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A few comments about my "Stay" at this hotel
First, on the VIP discounts page the Hotel is called Paradise Hotel and the first line in the description is Sueños del Paraiso Beach Hotel.
These are two different hotels.
The link from the VIP page is to the Sueños Del Paraiso Beach Hotel.
None of the above is important to the story, just some information.

Anyway, I made reservations at the Sueños Del Paraiso Beach Hotel in early January and confirmed the reservation via email less than a week before our arrival on Saturday, February 17.

FYI, at no time was I asked for a credit card # for the reservation. They didn't ask and I didn't offer it.

Ok, so we arrive at the Hotel at 6 pm, and were told buy the receptionist, a nice young gentlemen, that since we did not arrive by 12:00 pm our room was sold to others.

What the Phuck!

We didn't get mad or raise hell but this is bull *hit. They found us another room at a little Cabina. Unfortunately it was only one room for me and a wingman . The room had a/c, kinda, cold water only, two beds and virtually nothing else.

We didn't really care for the scene in Jaco, so we headed back to San Jose the next morning. When I got back to San Jose, I emailed the General Manager, Richard. This is the response I received.

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Taylor
To: XXXXX
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: You didn't hold my reservation


I am sorry for the inconvience. Two quests that were supose to check out went to the beach and we could not find them so the rooms were not cleaned.

XXXXX <noqrtr61@hotmail.com> wrote:
Richard,

Well, we show up in Jaco yesterday at 6 pm only to find out our reservations
were not held.

I confirmed via email a week before my arrival that I was coming, you
responded.

If you were not going to hold my room if I didn't show up a 12 noon, you
should have told me or asked for a credit card number or something.

So we get stuck in a crappy little cabina for 2 guys (in one room), that
really doesn't work out to well in Jaco.

What's the deal?

Regards.

XXXX


Well gentlemen, needless to say this is a bull*shit response and inadequate.
Needless to say I will not be back.

noq

That's interesting because I was there the week before (Feb 8-9) and it looked like my girl and I were the only guests in the hotel. We had no reservations, nada, just walked up, and got a room.

The rooms are very basic. I left a review about this place last week. But at $40/night, what more can we expect when the bog boys are charging $110/night?

FYI-Richard owned the Paradise Motel in the past. He was also a CRT sponsor at that time. I think the VIP discounts page just needs to be updated for the new motel.

Regarding the Links: All the links take you to the new hotel which is what is being discussed here and all the phone #'s etc also refer to the new hotel.
They have not provoided any new Artwork to change out the name, but if that is what you guys want I'll do it myself....

I have updatd all the artwork to reflect everything accurately!

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Thank you for supporting CRT!

Orange,

I was going to be charged $55 less the CRT discount.

Admin 1,

Do what you want, doesn't really matter to me cause I am not going back. It's a little confusing to have artwork and the name of one hotel who is not a sponsor, and the link to a different hotel.
Our Cab driver told us that there are 3 Paradise Hotels in Jaco, I don't know if that is correct or not.

noq