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Reviews of Grand Hotel La Playa

4 out of 5
Grand Hotel La Playa
Via Cristoforo Colombo, Sperlonga, LT

Reviews

8.0

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 29 out of 87 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 36 out of 87 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 15 out of 87 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 87 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 87 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

nicole

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in May 2024

8/10 Good

Shelia

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

James

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We enjoyed our stay. The daily breakfast on the terrace overlooking the ocean was a lovely way to start each day. The pool and beach area were lovely. We enjoyed the proximity to the local shops and restaurants.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

beth

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
What a beautiful location! The hotel was very comfortable and the staff was amazing!
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023

2/10 Terrible

John, Chicago

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Smelled , ants , bed scratchy sheets ,dated , hair in bed , garbage outside room , no breakfast, no outlets, no chairs by pool , rude checking in ….
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Kirill, Ottawa

Liked: Staff & service
Very good hotel with its own beach. However, I would assign only 3 stars to this property (not 4 stars). The furniture inside the room is not solid but rather on a cheap side. Bathroom needs some renovation. Shower-cabin is too small (for 4 stars). Air conditioning system on the balcony was leaking. There was a permanent problem with electricity (lamps, receptacles were not working sometimes).
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Robert, Portland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great beach
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Cynthia, Highlands Ranch

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
such a beautiful gem, staff was amazing, service was amazing and just such a wonderful experience
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from p on 25 May 2023
Thank you so much, a great pleasure for us

2/10 Terrible

Tatiana

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 14 nights in Jul 2022

4/10 Poor

Hudson

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Small shower bad internet
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Alessandro

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful stay
We had a great experience at Hotel La Playa. The room was clean and comfortable. The grounds were also very well organized and clean. They have free breakfast which includes an abundance of choices. Choose wisely for your beach chairs because you keep the same ones for the whole stay.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sherry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel very quiet
Lovely stay no one around at all which I thought strange for Thai time of year very quiet
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Room comfort
The hotel was perfectly fine but not worth the cost and it was not a 4 star standard
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2021

6/10 Okay

Giancarlo

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Dj

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great beach location and pool, beds a bit hard at first, helpful staff. Lovely breakfast included but scrambled eggs and coffee could be cold .
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Relaxing as hotel pool is next to the beach
Very easy to relax in this hotel as it’s siuated on the beach. Access to the beach is through the pool area. Lovely breakfast and stunning view of horizon from bar area overlooking the beach. Catalina makes a great G&T! Great place for a relaxing break !
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

S, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenience stores all walkable distance with kids friendly park besides it
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

TonyD, Toronto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Simple resort in the ocean
The hotel is on the ocean and was not busy at all due to time of year. Breakfast was included and had baked goods, yogurt, cereal, coffee,etc. They also had eggs and bacon but the eggs did not appeal to us as they appeared very wet scrambled and very fine almost like powdered eggs. Bacon was bacon but very salty. The also had cheese and cold ha. Beach was nice and clean with umbrella and sun beds included. We were able to order bottles of white wine from lobby bar and take it to the beach with an ice bucket. Beds we're to firm for our liking. Room was ok and clean. The showers are very small and tight. Difficult to manouver without accidentally hitting taps and changing temperature.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

alison, scotland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Room small but hotel quite spacious
Our room was small but perfectly adequate with a little balcony (with clothes drier) and an excellent shower in the bathroom. The hotel itself had big dining room, big reception, lots of big areas inside and out, on different levels beside and away from the pool, lots of loungers and tables and chairs, and of course direct access to the beach. You need never be bored being in one place. The only complaint we have is that breakfast is put out at 7 or 8am until 10 and the hot food is not kept hot, nor covered over. We went in quite late the first day to be confronted with cold scrambled eggs, bacon and sausages, so went in an hour earlier the next day but it was just the same. I can enjoy a cold sausage or a hard boiled egg in a roll, but scrambled eggs, never. Needless to say the dishes just sat there mostly untouched, so the hotel will probably scrap the hot breakfast completely. It's a big classy hotel, so why they don't use the food heaters is beyond me. Even the hot water is not kept hot, so hopes of a cup of tea with tepid water is a non starter.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

4/10 Poor

Sue, Cotswolds UK

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Position lovely but certainly NOT 4****
Restaurant food was terrible, certainly not good Italian food. No welcome tray in rooms. Had to ask at reception for someone to serve coffee or drinks in the bar. Ladies toilet by the pool with no light, no lock and dirty floor. No allocated sun loungers on the beach. But the main dissappointment was the food, we wonder what nationality the chef was !!! We have been in this business for many years and do not complain uneccessarily.. One instance the spaghetti carbonara was just a congealed mass of stuck together pasta.
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Great location. Staff were just ok. Don't speak good English.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Caroline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful Beach, Beautiful Hotel, Beautiful Town
Was a little nervous to be traveling to Sperlonga (solo) without knowing Italian but it was quite easy to get on the bus and find my hotel. Hotel is pretty much the last on the bus line but don't let that worry you - It's a quick walk into town and to the harbour. Walking into the hotel, the outside isn't much to look at, but the inside of the hotel took my breath away. Felt like a Caribbean paradise but in Italy. Check in was easy and the person checking me in's English was good - I was lucky. Rooms were bigger than many in Italy. Bed was just fine. Nothing to complain about in the room. The land the hotel is on is amazing. Pool and easy private beach access. It wasn't busy when I was there so I sat where I wanted but I'm sure there's some method to it during the busy season. Beach is nice, water is shallow but good to wade in. Only complaint was that it wasn't busy so the bars were closed but I just brought some wine and watched the incredible sunsets.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2017

8/10 Good

Mariacristina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location rooms too unfurnished
Great location, Sperlonga is the best place I've ever visited in the Lazio region, the neighborhood of Rome, La Playa has a great pool, a fantastic private beach, amazing view, the food to be in Italy is not superb, in Italy usually you can get better food quality almost everywhere, and the room are very simple and a little cheep as fornitures the bathroom was too small and didn't have cabinets It's ok in the Summer since you live outdoor and use the room just to sleeping Service was nice and gentle and the place very clean
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great resort in a beautiful, quaint town.
This is a great property in a fantastic little town. Everything in the town is walkable from the resort. Only resort with a pool that we saw. A huge advantage and great break from the beach and the ocean, which were fabulous as well. Sperlunga is a beautiful little town with a variety of restaurants and some shops. Mostly it's about relaxing and enjoying the beach/ ocean.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
hidden Italian town
It's right on the beach with good beach amenities and with a nice pool to dip in when you are done.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2017

10/10 Excellent

Catherine, Barnsley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Sperlonga holiday
Hotel is an amazing position on the beach and has a beautiful pool. We were full board, and the food was delicious; plenty of choice and really well made & presented, and on the rare occasion the kids didn't like the options they accommodated requests for something else! Our room was on the top floor, with a sea view, with a separate double bedroom to the kids twin room- it will be the hotel room we compare all future holidays too! Brush up on your Italian as there are few English visitors to this area so limited English spoken (which is fair enough!) but we managed with lots of per favores & grazies! Would love to go back

8/10 Good

niall, Dublin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
8 nights on the beach
Spent 8 nights here after 3 nights in Rome. The location is just perfect and easy to get to from Rome via the train.

6/10 Okay

evan, losa angeles,ca

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
On the beach
Hotel is located right on beach and the amenities are very good. The room is pretty dated and the beds were tired.

10/10 Excellent

Anna, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel, located on the beach
We spent one week in July 2015 and we loved everything about the holiday. The hotel is located on the beach, with its own stretch of sandy beach. The water is warm, clear and slopes gently so it's great for small children to play safely. The pool area is nice but we didn't use it much as the sea was great. Loungers and umbrella are included in the room price. The town is an easy 10 min walk away. There are bars, restaurants and shops both in the new town and in the old town. Access to the old town is up small streets or stairs, it seems hard work but it's well worth it. The views from the top are fantastic and walking there is like walking through an old italian movie. The town is popular mostly with italian tourists, we didn't see many foreigners while we were there but maybe it was a bit early in the season.

10/10 Excellent

Niamh, Ireland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fab hotel in an amazing location!!!
We came to Sperlonga not fully sure what to expect, wanting relaxing break by the sea-we discovered an absolute gem! We booked the economy room and were given room 116! We got a shock when we were brought to it as it wasn't in the main hotel block, was beside the pool and appeared to be a wooden shack! But how appearances can be deceiving! It was far from economy! Our own personal suite with memory foam bed, flat screen TV, plenty of storage and space and a stone's throw from the pool/beach! The pool was fab. We mainly spent our time here, although free assigned sun beds at the hotels private beach for the duration of our stay was ideal, so we did relax here a few times. We were B&B basis and the breakfast was ok, not a huge selection or variety. We ate lunch here on the first day and it wasn’t great and was overpriced for what we got so didn't eat here again. The location of the hotel was ideal-walking distance from the historical part of Sperlonga; loads of fabulous restaurants to choose from and a fab Gelato place. All so affordable-no 'rip-off' tourist prices here! We traveled by train from Roma Termini and got the bus from Fondi to Sperlonga and after asking the bus driver where the hotel was, he dropped us off almost directly in front of the hotel! So handy for our return trip! I'd highly recommend this hotel if you are looking for a fab break away from the touristy areas of rome/italy in an affordable, unspoilt region!

10/10 Excellent

Andrea, Sausalito, CA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice hotel at North end of Sperlonga
Even before I arrived at the hotel, I knew that coming to Sperlonga from Rome for an overnight stay was exactly what I needed. The bus from the train station dropped me off very close to the hotel and I was very happy when I entered and saw the beautiful white lobby with the view of the ocean. My check-in was very easy and fast and the women who checked me in, very nice. I traveled with my small dog; the hotel is pet-friendly although, you cannot bring your dog down to the private beach area. My room was very clean and having a mini-fridge was perfect since I needed to bring food for my dog. The patio with the view of the sea was the perfect size for the two of us. The bed was a bit too firm for my taste but otherwise, comfortable. I was able to login to the WiFi from my room on my smartphone but wasn't able to connect with my laptop. It may be that the lobby is the best place for the WiFi. The pool area is beautiful but I chose to spend my time on the beach where chairs with umbrellas are provided for you and included in the cost of the room. I loved staying at this hotel and have actually booked another trip for 2 nights next time.

8/10 Good

Sarah, Solihull

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel
Lovely hotel nice pool and right on the beach

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best hotel on the best beach in Lazio
An outstanding hotel in a beautiful location on a lovely sandy and gently sloping beach. Reception staff take great care and go out of their way to resolve any query. Food is superb. A very comfortable and convenient place to stay and relax. An easy drive from Rome airport I so enjoyed my stay I shall return for another holiday.

8/10 Good

Kjetil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 6 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Marco

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
LA MER EN FACE
Hôtel très bien placé, directement sur la plage, M
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elisabeth

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Katrine

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Roy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Meget fornøyd med oppholdet. Eneste minuset var at det ikke ble fylt opp igjen når noe ble tomt.
Stayed 9 nights in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

Giovanni

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Buona la ristorazione. Splendida la location. Comoda la vicinanza della spiaggia. Migliorabile la cura e pulizia della stanza
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

4/10 Poor

guido

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2021

10/10 Excellent

Sofie

Liked: Staff & service
Bra läge , prisvärt
Hotellet har ett super bra läge mitt på stranden och när till gamla stan. Trevlig personal och rent. Vi var i stort sett ensamma från Sverige vilket va väldigt mysigt då det kändes italienskt och genuint. Prisvärt hotell
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Posizione ottima Comodo accesso ad una spiaggia molto curata Personale molto gentile Da ripetere e consigliare
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2021

8/10 Good

Roberto, Bolsena

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Poco cortese il responsabile della colazione. Spesso mancavano delle cose sulla tavola e le richieste venivano evase con scarsa cordialità, risultava quasi scocciato
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2020

6/10 Okay

Francesco, Bologna

Travelled with partner
Buona posizione rispetto al centro e bella spiaggia.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in May 2020

10/10 Excellent

manuela

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020

8/10 Good

Flemming

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 8 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Lorenzo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Una buona struttura per un vero relax
Ho soggiornato in questa struttura diversi anni fa per questo l'ho scelta per un piccolo periodo di relax.La struttura in generale e' ben mantenuta,punto di forza la posizione diretta sul mare e sul proprio lido riservato (ottimo) bella la piscina,la terrazza con vista mare per la colazione e per le serate con cena ed intrattenimento x chi fosse interessato, buona anche la sala ristorante con affaccio sulla piscina.Personale della reception gentili e disponibili(ottimo il servizio check in on line), bravi e cortesi i ragazzi della mattina x la colazione e del bar (anche quello esterno fanno il max per soddisfare le richieste dei clienti) gentili e disponibili anche i ragazzi del ristorante nulla da eccepire.Ho mangiato e cenato al ristorante della struttura e tutto sommato non mi posso lamentare.La colazione e ottima c'e' di tutto x quanto riguarda il dolce, cornetti caldi, crostate, marnellatine e la mitica nutella(non si trova in tutte le strutture) frutta mentre x il salato nn ho approfondito xche nn interessato.Il caldo,caffe' cappuccino ecc vengono serviti al tavolo.Stanza con balcone con vista mare, per la pulizia nulla da eccepire, nn mi sono pero a fare le pulci,cmq armadio pulito con cuscino extra(bravi) balcone attrezzato,bagno pulito un piccolo grande neo purtroppo la doccia veramente piccola e l'Aspiratore un po' rumoroso.Parcheggio privato all'interno della struttura(ottimo). Ritornerò alla fine del mese insieme a mia moglie.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019