My partner and I stayed for one week at the Amar Sina. We have stayed in all manor of hotels from a beach hut in Goa to luxury 5 star so are able to grade this hotel pretty fairly.

If you are looking for a plush stay then this is certainly not it, however if you are wanting a week a way in the sun in more 'traditional' surroundings then you will be fine. The style of this hotel could be described as 'hippy chic', yes there is paint flaking here and there but to be honest it all adds to the character.

The food is not great but it is edible, and the staff are very helpful and polite.

The beach leaves a little to be desired, a free shutlle service will take you and collect from the area, but then beach is tiny crammed with sunbeds on rocks - yes the snorkelling is great once you get passed the dead coral and people mindlessly treading all over it, but I would probably try and find another beach to go to.

All in all a good value for money stay - don't go expecting the earth; I would recommend this for couples and families with older children.

we have just returned from a weeks stay at amar sina and all in all had a really good time.
the hotel has some good points and bad points,but the hotels shortcomings are made up for by the excellent staff.

rooms.. very basic and in real need of a bit of t.l.c,
bed is a foam mattress rather than a real sprung one.
the shower is ok but you may have to move about a bit
to get wet.

staff.. some great staff there although on the last day some of
them were far to pushy and asked for tips.
sam the shave and water pipe guy is great fun and
will get you anything you want.. for a price!
abdul the pool guy is like a new puppy, fun at first with
all the attention but gets a little annoying after a while
but he will save you a decent sunbed.. for a price!
the rest of the staff were all really friendly and made a
huge effort for my birthday.

food.. nothing fantastic but nothing terrible either. just average.

pool.. not heated, but once your in past your bits its quite
comfortable.

getting about.. use the hotel cars whenever you can, they will
pick you up after a night out at a set time or give them
a call and they will pick you up. they will still try to
rip you off but nowhere near as much as the normal
taxi drivers.

overall not a bad place, i personally would not go back there again but that should not put you off going yourself

Stayed here for 2 nights, 1 of them being New Year's Eve. We paid a very low price for this and were bed and breakfast board. We were pleasantly surprised that the New Year's Eve gala dinner was included in our stay - a good bargain overall. The domed rooms (we were on a top floor) were nice. The food, however, was dreadful and caused us longer term problems. My wife and I both suffered food poisoning here and it took me 40 days to shake it off (I kid you not)! My wife needed just a week. Upon leaving, the front desk tried his luck by giving us a ridiculous taxi price so we went outside and immediately got one for less than half his price. The reviewer below this mentioned a similar thing - staff attempting to rip guests off. We were then chased by a different reception staff member who insisted we hadn't paid for some mineral water which we hadn't drunk. I refused to pay and he begrudgingly accepted it. I wonder if I'd taken the taxi they offered whether or not this would have happened. A nice enough place at a good price spoiled by the dismal, dangerous food and staff's best efforts to rip you off.

This place is by far the worst hotel we have stayed in and when you consider we have been travelling for some 35 years, sometimes 4 times per year, this takes some beating. The food was always lukewarm which is very dangerous when you consider that chicken was the mainstay of this hotel. The food was terrible and almost everyone complained about it. We we all inclusive and on our first night (Xmas Eve) there was a grand banquet for the event. This was our first tasting of this food. We shared a table with another three people who had arrived a couple of days earlier. When we mentioned that the food was only lukewarm, they said that this was the norm. They then said that the meal wasn't worth the £15 each they had paid. We told them that we were AI and they said they were and that the hotel had said that this meal was not included in under the AI. We were never asked for any money. It seemed to us that even the staff were trying to riff you off. Our room was always covered in a layer of dust as the cleaner seemed to spend most of his time making ruddy swans out of the towels instead of cleaning the room. The pool was absolutely freezing and there were so many cracked or missing tiles, it beggared belief how they could let children anywhere near it. There was a bit of entertainment but thwe main problem with this was it was during evening meal time, so the hotel staff brought the tables from inside the dining room and put the tables around the pool. Bear in mind the time of year....temperatures plummet at sundown so everyone was eating with there coat on. The only good things about here was the weather and it didn't cost a lot.