We arrived in glorious sunshine and that's the way it stayed for 4 days. Catseye beach is beautiful. We had free use of the catamarans, canoes and paddle boards, great fun. I did the Adrenalin Rush sailing, superb fun. Breakfast in the hotel good as well as the evening meal, we ate at the Steakhouse, ace and at the Mariners, expensive but good. Have a cocktail at the yacht club watching the sun go down! Whitehaven beach is a must, stunning, we went on the Jetrider. We went on the 3hour kayak trip, a wonderful way to see round the island. The shuttle buses are an easy way to get round but can be busy, it's not that far to walk to most places. Would we go back? Tomorrow if we could!!

This is a big concrete block of a hotel that is aging and understandably struggling against salt air and a tropical climate. It's not pretty from the outside and the public areas look like they have lost the battle against mould and mildew. But the views from inside out make up for this as they are absolutely stunning. The rooms are large, intelligently designed and comfortable, though not luxurious. The service was patchy, bordering on bizarre: e.g. just before 8 a.m. each morning housekeeping put on an amazing performance of repeatedly hammering on the door and screeching. If you didn't let them in the and there, your room wasn't cleaned for the rest of the day (not that anyone could possibly sleep through the 8 am production). This extraordinary housekeeping ritual, combined with the grotty, understaffed and over-packed breakfast room and several episodes of broken down lifts, gave a youth hostel ambiance to what is really quite an expensive hotel. It could have been so be so much better with proper staff and a bit of a tidy up. Surely it wouldn't kill the Reef View to give guests slippers or a robe? Thus it only gets 3 stars and all of them are for the view.

Prices: it's true that everything is expensive on Hamilton, but that's to be expected on an island where everything has to be shipped or flown in and there's a captive market. However, the cost of some of the activities surpassed natural island/tourist inflation and got close to gouging.

This hotel comes up trumps when it comes to the views you get at the top of the hotel. We were upgraded free of charge on our honeymoon and waking up to this view was simply stunning. The hotel lacks in a few area, no AC in the lobby or restaurant or bar which makes for a bit of an uncomfortable experience but just the sheer centrality of this place to everything makes it ideal. Having a golf buggy makes it very convenient to go everywhere. The bedrooms could be better and more modern but in the grand scheme of the island you will sleep there and get changed there nothing more.

Thank you all for making it an unforgettable experience.

stayed here two weeks ago. Rooms were nice could of been cleaner, with good views, hotel looked nice but was nothing special. Gym was not air conditioned. Pools were ok but crowded. The beach was average nothing amazing. Quad biking was good fun as an extra so were the kayaks. The sail and snorkel to whitehaven aboard the cruise indigo was terrible, definitely do not book this. They take you to the worst side of whitehaven beach then to snorkel at a terrible area with hardly any fish. This was my second time to the whitsundays and was a massive dissapointment compared to last time.

the rest of the island was ok but very expensive as expected. Overall ok but definitely not a must see or worth the money if you are from the uk.