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Avis sur La Buena Vida Hotel

3 out of 5
La Buena Vida Hotel
Calle Principal, Hicaco, Veraguas

Avis

7,8

Bien

Note des voyageurs de 10 (Excellent), d’après 9 avis sur 23." "
Note des voyageurs de 8 (Bien), d’après 5 avis sur 23." "
Note des voyageurs de 6 (Satisfaisant), d’après 5 avis sur 23." "
Note des voyageurs de 4 (Médiocre), d’après 4 avis sur 23." "
Note des voyageurs de 2 (Horrible), d’après 0 avis sur 23." "

7,6/10

Propreté

7,0/10

Personnel et service

5,6/10

Équipements

7,0/10

Infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement

Avis

6/10 Satisfaisant

Michel

Les points forts : Propreté et personnel et service
Les points faibles : Infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
The hotel is quite dated, our room was dark and furniture, mattress, bathroom, floors, mosquito screens would need renovation/replacement. There was a functioning AC in the room. Good location in walking distance from the beach, restaurants and activities. Professional staff. Price was reasonable even given the shortcomings.
Séjour de 2 nuits en décembre 2018
Réponse de Ian le 10 janv. 2019
Thank you for your feedback! We've recently renovated all our linens and older furniture items in our villas. Not sure what is meant by the bathrooms and floors as these are one of our biggest attractions with our thematic mosaic work. Could you be more specific? All the best.

8/10 Bien

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en groupe
Les points forts : Propreté et confort de la chambre
Les points faibles : Personnel et service
Séjour de 2 nuits en mars 2021

10/10 Excellent

Brian, Colorado

Voyage en famille
Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
The staff, especially Elena, was very friendly, helpful and attentive. The place is comfortable, quiet at night and close to all the restaurants in town. It was hard to know which days the restaurant was open, but I guess that depends on the number of guests staying at the hotel. Overall, great stay!
Séjour de 6 nuits en janvier 2020
Réponse de Jodie le 30 janv. 2020
Thanks so much Brian, we are glad you enjoyed your stay and we look forward to having you in the community!

6/10 Satisfaisant

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en couple
Les points faibles : Propreté et personnel et service
Don’t expect a lot in general being in Santa Catalina. It’s just a village and overall you won’t find luxuries properties to stay. La Buena vida is centrally located close to everything and you have a private room with the shower that is great. Overall, though, the property needs a lot of work - the area is full of fallen leaves and definitely needs cleaning. The room was humid and had filthy smell. Although there is restaurant on site, we were able to have breakfast only once - there was no staff at 7 am to prepare breakfast (although they supposed to be working). We had a good stay overall, but I would say that the property is definitely overrated and the price to too high for what it is.
Séjour de 2 nuits en décembre 2019
Réponse de Jodie le 30 janv. 2020
I am sorry you did not enjoy Santa Catalina. Most of us who live here enjoy it because it is a village, not overrun with tourists, very peaceful and tranquil. You are correct in saying there are no luxury places to stay. If you want Club Med this is not the place for you. Our restaurant staff is present from 6:30-2:00 six days a week. I am sorry you felt our property was overrated. The rooms are sometimes humid until the air conditioning has been on for a bit. Our rooms are well cleaned and do not smell. We also have a full time gardener but at this time of year it is hard to keep up with all the leaves falling. Perhaps you have not experienced a tropical country before?

8/10 Bien

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en couple
Les points forts : Personnel et service
El personal y los dueños muy atentos a resolver y dar apoyo en cualquier necesidad.. sin embargo el restaurante cierra muy temprano por la tarde y para mi gusto era muy campestre pero se pasan muy buenos días de descanso porque tiene una excelente ubicación y es una zona tranquila
Séjour de 4 nuits en novembre 2019
Réponse de Jodie le 30 janv. 2020
Muchas Gracias!

4/10 Médiocre

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en couple
Les points faibles : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Staff was never there during hours of operation , breakfast was not available both mornings and our room never got cleaned
Séjour de 2 nuits en novembre 2019
Réponse de La Buena Vida Hotel le 9 nov. 2019
I'm sorry but my staff was present during your visit. The restaurant is open from 6:30-2:00 every day except Tuesdays. You were here Wednesday and Thursday. I (the owner ) was here both of those days and my employees (4 people!) were all present. My maid says she cleaned your room- you say she did not. Because of this we gave you a discount on your room price. My managers were also present both of the days you were here and at your check in and check out.

4/10 Médiocre

Rique, Barcelona

Voyage en couple
Les points faibles : Personnel et service, équipements, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Admiten reservas con las instalaciones del hotel cerradas y el personal de vacaciones. Deberian avisar que hasta noviembre no habre el hotel con todos los servicios.
Séjour de 4 nuits en octobre 2019
Réponse de La Buena Vida le 9 nov. 2019
Thank you for the review. We are sorry your visit was not as you hoped. In the future we will post on our site that there are less services during rainy season. We assumed that it was known that services are less at that time.

8/10 Bien

Voyageur vérifié

Les points forts : Propreté, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement, confort de la chambre
Séjour de 2 nuits en septembre 2019
Réponse de La Buena Vida le 6 oct. 2019
Thank you for staying with us! Hope to see you again.

8/10 Bien

Voyageur vérifié

Les points forts : Propreté, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement, confort de la chambre
Les points faibles : Personnel et service
Schön
Leider ist das Personal nur bis 2pm erreichbar. Strom und Wasser fallen in Santa Catalina regelmässig aus.
Séjour de 4 nuits en juillet 2019
Réponse de La Buena Vida le 9 nov. 2019
Thank you for the review- we are glad you enjoyed your stay with us in Santa Catalina! We are sorry for any inconvenience but the rainy season is very slow and our staff does work shorter hours.

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en groupe, Voyage en couple
Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Very good location. Great breakfast and nice hammocks in shade of porch.
Séjour de 3 nuits en avril 2019
Réponse de Owner le 3 juil. 2019
Thank you for the review- we are glad you enjoyed your stay with us in Santa Catalina!

4/10 Médiocre

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en famille avec de jeunes enfants, Voyage en famille
Les points faibles : Propreté et infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Het is een unieke plek, maar oud. Veel dingen stuk. Goede wifi. Stadje is leuk veel excursies te doen.
Séjour de 2 nuits en avril 2019
Réponse de Owner le 3 juil. 2019
Hello- I"m sorry you felt things were old and broken. If you could be more specific as to whether you were staying at LBV or at Boarder's Haven- the hostel we manage- and what specifically was broken? We try very hard to keep things in working order and have recently redone all the rooms at LBV.

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Séjour de 2 nuits en mars 2019
Réponse de Ian le 4 avr. 2019
Thanks so much for your review!

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Séjour de 2 nuits en mars 2019
Réponse de Ian le 4 avr. 2019
Thanks so much for your review!

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en groupe
Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Excellent staff and great location, enjoyed our stay
Séjour de 3 nuits en janvier 2019
Réponse de Ian le 30 janv. 2019
Thank you so much! We're really glad you enjoyed your time here with us. Safe travels.

8/10 Bien

Voyageur vérifié

Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Cercanía a los sitios de interés. ubicación y diseño con el ambiente que lo rodea.
Séjour de 1 nuit en janvier 2019
Réponse de Ian le 1 févr. 2019
Lo apreciamos mucho! Nos alegra que hayan disfrutado de su tiempo con nosotros.

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Séjour de 1 nuit en janvier 2019
Réponse de Ian le 30 janv. 2019
We're glad you enjoyed your stay with us! Thank you for taking the time to give us your rating.

6/10 Satisfaisant

Voyageur vérifié

Les points forts : Personnel et service et confort de la chambre
Les points faibles : Propreté
La Buena Vida doesn't do room cleaning during one's visit. I also couldn't initially check in at 3PM, as there was nobody present at the reception. I had to wait for five minutes for someone to show up. When I left at 6.45AM, nobody was present at the reception again. After calling a few times, I gave up again, and left the key and the money due at a table outside of the reception.
Séjour de 3 nuits en janvier 2019
Réponse de Ian le 26 janv. 2019
We appreciate the feedback. Some of the claims made by this guest however, are either false or unfair. We do in fact carry out housekeeping everyday. If there are specific housekeeping needs that are required for any particular guest, we are happy to accommodate if these are voiced in reception. We don't change sheets daily if guests are staying for a short time. This is a regular energy and water conservation practice in our town. Maybe this is what he is referring to. In regards to check-in, we can understand. It is common for our shift managers to step out of reception for minutes at a time, considering they have other responsibilities to attend to. As is stated, after only 5 minutes, our manager was back, during which time this guest had grown increasingly impatient and behaved in a rude manner. Regarding check-out, this guest never let us know he was planning on leaving before our reception hours. In these cases it is common practice to settle any pending tabs the day prior, and simply leave the key on the door upon departure.

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Voyage en famille
Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, équipements et infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Very well-located, charming small hotel, nice and comfortable rooms, very nice and helpful staff. Would recoomend it and would surely stay there again
Séjour de 1 nuit en décembre 2018
Réponse de Ian le 3 janv. 2019
Thank you so much! You are welcome back anytime :)

4/10 Médiocre

Voyageur vérifié

Séjour de 2 nuits en novembre 2018
Réponse de Ian (Manager) le 8 nov. 2018
Thank you for your review. We are interested in knowing how we could have made your stay more pleasant. All the best.

10/10 Excellent

Stephane, QC, Canada

Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement et confort de la chambre
We rented the bigger Casa del Mar appartment for 3 nights. A large room perfect for our family of 5. Confortable and clean. Kitchen was fully functional and included a large fridge and coffee machine. Dishes supplied, but no pantry items (ex: salt and pepper, coffee filters...) and no toaster available, unfortunately. Local grocery store has the essentials, and fruit vendor trucks drive by the hotel on a daily basis.. We had tacos for lunch at the hotel restaurant which were delicious. Location and parking is convenient, A short 5 min walk to Santa Catalina Beach, but further from the nicer surf beach, Estero, so we would drive there. Surfboard rental are available around Estero beach. Elena, the manager (and yoga instructor), offered excellent service both before and during our stay, answering all our questions and helping organizing our activities, such as horseback riding at Ibiscus Garden). My wife had a massage, which was great, however pricey, at 65-70$ for an hour. We were suprised to find such high-end prices (higher than in Canada anyway!) in such a small, off the beaten path village. No doubt they would have gotten more business from us if massage prices were more reasonnable. All in all a great stay in a very welcoming hotel which offers great value for the price. We would stay there again without hesitation.
Séjour de 3 nuits en juillet 2018
Réponse de Michelle le 24 août 2018
Hola Stephane, We are so happy you enjoyed your stay with us! It sounds like you took full advantage of the beautiful kitchen and our central location. Our managers Elena and Ian are super helpful with coordinating activities as you mention. Our prices for massage reflect the quality of the treatment guests receive with our U.S. or European certified therapists. We offer professionalism in a beautiful natural environment. Thank you so much for your wonderful review.

6/10 Satisfaisant

Jacque

Les points forts : Propreté et personnel et service
Started off bad but got better.
The property had 2 different places under the same hotel.com booking. Pictures and quality are way different. One is a nice simple hotel and the other is a hostel. We stay one night at the hostel since we arrived late and just wanted to crash and we moved to the hotel side the next morning. Staff is really friend and gave zero hassle about moving and said they would separate the 2 properties.
Séjour de 3 nuits en juillet 2018
Réponse de Michelle le 26 août 2018
Hola Jacque, Thanks so much for the positive review. As you say, La Buena Vida offers more comfortable, private villas and also manages the Boarder's Haven Guesthouse next door which is private air-conditioned rooms with shared bathrooms and living space. Both serve different guest's specific needs. We have since seperated the two properties on expedia and are sorry if there was any confusion.

6/10 Satisfaisant

Roberto, London

Les points forts : Infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement
Les points faibles : Confort de la chambre
Séjour de 2 nuits en mai 2018
Réponse de Michelle le 11 déc. 2018
Hola Roberto! Sad to see 3 out of 5 here. If you or other guests give us more details we can see where we can improve in the future. Hope you enjoyed Santa Catalina overall.

10/10 Excellent

Voyageur vérifié

Les points forts : Propreté, personnel et service, infrastructures et conditions de l’hébergement et confort de la chambre
Amazing Staff
Love this place has a yoga studio at the top of the hill on the hotel property. The food was pretty amazing as well the only thing missing was a pool but you can walk 5 mins to the beach.
Séjour de 1 nuit en mai 2018
Réponse de Michelle le 16 juin 2018
Thanks so much for taking the time to review us. Great food and fun yoga classes continue!