The Moon Beach Museum Resort

“Relaxed resort, but don’t expect the full experience”

The structure of the hotel is old, but the rooms have been updated and were very comfortable and new. I absolutely loved the retro charm of the place and the common areas such as the atrium pool and inside courtyard area were beautiful spaces. What the marketing doesn’t show is the vast open spaces… more

The structure of the hotel is old, but the rooms have been updated and were very comfortable and new. I absolutely loved the retro charm of the place and the common areas such as the atrium pool and inside courtyard area were beautiful spaces. What the marketing doesn’t show is the vast open spaces at this hotel, the stunning landscaped gardens and the art-spaces such as artist in residence and exhibition space. I was blown away by this and enjoy a fantastic painting workshop with the artist who focuses on the local flora and fauna of Okinawa. The best point about this hotel is the staff. They are all incredibly lovely. Lisa and another lady name starting with H on front desk especially were so amazing, very helpful! One night there was an error with our dinner and the chef personally came to apologise. He replaced our meal with a local menu which was incredible and after eating he said the bill was on him as a gesture of apology. I was truly touched by this gesture of kindness. Areas for improvement: the kitchen being closed outside of designated times. If you want food at 10am for example, no chance. Also nowhere to buy drinks near the pool and beach. Food options are not great and the buffet is really mediocre. Also, I would expect their approach to sustainability to be better on an island like this. There is an overuse of plastic, especially single use such as straws and each tiny piece of cake at the buffet being individually wrapped. Really no need for that. I do worry where all this plastic is going. Beach is smaller than it looks. Can’t swim, very shallow full of seaweed and dead coral. Very quiet. Very strict lifeguard: no throwing a ball, no jumping, splashing, laughing it seems. We were using an empty bottle to collect water and build a sandcastle -he removed it. No standing on inflatables. No swimming outside of the fenced off area. From what I’ve seen this is an island-wide thing though, not limited to here. Local area: really not much to see and do outside of the hotel.

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“Bom Hotel de praia mas ……”

Beautiful hotel with spacious, clean rooms, helpful staff, large breakfast room with lots of variety and everything clean and tidy. Two swimming pools, one indoors and with lifeguards. The beach is beautiful but the sun loungers are not very comfortable and you have to pay for the sunshade. It make… more

Beautiful hotel with spacious, clean rooms, helpful staff, large breakfast room with lots of variety and everything clean and tidy. Two swimming pools, one indoors and with lifeguards. The beach is beautiful but the sun loungers are not very comfortable and you have to pay for the sunshade. It makes no sense for a beach hotel to charge its guests. Some, like me, have flown for many hours to get there and have a few relaxing days at the beach and have to pay to use the shade on the beach. So we are not talking about a small amount, they charge 3800 yen per day, around 20€. When booking the rooms, it did not say that it was a beach hotel but that you had to pay for the basics that a beach hotel can offer.

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“Moon beach museum resort”

If you want to use the sun-beds on the hotels private beach they expect you to pay for the beds and parasols, even though you just spent €5000 + for 4 nights. Then food and drinks on-top which I find absolutely ridiculous, If they would have said that before booking we would not have gone, Would no… more

If you want to use the sun-beds on the hotels private beach they expect you to pay for the beds and parasols, even though you just spent €5000 + for 4 nights. Then food and drinks on-top which I find absolutely ridiculous, If they would have said that before booking we would not have gone, Would not come back just for that reason.

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