First the good points, The staff were lovely and as our travel agent Kenwood Travel had over hyped the hotel and assured me they would let the hotel know I was celebrating a birthday, I was dissapointed when they had not kept their word, after voicing my concerns, Edward at the front desk was charming and resolved the situation. The room was lovely and Rameesh who cleaned the room was fantastic and so helpful, always smiling and nothing was too much trouble. Room service was excellent and beautifully presented. The beach service was a little hit and miss, a couple of afternoons we were unable to order any drinks and had to waddle off to the bar to get some water, the cocktails are expensive and a little lacking in alcohol content, usually after a long island iced tea I am a giggling wreck, we tried some other cocktails but they were dissapointing. There is a lovely pool further up the property from the palace, we decided we would spend a morning there but after being asked our room number by the pool boy we were told we were not allowed to use the pool, so rather embarrassed we sloped off heads hung low, when we got to the beach all the chairs with umbrellas were taken, we asked if we could seek shade under one of the tents but, again, we were told we were not allowed to use these, so we decided we would order some lunch on the beach, nope, we had to eat at the pool, so off we went, finally finding a nice lounger at the pool and requesting a menu we went to place our order to then be told we could not eat at the pool either. It was getting to the point where we were worried about what we could and could not do, so we decided that we would head to The Roof Top bar as here they did fabulous cocktails, so we dressed up and and took the shuttle to Arabian Court part of the hotel, on entering the bar we were told that we were not allowed in as there was a private function, would have been super if we had known this earlier! On the whole its a lovely hotel but we would not return as we have stayed in much nicer places for far less so really value for money was an issue here.
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