Guest User
October 17, 2024
Like many, I read the reviews for this hotel before our arrival. They were pretty evenly spread between love and hate so for what it’s worth, I will add mine, pulling no punches! We arrived late evening and the reception area really does have the wow factor. Plenty of staff at check in but no porter to take your luggage. Layout of rooms a bit higgledy piggledy, we had to ask a couple of people to help direct us. Key always worked…..hoorah! The room was the superior sea view…..yes, a fabulous patio and sea view. I read the review about not much space for clothes etc and lack of storage, I took an additional 14 coat hangers and used them all. No drawer unit, just small drawer each next to bed. A couple of shelves in wardrobe. Bathroom was huge……with double vanity unit. Sadly one of our plastic (well they weren’t ceramic) was yellow. There are no fancy tiles here…..looks like a job lot of laminate and melamine…..yes the fixtures and fittings in this huge bathroom were cheap and nasty. There’s a huge drawer under the basins that was useful. The bath is dangerously slippy for a shower….ask for a bathmat. Towels have seen better days…….grey is back in fashion? The bed is vast so no problem if you want to sleep in a different time zone! That’s pretty much the room. Average ……oh good luck if you manage to work out light switch combinations. The air con was noisy too. Meals…..now the food is superb and plentiful, loads of choice however……don’t expect to be able to go to the Asian or Mexican more than a couple of times…..you see it’s the same restaurant, they just change a bit of decoration…..stick a cactus in and voila it’s Mexican, stick a bit of tai chi music on and yeah….its Asian! The Italian is an extension of the International buffet with a bit of pasta and a few pizzas. Didn’t go to the larger family pools, stuck with adults poolside. We knew we had beds in same place each day…..the same fag ends were on the floor all week. I saw one chap with a mop who gave a cats lick on a few tiles one day but there was no apparent cleaning regime. Oh I tell a lie, a window cleaner did a thorough job one day. Didn’t ever see the pool cleaned. Folk have moaned about cracked tiles…..get over yourselves, yes there were a few but nothing dangerous. Talking of danger, at the bar there are exposed wires showing from a broken junction box that had been poorly attended with a bit of insulation tape. This in the bar area by the pool where children come and go regularly, especially at night time entertainment. Talking of entertainment, the award goes to the worst bingo caller ever…..Mr monotone shout, doesn’t use a microphone has no personality. You can set your watch……just when you try for the post lunch nap by the fag end, sorry pool. Time to come home…..they’re not worried about you nicking the spa towels, you would have to be desperate to pinch some of the threadbare efforts. We asked to extend our room for late check out and told it would be fine, come back the d