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2.5 out of 5
Hotel Mar Rey
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo, Guanacaste

Reviews

8.2

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 91 out of 193 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 59 out of 193 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 23 out of 193 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 193 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 12 out of 193 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Veronica

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Perfect hotel! It was clean and nice, perfect location and staff was really friendly. I would definitely come back and I do recommend it a lot!
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Jack

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel is perfectly situated in the middle of town, without getting the noise of the nightlife not far away. Beautiful room with a small patio beside the pool. Staff were very courteous, friendly and helpful. Highly recommend it for women as it was secure and safe, without feeling “guarded”…
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Beth, Hopkinton

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Love it here, so beautiful ❤️
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Marilyn

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Thomas

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A very short walk to the beach. A great pool, wonderful staff. A place to cook if you wanted to. I parked under a tree. They washed my car for me. Edwin and his staff are absolutely the best.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Adrianne

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel was close to the beach and many reataurants and bars. The rooms were a bit dated but had everything we needed. The outdoor pool was very nice. The security guard checked us in and was very helpful.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Kitty

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great location. Close to beach, restaurants, shopping. Nice pool.
Stayed 8 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Troy

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
the hotel is the epicenter of Tamarindo. Short Walking distance to most of the restaurants, the beach and all amenities
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Jaime

Liked: Room comfort
The location was fantastic you could walk to many restaurants and bars. The rooms were small but king bed was comfortable. No ice or glasses available and no hot water.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Joseph

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Should give you more towels,and a ice machine
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

William

Travelled with group
The place to stay
Great place to stay and will recommend to my friends. Perfect location
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Roy

Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Ramona

Travelled with family
Liked: Amenities
Property is in perfect location to everything and right across from the beach access. It’s great that it had parking! There is a coffee machine but no coffee, or cups. No beach towels and you are not allowed to take the bath towels to the pool or the beach. We knew this ahead of time and brought our own beachcomber towels. Lovely little property, had a nice cozy quaint feel to it, and we were on ground floor with sliding doors to little terrace and steps to the pool. Enjoyed our stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Donald

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tania

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Dennis

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

4/10 Poor

timothy

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
We booked this place for a week. Great location, the surrounding was nice. The room well all we could do was sleep. Adirondack chairs for the room uncomfortable. No where for your clothes. The only hot water was in the shower. There was a coffee maker but we need to get filters cups spoons and yes coffee!! Could not get it across we would like two wash clothes everday. Guess at 225. Aday they thought we would steal them. Would not recommend this place and would not go back.
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Tara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had trouble sleeping due to noise from discos and closeness to main road. Very loud until 4am .. The property was left felt and clean and had great pool. Minutes to the beach.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Poh

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The people who ran this Hotel were very kind and helpful. 100 percent, it is such a great place to stay at. It is close to the restaurants, things to do, and parking your car is great too. We enjoyed this Hotel. We would stay again.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Kevin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Proximity to everything, small properry more personalized. Awesome pool area Thank you
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Denise

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Quaint accommodations, friendly staff - Edwin & family made us feel so welcome, super comfy bed’s, very clean hotel with a beautiful pool. Beach right across the street, many dining & shopping options within walking distance.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Jeanne, Buckley

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great host and location.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This was a great little spot to stay with an awesome pool, right by the beach, tons of shopping and right in the middle of the main center of town. They have long hours at the front desk and someone that hangs out in the parking lot to keep an eye on things. Our only gripe was that there was some kind of loud remodeling work going on two of the mornings we were there. Wish they would have notified us about this so we could have planned to be gone during those times.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Glenn

Travelled with family
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Beverly, Anchorage

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A local family owned business and are very friendly and always saying hello. Answering any questions you may have. I will stay again when visiting the area.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Maureen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The 2nd floor room and balcony were clean and spacious! Comfortable king size bed. The air conditioning worked great. Big pool with outside cooking area. Very close to the beach with restaurants and shops within a few steps. Wished they would supply coffee in the room. Would definitely stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Eduardo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome staff. I do travel a lot , do not waist your time and money. If you want to experience tamarindo this is the place.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Easy fixed needed
Great location has the potential to be fantastic but fell short in many areas. The hotel has no ice. Really? Coffee maker on top of the microwave, no coffee, filters, cups or condiments. Sign over the coffee maker says Microwave is only to be used to reheat coffee and if it used for food that you will be charged $50!! Really? Towel are thin and horrible.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Jeffrey, San Gabriel

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We stayed 3 nights at Mar Rey. The small hotel is in a perfect location to enjoy Tamarindo right in the main area and a few steps from the beach. It was very clean, and the staff was mostly friendly, nice pool. I only downgrade them to Good because of a couple glaring issues that are easily correctible: 1) they have NO pool towels, and some employees refused to exchange our wet (pool used) bath towel for a fresh one, expeciting us to reuse it for our shower later. Not acceptable for a nice hotel. Also towels were worn. 2) They don't provide any facial tissues or napkins in the room, only TP. Other than this, it was a good stay and recommended. Be aware though that it is directly in "Downtown" and is noisy outside until midnight at the bars and shops. No fault of the property, just be aware.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

6/10 Okay

Ans

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very noicy, in the middle of Tamarindo so people who started using their horn at night or loud bikes driving through town
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Olivia

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

2/10 Terrible

Ashley

Travelled with family
This hotel is in the heart of Tamarindo, which was the only benefit. The room was awful. We originally had a reservation to stay 4 nights but checked out and after one night because of the conditions. None of the doors have seals so the mosquitoes weren’t kept out. Our entire family woke up with bites all over us and mosquitoes flying everywhere. The rooms are outdated and not clean. I would consider this property more of a hostel than a hotel. Our family would absolutely not stay here again.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Catharine, TORONTO

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
We stayed here our last night in Costa Rica for proximity to the airport. Wifi was spotty and kept kicking us off, in the rooms you could hear all the outside noises, but the worst issue was the power kept shutting off in the whole hotel. While we were at dinner it shut down 4-5 times. Then when we got back to our room it was constantly flickering on and off, sometimes lasting as long as 2-3min. No power means no AC. We would lose the AC every time the power shut down so it took quite a while for the room to actually cool down. Pools looked nice.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Susannah

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

Lindsay

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness
The hotel itself seemed run down. The pool was great and the property was well taken care of. The cleaning staff missed our room one of the 4 days despite us asking for someone to come and change out the garbage in the bathroom. The sheets on the beds had blood stains on them (evidence of previous bed bugs?). The hotel is on the Main Street and it was very loud with honking and traffic whistles most of the night. The proximity to the beach was great and convenient walk to many restaurants and shops. Overall not a great experience.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ran

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The location is the best, very close to the beach! The staff was very nice and friendly and the pool is great!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anthony Lamar

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Close to everything no car needed, get a massage you won’t regret it at all!!!
Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 8 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

ERIC JOHNSON

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This hotel is awesome. Service was top notch. Anything i needed was provided. Location is superb. Beach is across the street. Restaurants and bars at every turn. Amazingly perfect area to stay.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Ryan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel, staff, pool were great. Beds and pillows left something to be desired. Beds were like sleeping on plywood and the pillows were not good either. That said I would stay there again.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Matthew

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Centrally located. Great staff. Friendly surroundings. Pool excellent! A bit noisy as it's on a main street but overall a great experience.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Edward

Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Spent five nights in Hotel Mar Rey. Loved everything about it. Perfect location in the center of everything and less than a minute’s walk to the beach. Nice relaxing private poor with plenty of seating. Gazebo covered outdoor kitchen with grille and electric range for preparing meals and nice outdoor dining area. Clean, comfortable and spacious room with strong AC and wifi and hot shower with high pressure. Friendly and attentive staff. Absolutely zero complaints. All you need in Tamarindo and then some at a fair price.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2023

6/10 Okay

Michele

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
You get what you pay for. The location is great- right in the middle of lots of restaurants, bars, nightlife and close to the beach. The hotel itself is just ok. The door to the bathroom doesn’t fully open, there are no pool towels or coffee or even cups. The pool is small with only 6 chairs total. The most difficult is the noise when you are trying to sleep.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

KENNETH

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a perfectly placed property right at the heart of all the action. Great access to the beach and restaurants as well as nightlife. Staff was great. Wished the room was bigger and had facecloths.
Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Brandon F

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Edwin and Evelyn were amazing managers of the facility. Close to The beach Across the street and all the excitement that the town had to offer

10/10 Excellent

Bradford

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Proximity of hotel. Staff very friendly. Great place. A must stay when I visit Costa Rica next time

8/10 Good

Beatriz