The hotel is a nice. Right on a beautiful beach. The first day we were there, the beach was extremely crowded- with people kite surfing or learning to kite surf everywhere. It was so crowded with kite surfers, that it was completely impossible, and dangerous, to get in the water if you were not kite surfing- swimmers could easily have been run over by a surf board.
Since it was our first day there, we thought that the beach was always crowded like that, so as soon as we woke up, we drove to another beach about an hour away.
When we returned, the beach at the hotel was empty, and continued to be empty until our last day there. Thus, I am unsure whether the beach is usually as crowded with kite surfers as it was on the day that we arrived. If it is, I would strongly suggest that you not stay at this hotel if you are not a kite surfer or if a significant portion of your group consists of people who are not kite surfers or are not interested in learning how to kite surf.
We stayed at this hotel because of the other good reviews, because nowhere did I read that you should be a kite surfer to stay at this hotel, and because I thought it might be fun to stay here in case I got the urge to learn how to kite surf. While I was there, I did get the urge to learn how to kite surf, but the lessons were expensive. It was $79/hour. The guy providing the lessons (I don't know whether he was affiliated with the hotel) was really nice, and said that he would give me a free 10-minute lesson just to estimate how long it would take me to learn to kite surf. After my 10-minute lesson, he said it would take 3 days (I think it was 1-2 hours per day for 3 days, to be more exact). I appreciated his honesty. That is, he didn't give me a low, untrue estimate, just to get me to fork over some cash.
Anyway, if the beach is not usually overrun by kite surfers, this would be a great place to stay. On our last day, we practically had the beach to ourselves, and it was awesome.
Some other notes:
- The pool is pretty small.
- The rooms are beautiful with absolutely beautiful furniture and a spacious closet.
- We stayed in a studio, and the bed and pillows were extremely uncomfortable. The bed was too soft, and the pillow I had was oddly shaped- almost as if it had a basketball stuffed inside it. I woke up every morning with back pain. As soon as I returned to my bed in the US, my back pain went away. The pain went away after one night of sleep in the US.
- The shower curtain in the bathroom was too short and there was no bathtub. As a result, water from the shower flooded the bathroom floor every time any of us took a shower.
- The room had a kitchenette with a stove, but no pots or pans to cook in.
- The faucet in the bathroom is so close to the sink that it was difficult to get water on to my toothbrush without having my toothbrush touch the sink. Having my toothbrush touch a sink that other people have used (my guests, prior hotel guests), and that has been cleaned with who knows what chemicals, is disgusting.
So as you can see, my feelings about Kite Beach are mixed.
