The Palau Royal Resort.....what an interesting experience! Our first choice hotel was unavailable, and the airline ticket office recommended the PRR. We were disappointed that the other hotel wasn't available, but surprisingly impressed with this one. The staff, for the most part, was extremely helpful and nice. The room was clean and as comfortable as most hotel rooms. The view from our room was awesome, and the grounds are beautiful! The food in the restaurant was way overpriced but delicious. Everything on the property was overpriced, but being from Guam, where all pricing is geared towards the Asian tourist market, we were used to that. There were a few things that were beyond tolerable, however. The room service tray sat outside our door for 2 days. We saw housekeeping in the corridors all the time, so I have no idea why that was, but it was annoying and smelly. When I finally called to complain, they sent someone to get the tray. The other problem is their internet connection. They charge you to use their 'internet cafe' but the connection is so poor, it can take more than 20 minutes to transmit one small email. They should just take it out, rather than stealing people's money for a service that doesn't work properly.

The Palau Royal Resort is a nice hotel in a nice location. It caters for Japanese and Taiwanese but being the only 'westerners' was not a problem. The staff were friendly and most spoke English. The hotel is located across the street from Sam's Tours and dive shop which we used alot. They have a fabulous array of dive and site seeing tours. We were also able to walk to local restaurants for dinner on several nights and a convenient store is located across the street.

The facilities were nice, there is one restaurant that had decent food and wasn't too expensive. There was an internet cafe and billiards/game room that was handy at night. The pool side bar and indoor bar were sufficient.

The pool was nice but small and there is a man made beach with nice sand but you couldn't get in the water. That is too bad since the water is fabulous.

Overall the hotel is nice, not a 5 star but absolutely clean, friendly, safe and located nicely on the island and close to town.

PRR is a nice hotel, new and well-kept. The rooms are your standard 3-4 star rooms; the flat panel TVs are not that great - picture quality is only ok and let's face it, you don't go to Palau for great TV.

The views are quite nice you can get rooms that are not above the restaurnt - otherwise you'll just see a lot of rooftop. The rooms face a large rock island that looks like it has a cave - kinda cool. The water of course is always an amazing blue green color. It's too bad there is no beach as the hotel is right next to docks. That's actually one of the pluses - the hotel has a scuba outfit on its premises and you and embark and disembark right from/to your hotel. Also a good point about its location is that it is close to Sam's tours - we were able to walk back after our dives. It's also close to a great Japanese restaurant/lounge.

There is a pool and a small man-made beach - although the latter seems to always be a little soaked from the rains. These two don't seem to be well used by most guests; they were always barren when I looked.

The restaurant a la carte meals and buffets are quite good, especially the breakfast buffet. There are always asian dishes and seafood dishes.

Overall, it's as you would expect. I would of course prefer to stay at PPR (Palau Pacific Resort) but the higher prices they charge were too much - instead, we paid for day use of their beach for awesome snorkeling before our flight.

We took a chance with the Palau Royal Resort (PRR) because we couldn't find many reviews on hotels in Palau. The hotel is brand new. The staff were mostly English speaking Filipino and were very friendly and most helpful. The hotel is catered mainly towards the Japanese, but we felt welcomed and enjoyed the restaurants, ocean views, gym, pool table, free laundry, etc.

Sam's Tours picked me up daily for scuba diving. Their outfit is practically right across the street. Diving in Palau is superb.

The town of Koror has small shops and restaurants. We walked around one day and ate some great sushi in town. Taxi's were $5 from the hotel. The town seemed very safe and the Palauans were friendly towards us. We will keep Palau on our list of places to visit again.