Labranda Rose Aqua Parc

I’ve stayed here for a week. Very beautiful experience, the hotel is good. The best thing is the animation team, every guy/girl is funny and lovely.

We stayed at the hotel for a week in late August and overall I found it a good experience.

The positives:

The staff at the reception were helpful and the porter was excellent, he helped us with our switch to a twin room. Everything at the reception was straightforward.

The buffet restaurant was fine, I thought there was a decent enough choice of food and there was even a section for traditional Moroccan food including tagines.

The room was fine, the air conditioning was quiet but was the perfect temperature for us.

The swimming pool facilities and aqua park were good. The pool was big enough and still some room to swim, I think we planned the holiday at a good time as the school holidays were coming to an end so it was starting to wind down which meant there was no issue trying to get sunloungers and not too many selfish holiday makers dumping their towels and leaving for extended periods of time.

The flumes were great fun and you didn’t have to wait long to use them, it seemed reasonably well monitored so there weren’t too many people going down at the same time.

The hotel is well located near the city centre and nearby there is a nice modern shopping complex.

The negatives:

At the poolside they did have quite loud music at one end to the point that I couldn’t hear the person next to me, I do understand that because there is an entertainment team and different events going on they want to bring some energy and participation. But there are people who are also here to relax and it wasn’t necessary outside of events like Aqua Gym or so. We made sure after the first day that we were situated at the opposite end of the pool which helped.

The gym was ok but a few of the stations were broken, plus there wasn’t any air conditioning or many sanitiser facilities for wiping clean the stations.

One thing to watch out for is when you go for lunch. Essentially there is a break from entertainment and the flumes are closed at the Water Park from 12:30 to 2:30pm so an enormous amount of people flock to the buffet restaurant at once once it hits 12:30. Expect to wait a long time to queue for pizza or pasta.

There could have been more choice of fruit in the dessert section, often there wasn’t any or limited to some melon and something which looked like an apple.

Apart from that it was a pleasant stay but I think timing is important, a lot of negative reviews seem to come from families or people staying during peak school holiday periods.