Llao Llao Resort and Spa

Llao Llao Resort and Spa features around 200 rooms these days and so is fairly substantial in size, in fact, this is only continued on the inside. The older part of the building dates back a few decades and features smaller rooms and very grand hallways and dining areas…this truly is grandeur at its best. A lot of the hotel feels like it is an old hunting lodge with plenty of heavy wood used throughout and antlers adorning the walls.

Llao Llao makes a point of featuring pretty much everything that you can imagine from the obvious, 18 hole, international golf course, to the kids club with full arcade games, to the range of pre-arranged activities such as aqua-aerobics and pilates…there is just about something to please everyone.

Considering the reputation that Llao Llao both proffers and has to live up to, we have mixed emotions about it. There is not doubt that the service and quality is certainly there in spades (if you like that sort of thing). There is an old world charm to the place that reeks of history and breeding. However, can a hotel that professes to be one of only three 5 star hotels in this area, have bathrooms where you have to close the door in order to use the loo?

They do understand that this is a bit of a problem and so, with the new wing, Llao Llao have installed beautiful, new rooms with floor to ceiling windows that make use of the view, and baths that also have the view. On top of this they have created vast bathrooms. Without being able to rip down the old to replace it with the new I guess it is a matter of asking whether it can rely on it history….