Nice hotel

At first, our trip was frustrating. We kept getting locked out of the room, missed our AirTransat rep meeting because we were told to go at 9:30, but at that time it was in French so we were told to go the next day. We didnt know until day 3 that you have to book a la carte restaurants between 9-10am only. We werent enjoying ourselves until Osiris the manager stepped in and turned things around to make our stay much better. He wanted to make sure we were happy at all times. He surprised us with  [... read more]a nice bottle of wine sent to our room. When we were having our anniversary dinner he came personally to say Happy Anniversary to us. After our dinner we went to our room and found that he had arranged for them to decorate our room with rose petals, ran us a romantic bubble bath, left some gifts and flowers and desserts for us as well. That was so nice. The wait staff was very wonderful. Hector, Leo and Hilda go above and beyond. Wonderful people. The beach was the best beach Ive ever been too. So beautiful, clear and such warm water. The down side for me was the food wasnt very different day to day, but breakfast was my favorite meal. Get the lobster dinner! For $20, they will charge it to your room. Its delicious.

Our 9th anniversary

At first, our trip was frustrating. We kept getting locked out of the room, missed our AirTransat rep meeting because we were told to go at 9:30, but at that time it was in French so we were told to go the next day. We didnt know until day 3 that you have to book a la carte restaurants between 9-10am only. We werent enjoying ourselves until Osiris the manager stepped in and turned things around to make our stay much better. He wanted to make sure we were happy at all times. He surprised us with  [... read more]a nice bottle of wine sent to our room. When we were having our anniversary dinner he came personally to say Happy Anniversary to us. After our dinner we went to our room and found that he had arranged for them to decorate our room with rose petals, ran us a romantic bubble bath, left some gifts and flowers and desserts for us as well. That was so nice. The wait staff was very wonderful. Hector, Leo and Hilda go above and beyond. Wonderful people. The beach was the best beach Ive ever been too. So beautiful, clear and such warm water. The down side for me was the food wasnt very different day to day, but breakfast was my favorite meal. Get the lobster dinner! For $20, they will charge it to your room. Its delicious.

Hope you’re not hungry!!

Though obviously I can’t complain about the weather (45) I can certainly say that this trip was a 75% bust. No issues with flights or delays at all, they all ran smoothly. When we got to the resort though they checked us into the wrong room. We didn’t get in until 10pm so we just went to our room because we have younger kids. The next day they did apologize and put us into our actual room. The refused us pillows because it was Sunday? Don’t ask me what that means. So when I went to the fro [... read more]nt desk and talked to them they said someone would come by and give us pillows and sheets. The “new” sheets had blood on them. The beds had hair all over it and there were so many stains that we wouldn’t let our kids sit down on the chair. We then paid $200 US dollars to get a room upgrade. The servers were put out when we ordered and I was surprised that about 98% of the staff didn’t speak any English so things didn’t always come across as hoped. If you’re looking for a weight loss program this is your stop. The food was AWFUL!! If you like cappuccino then this is your place. All and all I would look elsewhere.

Cheap and cheerful

The hotel is absolutely beautiful just as you see on the website very modern resort. I just wish the food was better. I know Cuba is not know for the food but I have to say this resort was the worst for food. The selection was horrible. As for rooms it was very clean! Do not stay in the privilege section and the don’t have showers ONLY tubs. You can only bath and not shower. Beach was beautiful!! Pool needed to be cleaned which they were not doing.

Very nice looking resort

Traveled Jun 12 -23 via Sunwing. This a fairly new resort rooms and all hotel area are nice. Beach area is great lots white sand and crystal blue water with bar service near. The only problem with beach was 15-20 min walk to nearest washroom and no food service near beach.Restaurants ok not much selection.Buffet was good at breakfast but was daily repeat for lunch and dinner.No pork very limited seafood what they had was gone first 5 min of open They had a beef grill that serve steak like  [... read more]shoe leather. We ended up eating a lot of pasta. Near the end of our 10 day stay we asked if they had pig roast like many other resorts in Cuba. We got a chuckle from what seemed to be management staff. Main bar was managed by Yetzy her and staff fantastic getting to know customers needs keep up the good work Yetzy. Our biggest problem was with Sunwing rescheduling our return flight lost a full day and thanks to some other passengers who notified us of changes 10: 30 pm departure next day turned into a 6:15 am departure plus a stop over in cayo coco.

Amazing

Hotel resort only customers service not to good only two people working to serve 50 peoples not to quick for service always to busy but my card for my room did not work for 5 time I phone in for help couldn't help me add to go in front my self to fixed it 5 times

Amazing resort!

The resort is well kept with beautiful gardens, very modern rooms with a spectacular beach!! Staff are very courteous and friendly. We booked with the privilege package, our butler Arley was very attentive to our needs and very friendly. Once Arley found out it was our Anniversary, he made special arrangements for a beautiful dinner for me and my family.

Love this Resort

Love staying here. It is very clean and well kept. Gardeners are always outside maintaining the grounds, and they are very friendly. Staff my favourite was Elizabeth and Arley, they always made me feel welcome and made sure my family and i had everything we needed. Front desk though needs work. When you call them they tell you they will come and help no problem but do not show up. Some buildings are more up to date then others. But every room is always clean. On arrival you might not alw [... read more]ays have your bar fridge stocked i find if you arrive on a later flight, but will always be stocked the next day. Beach is AMAZING!!! if you are a beach person this is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Crystal clear and you can go snorkelling in shallow waters and see some pretty cool fish without having to go deep sea diving. Service in the buffet is amazing once you find your server they will make sure to take care of you the rest of the week and will always look out for you. Privilege is also good service. Food is always made fresh and yummy! (Menu consists of mostly eggs) fruit is fresh and so is the juice. All around i love coming to Oceans i’ve now been three times and have no complaints.

White sand/ beautiful hotel resort safety at risk

hotel staff were friendly and welcoming. Beach was very nice and water beautiful in this resort. There is jelly fish in the water so tourists should keep a supply of vinegar as precautionary treatment with them when visiting beach area. The hotel casa del mar lacks adequate lighting at nights and more importantly no proper cleaning of the floors in the dining areas and oily floors increase the risk of falling . lack of hygiene in public bathrooms and water accumulation was observed on multiple  [... read more]occasions. lack of caution signs on wet floors add to risks of slip and fall for tourists Since there is no medical staff on site ,considering the size of this resort ‘this can be a major issue ! Furthermore, the privilege rooms in 3 buildings have no shower , only bath tub which is set high and again this was identified as s health and safety risk for older age and children . The resort is about 1.5 hour by bus from major city ( santa clara) and this makes it unfavourable in case of an accidental fall!

Beautiful Resort

My boyfriend and I went during off-season in July for a week and loved it there. The staff at the buffet were super sweet and always welcomed us with a smile. Food was surprisingly good. Beaches were close to our rooms and breathtaking - white sand and turquoise waters. Our room was always well cleaned and stocked. AC was nice and strong and the rainfall shower was a definite plus. Overall, we really enjoyed our trip and would most likely go back again.

Ocean Casa del Mar

Before I start this review....know that I usually make the best of any vacation and do not expect resorts in general to be equal to hotels in Canada or the USA. That being said, I would only give this resort a 1 star! I am pretty easy going when problems arise as and make the best of a situation. However, this resort did not deliver on any of the things that was promised. 1. RESORT IN GENERAL - The resort looked great in pictures, however, when we arrived, it appeared run down and I qu [... read more]estioned whether it was in fact only 4 years old. Staff indicated that in general, things are not maintained in Cuba making it look old. Walk ways where poorly lite at night, and several common walkways were narrow making it difficult to pass other people on the same path. The grounds in general where dirty with cigarette butts and debris in bushes and gardens. Garbage cans did not get emptied on a daily bases. Shortly after arriving, we learned that half the resort property was closed and not being used. 2. ROOMS - my first room was nice but the shower would not drain so it would flood the floor. Not a big deal, just had to work around that. On my 2nd day, the maid was cleaning and broke the toilet. They could not fix it, so I had to move rooms. As I was rooming with a friend, we needed 2 beds. They could not keep me in the same building and switched me to a king room. I returned to the front desk to explain that would not work. They then moved me to their "privilege" section which I was pleased about. When we got to this room, we only had a bathtub and no shower. Was not overly happy but figured we could deal with it. After unpacking again, we discovered that the patio door would not lock (was on ground level) the safe was broken and the hair dryer did not work. The front desk then moved us again to another building. Once in this room, several of the lights did not work, but at this point, I had moved 3 times and was done wasting my vacation moving rooms. I was with a large group (30 people) and several others also had problems and had to move rooms. Some of the rooms had cock roaches. 2.POOL - The first 2 days of our trip we noticed that the pool area was not being cleaned. I would go to get our seats by the pool and proceed to clean up all the garbage, cups and cigarette butts off the pool deck. I even had to use pool water to wash away the spilled drinks from the night before. When we originally booked, I was excited to see and sit on the "island seating area" across from the swim-up bar in the pictures. Once we got there, this island was water locked, so it never got cleaned. It constantly had garbage and cigarette butts all over it making it unusable. As the week progressed, the cleaning staff did start to clean up the pool deck area (not the island), however, the pool water was not clean. By the end of the trip, I did not feel comfortable getting into the pool water. Being a pool owner myself, this is something I am aware of and will leave it at that. 3. A LA CARTE RESTAURANTS - Because half the resort was closed, it had only 1 a la carte dining option per night. Our package included 8 a la carte dining options with no reservations required. We quickly discovered that because they had closed half the resort, you had to book your a la carte dining and could only get the restaurant they decided to open. Also with only 1 restaurant available each night, several people could not get reservations as there was simply to many guests for only 1 a la carte restaurant. Very disappointed that we could not choice an a la carte, but told where we had to go each night. 4. FOOD - I have been to Cuba before so I was prepared for the food. However, in general, Cuba has a food shortage according to the staff. We never had any fresh salads, potatoes or vegetables. The main vegetable was pumpkin, which I was okay with. This was no fault of the resort from what I can tell. But I did not particular enjoy many meals. 5. BEACH - This area was beautiful and Cuba does have some great beaches. Overall, the staff where lovely and worked hard. There was some communication problems, as many of the staff had little English and did not understand what we wanted. Again, not a big deal, I don't speak Spanish, so no fault on part of the staff. Based on our package and star ratings from TripCentral, this resort did not come close to offering what was presented. I can say I will not be returning to this resort. I feel bad leaving this review, but feel travellers need to be aware of some of the concerns.

Bellow avarage

I have to the bath roomevery time i take bath in the buffa a lady foll she injure her headand nee becouse the floor was slipery becouse the oily staf falles and they cleane it with water oney no ditergent

Great resort

The hotel rooms were very clean and have a very nice air conditioning system beautiful bathroom with a very large shower every worker was so nice the bartenders are great the ocean is beautiful there are beautiful plants and trees all around the resort and the freshly cooked food Is amazing and the reservation restraunts are awesome you will love this resort

Fantastic resort

Hotel was great, hotel employees were always nice and welcoming, food was great and the whole trip was organized to perfection. Location and time of year the trip was booked was perfect, would 100% go again sometime soon

Disappointed

Was hoping for more! Thankfully the company with was the best part. Public area bathrooms never had toilet paper. Had to clean around the pool in mornings for staff did not. When calling in about problems they were not dealt with. Mikes coffee was about the only good in resort. Rooms had a lot of problems...no light bulbs, sliding doors would not lock, toilets breaking. Pool water green by end of day. Made the best of it but would not recommend this resort.

Definitely wouldn’t return!

This hotel leaves a lot to be desired! Rooms were basic and clean~ish. Every bed sheet was stained somehow. The shower drains all need to be cleaned, as every shower overflows onto the floor. Many things in each room didn’t work from toilets to light switches... you had to pick your priorities. Didn’t find one patio door that locked?? My food expectations were low with it being Cuba, but it was worse than I expected and that was disappointing. The drinks were great and the staff tried hard. [... read more] The service was painfully slow, it appears that they need more staff. Someone finally barbecued pork chops and it was the best thing I ate there!!! No vegetables at any time, that was hard for me. Fruit limited and only in the morning.

I will never return to this hotel again !

-Staff is rude not helpful at all . -Rooms are dirty our maid never changed our towels , our mini bar was never stocked it was a hassle just to get bottled water in the room also had the same situation with the toilet paper . We had to move rooms bc we had a cockroach in our room the first night . The pool area was dirty plastic cups everywhere even in the pool no staff was ever bothered to pick anything up . The buffet didn’t have anything sele [... read more]ction and was always running out of food. The supposed snack bar they call it only served ham cheese sandwich and they would always run out of the fries . The only good thing about this trip was the beach. Do yourself a favour save your money and go some where else. I will never return to this hotel that’s how bad this experience was.

Average resort

We enjoyed our stay in this resort but this is not a 5 start resort more like 3/2 star the service was not the greatest we always had to get the waiters attention to be served. We liked the room we stayed in I have to say very clean, the food was very bad in the buffet I have to say we only liked the food that you had to reserve a night before for the restaurants. that had menu. I have to say the beach was amazing in my opinion better then dominican Republic or Mexico. Overall in my opinion this [... read more] resort is average. Would I be back? maybe not even though I like Cuba very much maybe in a couple of years but I'll try a different resort. My next trip is Panama or Costa Rica I can't wait!

Never again!

The pool area was not cleaned it was always littered with other plastic cups. We had a visitor one night.. a cockroach, issues with toilets in multiple rooms, our maid never changed our towels instead they were folded and put away. Sometimes placed on balcony to dry rather than replaced with new towels. The service was not great by no means was this a 5 star resort. The food was always the same thing. No food for children other than pasta and pizza at just one lunch. Long lines to wait for foo [... read more]d to find out they were out of various things. The disco was closed the mosquitoes were terrible some of the fans were not working ... etc etc

Amazing

This resort was very good, the bed was comfortable comparing to other resorts. The room had a whirlpool instead of just a plain bathtub which was good and it worked perfectly but we wished we would have had an actual shower head that is on the wall instead of a handheld. The room was very spacious and kept very clean by the maids, we really appreciated that, plus Yaritza (the maid) did an excellent job cleaning, she was very courteous and very friendly. The grounds outside were kept very clean.  [... read more]The buffet was very good comparing to other resorts we have gone. The waiters/ waitresses went beyond to make us feel comfortable and relaxed. The a la carte were excellent which we had one every night. We had an excellent time!