Reviews of Hotel Le Recif, Ile de la Reunion 3 stars

Location near the beach, swimming pools, good breakfast and dinner, helpful staff, relatively spacious rooms with terrace

Nothing major to complain, perhaps only sparrows should be taken care of as they fly and sit on all of the food during the breakfast

The welcome was very poor. We were greeted by someone named 'Sacha' who could not even offer us a smile and made us feel like we were bringing a damper on her day. She did not offer us any insight or information on the hotel or its facilities whilst other hotel staff were sitting down with guests and walking them through those. After you have travelled and you're looking forward to settling down in your room, proper hospitality is quite important. Sacha vey much failed on this point. The rest of the hotel staff, however, have been very helpful, welcoming and kind to my friends and I. Whilst our reception was very lacking, we do not generalise this sentiment to the hotel or the rest of its representatives.

Great hotel with helpful and friendly staff! Rooms were nice and comfortable, the bar and restaurant served nice food and drinks. Overall an amazing experience.

Birds are disturbing the breakfast

Both pool were great, always space to lay down. Like the location from room to beach. Easy to park. No issues. Great employees :)

Clean premises

Breakfast same everyday. Need to alternate BF menu.

Correspond a mes attentes

Ras

It had everything we wanted. Room was fine - there were no problems. Outside terrace could have been made a more attractive area to sit in , with a few potted plants (it was just concrete!) Pool was nice, with plenty of sunbeds. Location was good because it had easy access out back of hotel gardens to beach & you could walk along beach into Saint Gilles Les Bains (about 20mins). Also you could walk along road (it was better to go this way at night), took about same time. Saint Gilles marina is a lovely place for evening drinks & meals. Not much English spoken by staff but we did appreciate that reception staff did their best and , of course, we could always fall back on Google Translate. Note, that taxi to hotel from airport taxi rank (not booked in advance) cost Euros 130. The return taxi booked by hotel to airport cost Euros 90!

The only negative was that, although breakfast was generally good, not enough staff attention was given to hygiene in that there were a lot of small birds constantly hovvering. Most of the buffet was kept covered, but there were never any covers available for the cold meats and cheeses, and the birds were often walking all over this counter, pecking at the food. I stopped eating the ham and cheese because of this.

Nice comfortable rooms and location was good . Good beach.

The birds eating my food at breakfast

Well located. Beach is close to the hotel and very nice. Pool is good size.

Staff for breakfast not available for help and not really willing to help.

Nice hotel into the nature, near to beach, and also restaurants, shops and public transport. The staff was very nice and helpful Breakfast was good and varied

The wireless connection was often very slow check in time too late

Breakfast was good

Room quality awful

Great location and pool. Close to the ocean and other restaurants within walking distance.