Palms Hotel Fire Island

Great room on the bay. Friendly attentive staff. Will be back. At the East end of Bay Walk so it is quiet but a 2 minute walk to the main *****.

In a nutshell, you get what you pay for. The hotel was just okay. On the plus side, they have all the things you need to enjoy the beach and rental was seamless (chairs, umbrellas, wagons, towels etc). Cookies and champagne (complementary) each day was a nice surprise. On the downside, walls are paper thin and quiet hours were not well enforced. Because the doors are old, you have to pull them shut super hard to close them and we were repeatedly jerking awake from hearing doors slam. Housekeeping also left our door ajar day one, assuming because they did not shut it hard enough, which left us feeling a little unsafe. Luckily nothing went missing because the room was open at least three hours. The hotel had lots of mosquitos and our legs look like we went camping. We got smarter at the end of the stay and started shoving towels under the doors to prevent all the mosquitoes from coming in. The rooms were not very well cleaned, we noticed a lot of sand in the sheets the day we arrived. The complementary breakfast was at a sports bar a few blocks away and consisted of cold pancakes and bagels. The private beach area was also a few blocks away and was a few couches in front of the marina (no ability to get into the water). It smelled bad and was poorly maintained so we spent no time there. The hotel was also having a sewage issue so the entire back patio was closed the whole weekend and the first floor smelled really foul.

This was a surprise for my husband’s 60th birthday. I booked one of the cottages for a total of 5 couples for 2 nights. It could not have been better. Joe was wonderful with every question I had. He also helped arrange a catered dinner for Saturday evening in the courtyard. The staff could not have been more accommodating. It was a truly wonderful experience and we and our friends hope to do another weekend together in the future