"This hotel has good and bad points I’ll start with the good.
Fantastic location 10 mins walk to the beach, 10 mins walk to Yumbo centre. There is a great supermarket just round the corner that sells just about everything, lots of small cafes and a fab gift shop upstairs.
The hotel itself is clean , staff are pleasant and helpful. Rooms are good, has a mini kitchen area with a fridge. Table and chairs , lounge area with sofa and tv, we were in room 402 over looking the road. The balcony was nice and had lovely views. The furniture on the balcony was not great old wooden style seating not very comfy. There was a washing line to hang your wet swimwear etc.
We had a twin room, lots of storage for clothes and hanging space. Large mirror and dressing area and a fan. No aircon in rooms but we survived ok with the fan and being on the balcony.
Bathroom was big enough shower was great and we had some mini toiletries.
Reception areas all clean. There is a pool bar open 11-6pm we are here a couple of times during the day and the food was good.
Around the pool is nice however some areas are totally shaded from the building so if you plan to spend your afternoon there pick wisely as if you want sun you will have to move and it can get busy. The sun beds are old and rickety but if you get the seating pads they were comfy.
The pool was clean it was cool getting in but once in was lovely. They allow inflatables too.
There is a very small kids pool.
There were allot of German and Swiss guests staying at the hotel but all very pleasant.
Now the food - we found the food awful the breakfast was quite cold, very fatty bacon , tiny little sausages , soggy potato hash browns and cold beans. Then ham and cheeses pate etc , we saw carrots and Aubergines. They cater for Germans etc allot more than English.
Toasters are rubbish take an age to toast any of the bread so gave up in the end.
Dinner - the menu is put up everyday in reception so we checked this , mainly caters for other guests. We tried it for two nights but couldn’t do anymore as it was just awful bland boring cold food.
It would be much better if you could just op to not have the food and be self catering here.
Staff in the restaurant work hard and were friendly. Restaurant very dated and tired.
Overall it’s a great hotel for the location. We decided to eat out mostly as there are so many lovely cafes and restaurants near by. The supermarket had a pastry counter too which are so good and a fresh orange machine.
WiFi is only in reception and slightly around the pool depending on where you are sitting. Did not work on the 4th floor at all.
Rooms could do with a refurb to some degree but then it does have that canaries charm.
Lifts always worked and there are several.
Enjoyable holiday."
