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Globales Los Patos Park
Spain, Europe
Benalmadena
Located in Benalmadena, in a residential area just 200 m from the beach and Malaga Airport is about 8 km away. This hotel is 2 km from the city centre and its many shops and entertainment areas while the stunning Marina City is only 1 km away. The hotel offers a cosy bar, a souvenir shop, a TV room and a restaurant. The hotel also offers laundry service and the younger guests will be entertained at the kids' club and playground. The hotel boasts a water park, with a lake pool and water games for children. For the younger ones there are two animal-shaped pools, a shark and sea serpent, a mushroom-shaped shower and a tower with two water slides and a splash bucket that will make for an exciting holiday.
Facilities
- Wheelchair-accessible
- Car park
- Garage*
- 24-hour reception
- Wi-fi
- Car hire
- Laundry service
- Launderette*
- Medical service
- Air conditioning in public areas
- *Some facilities may incur an additional fee
The Local Area
Tripadvisor Reviews
4.0 Very Good3,662 reviews
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This is the only hotel abroad I have ever returned to because we had such a great experience there.
Last year we went for 10 days with our 4 and 9 year old this year we went again and brought along my in-laws.
This hotel is absolutely fantastic for children between the ages of 3-11 ( I would say) It feels like a very safe, enclosed space and is busy with families and lots of kids to make friends with. The splash park is fantastic, a great size and really fun for the younger children. The flumes give the older ones more free rein and feels like a mini water park. The lifeguards are great with children and look after them all well. The only issue I would see here is if you are a family of early risers, the pool doesn’t open till 10. This suits us perfectly but I would take this into consideration if we were a family with 6am rises. People go crazy over sitting at the splash park and queue there from earlier than I am even awake. I would go to the main pool at 9.45 every day, stand in a short queue and get sunbeds easily without racing around. Small park on site that the kids all hang around in at night. Only issue is that you will get a group of older ones battering a football around it and it’s not really the space for it.
Entertainment during the day and in the evening is exactly what we were looking for. Nothing too OTT or intrusive on your day. Night time mini disco was at a good time for us as not rushing to get there after a day out or at the pool. Magician, singers, dancers, acrobats in the evening. My children enjoyed watching them all.
We stayed BNB both times and wouldn’t change that. Breakfast has a fantastic selection- the same that you would get in any hotel and everything seems very fresh and well presented. The hotel is in a great location for eating out with lots of cafe/ bars and restaurants in walking distance. We used uber to travel further and found it very reasonable. Jacks at the marina, Maracas (down at the beach) Lime and Lemon, Amici Italian, and Lotus (when visiting the Bioparc in Fuengirola) were my favourites.
The hotel feels very clean and there are always staff doing maintenance or cleaning. The staff working at the bar area -especially Sarita and Jose Carlos- went out of their way to look after us.
The rooms are a little small for a family with no separate sleeping areas. This didn’t bother us as we don’t come on holiday to sit in a hotel room.
My children had the best time and were crying when leaving, we would 100% recommend and would maybe think about returning for a THIRD time.
Review by Gilda M Greenock, United Kingdom
Best staff ever
Guilleremo is amazing! He’s the best waiter ever x
Terrible experience
We have been doing all inclusive jet2 holidays since the kids were born and have always had a great experience until this year. We paid over £4000 for all inclusive for 10 nights, 2 adults and a 2year old and a 5 year old and have never experienced anything like this!
• you are given tokens for your plastic cups so you constantly need to keep your eyes on the cups to make sure you have all of your them so you can take them to the bar for your next drink.
• All inclusive does NOT mean all inclusive, you need to pay for all decent/frozen cocktails. Pictures of kids ice lollies and ice cream at the bar areas but they are not included, frozen coffees not included and the coffee machine at the bar was not working a lot of the time. The cocktails included were pre made in a bottle. The kids were given ice poles
•pool doesn’t open till 10 which I usually like so your morning is more relaxed but me and my husband had to take shots in missing breakfast so we could start queuing for sunbeds at 8am, this mostly ended up with people arguing and causing an atmosphere at the pool. I don’t think it’s fair that we paid a lot of money to have to miss out on breakfast and stand in queues for 2 hours and have to be put in a situation every morning to watch people behave aggressively in front of kids over being near the splash park but yous know yous have a terrible system and are not policing it and are letting it happen.
• Day 5 my 2 year old was sick at the loungers all over himself and me which was quite clear and as I was quickly trying to get him to the room he asked for apple juice, i quickly asked at the bar before heading up and they refused to give him one as I did not have our cups, I explained he’s just been sick everywhere and i was told no as I needed my cup even though you have a wrist band on. I was completely stunned at this, I then took a paper cup from the water machine and the barman just shook his head and said no.
• day 7 my little boy was still being sick and had diarrhoea then my 5 year old little girl caught it. after hearing lots of other adults and kids were unwell I went to reception to ask what was going on they told me there was a virus going about and we’re really quite rude
• day 8 my father in law took not well and when we arrived back home he attended the doctors to be told he had salmonella and worms in his stool. My little boy attended the doctor also as he was sick for 6 nights to be told they think he had a virus but later learned my daughter had worms in her stool also which they now think my boy had. The health board has now been in contact to ask where we had been to catch this.
• to be honest I felt like if you had an all inclusive band on you weren’t treated very nicely.
• you were also usually waiting sometimes between 15/20 minutes if you had a buggy to get up and down in the lift as there was only 3 lifts in the whole of the hotel so once again you had to queue.
Sadly our experience is enough to put you off all inclusive hotels and are now thinking in a villa going forward.
Bathgate family
Had a great holiday especially my 11 year old grandson he loved the water slides hardly seen him all day food ok drinks ok room was clean as was the hotel my only complaint was the amount of people smoking and vaping around the pools and the general behaviour of some of the guests but that's not the hotels fault apart from that we had a great week and would come back again 👍
Good family hotel , great water slides
The hotel was very busy, ideal for families with young and older Children. Positives are: location is good and close to the beach, shops and restaurants. Water slides are great for the kids. Food is okay and quite varied. The wine was good on the all inclusive. Entertainment was good. Lots for kids to do in the day, kids club, water games.
Negatives are: pool does not open until 10am. People queuing for beds as early as 8am!. Queues for the bar and snack bar are bad. Only allowed 2 drinks at a time with all inclusive, you must keep your cup during the day. No tea or coffee making facilities in the room, you have to pay to hire a kettle. Air conditioning is a bit noisy. Maid did not replenish our loo paper , had to ask for more at reception. All in all we enjoyed our holiday, especially my 6 year old Granddaughter.
Review by charlton97 Harlow, United Kingdom
