Barceló Tambor Playa

Barceló Tambor Playa

Tambor, Costa Rica

Reviewed February 19th, 2006

The all-inclusive Barceló resort is situated on the west coast of Costa Rica in the Golfo Nicoya.

Certainly, when nature calls, a trip may be in order to your hotel room to enjoy a private moment and take advantage of the carefully folded end of toilet paper the maids so dilligently repair daily. But if the poolside bar with it's everflowing daiquiris get the better of you, you may need to make an emergency visit to the much closer restroom just outside the El Toucan Buffet. Due to it's vicinity to the massive buffet - which lures hundred of crass, overweight tourists in floral prints and ruddy sun-scorched skin hourly - I surely expected to hear some quasi-carrib renditions of classic American hits piping through the speakers. Or at least the vibrant "Amor Tambor", featured daily at the poolside Water Aerobics - where nubile hotel employees drenched in Cocoa Butter dance seductively while teeming with Richard Simmons enthusiasm. Instead, I was treated to the soothing sounds of the most stereotypical Kenny G tune you can imagine. (You know it. You love it). This was perhaps the most un-Costa Rican event during my stay, but who's to dispute the universal appeal of the G. The restroom was mediocre otherwise. It sported the same tile as the hotel rooms and nice solid green doors in the stalls with sturdy locking doorknobs. It was slightly dim and "flourescenty" - a strange break from the glaring glow of the equatorial sun.

RESTROOM RATING: 6
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