I found what I thought was a great deal. A room that is usually $126 for just $50 (CAD). Despite a few poor reviews, I decided to book.
When we got there, we were told that the room we had booked was on top of their freezer room and that it didn't have a bathroom. The shared bathroom was 150 meters away and was used by all guests using the pool... (dirty and cold water only). We were told that if we wanted a room with a bathroom, we had to pay an extra 33 USD. In other words, the regular price for our room was 126 CAD / night (or 97 USD), but at that price, the room did not include a bathroom! So in order to get a decent room with a bathroom (at the regular price) we would have had to pay a total of 130 USD (97 + 33). And during the last night, there was a storm so huge that we had no choice but to pee in a garbage can.
We could have rented a nice room in El Tunco or La Libertad with all the commodities at the same price, near all the action restaurants. We were instead trapped in a place that had all the all the inconvenient of a resort (remote, always same people, ''captive'') without the benefits (luxury, all-inclusive).
-Hotel infrastructure is old
-A ramp to make sure people don't fall off the stairs leading to our room would have been great.
-A/C broke down
-We had ants in the room
-No private bathroom, dirty
-Wi-Fi from our room was terrible
-Food was ok, but overpriced