however was very different, on checking in we realised that the front facing rooms were all closed of for reservation and also the lovely big breakfast room which has a lovely view.

We opted to stay half- board, breakfast was always excellent with lots of choice,

The breakfast was very good and evening meals had good choice .

Breakfast was very nice with a very good selection of anything you might require.

Breakfast was ok, nothing particularly special.

Breakfast was great, evening meal ok. We went for half-board because the difference in price from B&B was quite small so was certainly worth it.

Breakfast was great , English bacon and sausages and the scrambled egg was to die for .

The reception staff were always cheerful and helpful

We really enjoyed the food the breakfasts were lovely a great variety including an omelette/crepe station.

Breakfast buffet is very good and we ate each day in Cafe Nautica.

Similar to other Spanish buffet style hotels or a little under par ate out for half the time.

The hotel breakfast is excellent with wide choices hot & cold choices - a positive feast.

Great views , great rooms, excellent staff, breakfast and dinner are really good, right on the beach , access from the lift, with beach towels provided, also access for guests to use the toilet on ground floor via your room card , not sure if anything could be improved, well done all of the staff and management

We had the buffet breakfast which had plenty of variety and you can also have omelettes and crepes cooked to order.

The food was uniformly excellent at breakfast and dinner, the choice and quality was superb.

The breakfast had not much variety and the hot food was luke warm.

Breakfast has such a wide variety of foods and is in the most beautiful restaurant overlooking the sea.

but I particularly enjoyed the tipco English breakfast e.g.

Breakfast was really good with plenty of variety .

Breakfast was great, lots of food, lots of choice and a great view.

Breakfast wonderful variety, good service.

A few things we didn’t like were the hard beds , the poor air conditioning ( in November ) and especially a knock on the door and a phone call at literally 12.02 to say room needed to be vacated - we knew this and were just gathering ourselves together

The food was poor and totally overpriced ( this seems to be the main theme of this hotel) I came back from a wedding late in the evening, I hadn’t really eaten much during the day and I asked at reception if it was possible that I could have a bag of crisps/chips just to kill off my hunger.

Also I would say the choice of food in the buffet is very poor on an evening and breakfast is generally cold.

The tea and coffee at breakfast were awful and the quality of the ham poor.

The prawns seemed to have hung about all week in various disguises
 I agree with Beulah the desserts were poor  tasteless cakes and the biscuit on top of the custard, no idea why it was there.

but for me, a non meat eater, the choices were poor.

It was tired, had a tiny bathroom which measured 7’6” by 6”, with a shower over the bath, no separate cubicle, very poor quality toiletries, the cheapest loo rolls money can buy, and a loose toilet seat which remained that way throughout our visit.

Our one area of disappointment was the poor service in the dining room.

Dinner was generally quite poor ( hence 3 stars) mostly barely warm and not varied.

They then changed the wording on our confirmation and on line stating no balcony - by this time the hotel was fully booked and we couldn’t re book a balcony room 
Very poor from Jet 2 who are representing this hotel.

Breakfast was very poor with foul tasting coffee and a basic selection of foods more like a 2 star..

Choosing to book through TUI we expect them to filter out poor accommodation and not accept rooms just because the hotel classify it as a standard room.

but I had no option other than ending-up with a poor appetite for my evening meal.

but dinners have declined drastically including very poor wine cellar.

The room is spacious and the bed linen is clean, however you could hear your neighbors sometimes (poor sound proof). Buffet brekafast is good

but feel we have had a poor response to what we were told at check in.

Also reception asked for a credit card guarantee despite room being prepaid even before they welcomed me which probably put me a a poor mood before I had even fully checked in.

Hotel Balcon de Europa

poor

Paid private parking nearby

Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)

Pool

We partciularly enjoy the standard and condition of their establishments, the cleanliness and the wide variety of delicious food

The restaurant is bright and welcoming and the food is delicious and well presented.

The restaurant is bright and welcoming and the food is delicious.

Superb breakfast,  a good choice in for the evening meals.

Buffet meals were very good with excellent choice.

They even made me my own soup and the head waiter walked me round the buffet letting me know what I could eat.

Set out very well with plenty of space around buffet area.

The choice of food at breakfast and evening meal was excellent and we enjoyed the pool side restaurant on 2 nights at no extra cost.

We had a buffet breakfast & dinner each day with views over the sea.

Buffet service was fabulous with lots of choice and great quality.

The buffet restaurant had plenty of choice and was always hot and tasty.

Tables nearest to the buffet are reserved for the use of disabled guests.

There is an extensive breakfast & evening buffet with a wide choice.

Plenty of food options for breakfast and dinner and of a good quality.

Everyone from the reception staff,dining room staff,chamber staff and even ground staff etc should be congratulated because at the end of the day it is a team effort.The food is of a high quality and there’s always enough choice at breakfast and dinner.

although it was a buffet menu there was always plenty to eat and on a lot of nights the food was cooked right before your eyes so it was always fresh.

The food at the Riu is extremely good with a wide choice at both breakfast and dinner.

although there are some people who seem to rush down in the morning to leave towels and then disappear!

Enjoyed everything about this hotel (except the towels which are small and hard!).

but please upgrade the towels, thin, ragged and sad and when I caught a bit of sunburn it was most unpleasant using them.

Sadly the habit of people putting towels down early morning is a pain,

but of course the towels go out early though the sitters are not as early!

My only criticism would be the room towel are a bit smalland thin.

The booklet even states that staff will actively remove said towels if this practice is seen to be happening.

The only complaint I have is that towels put onto sunbeds and no one coming back to them until well into the afternoon  there was a lifeguard on duty and no towels were taken off sunbeds like the notice said it would be.

however be quite busy around the pool with people putting towels down quite early , we still still found sun beds that were suitable for us.

We did chuckle some days watching guests from our balcony rushing to put towels out, in the same spot, day after day as

The only criticism was of other guests who reserved sun beds with towels not returning for long periods of time, not easy for the hotel to police!

The only down size to the room was the towels in the bathroom,they were thread bear and small.

The only thing I didn’t like and it’s petty, the bathroom towels were a waste of space, they were small and useless, plus it could of done with some music round the pool, and that is it.

Towels are a bit threadbare and could do with replacing.

towels are rather small and far from soft and fluffy no  face cloths, slippers or bath robes.

but towels in room are very rough and should be updated.

People did go and put their towels down early and leave them for hours unattended!

If your not so active or able you can easily stop on the way for refreshments 😊 would I stay here again yep, are most or the reviews on here stupid, so what if the towels are brown or thin, thin means they dry quicker! !

Hotel Riu Monica

towel

Paid private parking on-site

Free internet

Breakfast was excellent, with a full selection of hot and cold plates, cereals etc.

Excellent breakfast with plenty of choice for everyone.

And the breakfast they have really is fabulous.

The facilities were excellent and we had a delicious breakfast every morning.

The breakfast was very good, including real irish style bacon instead of just the usual fried ham that you get in Europe.

The breakfast has lots of choice, bar & pool bar food is good & portions are big.

We were bed and breakfast and the breakfast was very good, with a good choice of cooked or continental type breakfast.

Excellent facilities throughout the complex, terrific breakfast and bar food.

The range of food at breakfast was good and all hot food was perfectly cooked.

The breakfast offer in the morning was always superb with a choice of hot or cold options a chef station, cereals, fruits, breads of all types, cold meats, salads, nuts, juice station, coffee and tea facilities and of course very warm and friendly service.

Second visit this year to this lovely hotel
Staff very friendly & helpful
Food at pool bar excellent also drinks really good quality & prices
Breakfast varied & good quality bacon etc 
Comfy beds in spotlessly clean rooms
5 mins to beach & a 10 minute walk into the old town 
Happy hour every day at 16.30 very popular & has a good crowd

We had room and breakfast and the breakfast catered for all tastes and was delicious.

Clean,very attentive staff, excellent food the breakfast was absolutely wonderful swimming pool lovely, could not find any faults, clpse to the beach and some wonderful places to eat, would stay again.

A short walk from the beach and town, amazing a la carte restaurant and good breakfast buffet.

Although the room was small it was functional.

The rooms are perhaps a little on the small side,

This was our 3rd stay  rooms are a little small

Rooms were on the small side (we had a comfort room) and did lack storage space

Hotel Villa Flamenca

small room

Sauna

Breakfast was average at best with almost nothing for anyone following a vegan/plant based diet.

We had no problems with food generally good, and remember you are only paying 3 star prices when complaining about the food most evenings we had a lovely meal, salad selection was good,  The breakfasts again were good.

The breakfast is typical, there is an option really for everyone -

The breakfast was ok saved only by the fantastic scrambled egg, the rest was very mediocre.

I am not in the " burger and chips" brigade, and was saddened by the variety, choice and quality of breakfast and evening menus.

Each evening the kitchen produces usually two meat dishes, (either chicken, lamb, pork or beef) one fish dish, one or two vegetarian dishes and a well stocked and plentiful salad bar.

It was evening buffet that was a lot to be desired.

I found the salads to be very fresh and tasty, there was always fish and meat available, rice, veg, pasta  lovely breads, tbh I found a couple of dishes a little bland for my taste,

The staff were pleasant and helpful , apart from one of the waiters who was a  bit temperamental, considering that they all seemed to be there at breakfast lunch and dinner.

The breakfast was very good with a lot to chose between.

I loved the buffet breakfast and the buffet dinner .

Hot Breakfast was good for those who liked an English fryup and cold buffet available

The breakfast was sufficient, fresh fruit everyday and yogurt for us and the usual fried foods and toast etc.

Very clean and tidy rooms cleaned every day with fresh towels buffet breakfast good that caters for all tastes entertainment on certain nights with great guest involvement pool facilities good and friendly helpful staff

I was worried about the poor reviews before we stayed there

Evening meal was luke warm and of poor quality food.

The room we were allocated had a poor outlook - the bins and tatty sunbeds.

though was the food, it was of poor quality.

Breakfast was equally as poor we both ended up just eating toast and jam every morning as the rest was swimming in oil and very poor quality, the evening meal was even worse limited choice each day which was pretty much exactly the same each night so we ended up eating out after 2 nights trying to eat what was on offer.

But,oh dear, the evening meals are poor and repetitive.

It was of poor quality, unimaginative, boring and not served hot.

but the location is such that we had a long walk downhill to the beach and the evening food was so poor that we had to find alternative places to eat despite paying for half board.

however the rest of my staff was very poor.

I was concerned about the poor reviews on the quality of the food and so emailed the hotel before booking.

but due to the poor quality we ate out every other time for our 2 weeks.

The poor bar staff were completely rushed off their feet at lunch and at happy hour, only one person running the bar and food.

Some of the public areas were poor with used cigarette

Staff very helpful when needed , no issues getting sunbed though lots of people hovering around awaiting unlocking of beds , some of which could do with being replaced , as for hotel gym I’m afraid it was pretty poor ,

Wrong  room, Family room 3 beds in the garden room smell.

I think this says more about their lifestyle and the number of cigarettes they smoke more than the location of the hotel.

but nothing in it, we had to leave clothes in suitcases, it was above the kitchen so when the kitchen staff decided to have a smoke, we had to endure as we were above.

but the only other shade available was under the smoking area .

again poor choice, no fresh fruit, honey etc, stale hard bread, we asked if any banana only to be told too expensive!

They run out of ice cream on the second night and it was left like that for three days, eventually being replenished with two tubs of chocolate which looked disgusting.

Only downside was a slight smell in the bathroom first thing in the morning.

Food was above average although vegetarians may be a bit limited  A few negatives - room could smell of drains

The negatives about the hotel - we had to change rooms because of the smell of the drains, it was nauseating.

The room itself(111) smelt of a cross between damp, musty and cats.

We flew into Malaga where it was throwing it down to such an extent clothes in our cases were damp.

Don’t get the garden level rooms as they smell damp and have Ferrell cats on the small patch of grass.

In the room was a bit better, except that it was constantly smells like someone was smoking in the room, maybe it's ventilation problem.

Food was disgusting and looks like it's left on the buffet for hours especially considering the few people that were dining there.

Spa area smells like a clorox;  jacuzzi is soppy.

but unfortunately each morning the stench was always there but did disappear later on during the day.

Only one person was working at breakfast they were busier than a one-armed wall paper hanger!

Toilet didn't flush properly and Ned side light hanging off the wall.

The lampshade was hanging off the wall dangerously and the toilet didn't flush .

Original room for 3 was tiny and facing a wall.

but I would call it a 2 ⭐️ I would of bin asking to be moved is this was my main holiday for was very repetitive same every night  staff are lovely very help full plug sockets hanging out the wall in bedroom bath shower need updating sun beds broken long walk to Centre but we don’t mind walking

The plug sockets hanging out of the wall and the electric meter being open.

The rooms could do with a tidy up, not much just things like seal around the bath, hole in wall where new air con fitted 
Spa what spa. .

I read reviews about the walls being thin and guests being unable to sleep

With a small fridge, kettle adequate storage (just, could do with a chest of draws) fluffy towels and the most powerful shower we've ever had the rooms were almost perfect, the only downside being that the walls are very thin so some noise does carry!!

The walls are very thin and we were regularly kept awake by our neighbour snoring.

When you sat on the wc it clanged as it was loose from the wall.

but clean, beds are comfortable but the aircon unit kept dripping water onto the bed at night, the towel rail kept falling off the wall nothing done about it.

but was let down by the balcony (if that's what you can call it) just enough room for a small coffee table and two chairs, and the view was the wall of the next property!

The sun lounge overlooked a bungalow , on our first day they started to rip out all the interior it was unbearable walls being demolished, skips being filled up it went on from 8 am to 4 30 every day except Good Friday and Easter Sunday, whilst this was going on the continue barking of dogs, this also went on all day and woke many people up middle of the night.

Yes I have to agree the rooms are not the biggest and the walls are quite thin

The only fault I could find with the hotel was as others have said the walls are very thin and you will be kept awake by people talking or the TV.However for the price we paid you would be hard pressed to find better value on the Costa Del Sol

Paper thin walls, you can almost hear people changing their mind!

Hotel Nerja Club & Spa

wall

smell

Free parking

Breakfast on the stunning terrace, overlooking the gardens and sea, is very good, can't comment on the restaurant not been there.

Breakfast is buffet with an egg/omelette station.

On the plus side, the location of this parador cannot be beaten, perched right on the cliff with wonderful views (especially sun rise as you are eating your sumptuous breakfast) and a lift down to the beach.

Breakfast was good and a great selection to cater for all tastes.

Breakfast was great - plenty of choice and omelettes made to order.

Friendly staff, high standard of cleanliness, lovely large gardens with great views and with plenty of shade under the ombu trees, very warm swimming pool, great selection of fresh produce for breakfast, large balconies with adjustable canopies and it’s own lift to Burriana Beach.

Breakfast was good, with a large selection of hot and cold items, fresh fruit, pastries, and breads.

Breakfast was lovely and fresh with plenty of choice and very friendly staff.

The buffet breakfast is very good with a large selection of hot and cold items.

(This helped ensure that only a few people were impolite and needlessly selfish enough to reserve loungers before breakfast and leave them empty for hours.)

We had breakfast at the hotel each morning a it was a varied and tasty buffet.

Breakfast offers endless choices of a buffet style menu, with wonderful views over the med.

Great selection at breakfast and always very fresh .

The breakfast was good with large varieties.

Good food even if did not took Cena, breakfast is very good.

The hotel was sparking clean, the room was large and comfortable, the staff was friendly, the breakfast buffet had many quality choices, the views were amazing, and the location on Burriana Beach is perfect.

The breakfast was fantastic, we sat outside and the view was amazing.

-The rooms are tired and in need of updating.

I believe we lucked out and got a newly renovated room as other reviews state rooms are outdated.

However, with there being talk of a major refurbishment taking place, possibly after November 2020, I hope they do not make it modern and flashy at the expense of losing the easy, relaxed atmosphere it has right now.

Although air conditioned, apparently the air condition does not function until May 1 or later.

The façade of the hotel facing the car park area is now in need of come updating

Our only criticism is that the room and bathroom definitely need an update.

At the time, I said I thought the place needed a renovation though.

Looks like rooms not renovated since mid-1950s opening and they are not clean – with piles of dust, heavily worn appliances and furniture (some broken).

although well maintained, was in need of renovation.

Only downside rooms could do with updating and air conditioning not really reliable.

This parador, we understand, is due for a major renovation and it may be closing temporarily in the near future.

My one criticism is that the bathroom needed an update and the taps in the bath were hard to reach due to the design!

I was just a little concerned that the Parador was due to close for renovations and that this might mean it was below par,

The décor in the rooms is becoming dated and would benefit from refurbishment,

Colours are a bit dull, they plan for a renovation.

However, a major renovation of rooms is due in November 2018.

It is our view that while some tweaking is needed to modernise the facilities, such as remodelling of bathrooms, beware of a total overhaul that takes away the charm that frequent visitors, like ourselves, so enjoy.

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