Guest User
August 27, 2023
The Hotel Maria is a very nice hotel situated across the street from Misquamicut beach. The lobby is interesting, in that there is no front desk. The very small, compact lobby area has a few places for patrons to sit, along with a courtesy snack area and a supply of courtesy beach chairs. The lobby attendant just kind of hangs out, and conducts all necessary business on his iPad. Our check-in was sans problems, although it was not explained to us that there was complimentary snacks, beverages and beach chairs. Our room was very clean, albeit kind of small. Beds were comfortable. And to be clear, the balcony overlooks the street, not the beach, so any view is up and over the sand dunes. And you can forget about hearing any ocean waves. The hotel has a (sort of) private beach which is right across the street. I don’t believe the hotel owns the beach, but has exclusive use of it. The sea**** was a real issue that I thought could not be helped until we took a walk down to the public state beach, and further to the town beach, where the beaches was free of sea****. So I will assume that all the rotting sea**** on our beach can at some degree be removed. The hotel is ideally located, and an easy walk to a couple restaurants. The hotel itself has a lovely restaurant where we did eat several times. A minor point - in the hotel room, the curtains over the air conditioner are a little too long so that they partially block the air conditioner output, consequently soaking the window and the floor behind and below the unit. And when I had a little trouble figuring out the thermostat, a really sweet, extremely busy housekeeping lady was happy to help. Overall I was happy with the hotel and the experience, but honestly I’m not sure it’s worth $600 a night.