Kimkim Trip Reviews

Beautiful hotel, spacious rooms, great common areas to sit in/read/enjoy a glass of wine, an outstanding breakfast buffet, and a great pool.

The entrance to the hotel is dingy, there's a tiny elevator that can barely fit two people and one suitcase, and the rooms are built sideways -- long but not wide enough. Two people cannot walk around at a time. There is no view from the balcony except into a much nicer hotel with amazing landscaping and a beautiful rooftop restaurant. The furniture is arranged in such a way that you cannot fit your suitcases. The breakfast area is dark and tiny, with only one table under a skylight that's worth eating at but that is always taken. WOULD NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN!

Because Santorini is so beautiful, no hotel can go wrong. But the rooms in this hotel were SO small that I couldn't stand up straight in the bedroom, and I'm only 5'4. The bathroom was so tiny I had to bend my head when entering and walk sideways. The balconies were nice but shared with so many rooms there was no privacy; one evening, the 20-year old boys staying in the room next door stayed up out on the balcony smoking and playing music and talking till 3:00 a.m., and they were so close we couldn't drown out the noise. The bar was not stocked with anything -- just empty liquor bottles -- and the bartender couldn't make anything except open some beer or wine. The staff was friendly and the breakfast was nice, but we spent no time in the rooms because they were so small and uncomfortable!

Though it is in a nice location, the hotel is tiny, with most rooms that overlook a wall. The manager is unfriendly, crochety, and completely arrogant. He put our kids in a smoking room, claimed he was sold out and couldn't switch them until we complained to our travel agent, refused to fix the broken TV & A/C in our room and instead accused my husband of breaking it. The balconies in two of our rooms were so small that all we could do is put our clothes out there to dry; there was little room for two people to sit and enjoy sunrise or sunset. The breakfast buffet looked really nice, but most of the breads and dry foods were stale because they put them away in a nearby cabinet, then take them out every morning.

The view/sunset was great, dinner was good, and snorkeling was enjoyable. But the cruise started off an hour and a half late, there were no snacks, there was only cheap wine and beer to drink instead of a full bar, and docking was 4 hours later than promised, making for a tiring day spent waiting and waiting and waiting and getting an OK experience. Also, the staff were not nice -- very busy and stressed.

This was my kids' favorite accommodation through the trip (F16, M13); the rooms were authentic, unique, and charming, but very comfortable. The kitchen suite allowed us to have cool snacks and drinks as we checked-in throughout our stay (crucial in the 34º+ celsius weather in Dubrovnik during our visit). The pool was also a highlight, and we enjoyed having drinks poolside, taking frequent dips to get out of the heat. The hotel is marked with gorgeous grounds and stunning view of the Adriatic - ideal for watching a summer sunset. Staff were fantastic throughout, and service was exemplary. The walk into Dubrovnik's old town wasn't bad for 3 active people, but I imagine the stairs (coupled with high heat of the summer) would have taxed many other visitors. For us, it was just an excuse to have more gelato, but for other visitors, it's pretty easy to book a car to the old town.

Gorgeous hotel right in the heart of old town split. Staff were welcoming, efficient, and helpful throughout our stay. The rooms were bright, clean, and spacious. We occupied a family suite with a view overlooking the square - we were able to catch the Euro final locally, and were treated to Spanish fans singing heartily at the conclusion of the final. Despite being over a busy square, the rooms were quiet and comfortable.

Really fun locale in the heart of the city, with whimsical decoration, but clean, comfortable, brightly lit rooms. Ideal if you like to be right in the heart of evening activity, steps away from delicious food options and nightlife.

What a fabulous hotel! Eco-designed and sustainably managed. The rooms were roomy and well appointed (especially the TV which was crucial given the Euro's were on!). The staff were incredibly warm, and provided us plenty of valuable information about activities and restaurants in the area.

Nice rooms and charming hotel, close from the main square

We had 2 rooms and living room + kitchen upstairs ! Beautiful view on the mountains. Great staff and every night you are invited to some traditional music and glass of wine.

Charming, beautiful hotel, great service and you can also enjoy fantastic massage ! Loved it !!

The best part of this modern style hotel is its location.

Rooms were ok but not as nice as the photos from the website. It seems they are the ones from the new building. Basic comfort and restaurant was so-so. Since the hotel is isolated in the forest, no choice but to stay in the hôtel for dinner

Was interesting but too short ( only museum and Saint Francisco church) ; could have added one more museum…

Lovely spacious apartment. Great location. Comfortable!

Location, location, location. Awesome hotel in the perfect spot in town. Amazing rooftop bar and comfortable rooms. Breakfast is also very good. Pool is crowded and people cover their chairs w towels and then never come back so we didn’t ever get more than one chair for 5 of us. Wish hotel regulated that more.

Location is amazing! Comfortable. Fit our family of 5 well. Front desk staff is great too. Breakfast is delicious.

Great apartment! A little difficult finding it but Fabio helped. AC wasn’t working 100% but weather outside was gorgeous so it didn’t matter. Amazing location.

Best guide ever! He was informative and kept it interesting for our children.

Informative guide. It was VERY hot but she gave us many breaks in the shade.

Perfect!

So much fun and informative.

Great! Loved the private tour. The stop in Capri was a little long…but besides that, it was great.

The room itself was clean with a nice view of the channel leading into the harbor through one window but looked out over the parking lot from another. It had a very small sitting room for viewing the ships arriving through the channel which was nice. The bathroom was small and would have been okay except on of the panels on the shower door was missing making it challenging to shower without spraying a lot of water on the floor. The hotel had a nice spread for breakfast and the food was very good. The staff was helpful. One of the clerks posted some mail for me and they were very accommodating about storing our luggage for an evening departure. The common areas of the hotel were, however, very shabby - desperately in need of new carpet and paint.

The room was extremely clean and recently remodeled. The bed was very comfortable, but the view out over the harbor was spectacular! I couldn't bet enough of the comings as goings in harbor. Breakfast was outstanding offering a wide array of options. We were very pleased with this hotel.

We contacted the hotel for an early check-in for one of our rooms and they happily complied.

Very large room with excellent furnishings and great bedside view of wildlife.

Thoroughly modern hotel with incredible facilities. Wished we could have stayed here a few more days to soak up the ambience.

Incredible lodges overlooking a vast desert with spectacular wildlife wandering by.

Very friendly local guide, thanks !

This was a very cute place to stay, and I have to stay that I had the best meal EVER at this particular place...for $6! :) The lady who runs it should be running a Michelin restaurant. The rooms are very simple but clean. Note there is no Wifi in any of the rooms, despite what their website says. Still..there are not a lot of options if you want to see Tierradentro, so I think this was totally the best option. It was very pretty and charming, and the lady and her family there were super friendly.

This place is very cute and spacious. Each room has great views and some rooms have fireplaces. The breakfast was delicious and the staff was super friendly. I personally had problems as I found the rooms very cold (there is no central heat...just space heaters) but my guide swooped in to help me resolve this. Also, the wifi in the rooms is again not totally reliable, but the staff there did their best to help me solve this. There are not too many places to stay in this particular area, and it was very pretty.

Really lovely hotel. I had a great stay here. The staff was super helpful, the breakfast was very tasty, and everything was more than I could have asked for. There was hot water in the showers and free wifi! Comfortable bed and quiet. I did get there early so could not check into my room but they watched my bag until the room was ready. I saw some other comments about the staff not speaking English and I just disagree. We are guests in their country and if you can't take the time to learn some basic Spanish then at least know you can use Google translate to communicate with them. I do not think the onus should be on the staff; it is on us as guests to be good visitors. I know rudimentary Spanish and I think they appreciated my attempt to be understood. The hotel is really well located and would totally stay there again.

What a lovely place! I was enchanted. So unique and special. Everyone there was so helpful and kind. Quiet and so cute! Lots os monkeys and you can hear the river nearby. I was the only tourist there but the staff was super friendly and helpful. Delicious food. It was really unique and I'd stay there again in a heartbeat.

This was my very favorite place to stay during my 9 day visit to Colombia. Granted, I think I stayed in the best room they had! But it was really remarkable and unique. The staff was very helpful, the breakfast was delicious, and the room I had was unbelievable. Probably the best place I have ever stayed. I agree with other comments about the barking dogs...they really need to do something about that! (Not chain them up at night??) But I still loved it and would stay there again in a heartbeat.

Great hotel! After more than a week of staying in some random and small places, it felt like luxury to find a clean hotel with wifi (everywhere!) and hot water in the shower! It was very clean and the customer service was impeccable. I think I was nearly the only tourist there, but everyone attended to me and helped me. I am especially grateful to Nathalie who was working in the kitchen. I walked down and gave her my dinner order, and she went above and beyond to make it special and deliver it to me. She was so kind and sweet...totally made my stay. Would stay there again in a heartbeat.

Loved my trip to the park. Learned a lot and the site was amazing.

Camila gave me a personal tour of the city, and it was really fun and interesting.

Loved my trip to the coffee farm! I learned a lot and the coffee was very good.

Loved my boat trip on the lagoon. It was cold and windy, but so pretty!

Visiting Las Lajas was one of the highlights of my trip. Brought me to tears...it was so pretty.

Loved seeing this cathedral! Totally unique. Worth a visit. My guide was awesome.

I loved my walking tour! I had a fantastic guide. Wish it were longer, but it was my first day after a long flight, and I was exhausted. Still, my guide was awesome.

Really interesting visit to this market!

Loved my hike to fin del mundo! It was much longer and more difficult than I first thought, but I am glad I did it. So beautiful.

Hotel was well located, had all the amenities we needed, and made the stay very comfortable. Very clean. The staff were incredibly warm, and I became convinced people in Nepal are generally so kind and welcoming

Great hotel close to airport and free breakfast included.

Great location, but no elevator for a 3-story hotel. The stair challenged should secure a room on the first floor.

In great location near Esplanade, great free breakfast included, however insect problem in bathroom was not addressed.

Top class hotel with great food and shopping.

Very interesting story of Paronella Park - glad we did it.

Liked all the various activities on this tour but spent a lot of time on the bus picking up and letting off passengers.

Shopped around tourist area, visited Armour Museum, Cairns Museum, Rusty's Markets, had amazing dinner at Bay Leaf Balinese restaurant, moonlight walk on Esplanade

If you are in Cairns, you have to actually go to the reef. Liked all the various activities you could do from the pontoon.

One of the highlights of our trip

One of the highlights of our entire Australia trip.

Good experience, but early morning with cold and wind. The gorge walk is challenging mainly due to the loose rubble you have to walk over - a barrier to some folks (us). The slope and distance would be no problem with a smoother route.

Viewing and food was great.

Great overall view of the city.

Great tour of this area.

Loved this visit with knowledgeable guide.

very good location, excellent facilities, very comfortable rooms, beautiful decoration and

A hotel with the warmth of home and unbeatable attention, a gem to discover in York.

I stayed at the Sukau Greenview Lodge in Sandakan for three nights. While the accommodations were okay, given that it’s in the jungle, I wasn't expecting high-level amenities. They were great about some things, like the air conditioning which was terrific, but not so good about others, such as only accepting cash. I had no Malaysian ringgit and wanted to buy an ice cream but couldn't because they didn't accept credit cards. The staff at the desk weren't very helpful, but the guides were excellent.

I chose this hotel as it was recommended by a friend, and it didn't disappoint!

I visited the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre in Sandakan, and while the center itself was nice and the guides and staff were terrific, it felt a bit too much like a zoo for my taste. I personally enjoyed the part of the trip where we were in the wild more, especially at the Greenview Bed and Breakfast in the Borneo jungle. The nature in the area was absolutely stunning and exactly what I traveled for.

We loved our bungalow (number 121) at Tulemar. We had our own balcony with views of the jungle and the Pacific ocean and lots of wildlife. I told our travel planner (Holden at Serendipity Adventures) that I wanted to see wildlife from our room and he found us the best room in the whole resort (in my opinion). Our balcony was on the feeding route of different monkey troops and so every day between 3 and 4 pm monkeys would climb trees right next to our balcony. One day 10 squirrel monkeys even climbed onto the balcony right next to us and wrestled and played with each other while we looked on! It was truly magical! We had our own concierge (Miguel) who was available via WhatsApp to answer questions and book reservations for us. Since the phone in our room wasn't working he also called shuttles for us and placed room service orders for us. He was extremely responsive. The service was excellent!

This hotel is located on a ridge with wonderful views of Monteverde. Our room was spacious and comfortable with panoramic views and the hotel is in walking distance of the main town center (although down a little hill).

The ride through the rainforest was beautiful and so fun. It poured rain on us, but because it was so hot, it was actually really refreshing. The horses were well-trained and gentle and they matched the people well to the horses.

We had a wonderful time! The river was exciting but not too scary and the views from the raft were amazing!

We had a wonderful time and the staff was so helpful and accommodating. When my youngest froze on top of the ziplining platform and refused to continue (even though his older brother had already gone and was fine), they helped me get back to the base lodge with him and gave us a refund, radioed ahead so the staff could tell my older son what happened and help him continue on the course, and showed us where to wait at the end of the course for my older son to arrive. My older son said the ziplining was beautiful and exhilarating. We all enjoyed the views from the hanging bridges, the beautiful butterflies and the sloth sanctuary. Seeing sloths up close was really amazing!

Our guide was great and found a family of coatimundis for us to observe. Watching the mothers and babies climb trees and walk across the path right in front of us was a highlight of this hike.

This tour was fun and educational. We all enjoyed learning the details of how chocolate is made (and the history of how it became the sweet we know today) and about how sugar cane is turned into sugar (and sugar cane juice, which we all got to drink). The last part of the tour covered coffee (at which point my youngest got a little antsy) but it too was interesting without being too lengthy and didactic.

Our guide was enthusiastic and so knowledgeable. He was able to help both the 77-year-old avid photographer and the 10-year-old boy in our group spot, photograph and learn interesting facts about the flora and fauna in the park. We saw everything from grasshoppers and spiders to rare coatimundis, sloths and howler monkeys.

First time rafting for the entire family and was rightfully nervous. The rapids were Class II and III and the guides on each raft were in complete control that all of us felt safe. Again, it is the wet season which made the water level perfect for rafting! The ride up to the launch area was bumpy and the truck got stuck in the mud that the guides all worked together to resolve. We saw some wildlife on our way up and the scenery was beautiful!

Best to hire a guide when you visit MA National Park. They have the ability to spot animals that camouflaged so well with the environment and they have equipment to zoom in. We were able to see a couple of sloths! It's not really a hike as the first half of the park has a deck walkway. The park leads to the beach and then we went back on the trial that is mostly dirt and small rocks.

This was a fun excursion to learn about the unique mangrove ecosystem. It was cool where the mangrove then opens up to the ocean. A great learning experience for the kids. Unfortunately, we didnt see much wildlife but that's just nature for you.

Beautiful hotel. Great staff too. We had easy access to some of the best areas in Venice. The breakfasts were delicious. The room was very clean. I recommend this hotel for anyone wanting to spend a romantic vacation in Venice with their significant other.

Beautiful hotel. Great staff too. It's located just a few blocks from the Arno river. The room was perfect. It had a balcony with a view of the surrounding neighborhood. The breakfast buffet was great. And, the view from the rooftop dining area was tremendous. I recommend this hotel for anyone wanting to spend a romantic vacation in Florence with their significant other.

Beautiful hotel. Great staff too. It's located just a few blocks from the Colosseum. The breakfasts were delicious. The room was very clean. And, the view from the roof was tremendous. I recommend this hotel for anyone wanting to spend a romantic vacation in Rome with their significant other.