Hotel Pet Friendly di El Nido

This is a bit of a special place. The hotel is right at its own private beach. It‘s very isolated from everything else which can be nice if you don‘t want to leave the hotel at all. We wanted to go to the town some evenings and that is a bit of a challenge. You first have to take a golf car (which only runs until 10pm) and then change into a tricycle. The tricycles won‘t go directly to the hotel because the last bit of the road is too steep and winded. The other option is to walk along the beach for 20 minutes instead of using the golf car for the last bit, which we did a couple of times. It‘s not too dangerous but there are stray dogs. The food in the hotel restaurant was Italian and just ok, nothing amazing. The service was not great. Two women seem to know how to run a hotel but the rest of the staff were rather useless. They often seemed annoyed, even when we were just ordering food. We once asked about the zipline that is literally next door and they didn‘t know anything about it (price, time, how to get there). They organised a tour for us, which was great, but messed up the booking somehow so the tour guide thought we were only two people instead of four, which resulted in less food for lunch. And then they even charged us more for the tour. Our room was fine. Clean and no bugs. Yes, you can hear everything but we didn‘t mind that. The room was only made up on request though. The whole area is beautiful but there were a few things that annoyed us. So I wouldn‘t come back.

My fiance and I stayed in villa 3 with the private pool. We had a lovely stay and would recommend it to anyone however here are some things to note. The hill and walk up to the villas is not mild. Definitely worth considering if you have difficulties with steep hills, it would be a good 2-5mins up hill. Villa 3 felt like the smallest villa of the 3, however had the longest pool. Unfortunately for villa's 2 & 3 the day beds are on top of each other (villa 2 above villa 3). This made it a little awkward relaxing during our stay. Villa 1 has a very private area. Worth a note that the resort has a strict no lotion or sunscreen policy, which unfortunately even despite my best efforts, resulted in a lasting sunburn. Overall a lovely experience and the views make it all worth while. Thank you Viewdeck for a wonderful stay.