise

The hotel staff is amazing and go above and beyond. The management needs to work on safety for its staff. Staff are often working in unsafe conditions. Dancers forced to dance on floor in bare feet where a glass was broken instead of dancing on the stage. Several dancers got glass in their foot! The food this time was below par but the a la carts were delicious as always. Taking care that buffet food isn’t left out too long would be important. A few times the juice was served rotten/ spoiled. Li [... read more]kely saved from another meal. Toilet paper is a necessity in public washrooms and in the room. It was unacceptable to run out. Thankfully we brought some from home. For thousands of dollars spent on a trip I expected toilet paper to be included.

Valentin oasis

This was our first trip to the Valentin perla blanca in Cayo santa Cuba. This resort has a lot if plus. But there is a few minus. Food is the minus. The beach is the best I've seen so far in Cuba. At the Valentin to the right, it become a naturist reserve. No reports that way and amazing beach untouched. The staff is amazing. I want to return soon.

Nice resort

We just came back from Cayo Santa Maria Valentin Perla Blanca. Spend a week there, unfortunately whether was not too good and windy, but beaches were still amazing and clean. We did not waste a day at the beach despite the wind. Hotel stuff is amazing friendly and helpful. Especially at the Tea corner bar. Keiny is absolutely perfect and very customer oriented, as well as Ailene and Sara Antonella. They did a wonderful job on serving clients. At the lobby bar Yari did gave us an e [... read more]xcellent service, but because every evening it was too loud we did not spend much time there. We stayed at the building #30 and our maids Ailen and Dayanis cleaned our room every day very well. Thank you, girls. Food. Considering a bad economic situation in Cuba, food was very good. Have a lot of cheese, papaya and even veggies. I was surprised be taste of tomatoes and one evening there were even cucumbers. Seafood and meat were good too. Our servant at the buffet were Mayelky and Yerandy, always helpful and with the smile. At the Snack bar Yanexy did a good job serving us. In general we are very pleased with the service and hotel.

Gorgeous Resort - perfect Beach

This resort is absolutely stunning compared to others we drove by . Its light and bright lobby is so inviting. The main Bar has everything and the service is great. The coffee bar is the best in the entire place - you can get ice coffees, Spanish coffees, Irish coffees, Cappuccino, etc. etc. We had coffee there every single day. The beach is stunning - white sand with crystal clear greenish blue water. No fish, No junk, No weeds. Each beach area has a bar and a snack bar which makes h [... read more]amburgers, chicken sandwiches and cuban pulled pork sandwiches. My favorite were the burgers. Lots of chairs to sit on at the beach. The pools were fantastic as well with lots of chairs. Its a huge resort over 1000 rooms but we went during slow time so probably only about 250 rooms rented. I am not sure i would want to be there with over 2000 people. I suspect when its full you would have a hard time getting a chair at the pool or the beach (not sure !). We will be going back there. The food is typical of all the resorts - there is plenty to eat but depends on your taste buds. Its after all Cuban and not North American food preparation. That is what people forget. There is a shortage of Toilet paper in public washrooms - so bring a couple of rolls from home and always take it with you on the resort. Your room will have toilet paper so not to worry there. The rooms were a good size and the balcony was great. We did not upgrade but had standard Gardenview room which was very nice. There are cats on the resort - so i made sure we fed them during our stay. I took my leftover food in a zip loc baggie and fed them as i saw them.

Fun n Friendly but lacked toilet paper lol

The staff are very friendly in the dining places and the bars. Lounge bar was great. Snacks at the pool perfect 24hrs. Beautiful beach. The one downside - reception manager / resort liaison. Not very helpful at all. Sounds petty but zero of the public washrooms had toilet paper. Guess some kind of shortage. And the rooms only had one roll. You had to ensure even if a few sheets left for the maids to replace or they would leave it like that. The public washrooms never did get any toilet pap [... read more]er. Several frantic husbands trying to find some for their wives. Due to the time of the year only half of the resort was open - approx 200 guests only in a 1000 plus room resort. So the entertainment instead of the theatre was just in the lounge. Still good though. Christmas dinner was very good.

A slice of paradise

Upon arrival we were greeted with kindness and smiles. Check-in was a breeze. A short golf cart ride later were in our spacious room that would serve us well for 10 days to come. The grounds were the best kept we have seen in our 12 previous various resort visits. The beach is without saying the best in the Caribbean. The food was good this time. My friends at tripcentral.ca helped us along with planning this trip and I thank them, specifically Robin Murray. We don't normally go to the same r [... read more]esort twice but we might change that policy regarding the Valentin.

Superbes vacances !!

Plage superbe le long de la réserve faunique. Parfait pour les amoureux. L'hôtel et le service étaient impeccable. Le nourriture n'était pas trop mal compte tenu des problèmes actuel d'approvisionnement.

Great resort!

Great resort and location. Very lovely beach, beautiful! Staff are very friendly and helpful. Food was surprisingly good. Cuba is unfortunately suffering from a lack of amenities which is of no fault of the resort but it would be wise to pack items to bring. ie toilet paper

Amazing resort

The hotel was clean. Food was great. Staff was wonderful the best beach I ever been at it is breathtakingly beautiful The bus ride was little too long from the airport but the tour guide was great telling us about the villages and the way people live

Great Cuban Resort

This was our first time to this resort. It is very large at over 1000 rooms but is only half open (just since November 2022 post Covid). Check in was easy and we were in Building 30. The room was large , clean and basic ...refrigerator with water only. The food was VERY Good with lots of breakfast options . We had lunch at the beach (grilled chichen sandwiches ..yum or at the 24 hour snack bar. The evening meal we ate at the Frangipani buffet with so many choices...pork, chicken. fish , shrimp,  [... read more]lobster ,pasta, and so many vegetable options soups,salads, desserts. You could NEVER be hungry. So many swimming pools , and maybe one of the most gorgeous white sand beaches we have seen. NO SEAWEED at all and 3 beach bars. The only downside was no beach washrooms. The grounds are gorgeous and lots of places to walk. There was live entertainment most nights at both the lobby bar and the buffet. Also the is a TEA CORNER to get specialty coffee or a quiet drink. Great live entertainment in the Theater and fashion shows in the lobby. There are electric transport available to shuttle you around in desired. We had a wonderful 2 weeks and would probably go again. We met lots of folks that had been to this resort 10 , 12 & 17 times , guess that says a lot.

Good for price point but….

We got this resort at a discounted price. Currently, selling for 2000$. Value not there for that price. Our air conditioner kept us cool but very noisy and leaked water, a lot of water. We had buckets and towels in the floor. Asked 5 times for someone to address this but never was. People were very friendly and appreciated the tips! No shortages of food or drinks.

Great resort for a relaxing holiday!!!

The hotel is great. The buffet was good but shortage on some food supplies. The staff was great and friendly. The only issue we had was that the housekeeping was helping herself to our Canadian change we left on the television area. We left her the gift and tip money on our bed for her but we were really shocked the she helped herself to our change. We never ever had this happened before on our trips to Cuba.

Absolutely amazing!

It was amazing! The rooms were great, they had a bit of a hiccup with key cards the first two days we were there because their system was down, but that can happen anywhere. We made the best of those two days by preplanning ahead of what we'll do for the day. The bell boys were outstanding driving everyone to their rooms and opening everyone's doors because of the key card situation. They worked very hard and were amazing. Love the set up of the whole place. Pools were great and the pool bar and [... read more] snack bar was great. From the main bar, buffet, restaurants, to the night shows to the disco tech, it was amazing and the staff was outstanding. The best staff we could ever have. They were always in great spirits with everyone. It was amazing. I really enjoyed my week there.

Beautiful upscale resort

Beautiful hotel with wonderful staff. Buffet was delicious with top notch food. Fish, cheeses,turkey, chicken, made to order pasta and breakfasts. Special coffee bar and 24hr service. Beach was semi-private and clean with no-one bothering. Late night dancing and shows

Good time

Just want to start by saying that I had no issues the ppl are friendly and will try to help you the best they can . Pool and beach and both beautiful and Félix at swim up bar dandy guy and can mix drinks . Food is good you won’t go hungry , shortages on eggs one day bacon the other etc / no condiments bring your own . I over heard a few ppl say no running water in there room , before bell boy leaves check your water make sure toilet flushes and air conditioner works , in short a great resort  [... read more]but if prices exceed over 1300 for this resort I will not be going back , prices to Cuba are getting outrageous and I will be going elsewhere for 1600