steve_lee_l
May 28, 2024
Let's be clear, the hotel looks great, it's clean and has a lot of facilities. But it just seemed to fall short in quite a few details for us. I'll start with the activities. They listed football for 5.15pm every day. They've got a good sized grassed 'cage' with goals and my youngest was excited to take part. Turning up at 5.15, we were told it was adults only (16+) but there is no mention of this in advance. There were nearly 30 kids turned up to play and the entertainment staff member just gave the ball to a dad and said you organise it and left! This was the same for at least three days. I personally asked other entertainment staff on separate days about the football and they all said yes, 5.15pm was right for kids. Yet the guy supposed to be organising it said 'no kids'. Chaos. Next is the noise from the entertainment at night. They don't start the main shows until 9.30 and it's out on the lawn. Not inside the venue so the sound is impossible to escape if you don't want to take part. It was even worse on our last night when they hosted a wedding as well. Music from that combined with music from the sports bar became a horrible noise that went on until midnight. On the nights we watched the shows, African theme didn't seem very African and the Columbian theme left half the seats empty before the end. Not great I'm afraid. Onto the slides for the pool. We've been to plenty of other hotels with slides. Generally slides are open all day. Not here. One hour in the morning and an hour and a half in the afternoon. The slides are brilliant and so the first half an hour at least causes long queues. If they just kept them open for longer, the queues wouldn't be so long I'm sure. On two days we saw a drone flying around, past people's bedrooms. Pretty sure that wouldn't be allowed in the UK and I certainly wasn't happy about the privacy implications. Food was certainly plentiful; several themed nights so some variation and good labelling on everything. Be warned of the buffet queue jumpers, cold veg and odd times of not being able to get a drink from the waiters (simply overlooked I think).