Caravelle Resort by Palmetto Vacations

Wonderful
Traveller Type: review category business travellers

Good
Traveller Type: with friends

Good
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : The location was right on the beach. Also, the late check in process was simple enough
  : The property has a pull out couch that didn't have bedding on it. In order to get the bedding, I had to send a text. No text response back and bedding didn't appear until the next day. Also, one of the pillow cases was dirty which makes me worried that none of the bed sheets may have been clean. Yikes

Very Poor
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : The ocean
  : We had to go to Walmart and buy our own bedding, bedspread s and pillows were disgusting, toilet seat was cracked, laundromat didn't give change and it took forever to dry clothes. We weren't allowed to buy drinks at Tiki bar because we didn't rent with Caravelle. Carpet was disgusting, sweeper blew more diet than it picked up. Will never book again

Poor
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : ocean
  : outlet didn’t have a cover floor was wet by under the Ac

Good
Traveller Type: family with young children

Wonderful
Traveller Type: group

Wonderful
Traveller Type: with friends
  : Close to beach. Clean. Balcony.
  : Elevators were sketchy, especially at night. One air conditioner didn't work.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: with friends
  : I liked that the hotel was right on the beach, the room was clean, and the room had a kitchen. I also liked that the hotel had a terrace to sit on and look out at the beach. Lastly, I liked that the staff was friendly.
  : We notified the hotel around 10am about our arrival, but still were not able to check in and get the room keys until 5pm. We understand check-in is from 3pm-5pm, but the entire check-in process was altogether confusing since this booking was not through the actual hotel but through an outside vacation rental company. The room was way too small to comfortably fit 6 people. The room smelled of cigarettes upon arrival. The air conditioning in our room was sub-par. We had to unplug it and plug it back in daily due to it shutting off randomly, leaving our room hot. There were only 2 sets of elevators in the facility, to which we had to wait for 3 or 4 elevators to even get on one. The indoor pool and jacuzzi, that we planned to use on rainy days, were dirty and closed off until the last day of our stay. The outside pools and jacuzzi were filled with sand and not cleaned or filled with more water our entire stay. The stairwells smelled of urine. The facilities ice machines (that worked) were disgusting. There were no dumpsters to throw trash away in, only trash cans that were by the elevators or in the parking deck, which were constantly overly full. The terrace was nice, but it only had 2 hammocks, to which we witnessed people sleeping on them overnight, so they were basically always unusable. Lastly, if you did not book through the actual hotel, you get none of the hotels perks such as supplied toiletries, new towels daily, the tiki bar, and the breakfast restaurant. We had to use the hotels on-site laundry facility to wash our towels daily since we were not supplied with new towels our entire stay.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: family with young children
  : Access to the beach was perfect and close. The firework show was great on the 4th.
  : The toilet seat had a huge crack in it. The bedding was a little outdated and the duvet was ripped down the front. We found 3 different toys left from the people before us, so I'm not sure how much cleaning was done, and we didn't receive our keys until AFTER 5PM. We couldn't eat the breakfast because we didn't have a card to charge to room and we also couldn't drink at the tiki bar by the pool because we didn't have a room card. The headboard to the Murphy bed was broken and was disgusting with dirt along wall.