Acqualina Resort & Residences On The Beach

Lovely for family

We stayed for one night with our baby. Beautiful rooms and a really nice arrival gift waited for us upon check in. Hotel restaurants are also quite nice. Few things weren’t great, however. We were given a 6th floor room and had a view of a balcony below us. Not a big deal, but it was really disappointing to have a construction crew start working on that balcony at 7am. The hotel knew we had a baby with us (they provided a crib) so I’d expect a true luxury resort to think ahead and not put us in a room that’ll be loud early in the morning. Aside from that, the room was generally loud - we could hear the HVAC unit humming all night. Not sure if that’s true for every room or just ours. One small additional detail - typically at a luxury hotel, someone helps you with your bags as soon as your car pulls up. We were only helped after checking in. Not a huge deal, but didn’t feel like a true luxury resort.

We recently stayed at Acqualina for 6 nights. We enjoyed our large room and bathroom and cleanliness of the entire hotel. The pools were nice and had plenty of shaded and sunny seating. The food was great at Costa Grill, Ke Uh and buffet breakfast. The atmosphere was sleepy. We were often the only family in the pool. Beach and pool service start late and end early. Staff would be scrambling to set up chairs when we got to the beach at 9 and they’d be packing up around us while we were playing on the beach at 4. We’re not factoring this into our rating as it’s personal preference but if you’d like to be able to have a drink in your beach chair at 6 pm, this is not the place for you. Our biggest issue was with service. Everyone was friendly but the delivery was totally lacking. Employees would offer to set up beach chairs but never return. Multiple times, we asked for water at the beach but never got it. We rented a cabana for the day and only saw our server once. We asked for a menu and waited an hour to get it during the cabana rental. We went up to our room while our daughter napped and found the cabana packed up when we returned even though there was an hour left on our rental. We called the concierge to see if we could get a carseat and were promised a call back, but never got one. The list goes on and on. At times we felt like an Applebees is more attentive than this 5-star hotel. Each staff person was very nice so it seems like there is a management/systems issue.