Hotel Riu Atoll 4*

Let’s start with the positives: The Staff are fantastic throughout the resort. They really are a credit to themselves and Riu. The island is gorgeous, and beautiful house reef to snorkel. Immaculate rooms and well maintained facilities especially the pool toilet area. Immaculate. The team at scuba caribe are very good and Martin the base leader was exceptionally professional and kind. Food was generally edible to good. The Italian restaurant was very good. Big thank you to Suzi, jessi, SJ and nico. Excellent staff and made me smile. Now the bad: The drink are cheap and nasty and are just artificial sweeteners with bottom shelf ingredients and spirits. The receptionist Mary was extremely rude to my partner and out of spite we discovered that Mary removed access from our room key afterward the interaction just so that she could inconvenience my partner further. Extremely disappointed in Riu and Mary for this behaviour. The resort also caters to large amounts of impolite R u ssia n guests. There are large numbers of Chi nea se tourists who are extremely loud and play music at full volume from their phones when we are eating I also witnessed guests harassing the wildlife, putting hermit crabs in their pockets and walking all over the reef. I suggest RIu make an effort to educate these guests on arrival to respect and protect the nature of the island!!! Overall despite the wonderful beauty, immaculate facilities and excellent staff I would not return to Riu Atoll. I will choose somewhere with better food and drink. it was difficult to immerse myself in the beauty of the island because of the rudeness and lack of awareness from other guests ruining the experience. Next time I’ll go somewhere a little more upscale.

Pool bar Sunshine very tasty drink, the staff very friendly Supun (SJ) , Roshan,Jessica,Niko,Pasi,Sujith , will come back again!!!