RIU Paraiso Lanzarote

"Great location opposite Los Pocillos beach Close to some nice bars and restaurants. Food excellent. Staff friendly. Grounds of the hotel well maintained. However, this is essentially a hotel for smokers. Although there are allocated smoking areas, these are largely ignored by the selfish smokers and the smell of cigarette smoke is everywhere. Give this hotel a miss if you dislike inhaling carcinogen laden smoke !"

"Had a great holiday at the riu. Staff were very helpful and always had a smile and a greeting any time of the day. The food was nice with a good choice, always found something to eat. The room (1181) was clean and tidy. The only downside side was that this was in the what they call the quiet part of the hotel, so a littlewalk to main building and no entertainment around the pool. We had a big problem with mosquitos in this hotel, bug plugs in the room (kindly supplied by the hotel) .used repellent but still got eaten alive. Never had this in lanzarote before. The location is ok. 20 min walk to PDC or no3 bus out the gate turn right. Taxi to PDC only 5 euros. Done lanzarote many times, so we won't be back for a while, but we would return to this hotel again."

"I was so looking forward to this holiday, but unfortunately didn't quite turn out to be so nice, reason was sun beds. I was woke around 5am every day with people dragging loungers around to were they wanted them ( I was in ground floor) I would shout down please stop.the noise only to be ignored, by then there must have been at least 20 towels arranged on loungers around the pool, some people went off for the day as well leaving there towels there, no good complaining as staff didn't want to know. Unfortunately while we were there not only us but most got bitten really bad by mosquitos, people walking round as if they had measles. Anyway not for us as the towel situation spoilt everything as we always got the left over seats right at the back."