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Reviews of Hotel El Tecal

2.5 out of 5
Hotel El Tecal
300 metros del parque Marino Ballena, Sector Chaman, Ballena, Puntarenas

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 25 out of 46 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 11 out of 46 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 46 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 46 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 46 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

SHAWN

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
2nd night good place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

SHAWN

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had a few noisy neighbors our first night, they have a pool looked nice did not use, 2 minute drive to whale tail beach entrance. Breakfast was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

6/10 Okay

Anthony, Alajuela

Travelled with family
There's not enough space in the rooms. Kind of uncomfortable
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Shana

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

10/10 Excellent

Oleksandr

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Agata

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Love free breakfast
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Pamela

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is right next to the beach, walking distance and great location. Across the street is a great restaurant! The staff is so friendly. Breakfast there starts at 6:30am and is made to order. The beds are comfortable and you have a fridge and freezer and can control your own AC temperature. They give you two towels each which is very nice. They have a pool and showers. There is a cute orange and white hotel cat. I wish they had a lamp and towel hangers in the room.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Grettel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Karol

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

4/10 Poor

Cristian

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Swimming pools are above ground and highly chlorinated, no where to sit and socialize around pool(s) area. There was no Internet nor cable television which is not the hotel's fault BUT they should have offered a discount or have a solution ready.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

sarah

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
For such an economical price i did not expect a nice breakfast included. Or a pool. Or a kitchen in our units. The staff are very courteous and keep the facilities clean. This place is definitely a good bargain.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Chantelle

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean, beautiful room with all we needed. Full breakfast and friendly staff. Would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

2/10 Terrible

Eileen

Travelled with group
Construction noise woke up at 5.30 am every day .
Extremly dissapointed . Hotel was good but i was woken every morning between 5.30 and 6am with very loud construction noise . On the last day they also started a reno on the room next door . They droped something on my door at 5.30 am then stated moving stuff in and out and banging on the pipes. Im on vacation i dont want to be up before 6 am . Tried to explain to staff and ask for the manager they said he wasnt in . I paid good money yet got little sleep . Id like a refund .
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Decent hotel
The hotel seemed new and was very clean but a little impersonal but well located. There are other hotels closer to the beach though for the same price
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Greme

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The rooms were spotless clean, you could eat off the floors.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Rick

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful setting, close to beach. Clean and plenty of hot water for showers. Small and limited amenities. WiFi Ok, but spotty
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Alexander

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I stayed at this hotel at the end of January. Overall I was very pleased with the hotel. The reception staff didn’t speak much English but were doing their best to be helpful. My room was clean and cozy. The hotel is located within walking distance from the Uvita beach. There are a few restaurants close to it. I would definitely come back again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2022
Response from tecal on 23 Feb 2022
thank you very much, it is a pleasure for us to have you again in our hotel, greetings

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Nice but our room was visible to the neighbors.
We stayed in the Deluxe Apartment and overall it was very good. The bathroom was amazing, the beds were comfortable, everything was clean, the staff was nice, and it was quiet. However, we were pretty uncomfortable the next morning to find that the closet that was locked off to us was open to the adjacent apartment, and they could easily look right through the spaces beside the sliding closet doors into our room. If they fix that, I’d gladly stay there again but otherwise we would not be interested in going back.
Entrance
Parking
Deluxe apartment balcony on the left
Hotel hallway
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022
Response from Tecal on 23 Feb 2022
Thank you very much, we apologize for the inconvenience, but the closet is sealed, it does not lead to another room, it is simply the owners' closet with personal material, apologies for the misunderstanding, greetings

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with pets
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Estuvimos en la suite y fue excelente. El trato del personal muy amable y muy servicial.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

8/10 Good

TwoHappyMonkeys

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
The location is perfect! Unfortunately, the gates close at 10:00 pm and apparently you won't be able to get to your room if you miss your curfew. Our room had no windows and the shower was either too cold or too hot from one second to the next. Worst part was that we could clearly hear our neighbor in the next room via the connecting door and we could even see him through the cracks. But, the price was right and again, the location is amazing!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Leyna

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place!
Great place, nice rooms, very clean, great location!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Luis, Los Angeles, CA

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The view of the green forest and the sea is amazing.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excelente todo, estaremos allí en otras oportunidades.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Mrs. V

I traveled with my 2 years old daughter. We had a lovely time . It’s clean and closed to the beach. The swimming pools are good. The lower point is the lack of hot water in the shower .
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel is convenient to the beach, with a little grocery store within just a few feet. Enjoyed the pool, kitchen and patio.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

JosePablo, Costa Rica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Quiet Place just to Relax
Excellent Hotel, very good attention, everything is clean.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2018

6/10 Okay

Josh, New York, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The location is a bit far from Uvita, but it's easy to find a taxi. The bed was VERY comfy -- big plus. A/C worked great, and the room was nice, big and clean!
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2018

6/10 Okay

Suzy, London

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Decent hotel for a night or two.
The hotel was a decent base for whale watching although the tour companies were located further over in the bay so we met quite a walk. The beach is close but you have to pay for access. Hotel itself was fine, our room had a kitchenette bit no window. Not the prettiest place to sunbathe with a book.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Reservation issues
At the check in the receptionist was not aware of my reservation, we were lucky he had availability, besides that every thing went fine the rest of the stay
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Edward

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Jocelyn

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice place to stay. Very quiet.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Amado, San José

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Marc

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Endroit intéressant, chambre spacieuse. Personnel sympathique. Possibilité d’un meilleur éclairage, luminosité s’apparentant à une salle d’opération d’un hôpital; un simple gradateur pourrait suffire. Minimaliste quant aux accessoires, même pas un simple verre en plastique et tout au plus quelques savons disponibles.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Meybol

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
La habitación donde nos hospedamos tenía dos cuartos muy grandes y una cocina muy linda, al menos la deluxe es excelente. Y el hotel muy cerca del parque marino ballena.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Moulonguet harold

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2022

6/10 Okay

Pierre

Travelled with group
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pratique mais manque de confort
Hotel aux prestations moyennes. Literie, propreté moyennes.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Kenneth

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Elvis

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Max

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2021

6/10 Okay

Adrien

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Logement mélange avec un camping Durant le week end très bruyant nous avons dû attendre 22:00 pour pouvoir dormir (c’est tard avec le décalage horaire de la France et le ryrhme Du pays )
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Maria, Coronado

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
El lugar está muy limpio, instalaciones en buen estado, buen mantenimiento. El precio muy razonable. Sugerencia: brindar más información al turista nacional y extranjero de lugares recomendados por visitar, brindar opciones. Información con brochures o internet de fácil acceso.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

2/10 Terrible

Rodolfo, Cartago

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Un mal rato!
Terrible! LLegamos a hospedarnos después de haber hecho la reservación con un mes de anticipación y nos dijeron que no nos tenían anotados, que no había ninguna reservación a nuestro nombre y que todos los cuartos estaban ocupados, por lo que tuvimos que salir a buscar en la zona otro lugar donde hospedarnos...