Hipotels Said

I’ll start with the big one - the food The food generally is “fine”. It’s not amazing, it’s not bad, just somewhere in the middle where we wish it was better but could also be so much worse. Some days were great and we had lots of choice - others were the opposite and we struggled to find lots to eat, and none of us are fussy. The food was not cold! It’s only cold if you wander around with everything on your plate for ages, you can literally see everything is steaming hot when it’s out ready for you (top tip - get your cold food first then go and get the hot stuff). You will be absolutely fine if you love fish, as they have plenty of it in the afternoon and evenings. Not really enough choice of other meat such as fresh chicken, it’s cooked on the grill so can be a little chewy at times and not the most delicious. The red curry chicken is good though! Some strange options though, like chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks or potato wedges for breakfast??? If you have allergies I wouldn’t recommend this place for you. Labels can sometimes be poor and not tell you what it is, like some things are just left unlabelled. Desserts - extremely repetitive and have no idea what they are! The labels just say “assortment of cakes”. No idea what you’re actually eating, what’s in it or anything. Yet they can label the jelly, the ice cream, and the rice pudding but not the cakes! Considering it’s the same desserts every day you’d think they’d have labels by now, we stayed for 12 days and only saw one change when it was chocolate fountain night.

The drinks however were great - all those saying limited choice on all inclusive must want everything!! We had plenty of cocktails, plenty of spirits, soft drinks, everything you can think of and even iced coffee. You only had to pay for the “expensive” stuff such as Smirnoff, Malibu, (the normal cheap malibu is included). And some cocktails are chargeable but the free ones are great. We always enjoyed the drinks and actually found ourselves a little tipsy in the evening which proves they don’t water it down. There are so many things that make this hotel positive, but some really obvious tweaks needs to be made to make it perfect.

I will add some positives and finish with improvements that need to be made

To begin on arrival we got a welcome drink. A nice glass of cava. Free pool towels. Free safe. Perfect. Tourist tax €33 each for 12 night. In the room we were left a free bottle of wine again! The hotel and grounds itself is very clean. There is a little robot that goes around the pool every night cleaning the water which is cool. Everywhere spotless, the maids in the room are great too. We asked for clean sheets every 2-3 days and they did this for us. All the staff are polite and friendly, especially the bar staff. Big shoutout to all the bar staff, they are amazing and always had a good laugh with us and kept us topped up with drinks. The hotel location is excellent. 2 minute walk from the beach and the main strip of shops/bars. Also cala bona is only a 20/25 minute walk where you’ll find more. Every 2 sunbeds have an umbrella. It’s in the ground so no one can steal them off you and there are no umbrella wars. Really easy to get a sunbed too, you can sit and hold from 8 and then from 9 you can leave them unattended whilst you go and eat. We got our beds at around 8:45, came back around 10:30 after our walk and had no issue. The balcony has double glazed doors so you don’t get any noise from the outside so we found it pretty quiet when sleeping at night.

Negatives - these are realistically things that can easily be changed and didn’t ruin the holiday as such. Yes, the hotel is very German focused, but unfortunately, there is nothing anyone can do about the visitors. We did have to watch the England World Cup game in German though, which seemed strange considering most of the German guests could speak perfectly good English so the commentary wouldn’t have been an issue. We did find a good handful of English people turning up after a few days! The staff also speak very good English so you can freely speak in your own language. The hotel room only had one mirror - in the bathroom. Very awkward really when there’s a huge walkway before the beds that just has artwork on - can easily be swapped for a full length body mirror, plus you can’t use the mirror if someone else is in the bathroom/shower. Also no light over the shower so was a little dull - again easy improvement to be made. Not many plug sockets in the room just by each bed so I did have to unplug a lamp to make more room for electronics. No English sausages at breakfast - might be me just being picky but it’s mainly just frankfurters or chorizo. They could do with another pool really - it can get really crowded in the afternoon and end up swimming into everyone - an extra pool or bigger pool would be beneficial. Don’t hang your towel over the balcony - you get a letter saying to refrain from it because it “ruins the image of the hotel”, weird, because towels over a balcony have never put me off wanting to go somewhere? The entertainment at night is also hit and miss - sometimes it’s fine sometimes it’s awful - just take it or leave it!

All in all, it’s a 4* resort in terms of cleanliness, staff, drinks choice/quality, room quality (comfortable beds and a big TV), but the food really lets it down in our opinion, and the few obvious minor tweaks that could be made. Would I come back to this hotel? Personally no. Would I recommend this hotel? Yes, for everything in terms of location, staff kindness and cleanliness.

Visited here as all inclusive 12 nights as a couple. Starting off with the food, as I feel this is a big one when paying for AI…food is not great in mine & my partners opinion, and we aren’t fussy eaters! There was alot of fish, so if you like that then plenty of it. There was little bits of chicken breast served most days, but this was incredibly chewy and so hard to eat. Also not much food options for children or those who prefer more plain food. At breakfast there was some pretty strange options, such as chicken nuggets, potato wedges & onion rings?? Which we found quite strange for a breakfast option. However there were other things aswell like eggs, beans, bread, bacon, yogurt, pastries ect. Rarely any hash browns & sausages that are served are odd for breakfast, they are chorizo or like mini cocktail/rubbery type sausages. If you have allergies, or just prefer to know what you’re eating, this place isn’t really ideal as hardly anything is labelled. It all just says “assortment of cheese” or for like cold meats “assortment of meats” and the same for the desserts, there were cakes and stuff every day, but we never knew what they actually were or what was actually in them as again it was just “assortment of cakes” we also found that the minority of food that was labelled, were in the wrong place, or stated it was something different to what it actually was. This made meal times really difficult almost every day. Desserts were also very repetitive, the same thing every single day pretty much, apart from a Thursday where they added a chocolate fountain with a wider variety of fresh fruit in the evening. On to the drinks, which we were very impressed by! There were lots of great cocktails, spirits, white, rose, and red wine, and the beer served was San Miguel. The cocktails tasted great! The hotel was spotless everywhere, the beds in the rooms were really comfortable, we looked forward to getting into bed every night because we’ve been sleeping so well here! Staff are also very welcoming, we had a glass of wine on arrival and the lady who checked us in was very helpful and provided us with a lot of information, and was happy to answer any of our questions. The bar staff were absolutely amazing, no matter how busy it got at the bar, or outside in the evening, they always did their best to make sure everything was ok, and were very quick to serve us. They were very friendly and polite, always smiling and down for a good laugh! They are a credit to the hotel. The location of the hotel is brilliant, 2 minutes walk to the beach and the main strip where all the shops are, plenty of restaurants, and bars along the strip and the beach. Hotel rooms could do with a floor length mirror as there is just the one in the bathroom. Overall, this hotel lives up to its 4 stars in terms of cleanliness, location, drinks, the pool & the politeness of the staff, it’s just the food that unfortunately really let it down for us.

Absolutely wonderful. Staff so friendly and helpful. Great idea about sunbeds. From 0800 you can sit and hold sunbeds but if you leave towels before 0900 they remove them. Pool towels were new New and very thick. Food unfortunately for me not great as lack of good protein like: nice chicken ( slithers overcooked and dry), nuts to sprinkle on yogurt would be nice, fresh fruit smoothie etc but if you like fish...seafood is in abundance. If they spread the budget that went on the extravagant party night (copious choice.... for one night only) then perhaps less 'frozen mass produced' battered veg, defrosted puddings that rarely changed and maybe something like smoked salmon, avocado. Also as non smokers it wS bit irksome that large overflowing volumes sat at smoking section right in front of pool. Smoking area ironically larger than tiny gym. But I guess the demographic needed more smoking space than gymnasium.