Riviera Beach Resort

Kay Bourgeois

Not the best experience... The power was out for almost a full day and I had perishable food in the fridge. Thank God the food didn't go bad, but we had to dress in the DARK. The first time we tried to check in, the receptionist was pretty rude so we left for a bit and came back to great service. Maintenance is very helpful, I accidentally spilled something in the elevator and they offered to clean it. The rooms were clean at first sight, but as our stay grew longer I noticed bug after bug and I woke up with bug bites all over me. Other than that, the view is nice, sometimes you can feel the train shaking the building at night, but you can also hear the sounds of the water. Great view too! The area is nice, but I wouldn't recommend this resort specifically. Edit: They will try to sell you their timeshare. Luckily it was understaffed so we got to leave early with the money.

Nora Hillary

We love going to Dana Point. The timeshare at the Riviera was a great purchase. It is beautiful there. The kid beach is great for the grand kids. They also love going to the tide pools. We all love Capt Dave's whale watching tours. One of our favorite places to go.

Candace Gregory

The rating is based on the fact that this has become the typical experience we continue to have with Diamond Resorts. Once you buy into the resort, all subsequent reservations are filled with less than desirable accommodations. Each update meeting that the Diamond Resort representative assures you is only to let you know about changes has always ended with the representative highly upset that we will not sink another $15,000 to $18,000 into Diamond for the same subpar accommodation. Most recently the Representative we met with for an update meeting on March 6, 2022 admitted that Diamond was shady (in his own words, a bunch of crooks). He tried to get us to sign another contract and addendum with Diamond that he assured us Hilton would honor at some unspecified time in the future. He took a condescending tone with us when we refused his ludicrous offer. We booked three rooms for this trip in celebration for my husband’s birthday. Two of these rooms were older with an unidentifiable odor. Our daughters refused to stay in them as it was causing issues with their breathing.. When we asked the front desk for new rooms, we were told that there was no availability. We all stayed in the one updated room that night. However upon returning to our room from the update meeting, we found the shower backed up with dirty water..This was even more alarming as the view from our room balcony was an out of commission swimming pool badly in shape of repair. We immediately left the resort due to these conditions and only stayed there one night for a seven night reservation. Overall we were very unsatisfied with this experience and have no plans to ever return to this location.

Melanie Heustis

A great location near Doheny beach. The units are small apartments they all have kitchens I believe. Free beach cruiser bikes for the whole family for 2 hour intervals but that's plenty of time to go explore and feel like you're ready to come back. Dana Beach is a very relaxing good place to just be. You can walk or ride a bike everywhere.