Medplaya Hotel Calypso

New pool slides great for kids. Food is poor and the dining room is a free for all. My son (7) had a great time at the pool. Although doesn’t open till 10.30/11. Queuing is something you will be doing a lot. If you want a drink at the pool bar 10 mins, queue for the dining room can take time, you don’t get seated just free to roam and then get moved when you do find a table. We have been on other half board holidays so we didn’t expect much but did think there would be water on the table with dinner as we have had in the past. €2.30 for that pleasure that gives you 3 glasses worth. Loads of fruit which was one of only good things. The night entertainment seemed good, we didn’t go as our son doesn’t enjoy the loud music. If you are unlucky enough to be in the rooms above the stage you won’t get any sleep till 10.30pm. Rooms are quite cramped, pretty clean but the drains absolutely stink. It’s like an open drain and takes over the room. Hallways are very loud and you can hear doors getting back most of the night. This was our second visit and will be our last.

Our stay at the Hotel Calypso was our 7th (and probably final) medplaya holiday. We would like to try a new type of holiday going forward as our children are now grown up (our youngest is 17) and we feel that medplaya holidays mainly cater for families with younger offspring. We really like the hotel itself, we found our room to be plenty big enough for the 3 of us and our daughter loved having an alcove for herself. We also had a large balcony with a view to the swimming pool and the nightly entertainment. We had no issues at all with cleanliness and the cleaning staff were friendly and efficient. Overall we felt the hotel staff were, with one or two exceptions, friendly and treated us well. We would particularly single out Rosaria, from the restaurant, who was lovely and Adama, from the snack bar, who was also lovely despite dealing with some very awkward customers. All of the entertainment staff were great, especially Luna. We enjoyed Aqua Dance nearly every day and we also enjoyed taking part in the meddy games. On the downside, the black male serving in the bar adjacent to the snack area was rude, unhelpful and impolite. He seemed to not want to take any orders. In addition, there were other bar staff who were rather surly and made no effort to speed up service even when there was a long queue. Our biggest gripe, however, was the food. Whilst we understand that the hotel has to cater for a wide range of tastes and guests from many different countries, we felt that there was very little on offer for British tastes - no roast dinners for example (we have eaten them at other medplaya hotels) and no English style bacon at breakfast. We struggled to find something we liked on many occasions and, talking to other British guests, we heard the same complaints from others. Many people went to eat elsewhere despite being all inclusive. Some fruit was put out day after day until it started to go off and lunch dishes were often leftovers from the night before. To our horror, tripe (sheep intestines) was served one day! It seemed to us that the restaurant budget was being skimped on and the standard had dropped a lot from 2024. Whilst the food was a negative for us, we did still enjoy our stay overall so a 3 star review is appropriate.