Name: Barceló Tambor
Address: Playa Tambor, Puntarenas, Tambor, 771-1150, Costa Rica
Telephone: +506 2683 03 03
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The Barceló Tambor hotel features 402 marvelous rooms that are inspired by the local colonial style, where every corner has its own unique and exclusive personality. Thanks to its location within a magical setting, guests can relax in one of the most beautiful landscapes of Costa Rica, a natural setting that is unique in the world.

All rooms have tiled floors and an elegant decor and have a balcony or terrace with a view of the ocean or garden.

Equipped with:

LCD TV with digital signal
A table and chairs on the terrace or balcony
Air conditioning
Digital safety deposit box

LCD TV with digital signal
A table and chairs on the terrace or balcony
Air conditioning
Digital safety deposit box

Check-in and check-out

Check-in time: from 15:00 hrs. (3pm) Check-out time: before 12.00 hrs. (12pm)

It is a very convenient hotel, a beautiful and clean beach with great staff.There are activities for kids in the beach, in the pools and other areas.A lot of food with different restaurants where you have a great variety of options.

Room: Clean and tidy. All good inside the bedroom, the clining personal will come in the afternoon or noon, my only complain will be for the public restroom, they're messy, dirty and smell bad. Personal: Nice and make you feel comfortable within the premises of the hotel, if there's anything you need they will help you out, the pool personal are super nice and fun, the night show is funny, the bartender and waitresses helpful. Food: it's good, there's a great variety of food. Even though I do believe they lack of sea food, the red meat, chicken and pork is awesome. They also serve soup and vegetables, they were delicious. The desert, good but not as good as you expected.

Ok, so I`m British but have lived in Costa Rica for 1 year with my partner who is Costa Rican. He`s been to this hotel 3 times over the last 10 years and boasted how good it was so off we went for my birthday last weekend. Wow, the place looked amazing and we could use the facilities well before the check in time of 3.00pm. When we finally got to our room, it was very nice, no complaints. The room had a fridge but only had soft drinks and water in it, no alcohol which has apparently been the case previously. When we went to the pool, the queues at the pool bar were ridiculous. There were 3 members of staff and I counted well over 50 people at the bar waiting to be served, which is ridiculous, its was the weekend and they obviously have more people stay at weekends so need to increase the amount of staff they have working. At the snack bar, there was the same problem plus you couldn`t tell where the queue for the bar ended and the queue for the food started as there was just one orderly continuos queue of about 40 people with only 2 members of staff at each serving station. Not good enough. We were told it was because people were checking out at 1.00pm so were taking advantage of everything but unfortunately it was the same on Sunday and Monday as well. The food in the restaurants does not cater for European people, only Costa Rican people and almost everything is cooked with cilantro, which is fine if you like cilantro. unfortunately, I hate the stuff. Breakfast was the typical Costa Rican dish of rice, egg and meat, although there was an omelette station, cereal and fruit available. Lunch and dinner was basically the same, a large selection of salad, rice, potatoes and maybe chicken, beef and pork but that's about it, there was not a lot of selection seeing as it`s an all inclusive hotel.. My partner even said the food selection was not good enough and he`s Costa Rican. We went to the Rancho restaurant on my birthday and had a fantastic meal, you have to book this early in the morning, I would recommend this. I`m also glad that I don`t have children as the entertainment for kids at night time was only in Spanish, so anyone that didn`t understand Spanish would not be able to join in, I assume it would have been the same during the day time. Finally, the wifi is awful. I gave up trying to use it after half a day. Maybe I`ve been spoilt by other all inclusive hotels in Costa Rica, such as Double Tree Hilton in Puntarenas or the Riu Guanacaste, which have a wide selection of food, limited waiting time at the bars and excellent wifi. Sorry but I can`t recommend this hotel to European people as we expect a bit more than what was available.

I normally do not write reviews unless my stay was very, very good or in this case very BAD!! my family and I stayed there for 5-7 days September 22-29th 2018 there was a total of 19 in our party and we all were equally unhappy, the hotel is out dated and the bathrooms were terrible and smelled bad, the bedding was dingy grey color and the hotels decore was very dated, the air conditioning did not work properly in our room and was never fixed, the food was awful, not to mention they advertised free Wi-Fi which of course, it was not free, drinks sucked! they only had 2 restaurants to choice from and you had to make reservations, and they both were bad, but better than the buffet that you ate the same food over and over again, and I have never stayed at a 4 star hotel that served me on paper products, plates, forks, cups you name it, if I could have checked out I would have, but of course the hotel has a NO REFUND POLICY, I was so excited about my trip to Costa Rica and have it ruined by my stay at the Barcelo Tambor. Save your money and stay some where else!!

I did spend several days at this resort in Tambor beach Costa Rica Barcelo, I did experience the most wonderful service but one of the waiters . He was wonderful he’s name is “NINO” we had him at the Rancho as well as the buffet restaurant. In his vocabulary do not exists the word NO ! He please as in everything we could do , thank you Nino keep it up people like you make a wonderful experience for Tourists to visit this beautiful country , Gracias amigo you should be promoted to supervisor I can tell you really have the know-how of great customer service and experience and what are you doing you must teach some of the other employees C Lobo