Hotel Club Marina Viva

The hotel was well appointed to the beach close to the local restaurants and a small number of shops, we stayed in a ‘superior’ room, the bed was very comfortable and the room quite basic, I would say the refurbishment was done quite minimalistic with little shelving in the shower/washroom, the room furniture just about met our needs for our stay, The pool area was well kept but could become busy in full season, the facilities on the beach were good and serviceable, I believe there is a restriction of 100 sun loungers for the beach but there were not that many on offer during our stay, we were a,ways able to find sun beds and parasols We stayed on a bed and breakfast basis that again was fairly basic but was reasonable for $10, we paid extra for lunch and dinner on two occasions again we found the food / choice adequate but not of high quality, but again offered good value for what was on offer. Before we booked this hotel we read a number of negative reviews that raised some concern for us however having now stayed at the hotel we found everything was reasonable, I am sure some of the other negative reviews have occurred but this is a large hotel with a large number of guests and sometimes things do go wrong.

The entertainment team work hard to provide a mixed bag of activities and evening shows for guests, this is clearly focused on the french guests ( mostly French guests on our stay ) that we found difficult to join as there were no English translations to the events schedule or activities, this may have been available but were were not motivated to chase the information !

The gardens and The pool. The location near Ajaccio.

Internet was only available near The reception. The room didn’t have anything to prepare a tea or a coffee. No mini-fridge in The room.

- The staff was friendly (however everyone speaks French; no English was spoken at any time), the mini disco for children (and evening shows) were super. - The location in general: the hotel is not far from Ajaccio airport and there are bars, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, a playground and a petrol station nearby.

- We are a young couple who travelled there with our 15 month old son. They gave us a room on the top (3rd) floor without any lift so you can imagine how uncomfortable it was to go up and down the stairs with our toddler, nursery bag, buggy plus 2 big suitcases! - The breakfast in general ... we had better breakfast elsewhere before so our expectations were higher. The themed buffet in the evening was nice though. - I would have wanted our floor in the room to be cleaned everyday.

The staff where very friendly and helpful. Lovely gardens to stroll around. A lovely swimming pool with very comfortable loungers. A first class buffet restraunt €25 per head with a bottle of wine. Location being perfect for beach and Ajaccio.

We where lucky to have an end block room being larger and over looking the lovely gardens. If you where placed in some of the lower inner block rooms overlooking a busy walkway it would have been not so nice. The beach was gritty and if swimming found you where up to your waste after a few steps in.