Divi Aruba Beach Resort Mega All Inclusive, Oranjestad, Aruba - Reviews and Hotel Information

My husband and I went to the Divi from 11/21- 11/27 for the first part of our honeymoon. Needless to say after 5 minutes at this resort we wanted to turn around & go home. Our greeting at the front desk was very cold. We were told very sternly to make sure that we didn't loose our wristbands or pay $100 per day for the remainder of the trip & that if we lost our safe key it would be $50..oh & by the way have a nice honeymoon. That really wasn't the reception that I was looking forward to. Well we thought that once we got to our room that everything would be better. We were wrong! Our room looked HORRIBLE! I have been to other islands & I do understand that most hotels have modest dressings but this room was terrible. It was even more of an insult constering that this was the best room that they had on the entire property. This room also had mold yes MOLD on the ceiling I am presuming because of the air conditioner. We spend all of 10 minutes before running back to the lobby. We moved to room 602 which was directly above the other one which was better but still very dull. Not something I was looking for on a honeymoon. I was put off since we moved rooms WE had to carry all of our bags up to the 2nd floor where our new room was. We tried to make the best of a bad situation but we never were able to do that. The food was not great, the beach was nice but while we were there it RAINED on and off for three days...One morning we woke up with a flood (even though we were on the 2nd floor) in our room because of the storms. Because of this bad storm the automatic lock died and we had to have maintaince come and fix it at 12AM. Trying to get a palapa on the beach is insane. We had to get up around 6AM every morning to secure one and sometimes they were already taken. We even saw fights on the beach over them. The staff were RUDE; Bars never opened on schedule and there is no wait service anywhere except at the resturants. All in all this was a terrible experience and I will NEVER reccommend this hotel or Aruba to anyone.

To be completly honest, this place did not have anything that stood out as outstanding except for maybe the spa services, which were pretty decent. Even my mother knew that we must have been having a horrible time at this place when she tried to call us for two days straight, was bumped back and forth between our hotel and the sister hotel, the Tamarijn and never got through to us.
I believe one of the major problems with this place is that the owners are concentrating more on the Divi Village and Golf Course they are building across the street, which is a time share/condo development that they were pushing while we were there.

Divi Aruba Beach Resort Mega All Inclusive, Oranjestad

Divi Aruba Beach Resort Mega All Inclusive

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