Like a lot of the other reviews on here, our experience of Punta Teonoste was disappointingly hit and miss.

The beach is stunning, a really beautiful and peaceful setting. The staff are very sweet. The steaks are delicious.

HOWEVER

When we arrived, we were shown to a villa that was full of wasps buzzing around. We complained and they offered to move us to another villa. We went to the beach for an hour whilst they set up the new place. When we went back to collect our bags, the wasps were all dead and all over the bed - see pictures.

The new villa was much larger and very nice. However, there were some dangerous looking naked wires and dodgy electrics - see pictures. Not qhat you would expect from a 4 star resort.

The prices for food and drink, which, because of your isolated location, are your only options, were surprisingly expensive for Nicaragua i.e. $9.50 for a club sandwich. You feel like you're being ripped off everytime you see the menu. We took to having 2 meals a day to keep our costs down!

Also, they may say the menu is over seen by a Parisian chef but the food isn't anything special and apart from the steaks, I don't think it justified the prices. And also there must be a french cooking style called "Le Ping" judging from the microwave sounds coming from the kitchen.

Overall it's just not up to the standard you'd expect from a 4 star resort: service is slow, a bamboo sunbed snapped when I tried to change the angle, there's no hot water in those outdoor showers, the mosquito nets had holes in / didn't cover the beds completely.

6 of my Friends and I spent a few days here over new years eve. The hotel itself is ok. The private beach is nice. The food is not the best. But the resort has armed guards for a reason. There is a small village just outside the hotel that is extremely poor and desperate. While traveling to the resort a group of individuals attempted to rob us with guns. We were able to get away barely. We called the police who did not come at all. We spoke to the resort manager the next day who informed us that this has happened before and guests have even been shot at. While the resort was decent, there are much better get-a-ways in much safer areas. Additionally at check out they tried to slam us with several extra fees equalling more than our entire bill! I will never go here again!

My husband and i enjoyed our stay here. It started out a little odd, we had set up a transfer to the hotel from airport and the Marlon was there to pick us up, but we had been expecting a different vehicle. But they had car trouble of sorts and the the Chef Janine's husband I believe Francious (not sure on the spelling) was so sweet to drive to pick us up in his personal vehicle. It was nice to be able to spend the time getting to know him, Marlon and Janine in the almost 3 hour drive, however the only air was from the windows being down but we did stop for some much needed water which was nice. Because of the inconvience they did not change for the transfer.
The food we enjoyed, breakfast was wonderful, and our favorite thing on the dinner menu had to be the beef with onions, very large portion and great flavor. I very much enjoyed the tuna salad also. However the prices were a bit pricy. During lunchtime we decided to go into town, to Quasacate (sp?) and there was a wonderful little resturant, and Raquel drove us into town and she was so much fun, Loved her.
The beach and surroundings were wonderful, did the hiking trail and watched the sunset ver beautiful. Enjoyed all the little hermit crabs and sealife around, loved getting to release baby sea turtles.
Also loved the hut, the bed a bit uncomfortable, and loved the the bathroom definately interesting, made me feel in tune with nature, came back home calling it the patio bathroom and wanted one at my house LOL. We did however have some difficulty with the mosquito net but were able to get it to work well by our last night.
Overall definately a must do, Staff were all wonderful. would love to come back again sometime, Hopefully a softer mattress would be available in the future.

What a strange place this hotel is! First of all let me tell about the very beautiful beach, all privat, and the very friendly staff members. The swimming pool is great and the food is very good. It was magical to see a turtle in the night on the beach with more than 70 eggs.

As already other people told, we were the only guests. We had the problem that electricity was out of order during most time at our stay. But hey, this is Nicaragua, and after some complaining they managed to serve us cold beer and some flowers for the inconvenience.

But at the bottom of this stay we have to judge about the price quality in total. And then the grade is not sufficient at this time. The resort has to do a lot of things to catch up. Not always big things! A few examples, because i saw the management is reading this also!

- the rooms are not cleaned or made up every day as you should expect from a hotel resort
- if you ask for towels for the beds at the swimming pool, you will get towels that are thin, stained and with holes. Ask for bigger ones :) and buy some new ones!
- the dining menu has fantastic food. But with lunch we don't always want to eat french steaks with roquefort, steak tartare or crepes. Hey, a pizza during la tarde is fine!
- let people have a choice for more easy meals. It doesn't hurt my wallet, but a filet for 30 dollars is a little bit over the top. I dare to challenge anyone that has found a steak for the same price in Nicaragua.
- put some flowers here and there in the hotel
- promote more activities around this place, now you can't go anywhere.
- ok they don't have hot water, but how am i going to shave myself without hot water? Eco hotels nowadays work with solar energy to get you hot water!
- keep the friendly staff, but teach them how to be more pro active and let them ask what you want to drink if you are sitting the whole day at the pool.
- surprise your guests with for example some fingerfood if they sit in the lobby.
- watch the details that go with a luxury resort. For example have some more and better soaps, shampoos and tiny stuff in the bathroom.

My advice would be to stay here maximum 2 nights, then you and your wallet have tasted all the food from the french cafe. But it may be worth the experience of another great beach in this world. And just keep in your mind that this is Nicaragua, a very friendly country, sometimes just getting to know the finesses of tourism.