Important Hotel Information
- This property is located on the northwest coast of Costa Rica.
- The closest airport is in Liberia (LIR), approximately 35 minutes away.
- If flying into San Jose airport (SJO) note that this hotel is approximately five hours away.
Occidental Grand Papagayo All-inclusive
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from $162.77 USD
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A great time But Don't call Overseas Collect Calls
12/14/2008We stayed there in the beginning of november, just after the rainy season and before the dry season, so everything was green and only a few showers. we had a ...
We stayed there in the beginning of November, just after the rainy season and before the dry season, so everything was green and only a few showers. We had a great time! While there are 72 steps from the pool to the lobby, they are large steps. We all have bad knees but if you take your time they are manageable with a couple of breaks. There are other direct stairs and paths to get from your room to the pool - you do not have to go via the lobby. The on-site tour company was very knowledgeable so we had a great time on all of the excursions booked through them. The staff responded immediately to any and all minor problems we had, and the waitstaff by the pool hustled with your drink orders. The only thing I did not like and WARN anyone about is that there is a card by the phone advertising that you can place your collect, long distance calls yourself from your room and pay just $2.00 per min for the first 3 minutes, then $3.00 per minute after that. This was using BBG Communications as the card stated. We were charged an additional $25.00 for phone line usage by the resort. Then when I got home I had ""International Satellite Communications"" charges on my phone bill for $43.92 for 5 minutes on each phone call I placed. I called up BBG Communications on the internet and it linked to a ""Pissed Off Consumer"" website that was loaded with complaints from ripped off people. DO NOT PLACE OVERSEAS CALLS HOME!
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Awesome honeymoon
12/04/2008My husband and i just had our honeymoon here, the week of october 18th, 2008. there was actually about 10-15 other couples honeymooning here the same week as us!! ...
My husband and I just had our honeymoon here, the week of October 18th, 2008. There was actually about 10-15 other couples honeymooning here the same week as us!! We had an awesome time. The place was well kept, the food was good. You have to book the Italian and Oriental restaurant in advance. We ate at the Italian restaurant and the buffet. Italian was very good. The buffet had a different theme every night. The Italian theme was delicioussssssssss. The bartenders was veryyyyyy nice. The room keepers were very nice. Our room was always very clean, drinks were always good. We had beautiful weather. It was cloudy one day, the rest of the days were sunny with a couple of minutes of rain, usually in the evening. This was a very relaxing place. We took a tour for a day. We went to the rainforest, took a mudbath, and we went walking around a local town- and ate at a local restaurant. We enjoyed ourselves. Beautiful place, good food, very nice people. I would go back in the future.
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Forgot to mention*
12/04/2008I was very pleased and suprised at how fast we checked in. it took us about 25 minutes to get from the airport to the resort. as soon as we ...
I was very pleased and suprised at how fast we checked in. It took us about 25 minutes to get from the airport to the resort. As soon as we got to the resort, someone was there to take our bags. We were offered drinks immediately, and it literally took us no longer than 10 minutes to check in. That is the experience my husband and I had. Hopefully everyone else will too! We arrived around 8-9pm.
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Depends on what you're looking for
09/09/2008It is not a very active property and the nightlife choices are the lobby bar, disco - which is very small - and the lobby patio with live music. it is a ...
It is not a very active property and the nightlife choices are the lobby bar, disco - which is very small - and the lobby patio with live music. It is a very low key property. The beach is small and disappears when the tide comes in. Mainly people spend their time on tours. If it rains and the tour is cancelled for the day there's really nothing to do on property. I had a great experience, the hotel staff was very friendly, my room was very pretty and had a beautiful view. The buffet food was a bit redundant and the reservation system for the restaurants that require them was not a good system. In the week that I was there I was only able to make reservations for 1 night as I left on tours prior to the office opening. I would go back on my way through the region
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Terrible
09/04/2008Once we arrived at the occidental, we wandered into the entry area. no on greeted us, we didnt know where to sign in, one gentleman did offer us some water. ...
Once we arrived at the Occidental, we wandered into the entry area. No on greeted us, we didnt know where to sign in, one gentleman did offer us some water. We finally found another employee that got us headed in the right direction. They asked us to find our names on the computer, bc they coudlnt. Once we found our names on the comupter they quickly slapped a cheesy bracelet on us and said we coudlnt take it off until we left. We were driven to our rooms, which may have been the nicest guesture of our day. We then moved to our matchbox room with a dingy comforter, which may have been filled with STD's. The bathroom was dirty, unbelievable hot, and also had a lizard crawling around. The ""AC"" harldy kept the room at 77 degrees. We were dissapointed but decided to give it a chance. So...we walked to the beach where we found a five foot wide span of dirty beech with people selling trinckets. We thought we would try lunch. Turns out, this was not a good decisioin. Can you mess up a salad or cheese; yes, if your at the occidental. The burger may as well have been a brick. My wife nibbled on some chicken surprise? After the first bite of my brick, i looked up to find my wife in near tears. Our expensive vaction was headed down the tubes. We did move to the pool to find a dirty pool, tattoo rich, cigarette smoke filled, redneck paradise. At this point, we were ready to die. Decided, instead, to call our travel agent. She told us she would find us a new place. We decided to try and eat dinner while we worked on the move. I called for dinner reservations and was told to make them in person. I told them it was a monsoon outside, and she said i couldnt make reservations over the phone. so, i began the quarter mile hike to the lobby area in the rain/tsunami.""Upon arriving at guest services, they let me know that there were no available tables. i then went back to the room and decided it was timeto check out after four hours at the beautifl occidental. They did try and charge us for one night, but i refused to pay. we ended up staying at the another hotel whidh was much nicer. Ther were several restaraunts which were much better. The only complaint was the fact that you had to take a shuttle everywhere you went. The beach was beautif\ul and everyone was very kind. We did take several excursions, ATV tour, canopy tour, hiking in national park(beautiful waterfall), white water rafting. Post Occidental, we were able to enjoy a georgous country and had a wonderful time. Please dont wast your time going to the Occidental. If you want to get drunk and fall asleep beside a crappy swimming pool it may be the place for you. Otherwise, dont waste your time.
