Marriott Vacation Club at Los Sueños

We stayed at the vacation club so we had a 1 bedroom villa. It was incredible - clean, comfortable, well stocked so we could cook and save some money. Exactly what I expected having stayed at other vacation club properties. Where the experience fell short was the facilities outside. The pool is lovely but the gardening staff was constantly doing loud maintenance - power washing and leaf blowing for hours at the time while people were trying to enjoy the pool during the morning hours when it wasn’t raining (afternoons in CR tended to be rainy during the season we visited). This even happened while a wedding was taking place on a lawn nearby. I appreciate the high standards but some leaves on the lawns would have bothered me a lot less than listening to a leaf blower while trying to relax. The other really disappointing part of this hotel is the beach. It was COVERED in trash and just so sad to see. I wish the Marriott would pay their staff to clean up the beach instead of leaf blowing leaves from the lawn.

Having visited over 15+ Marriott vacation clubs as an owner and being a lifetime Titanium, I recommend skipping this one. We just spent 8 nights here and this vacation is a poor afterthought to the main resort hotel. Cons: The pool is extremely boring and cold with numerous broken lounge chairs and 0 bathrooms for the vacation club pool. There’s a food-truck parked 150 feet from the pool which just feels cheap in every way. Every night we smelled ****, cigars and/or cigarette smoke during our family’s spring break vacation. All of the staff are at the main hotel and, other than the maids, this place is 100% absent any oversight. Check in is at the main resort and numerous people complained about how unfriendly the front desk staff was. There’s no welcoming sign to the Vacation Club from the parking lot. The kitchen is lacking an oven and there’s no bbq grills if you wanted to cook up a local fish. All of the little extras you expect from a standard MVC are just missing. Lastly, I cannot understand why Marriott decided to build here as this is quite literally the worst beach in all of Costa Rica; the sand looks like dark brown mud and topsoil. Pros: Other than the missing oven, the rooms are nicely appointed. The pool staff at the main resort are amazing. There seems to be a daily treat whether it be ice cream, small appetizers or even a cupcake decorating contest at the main resort pool. The Eco-Tour was a lot of fun and the adjacent golf was gorgeous.

i. La playa no es bonita, el agua del mar es color chocolate. ii. No hay relación precio- calidad, se paga mucho para lo que ofrece el hotel. ii. el check in es a las 4 pm, y el check out es a las 10 am...algo nunca visto, casi que se paga solo por dormir. iv. Por otro lado, las instalaciones son buenas, y el servicio de los colaboradores es excelente.