Las Villas Hotel & Golf by Estrella del Mar

The good part about Estrella del Mar is it is right on the water and has amazing sunsets. The hotel itself needs a facelift, but it's close to the airport and clean. The cleaning staff were really friendly. A couple of cons . . . There was no coffee pot or way to make coffee in the room. You had to go to the restaurant to buy it. They had many people working in their restaurants over two days, but they were extremely inefficient and slow with their processes. When you had their attention they were nice and tried to be helpful, it just seemed like they forgot about you once they walked away. They seemed to be busy, but I'm not sure what they were doing, as other tables were getting the same experience. We also were traveling with our 3 1/2 lb. long-haired chihuahua. They not only took a daily pet fee about $25 USD per day, but made us pay a cash deposit ($1000 pesos). We did get our deposit back after they checked the room. We travel often with her, so we found it unusual to have both a daily fee and a cash deposit. We also asked for a taxi back to the airport. They use the Estrella del Mar vans and the driver was an Estrella employee. The driver was very nice and prompt, but they do charge a fee for the service (480 pesos). This is expensive, given that you pay that same amount for a taxi to go to Centro from the airport (triple the distance).

If you want a quiet, romantic, quiet getaway (& you like to golf) this is an ideal little escape.

The place itself, and the grounds are very beautiful. The ocean front location is very ideal. The room itself was the problem. There was no hot water at all and when we asked for maintenance, they kept telling the front desk that we didn’t know how to use the knob. There was absolutely no hot water and that was a horrible experience.

We booked this location specifically because of the airport shuttle. We called the hotel as well and confirmed that there was an airport shuttle and they said there was and that it started at 6 am. Upon arrival at the hotel, I was told that there was not an airport shuttle. They called me a taxi that charged me 500 pesos for a 5 minute drive to the airport.

Great staff.....Chef was excellent.....but Hotel is worn down .....lacking up keep

The hotel is very far from the city, has bugs everywhere. The room was dirty we had bugs and spiders. I’ll never stay there again. Super disappointed

In general is great ., restaurants wise la Paloma horrible food. At the sport bar was pretty good

no hot water in one room so we had to shower all in one only room , no good

I think the only issue is the internet. A bit slow The rest is quite comfortable