Bahia Resort Hotel

We stayed in the marina suites and thought it was spacious, clean and nice. great views of the marina/bay. Great location, close to everything (seal encounter, restaurant, boat rentals, beach). Would recommend coming on fourth of July weekend because of the great firework shows on the bay. Kids loved the beach time and seals. Good restaurant and service. The only negative was the pool. It was too small for the amount of people there, the good thing is we had a better time at the bay/beach side with nice lounges to lay on and watch the kids. I would be cautious staying in the other rooms because of the wild/loud groups of people that we saw. If you want a quiet and safer atmosphere, then the marina rooms are the way to go.

The Bay Front Suite picture shows the ground floor, beware that you must call and REQUEST ground floor. I understood from reviews on Hotels.com that the room would be a little rundown but I figured if you could walk out onto the sand I could deal. If you end up in a second story may as well go 4 or 5 star for the price!! They finally moved us to a ground floor room after quite a bit of complaining, told us we were being upgraded and we walked into a room that looked like a motel 6. Fine, at least we could walk out onto the sand.......woke up the next morning to BULLDOZERS dragging up the beach for 3 DAYS!!!! They finally stopped the day we were checking out. Perhaps the Bahia should offer some sort of drink vouchers or dinner vouchers for people paying PREMIUM prices to stay ON THE SAND if there are multiple bulldozers on the beach their ENTIRE stay (we took a picture the morning they were directly IN FRONT of our door)!! The employees were nice but no one really cared whether we had a nice stay or not. Would NOT recommend unless you don't mind Motel 6 for $300.00 a night!

Would NOT recommend.

I hated it! They maid stole many pieces of very nice jewerly! Warning do not stay here!! If you do HIDE everything you brought!!

The hotel had a very nice and helpful staff. The employees were very knowledgeable about the surrounding areas.

This hotel made me feel welcome: Everyone was super nice and very helpful. That gave me a welcoming feeling.

It was a great location close to SeaWorld and the zoo.