The gated resort has a beautiful designed tropical garden and counts a number of free standing two story villas. Each villa houses four rooms. The rooms are tastefully decorated, are large in surface and have a private terrace.The staff is friendly, professional and service oriented.
The resort has no restaurant, but gives acces to the horeca facilities at Cabana beach. The contrast between the beauty of the resort and the run down beach facilities could not be bigger. Food is allright, service as well, but you might as well go to a two star hotel and get the same quality. The beach itself is public, but there were enough beds to share.
What really annoyed us was the music that kept us awake until late. Three times a week a nearby beach organises a beach party with corresponding sound levels. Bring your earplugs is you wish to sleep! Rooms on the same floor have a connecting door. Great if you bring your kids. Not so great if you have a noisy neighbour. But your earplugs should rescue you again.

Kontiki is an interesting mix. The grounds are flat out lovely with meandering pathways through tropical plants and flowers, over bridges and laced with interlocking salt water pools you can swim in.

The room we had was comfortable and clean. It is was not a huge room but had beds that were good, the bathroom had a shower and a large tub and the water was hot and had good water pressure. There was a nice deck with chairs and a table and a nice view of the ocean. There was also adequate storage. (I had called and asked if they had a coffee maker in the room and was assured they did but it turned out to be a hot water pot only. No good coffee... sigh...)

The staff were all very helpful and nice. A woman drove a golf cart in front of our car to show us where to park and helped us to our room. We asked for help several times in making dinner reservations and they were always very accommodating.

The only down side was mostly to do with the time of year. We were here between Christmas and New Years and there are many, many parties on the beach at this time. I don't think we would stay here again in high season just because of the noise of the bass from the beach! New Year's Eve was astonishingly noisy because the whole island is enamoured with fire crackers and they went off all night long. Thank God for ear plugs!

The last day we were shocked to receive a bill for an extra $300 US! It listed a 7% tax of some kind and a $25 per day "resort tax". We were quite taken aback because we thought we had paid the entire bill in full months before we came. It was late when we got in that night so we decided to discuss this with the hotel staff the next morning when we checked but when we stopped at the front desk early the next day, the only person there could not help us - she didn't have the authority to take payments or discuss the bill so we left to catch our plane.

The next day we got an email from the hotel about the unpaid bill, so I wrote back and asked what the charges were and expressed our displeasure at being charged such a hugh amount without any warning. I contacted the booking agent also and a couple days later, got an email from Kontiki saying they would drop the entire extra charge because they didn't want us to have a bad impression of their hotel! Wow. I cannot say I have ever had that happen. It was a nice resolution to a troubling problem and I am very grateful for it. However, if you go to Kontiki, make sure you are very clear what their charges are. I think this "resort fee" may be a common practice and many people probably don't know about it or object to it.

All in all, Kontiki was a good place to stay and I would recommend it with the caviat of making sure about the resort fees.

Hotel was nice, service was exceptional and the rooms where very comfortable.
the garden is very peacefull and i would for sure return to the hotel for second stay.

breakfast and beach were nice and again the service we received was very very good.