Stayed in The Paradise Hotel for 9 nights from August 10-19th 2009. This was 9 nights too long. The hotel was probably once quite nice but lack of maintenance & repairs combined with an extensive fire in 2008 to the reception, restaurant & bar area have left it in a very poor state (see attached photos).
Our package included breakfast but as there is no kitchen or restaurant this is not possible. All meals require a 10-15 minute walk to the cafes & restaurants in the nearby town.
Rooms are large enough but very tired. No bedside lights, no working ceiling fan and a noisy over-door style air-conditioner that required standing on a chair to turn on or off. The room was clean if you didn't look under the bed. Daily service was performed by friendly staff but on most days they took the towels and did not replace them. A small bar fridge was a useful item although this was also very old & rusted. It's location in one side of the wardrobe made it impossible to open or close the wardrobe doors.
The bathroom was clean but very old & damp. No working hot water tap in either the shower or hand-basin, no plugs, no exhaust fan, no clothes-line, no bin & no little bottles of toiletries. A large bar of bath soap was provided on arrival and quite new looking towels available for the asking from the laundry room; just a shame they weren't left in the room. The water pressure on most days made hair washing a challenge. We were also subjected to intervals where there was no power and no water in the room.
The location of this hotel is good as everything is within walking distance and there is a nice view of the ocean from the front rooms. The garden rooms are subject to road noise & barking dogs and do not have a view.
There is no beach at The Paradise Hotel and the pool was so dirty it was unusable.
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