Quiet rooms at Kalima Resort & Spa
Soundproofing is severely inadequate across multiple dimensions. Guests consistently report hearing neighboring conversations, street traffic, and machinery noise despite paying for accommodation.
All seven claims originate from June–July 2026, representing very recent guest experiences. No temporal improvement or degradation can be assessed due to lack of older comparative data, but the clustering of complaints across multiple reviewers within a one-month window strongly suggests the issue is current and consistent.
What the reviews tell us
Inter-room soundproofing is essentially absent; guests clearly hear neighboring conversations and activities
Seafront and Building 2 rooms suffer from significant external road and street traffic noise
Persistent machinery or mechanical system noise reported within guest rooms
No positive or mitigating claims about soundproofing quality found in available reviews
Kalima Resort & Spa has a critical soundproofing deficiency affecting guest comfort across interconnected noise sources. Multiple Australian reviewers report that inter-room insulation is essentially absent—they could clearly hear neighboring conversations and activities. Guests in seafront-facing rooms experience intrusive street and road traffic noise, with some noting the problem persisted even when wearing earplugs. Building 2 appears particularly affected by exterior road noise. Additionally, guests report unexplained machinery noise within rooms themselves, suggesting either poor mechanical system isolation or inadequate HVAC insulation. The consistency and specificity of these complaints across reviewers from different countries and across recent months (June–July 2026) indicate this is a systemic design or maintenance issue rather than an isolated incident.
The evidence
Representative quotes from 7 supporting reviewsSoundproofing between rooms is very poor
Could clearly hear what was going on next door
I didn't like that you could everything in rooms next to us, could hear other peoples conversations
you can hear the noise from the street if your room was direct on the sea
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