Hotel Riu Tikida Dunas - All inclusive

Had a lovely stay here with my wife and baby. The food is nice (although can get a bit repetitive despite the varying menu), rooms are big and grounds are impeccably maintained

We would not return to this hotel. After arriving on Saturday, I began vomiting on Tuesday and my partner on Wednesday. We talked with other guests that were also sick after eating at the hotel restaurants. Having now searched for instances of food poisoning at this hotel, we can see this wasn’t an uncommon experience. Most of the buffet food is bland and some of it horrible, tasting genuinely off or unpleasant. The food is poorly labelled, with dishes under the wrong stickers or stickers missing. As a vegetarian, there aren’t many options - when I chose a cheese salad, it turned out to have some kind of squid in it. After asking a waiter, who asked a chef, they directed me to another salad, which had pieces of chicken in it. Some of the staff are lovely and friendly, but others are very grumpy and make you feel like you are an inconvenience. Our room was cleaned well but the rooms are dated and in need of renovation - there is mould in the bathrooms and a slight smell of damp. The private beach is a small area combed back from a stony beach with lots of plastic and (friendly but slightly concerning) stray dogs. The grounds of the resort itself are beautiful and the pools are lovely to swim and lounge by.

Class food, great pool and friendly staff.

The resort is real nice and the people working there and a nice evening lounge with music in lobby area. However , “The Spa” place on the hotel is horrible; the staff argue, do not understand own price list, forget the appointments with their customers. Also inside gift shop refuse to take visa card and do not seem to want to sell. It is stronger advice to get new partners . I give 4 stars to hotel but less than 2 stars to their on site spa and lobby shop, so total Max 3 stars. hotel but less than 2 to in

The resort is very good, true to their (4*), friendly staff, excellent buffets style meals (only, even on their themed restaurants), basic variety of local alcohol drinks and surprisingly good wine for an all inclusive. Large rooms (must take oceanview), clean and well maintained. The site itself is very well maintained especially the grounds and pools. As for the entertainment, that’s another story,,, I would say, fair at best. The animators are all kind and very young, almost a high school variety show… and yet we watched them all, well most of the shows, a few walkouts,,, they only last 30 minutes, so… judge for yourself!!!