El Tarter Apartments

When we first arrived El Tarter we were all initially disappointed as the resort looked a bit like a building site and our room rather basic. However, the hotel grew on us. - Ski lift location: 9/10 (great location but icy step to climb up/down before flight of 20 none icy steps) - Breakfast 10/10. - Dinner 8/10 (great that it is waiter service, not obvious water is chargeable at 3 euros per bottle. Would have liked a cheese option for dessert) - bar area 8/10 (only 1 staff so service is slow when busy and not all drinks in menu available. Need more seating for when it’s busy. - room 8/10 basic but served purpose. Robe & slippers nice. - Spa 7/10 (looks beautiful but was included in price when we booked. Since been revamped & is now chargeable with kids allowed in 12-18h so you need to go outside these hours if you want peace and quiet). Crystal Ski tried initially not to refund us but paid us only £100 which doesn’t cover the cost. Sauna & steam room not hot enough for us as max was 70 degrees. Too small a pool to have kids jumping in when you have paid to relax. - clientele: primarily Spanish, English, French. Unfortunately there were 2 Spanish couples with 4 screechy young kids that drove everyone insane in the bar area 1 night for over an hour. At dinner some tables (us included) left & came back later to eat in peace. Credit to the hotel, after many complaints they withdrew their dinner access & they only had breakfast access. We never saw them in the bar again! Conclusion: We would return to this hotel but would prefer if it was adult only as some kids were allowed to run around the restaurant playing hide & seek.