Barcelo Playa Blanca

Facilities: Guests praised the hotel for its excellent facilities, mentioning cleanliness and comfort, as well as a large pool with plenty of sunbeds. The indoor gym and nightly entertainment in the lobby were also appreciated by visitors.

Great hotel. Wonderful swim-up room. Terrific restaurant. Superb facilities offering lots for everybody of all ages, including those less mobile. It has all you can want/need for a hotel holiday stay. We'll certainly be back!!

Like a few of my reviews this is going to be a difficult one really because in many respects this is an absolutely fantastic hotel but there are definitely issues and things visitors should be aware of. This is going to be a long one so here goes. I'll start at the beginning and our check-in at the hotel. Walked into the lobby area and wow, what a fantastic first impression, it's stunning. We arrived at around 22:30 and made our way straight to the RL check in desk. The check in desk is right opposite the B-Lounge where there was an act on and let me tell you, it was loud, to the point where it was extremely difficult to hear what the lady checking us in was saying. I'm not going to lie, that was not a great first impression , it just seemed a very inappropriate place to have the check in desk when it's so near the acts performing in the B-Lounge however that's only an issue at night for people arriving late like us so wouldn't be a problem for most people. We were taken to our room on what I can only describe as a souped up golf buggy, now that did make a good impression and it soon became apparent just how big the hotel is, it's huge so we were very thankful for the lift to our room. Our room:- I had upgraded the room to a suite with frontal sea view , it had a terrace with sun loungers on and the room was big and stunning with a huge extremely comfortable bed. I'd read reports of a sewage smell in some rooms before we arrived and there was definitely an odour in there that varied from day to day but once you'd been in the room for a few mins you didn't notice it, definitely did if you went out e.g onto the terrace and back into the room again though. Overall it wasn't really an issue but it was there. The air conditioning was useless. It wasn't air conditioning, it was a blowing sound that you couldn't really feel and it didn't cool the room at all as far as I could tell. I mentioned that to the Royal Level desk and they said they would send someone to look at it the next day but I never received any feedback and it wasn't any better so I think that's just how it is, pretty much a waste of time really. Despite that I didn't ever feel the room was uncomfortably hot and opening the terrace door to let some cool air in at night helped but if it's advertised as having air con it should have aircon and what we had wasn't aircon. Not a deal breaker but disappointing nonetheless... The terrace had 2 loungers and a parasol on which was nice and we took advantage of the sun loungers on our private terrace to try and reduce our tan lines if you get my drift Food and drink:- Now here is where things go downhill unfortunately. We only ate in the RL Magical restaurant (apart from lunch just before we went home) so I can't comment on the main restaurant really. Breakfast was fine, more than fine actually , there were some nice a la carte dishes to choose from and the selection of other items and drinks was good. Lunch was very different to any other AI h