Palmarito Beach Hotel Reviews

A relaxing day at a nice beach club with fun water activities, a very quick (10 minutes) boat road from Cartagena and friendly and welcoming staff. Would recommend to spend a day to get away from the city and chill out! Buffet lunch was included in the price and was OK. Drinks were reasonable price in comparison to other islands around the area.

Horrible attention to such a nice place, some workers are rude and the others are so annoyed by your presence you feel like a burden for just existing. My server at the pool was ignoring me straight to my face, i went to her 2 times and she still didn’t came to my bed, when she came and took the drink order she took another 30 min to get them to me and then she never came back to check again. I left and I almost had the option to not pay the check at all but it still did it and with the gratuity included which she really doesn’t deserve at all, At the end when I was leaving I paid everything and then she came running because she noticed I left and came running with the check. Oh so you do notice me right? You just don’t care about hospitality and a good service, you just came running because you thought I didn’t pay. Literally save yourself the noisy day and bad service and go to any other place.

We were a group of five. We purchased a day pass (pasadía), service on the phone was good. Service at the place ok. We arrived at 8:30 am. There was a loud motor pumping water into the pool and reservoir tanks for 3 hours, not exactly a place to relax. I talked to several workers and some said: does the noise bother you? Some said they will b done in 15 minutes. Lunch was on time. Dry chicken, dry pork and extremely dry fish. Because of the engine we moved to the pool area. Then the Zumba class was on speakers for everybody to listen. Definitely not a quiet place. My mother in law (85 y/o) had a very hard time getting in and out of the boat, and she wasn’t the only one. They don’t have a ramp for older people. Fui con mi familia política. El servicio es bueno al telf. Salimos a tiempo. Llegamos y por 3 horas tuvieron un motor ruidoso desembarcando agua a la piscina y a los tanques de reserva. Al quejarme algunos empleados me preguntaron: le molesta el ruido? Otros dijeron solo serán unos 15 minutos. El servicio fue regular, Iván fue bueno. El almuerzo estuvo a tiempo. Desafortunadamente el pollo, el cerdo muy seco y el pescado súper seco. En fin no es para descansar. Por el ruido nos fuimos a la piscina lo malo fue que la clase de zumba es a todo volumen en esa área que es lejos de la playa. No fue una estadía agradable

ATTENTION: Hotel rooms do not correspond in any way to the photos shown on booking or trip advisor. Instead of the pretty room with dried palm leaf roof shown in the pictures, we were to spend the night in a concrete block with neon lights. The shower is the purest disaster, there is not even hot water, the room is dilapidated and the hygiene is poor. To our horror, a loudspeaker was installed directly in front of the hotel room, from which loud music was blaring. For us it was clear that we will certainly not spend the night in this hotel room. But I do not want to write too much now, PLEASE LOOK AT THE PHOTOS.

The experience in this hotel was excellent since the day we got here until we left. The wait and ride for the speedy boat to get to the island (Hotel) was quick. The check in was quick and we get to enjoy right a way. It has its own private beach space with a lot of accomodations (Bed, seats, beach lounges chairs and umbrellas). This place has different types of activities (dancing, kayak, and others offer by the inlands for an extra charge like jet skis). Food and drinks are good, freat, delicious. The Breakfast was yummy. In short me and my girlfriend had a great weekend here, 100% recommended and would love to come back. Ah, one more thing they have day passes.

Be careful if you rent the jet skis. Had one of the locals in the water and he said my girlfriend almost hit him with the jet ski. He was just lying to try and extort money. Staff didn’t really care that he was carrying on and making a scene. We just ended up leaving. Beside that. Food was horrible and cold. Bathrooms are a complete disaster and probably only get cleaned once a week. Definitely would not return.

Beach was ok, nice but not amazing. The buffet lunch was a disaster. Not enough tables, trays, cutlery or food. Food was over cooked and dry. I can’t remember ever leaving a ‘buffet’ lunch hungry. Staff was indifferent at best. After the horrible lunch, I went to cancel the massage that I had booked but was ignored by four staff at the counter without any other guests around. I ended up walking away without cancelling. I would say this place is very overrated. We should have ****** up the longer boat ride for a better place.

Horrible we swim in front of a stone wall the water is dirty (plastic) Impossible to relax the waiters are screaming and we are harassed by sellers and women who massage The boats arrive every hour terrible pollution! The beach is not at all like the photos, it’s a hoax! It’s very dirty, the restaurant is filthy. One piece of advice: don’t book, I don’t recommend it…

Very good for the food and service in the restaurant and bar, at the time of the reservation they did not tell me that the pool was under renovation, great disappointment for my daughters when they found out this, very good for the beach, the water is very calm.

For those who don't have time or don't want to risk taking a 1-hour speedboat ride, there is this option. Quiet beach, without waves, warm water, 10 minutes by boat from Bocagrande. Food is only reasonable, there is a swimming pool and unfortunately very annoying staff offering Jet ski, kayak and stand up tours. Worth the visit.

Beautiful beach, nice music at the beach club. They don't sell too many tickets so it's not too busy. Lunch is not of very good quality but good enough. The only bad thing is that you pay about 40 euros for the boat/beach and that you still have a seller at your bedside every 5 minutes, but you simply can't get away from that in Cartagena.

It was good but the beaches are dirty they should hire my friend and I to clean the beach each dirty one is worth 50,000 pesos we are available for whatever you want to ask us for we are the ruchito and the cosito

I liked the beach and the hotel but there is garbage and I think they should hire more people to keep it cleaner and organized so that people can have a good stay and thus be more comfortable

I liked the hotel and the people at Tierra Bomba are very friendly! The beach is very nice but with garbage, they should hire friends of the sea to clean it. I really liked it and I would visit again.