Potrero Hotels

The room

Noisey room next to lobby,left for 3 hrs due to smoke and soot from fire on hill behind hotel that was taken care of at 10 pm after burning all day.$xxx and still had to get my own drinks. U have to also pay extra if you want Wi-Fi. Food OK not great

We enjoyed ourselves - rest,relaxation and beauty!

The assortment of foods for breakfast were the same every day. Needs more choices. Could use some evening entertainment as well.

This hotel is on a hill overlooking the bay. It had the most fantastic view of the half moon bay & mountains on the other side of the bay. This view was from the hotel lobby, two pools, bar, and rooms. We were upgraded at no charge to a Sportsman?s suite since their standard rooms were full. This suite had a large open air living/sitting room with a refrigerator & microwave. The furniture and sinks/counters were a little dated, but very clean. I can not say what the standard rooms look like inside, but they had the same view with just a small balcony. There was some construction going on, but not too obtrusive. Definitely not as much construction in Flamingo as is going on in Tamarindo. Even the local newspapers have articles about the water pollution caused by the explosive growth in Tamarindo. This hotel is not the best place if you want to lie out on the beach. If you want beach go to the Flamingo Beach resort. This hotel only has a small brown sand beach, but the views...

We liked Riu, the staff was great and the facilities were good

We were however, disappointed in the quality of the food and the evening shows were second rate

The pool and drinks are good. The beach is nice but not close to as nice as other beaches nearby.

Most of the food is buffet only and extremely greasy. Even the non-buffet food is pre-prepared and not very good. They will not accommodate vegetarians. The beach is extremely rocky. Water activities are outsourced to another company, and doing anything requires reservations in advance and a walk away from the beach. Overall this is not a good value or experience as compared to staying in a non-all-inclusive somewhere else in Costa Rica with a better beach and eating out.

My husband and I went on a vacation over this past July 4th week with my parents, brother, and sister and we all agreed it was one of the best vacations we had. The rooms were fantastic! They were plenty big with either two full beds or put together as a King, a pull out couch, and full bathroom. All of these things updated as this resort is rather new. The room service was excellent. They refilled everything every day and cleaned thoroughly every day by 1pm the latest. There are 5 different places to eat inside the resort that are all wonderful! The buffet is the most family oriented place to eat. The others include Italian, steakhouse, Asian fusion, and Japanese. The only that requires a reservation is the steakhouse. Formal attire for this vacation wasn't necessary. Our guys wore dress shorts to all places except the Asian Fusion place. Being a party of 6 we thought we would need to wait for a table, this was not the case at any of these places. There was also something for us to do...

The entire vacation went as planned from the air plane, transfers, hotel and food. All was just as planned and exactly what we expected. There is only one thing that was not perfect and that was the size of the double beds, they are really full size not double or queen, to small for two average size people. Only do king beds at this resort!