Just returned from one week's holiday at Amaryllis. The main problem with this hotel is complete disorganisation which the management desperately needs to sort out. If you're thinking about booking - do yourself a favour and don't!!

An unfinished disaster. Advertised as 4star, hardly 2star.

We have recently returned form our 2 week "once in a lifetime" Christmas holiday in Barbados. A well know UK holiday company and carrier, beginning with a V sold us this holiday. Beware, their 2004 brochure misrepresents the Amarayllis beach resort. Our room was horrible. The only upgrades had been new bedspread, some new drapes (mixture of old and new in the room), an air con unit and new windows - one already broken. There were bare wires throughout, a very old hair dryer next to the sink that did not stay in it's holder but sat in the sink, old, broken rattan furniture that is not worthy of University housing, broken tiles and worst of all, a filthy, old, moldy bathroom.
The smell penetrated the whole room. Additionally, the "garden view" was a bulldozer and boiler room view with a constant sewage smell.
Therefore, the balcony was not useable. There were no fire exit directions in our room or fire exit signs anywhere in our wing. We were told by both the hotel management and the holiday rep that there was nothing to be done because the hotel was full. However, we sat in the lobby daily, and watched room after room being changed for similar reasons.

5 restaurants? At the hotel is one restaurant and a beach bar. There are 2 restaurants at the top of the property that are run by people other than the hotel. The "voucher system" will not buy you a complete meal at one of them. The 5th one is at a golf course, which involves a taxi ride. Our teenage daughters felt their UK school lunches far surpassed the quality of food given us at the Amaryllis. We have been to 5 other all inclusive resorts.....this one is a joke.

Water sports? kayaks arrived our second week - pedal boats (which was our request) not usable.

Kids Club? Non exisient until 31 December. Then, it was pathetic. A small room with some board games and 2 TV's with video games. A sign written in crayon indicates it is open from 10-12 Mon. - Sat. The second day of it's exisitence, it never opened due to lack of staff.

A lift? Not that we found. You get to carry your luggage up and down a myriad of stairs.

Our family's opinion...if you have booked this resort, try to cancel.
If you have not yet booked - stay away.

We booked our holiday in September through V----n to go to Amaryllis Beach Resort on an all inclusive basis. Our experience was far from happy, although the weather was very good and the beach location was perfect. The Amaryllis Beach Resort is advertised as a 4 star hotel. In our opinion it is struggling to achieve 2 stars. The facilities, quality of service and quality of food were all very poor. The entertainment was practically non existent and there was no kids club. The most popular activity, judging by attendance, was the filling in of complaints forms.To make matters even worse the limited resources offered by the hotel were not shared equally amongst hotel guests. We witnessed that the guests of an Italian tour operator were getting preferential treatment over the other guests. This included the best seating positions in the restaurant, the best service, a separate supply of beach towels and the preferred positions on the beach offering natural shade. There were at least 4 representatives from this tour operator who had effectively taken partial control of this hotel to ensure that their guests were well looked after to the detriment of other guests.We were made to feel so unwelcome that we resolved to leave the all inclusive scheme and distance ourselves from the hotel as far as possible. The all inclusive didn't mean all inclusive for the 39 steps restaurant and the Pizzaz restaurant. It was limited to one use only and up to a value of $42 per person at the 39 steps restaurant. We do however recommend The 39 steps restaurant which although included as part of the hotel complex is independently run and offers good food and live Jazz music on Saturday night. It proved to be our sanctuary from the frustrations of eating at The Almond Tree restaurant.Other things you would not expect to encounter at a proper 4 star hotel included, a noticeable shortage of staff, absence of ceiling fans in the Main (Almond Tree) restaurant, missing fixtures and fittings from rooms, shortage of beach towels and no parasols provided on the beach - hence the importance of finding natural shade.We don t consider ourselves to be natural born complainers and normally we try to enjoy all our holidays even though there may be certain problems or deficiencies. The extent and severity of the problems we encountered at The Amaryllis Beach however made it impossible to enjoy this holiday and the attitude of the hotel toward its non Italian speaking guests was nothing short of disgraceful.