If you are considering this hotel please read! It’s a long review but stuff you need to know!! Me and my partner have recently returned from this hotel, we stayed for a week in a garden view room which itself was very nice. The hotel itself is nice and clean but doesn’t have many facilities as such and was more like a retirement village. Every being early 30’s we were the youngest guests all week. As we stayed the last week of September I didn’t expect the pool bar to be closed all week due to the weather which didn’t make sense as it was above 20 all week and only one day of clouds, the pool wasn’t cleaned at all even after us asking so we didn’t use it at all. It appeared the pool area was more for lounging around rather than actually using. We booked through easyJet as a package which describes the location of the hotel as ‘charming’, although this is accurate and the views are stunning the hotel is in the middle of nowhere and should strongly recommend car hire. The the nearest town of San Panataleo is a 30 minute walk away along a main road and there isn’t a lot their but I would recommend going to the Thursday market. The only other place you can get to without a car is the Rene Bianca beach as a shuttle is provided by the hotel, you have to book times there and back due to space which is fine. The bar/cafe on the beach is not owned by the hotel and is not cheap! After 3 days we honestly got bored and arranged to collect a car. WHAT A FARCE! This was due to the very rude an unprofessional receptionist who made the whole process hard work. In the end we got the bus (not reliable) back to the airport and picked the car up. From here the rest of the week was perfect but we didn’t spend much time at the hotel. As for meal times we booked half board, this included tea/coffee and juice at breakfast which was a nice touch. Evening meal was a buffet starter, two courses and dessert. We did have to Google translate the menu each day as it was only ever in Italian. The food itself was lovely and worth the upgrade, although in the hotel it’s €40 each per day to add the evening meal so do it before if you can unless you have a car and eat out each night there are lots of beautiful little towns no more than 20 minutes from the hotel in any direction. The restaurant itself could do with abit of updating, you are allocated a table at the start of your stay and not allowed to change due to them knowing who had evening meals paid for, this meant we had a table behind a bollard and had no access to the view from the panoramic window, even on the last day when we asked to move as we were not staying for the evening meal the staff said no. If you stay half board do not bother with getting a packet lunch as you’ll be disappointed, we went out for the evening and asked for lunch instead. This was all taken from the leftovers from the breakfast buffet and would have been better to have chose my own and given the tub to put it in. If you have a car and jus
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