Resorts of Pelican Beach

Reviews

• Bill Hartman

  Sep, 26 2018
  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
  We have just returned from staying at Pelican Beach. We did not have any issues with the resort itself, but our main reason in staying there was to be on the beach, which is beautiful. We paid about $1700 for 1 week, but the cost for the 5 of us to rent beach chairs and an umbrella would have been an additional $500 for the week. The issue that I have with this is that very early in the morning, the beach service, La Dulce Vita, sets up the chairs and a large umbrella in 2-3 rows at the very front of the beach, which of course then blocks your view of the ocean. They put up multiple signs, stating that no private set-ups are allowed beyond those signs. Also all adults and children are required to wear wrist bands with the name Pelican Beach on them (and there is a $25 fee if you lose your wrist band), which prevents you from setting up anywhere else. You are stuck in a roped off area. We did not find any other resort in which there was such a heavy layer of chairs right on the beach. Yes, there were chairs at other resorts, but never more than 1 row (and sometimes not even right on the ocean) and just to the left there was a wide open space where you could actually set up your own chairs on the ocean (for free!). And extra frustrating is that each day many of the chairs go unrented! It certainly appeared to us to just be a money-making scheme.
  
  We paid $1700 to stay in a resort on the ocean, but didn't expect to have to pay an additional $500 for the 5 of us to actually sit on the beach and see the ocean.

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