Arbatax Park Resort - Dune

Hola a todos, estuvimos 4 días en eco spring arbatax, fue mi peor experiencia, este lugar te promete en su sitio, montañas y maravillas, playas casi tropicales, hermosas habitaciones con encanto, pero eso puede haber sido antes en los años 60 cuando el Se construyó el complejo, ahora todo está en ruinas, pasado de moda, la arena de la llamada playa no es más que arena para gatos. Una especie de cala falsa completamente reconstituida sin ningún sabor, además mojamos los pies durante 20 segundos en el agua de la "playa" menos fea y que aún así era horrible por decir lo mínimo. Por mi parte, me he alojado en complejos turísticos gigantes, por ejemplo en Punta Cana, Mauricio, pero este es simplemente gigantesco, de unas 40 hectáreas, es parecido a una prisión, al que llega un autobús casi en desuso cada 30 minutos, sí. La desgracia que tu habitación esté situada lejos de una de las 5 paradas de autobús, te deseo mucha suerte. En cuanto al catering, tomamos la fórmula de media pensión, lo que resulta ser nada más que una estafa, la cena es peor que una cantina de ciudad, un número incalculable de camareros para poco, comida lamentable que no puedo describir. Hasta qué punto solo comimos media comida y corrimos hacia nuestro coche para terminar nuestra comida en un pueblo a 20 minutos (Santa María de Navarresse). Luego, las últimas 4 noches y días que pasamos afuera, el hotel nos sirvió de dormitorio, siempre con gran dificultad de acceso, se tarda una media de 30 a 45 minutos en llegar a la habitación desde el estacionamiento principal. El único punto no demasiado negativo son los animales que hay por todas partes, como caballos, ovejas, cabras y algunos conejos; por lo demás, considero este establecimiento como una simple prisión trampa para turistas. Hay muchos otros temas negativos que podría comentar, pero no tengo tiempo ni ganas de recordarlos, el único buen momento de la estancia fue nuestra partida. A EVITAR !!!

DON'T TRUST THE WEBSITE AND PICTURES ADDED TO. REALITY IS A BIT DIFFERENT. 1650 £ - 13 nights B&B PROS. 1. Because of Sardinia. 2. BARBARA and other staff, amazing, polite and kind people with a lot of patience, with the target to make you happy with everything. 3. Idea of the resort regarding localisation and solution of accommodation. 4. Lot of greenery and space for walk, close contact to the nature. 5. Swimming pools - a few to choice, accessible anytime but not all of them in the cheapest option than suite or village. CONS. TERRAIN - huge complex, where everywhere is far and the most terrible up or down steep and very steep hills, or steep stairs. Definitely not for the people with difficulties to walk, or spinal problems. BEDROOM  - is not a typical hotel, this is a group of the separately small houses, where the time of glory gone. Just refreshing by one coat of the paint is not enough, - AC - very noisy inside the bedroom, - no kettle and cups in the room, what should be as a standard, - beds and mattresses - average quality, - furniture - no bedsides, one timber chair (in the classic 2-bed room) - built in the wall wardrobe - smell a little bit damp, - small dresser - 4 draws and small fridge. BATHROOM - nice design, but finishing not too clever, especially regarding wet room. Using not grouted and filled travertine stone tiles (which is a extremely porous) as finish for the wall and floor in the wet area bringing a very good environment to grown up every known damp and high risk of tinea. Definitely shouldn't be found in that type of the accommodations. FOOD - fortunately we book just B&B, we expect on the breakfast to find local food, mixed with continental, but hospitality disapointed us completely. The worst came today, managing team to save the money (what is understable) squeeze the rest of the visitors to one dining room, where the service was completely not ready to accomodate this amount of the guest. Tables - not cleaned and prepared on time (we waited 20min for someone to clean the table, no one came, in that case the cutlers, table dress we took byself, there was no one who walk around with the cloth to clean the table between the guests), most of the dish cold (panchetta cold, fried mushrooms taken directly from the fridge, lack of scrambled eggs, lack of tomatos, sausage cold and very dry, queue for bakery), completely chaos, huge queue for coffee. BEACHES - unfortunately part of the beaches without directly access to the sea, very "clever" prepared pictures on the website. Few beaches about a not big area and narrow (in compare to other Sardinian beaches) access to the water. If you rent a car, it is easy to find a lot of bigger and beautiful beaches near the Arbatax Park Resort. SURROUNDINGS AREA TORTOLI - small city with a lot of shops including a few top brands, with lovely restaurants and coffe shops. Definitely worth to visit. Our opinion, after terrible beginning, (when Barbara save our holidays)

Very disappointing holiday to Hotel Dune in Sardinia - We paid for a sea view room but on arrival was given a room so far back and high up that you had to walk outside of the room to glimpse the sea. The room itself very uncomfortable with basic provisions - no hairdryer / tea & coffee facilities / iron & only 1 pillow each. Sheets were not cleaned during stay. It is a very hard walk up to the room but you take that because the view and position is stunning. The food from the buffet was very poor and inedible on 3 out of 7 nights leaving us to either eat pizza or find a way into the town. The fish and meat dry and often with film layers as it had been left for so long, vegetables over cooked, pasta under luke warm, only choice of cakes for dessert. Often implements were missing and no one was around to refill: spoons / glasses/ food that had run out etc. There is a very small outside gym with less equipment than in my local park which was upsetting and the spa although worthy of a trip sadly the massages were not good at all - we booked a Swedish massage and had a light-fingered type of massage. The cleaning around the site was not great either - In the toilets by Telis Restaurant where you have lunch, there were blood spots on the cubicle wall the entire stay of our holiday 7 nights no one had cleaned them off .. Be sure to lower expectations before you arrive!

We had the most amazing experience at Dune Resort. We enjoyed the private beaches, pools, entertainment, kayaking and delicious restaurants. The animals and secret garden were a plus! loved it and will definitely recommend to family and friends!

Very nice place with a lot of activities and beach. Very well located and fantastic weather! There are a several restaurants and bars around the resort. A lot of sport activities and water sports. You will have a lot of miles to run in the resort!

All staff are very accommodating and friendly. Service from the manager at Dune hotel was excellent and she did everything possible to make our stay comfortable even down to saving our party a table at dinner without us asking - it’s little touches like that that made the stay hassle free. Accommodation and restaurant was very clean at Dune hotel. Could have had a little more selection at dinner. There was something to for all of us except the fussy eaters in our party! Although the resort is very hilly and you can’t park by your accommodation there is a resort bus that you can use and upon checkin and departure the resort will arrange special transport to and from your car/room with your luggage. The location is lovely if you are planning on staying in resort as there are plenty of pools/ beach areas to use. Beach areas have plenty if sun beds and all have shade which is good. Paddle boards and kayaks are all free of charge which is great. If you want to venture out of the resort you would need a car. There isn’t much locally you can walk to. We had a standard room at Dune which was very spacious and clean. Had maid service every day. Could have done with some tea and coffee facilities in the room as we were half board. Drinks at the bar are expensive we paid 42 Euros for 4 Alcoholic drinks and one coke! All in all lovely stay at Dune.