W Ibiza- feels like a bait and switch
Warning for anyone considering W Ibiza. Every early summer (only time everyone in family can take off) we do a two week vacation combining a city & beach. We’ve done Rome/Dubrovnik, Venice/Crete, Athens/Sicily(taromina). This year we picked Madrid/Ibiza. The Madrid Edition was perfect. The Ibiza W is one step up from a youth hostel. But more importantly, what Marriot advertises on their site is a total bait and switch. First (and most importantly), they list beach as a hotel amnenity. The hotel has no beach. It is near a public beach. That’s it. (I will say the rooftop pool is cool.) It’s main restaurant (yellow fish) is not opening this year, even though the Marriot site has it as open. The Marriot site says there are six restaurants. There are three, if you count breakfast. And the other two are limited bar menus. They allegedly have pizza, but the two times we went there the “oven not on yet. Maybe later.” The staff is very young and poorly trained. So while they are sweet kids who seem eager, there is a better than 50% chance they will get whatever they do or say wrong. Lastly, our room is a tiny shoe box with a “balcony” overlooking an old dusty parking lot with abandoned bikes that smells strongly of garbage (see attached picture). I assume the bins are nearby. We are lifetime platinum/five year ambassadors and this is the first time we haven’t been upgraded, let alone given such a terrible room. And it’s early in the season so the hotel is half empty. So if you are considering this property, be warned. As the yelpers say, “I would give it zero stars if I could.”