Best parts of the hotel were:

1) The location. Near the Rudee Inlet, lots of places to rent bikes, close to Jet Ski and parasailing places.

2) The view. Can't mess this part up.

3) The staff. They were super-friendly.

4) Airconditioning in the room was excellent.

5) Singer/band that performed in the outdoor restaurant/deck called Casper's were great. We were on the second floor and could hear the music loud and clear. Four out of the five were very good.

6) The food at Casper's was awesome.

Bad parts of the hotel were:

1) The filth. Hallways, elevator, rooms, balcony, the pool area and the parking lot was never clean. I kept my flipflops on the whole week we were there. The trash cans in the stairwell had the same trash (it was overflowing) for days in a row. Likewise for the beer cans around the pool area. Cigarette butts were all over the place.

2) Noise. The rooms weren't very well insulated so if you were trying to sleep and the band was playing, well, you didn't.

3) Parking was a block 1/2 away. The lot was as dirty as the hotel.

4) Cigarette smoke. Our hallway reeked of smoke.

5) Uneven temps throughout the hotel. The elevator was always very hot. The hallways were too except for pockets of very cool air as you walked past heating vents.

6) Not enough washers and dryers. There was one of each for the whole place.

To make matters worse, one of the best hotels on the beach was two doors south of this place. We kept looking at the Springhill Suites with envy, not so much because of the glitz of the place (it was) but because the place was so clean. Their smallest rooms (two queens) are $79 more per night than what we paid at Atlantic Sands (we stayed in a suite) but if we were able to get out of our reservation - 72 hours required - we would've switched in a heartbeat. I still shudder thinking about the dirt in that place. Run, don't walk from this place.