Name: Barceló Tambor - All Inclusive
Address: Bahia Ballena, Playa Tambor, 60101 Tambor, Costa Rica, Bahia Ballena, Playa Tambor, Puntarenas, 60101, Costa Rica
Price range: Prices for upcoming dates start at $188 per night (We Price Match)
Rating: 7.8

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Resort Barceló Tambor - All Inclusive

Beachfront. Property is on or right next to the beach.

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Wifi was poor it was only available in the reception are and not any where else.

Patricia

United States of America

Beautiful beach and park like grounds. Large pool. Many activities for children and adults. Everything kept very clean. Amazing buffet on Valentines Day. The dancers/ entertainers were excellent.

Judy

Canada

If you are not snobbish and do not aspire to elitism, Barcelo Tambor is a great place to vacation. The Tambor bay and beach are unspoiled and scenic, the sea water temperature vey pleasant, the Barcelo facilities nicely designed, its grounds carefully landscaped, and the food vey good for a mass tourism establishment. I had a great stay at a comparatively reasonable price. Two final positive notes. Next to Barcelo Tambor is a small airport which has in and out regular avionette connections with SJO airport. At Barcelo you can book a snorkeling or scuba diving trip to the nearby Tortuga Island or a visit to the Caño Natural Reserve, both of them worthy day excursions.

Gianni

United States of America

I enjoyed the variety of food at the buffet, the installations, the easy access to the beach with beach seats, very comfortable bed, helpful staff with the baggage and the facilities within the room.

Eduardo

Costa Rica

This is an alli inclusive and you have to pay for wifi? It does not make sense!! Food waa not very good Room keys kept decoding and had to go constantly to front desk. Just 1 towel in a room for 4..

Cynthia

United States of America

The beach front and hotel grounds were impeccable.

Foncha

Costa Rica

Food was good. Bartender Herbeth and Sergio were amazingly attentive.

Dale

United States of America

The location, pool, and the beach are amazing! Great nature, animals, and birds. The hotel is in a gorgeous setting. The staff was helpful.

Natalia

United States of America

Amazing views and so relaxing and so much to do. The staff were amazing, very helpful and the dancing team were incredible talented.

Jarline

Costa Rica

The rooms were clean, meals were really good and good variety, cocktail bar by the pool overall was really nice, bar staff was great, fast, good manners, really friendly.

Oscar

Costa Rica

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8.0

Great location!
Highly rated for:
Very comfy beds
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What guests loved the most:
“Wifi was poor it was only available in the reception are and not any where else.”

Patricia United States of America
“Beautiful beach and park like grounds. Large pool. Many activities for children and adults. Everything kept very clean. Amazing buffet on Valentines Day. The dancers/ entertainers were excellent.”

Judy Canada
“If you are not snobbish and do not aspire to elitism, Barcelo Tambor is a great place to vacation.”

Gianni United States of America
“I enjoyed the variety of food at the buffet, the installations, the easy access to the beach with beach seats, very comfortable bed, helpful staff with the baggage and the facilities within the room.”

Eduardo Costa Rica
“This is an alli inclusive and you have to pay for wifi? It does not make sense!! Food waa not very good Room keys kept decoding and had to go constantly to front desk. Just 1 towel in a room for 4..”

Cynthia United States of America
“The beach front and hotel grounds were impeccable.”

Foncha Costa Rica
“Food was good. Bartender Herbeth and Sergio were amazingly attentive.”

Dale United States of America
“The location, pool, and the beach are amazing! Great nature, animals, and birds. The hotel is in a gorgeous setting. The staff was helpful.”

Natalia United States of America
“Amazing views and so relaxing and so much to do. The staff were amazing, very helpful and the dancing team were incredible talented.”

Jarline Costa Rica
“The rooms were clean, meals were really good and good variety, cocktail bar by the pool overall was really nice, bar staff was great, fast, good manners, really friendly.”

Oscar Costa Rica

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One of our top picks in Tambor.This all-inclusive resort with outdoor swimming pool is located on Playa Tambor volcanic sand beach. It offers spectacular views of Bahía Ballena Bay on one side and lush hills on the other.

Barceló Tambor’s rooms feature tiled floors and an elegant décor. Each room has a balcony or terrace with sea or garden views. The private bathroom includes a hairdryer.

Barceló Tambor has 4 restaurants, including El Tucan serving buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Miyako Japanese restaurant. There is also a poolside bar and nightly entertainment and live music. Guests can enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities, including golf at Los Delfines Golf & Country Club, just 1.2 mi away. There is also an on-site ecological park.

The hotel offers a variety of excursions to nearby sights and attractions, including a day trip to Tortuga Island, a horse riding tour or a day at a fun park. Airport shuttle services are also available.

Couples in particular like the location – they rated it 8.0 for a two-person trip.

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Barceló Tambor - All Inclusive has been welcoming Booking.com guests since Oct 20, 2011
Hotel chain/brand: Barceló Hotels & Resorts

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1 swimming pool

Beachfront

Free parking

Bar

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Top Location: Highly rated by recent guests (8.0)

Want a great night's sleep? This property was highly rated for its very comfy beds.

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Buffet

Free Parking Available On Site

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Max adults: 4	Superior Quadruple Room (4 adults) 2 full beds
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Max adults: 1	Superior Single Room 1 twin bed
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Max adults: 2. Max children: 2	Superior Room (2 Adults + 2 Children) 1 king bed or 2 full beds
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Max adults: 3	Superior Triple Room (3 Adults) 2 full beds
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Max adults: 2	Superior Vista al Mar (2 Adults) 1 king bed
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Area Info

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What's nearby *

Montezuma Waterfall
6.8 miles
Tortuga Island
8.6 miles

Restaurants & Markets *

Cobano Restaurant
3.1 miles
Montezuma Cafe/Bar
6.2 miles
Montezuma Supermarket
6.2 miles
Montezuma Market
6.2 miles

Natural Beauty *

Montezuma Zip lining Ski lift
5 miles
Montezuma Waterfalls River
6.2 miles
Montezuma Beach Ocean/Sea
6.2 miles
Montezuma Waterfalls Mountain
7.5 miles
Montezuma Waterfallas Lake
7.5 miles

Beaches in the Neighborhood

Tambor Beach Golden sand
Swimming, Water Sports

100 feet

Closest Airports *

Tambor Airport
0.4 miles
Juan Santamaría International Airport
58.2 miles
Tobías Bolaños International Airport
61.6 miles

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3 Restaurants On Site

Miyako

Food: Japanese

El Rancho

Food: Seafood, Steakhouse

El Tucan

Food: International

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Check-in

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Check-out

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Children & Beds

Children of all ages are welcome.

Children 12 and above are considered adults at this property.

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There's no capacity for cribs at this property.

This property doesn't offer extra beds.

Pets

Pets are not allowed.

American Express Visa Mastercard Diners Club Discover Barceló Tambor - All Inclusive accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.

The fine print

Please note that guests booking 11 or more rooms may be contacted by the property to make the payment within the next 72 hours to guarantee the reservation.

Please note that the property will consider guests from 2 to 11 years old as children. 12 year old and older guests will pay adult rates.

Once you have checked in at the hotel and made the full payment of the reservation, there will be no refund of any kind, in case you want to leave before the hotel

“Beautiful beach and park like grounds. Large pool. Many activities for children and adults. Everything kept very clean. Amazing buffet on Valentines Day. The dancers/ entertainers were excellent.”

“If you are not snobbish and do not aspire to elitism, Barcelo Tambor is a great place to vacation. The Tambor bay and beach are unspoiled and scenic, the sea water temperature vey pleasant, the Barcelo facilities nicely designed, its grounds carefully landscaped, and the food vey good for a mass tourism establishment. I had a great stay at a comparatively reasonable price. Two final positive notes. Next to Barcelo Tambor is a small airport which has in and out regular avionette connections with SJO airport. At Barcelo you can book a snorkeling or scuba diving trip to the nearby Tortuga Island or a visit to the Caño Natural Reserve, both of them worthy day excursions.”

“I enjoyed the variety of food at the buffet, the installations, the easy access to the beach with beach seats, very comfortable bed, helpful staff with the baggage and the facilities within the room.”

“This is an alli inclusive and you have to pay for wifi? It does not make sense!! Food waa not very good Room keys kept decoding and had to go constantly to front desk. Just 1 towel in a room for 4..”

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Reviewed: March 10, 2020

Patricia
United States of America
8.0

“a part from the WIFI every thing else was grate”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 3 nights
the Wifi limitation thyere is a fee and the connection was not available all over.
Wifi was poor it was only available in the reception are and not any where else.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: March 5, 2020

Anne
Canada
10

“Wonderful relaxing weekend! Just what I needed.”
- • Leisure trip
- • Group
- • Stayed 2 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Everything!

Stayed in March 2020
Reviewed: March 2, 2020

Markéta
Czech Republic
4.2

Disappointing
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
No free WiFi, dirty bathroom, not possible to make a reservation to ala carte restaurant, there weren’t towels in the room, staff at the reception not helpful, don’t even think about playing football outside- sand it’s not smooth so you will destroy your feet. Not 5* standard

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: March 2, 2020

James
United States of America
6.0

“Pleasant; would come back again, but would not reserve via this website”
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 2 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
The inflexibility of the staff to accommodate requests relating to problems with the AC and not having the room we were given match that described during the online reservation process

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: February 28, 2020

Luz
United States of America
3.0

“FIRST TIME IN COSTA RICA AND AT THE BARCELO RESORT AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE LAST TIME! NO INTERNET?”
- • Leisure trip
- • Solo traveler
- • Stayed 6 nights
THE FOOD. THEY SERVED THE SAME THING EVERY SINGLE DAY AND WE WERE THERE FOR 7 DAYS....SOOOO BORING!!!!
THE SWIM UP BAR.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: February 17, 2020

Judy
Canada

1 helpful vote
8.8

Excellent
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 7 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Very loud music. The daily buffet was a little repetitive and the al la carte restaurants were very difficult to access.
Beautiful beach and park like grounds. Large pool. Many activities for children and adults. Everything kept very clean. Amazing buffet on Valentines Day. The dancers/ entertainers were excellent.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: February 8, 2020

Gianni
United States of America

4 helpful votes
10

“A very nice place for a pleasant and cost effective vacation on an unspoiled tropical beach.”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 5 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
If you are not snobbish and do not aspire to elitism, Barcelo Tambor is a great place to vacation. The Tambor bay and beach are unspoiled and scenic, the sea water temperature vey pleasant, the Barcelo facilities nicely designed, its grounds carefully landscaped, and the food vey good for a mass tourism establishment. I had a great stay at a comparatively reasonable price. Two final positive notes. Next to Barcelo Tambor is a small airport which has in and out regular avionette connections with SJO airport. At Barcelo you can book a snorkeling or scuba diving trip to the nearby Tortuga Island or a visit to the Caño Natural Reserve, both of them worthy day excursions.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: February 7, 2020

Nicola
United Kingdom

2 helpful votes
8.0

Very Good
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 11 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
On our first day in particular queues to book an a la carte restaurant and have breakfast (buffet) were very long - over 1 hour. The evening entertainment could have been structured better - childrens entertainment ran through to 9pm, the "ice-breaker" (game show style) was only in Spanish (so completely lost on English/ US/ Canadian unless bi-lingual) then the main show at 10pm. Format would have been better without the ice-breaker.
Friendly staff, great unspoiled location & good value for money.

Stayed in February 2020
Reviewed: January 18, 2020

Gary
Canada

1 helpful vote
6.3

Pleasant
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Rooms had a musty odour about them. Beach is very gravelly. Hated waiting in line for specialty restaurants.
The food was good.

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 18, 2020

Terry
United States of America
6.0

“Geographical and local culture saved the stay from being a loss.”
- • Leisure trip
- • Couple
- • Stayed 2 nights
infrastructure is getting old. Reported that our room phone had its plug removed, before we arrived. Front desk seemed to not be concerned. When it was pointed out that was a hazard, to other staff, the phone was fixed on the second day. The room safe was broken, with its keyboard broken, and was never fixed during our entire stary.
The geographical location, the buffet, the family atmosphere, the horse stable

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 14, 2020

Mario
Australia

1 helpful vote
7.0

“Good all inclusive with a variety of options”
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 4 nights
Facilities a tad old. Crowded.
Nice place, great food with lots of options. Good options for entertainment.

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 8, 2020

Joan
United States of America
3.0

“Would never stay here again and not even sure I would ever even visit Tambor again.”
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 2 nights
The room was not clean at all and probably had not been updated at all since it was built. It was all inclusive which would be great if you like drinking rot gut liquor that seemed to be watered down and your only choice. The food was mediocre at best also had to get up by 7:30 am to stand in line if you wanted to eat at one of the two specialty restaurants. Also talked to a good friend from Tambor and told us people who are not tourists pay less than half of what we paid. Also the pool area was so crowded the only chairs we could find were on the beach.

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 1, 2020

Anonymous
United Kingdom
4.2

Disappointing
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
The hotel is too large and too focussed on domestic tourism. I would not recommend this hotel if you are a foreigner looking for a quiet, relaxing retreat. If immersing yourself in a 24hr open bar latin party surrounded by nature is your thing then there is no better place
The beach is amazing and the hotel is huge (1,500 guests) which is mostly a negative but comes with a few positive perks from economies of scale such as an amazing parrot park.

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 1, 2020

Ignacio
United Kingdom
4.6

Disappointing
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 4 nights
- • Submitted from a mobile device
In the space of 4 days: Broken shower No towels Large cues to eat Broken toilet Meal took 1:30h to arrive at the restaurant Wifi only available in the lobby and very expensive 20 minute cue to speak to staff at the lobby, would not pick up phone

Stayed in January 2020
Reviewed: January 1, 2020

Jonathan
Costa Rica

1 helpful vote
2.9

“Do NOT visit this place”
- • Leisure trip
- • Family with young children
- • Stayed 1 night
- • Submitted from a mobile device
Some of the workers simply did not know how to deal with clients, in our case showing their discontent with whatever was said that did not agree with, for example it says Barceló Tambor is a 5 star, but if you don’t book your stay directly with them, you won’t be given complementary wifi, really? A 5 star all inclusive that does not give free wifi? A $12 per person/day cost? When we went to eat at the bufet we found a worm in one of the tomatoes on our plate, and al though Edwin, one of the supervisors there immediately apologized and got us a dinner at the Japanese specialty restaurant instead, it still makes you wonder how is this a 5 star resort? Who rated them a 5 star resort? I’ve been in 3.5 star resorts way! better than Barceló Tambor. Since we arrived a lil bit before our rooms being done, we went to eat while they were holding our luggage in a room close to front desk. When the room was finally done we had to wait for about 20 minutes for them to find someone to come open the door so we could take our items, how is that possible?!! In the room itself the a/c barely worked, and the telephone did not at all. On top of everything, getting into bed we found a cockroach chillin’ between the bed cover and bed sheet, and since the telephone didn’t work I had to go all the way to the reception to ask for a complete set of new bed sheets & cover, which doesn’t seem too much of a hassle unless you have one of the furthest rooms possible in the whole resort!!! In conclusion, we do NOT recommend this resort. There are so many other all inclusive (real all inclusive) resorts, where the things might not be perfect but at least it’s not one disappointment after the other, such as it was with Barceló Tambor.
Only thing we liked about the property was the Japanese Specialty restaurant and Edwin, one of the supervisors in the bufet and above mentioned restaurant.

Stayed in December 2019

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