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Taggy
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Posted: Sun Jun 1st, 2008 09:13 am |
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| This Hotel gets some of the best ratings in Benidorm and there are certainly areas where this Hotel does score very highly indeed. But would i stay there again? NO!...The reason for this is that from a personal point of view, the Hotel is just far too large for us. Far too Noisy. Is taking in quite a large number of Stag and Hen Parties. The lift situation is very bad, we were on the 12th Floor despite having emailed the hotel in advance to ask for a low floor room. The Food here however is definately the Best Hotel Food that i've had in Benidorm. Theres an incredible amount of choice. And the food is of very high quality. The theme evenings are very good. The Mexican one, with a Singer!, on our last night being our favourite! There was usually a carvery on offer as well as countless other dishes, and the roast beef we had from this, on two evenings was superb. Trust me, you will never need to go hungry here!! However what should be a nice relaxing experience enjoying the meals was constantly spoilt by the unbelievable noise in the dining room. Kids running amok everywhere, you needed eyes in the back of your head carrying plates of food around in case you tripped over children or they ran into you. Plates were being dropped at every mealtime as the staff tried there best hurrying around cleaning up the tables..which they do a good job of! It was like eating in a school dining room! Such a shame because as i say, the food is excellent! The Drinks on the other hand are simply awfull!!...We tried Red Wine, White Wine, Beer and Brandy, all of them equally as bad as the other, very, very poor quality indeed!!..We stuck to water in the end, and did our drinking outside of the hotel! We did not stay to watch the Entertainment at night as we prefer to make our own choices of the vast amount of entertainment Benidorm has to offer. But judging by the acts named to appear there during our visit, i would have no doubts that the Entertainment is pretty good quality really. Quite a number of those appearing, were also on at various venues around Benidorm!. The Hotel is certainly clean enough, and the staff in the main were friendly. Theres always a life guard on duty at the pool. The weather was'nt very good on our visit, so not too much opportunity of lounging aroung the pool, but from what we did see, again it was rather noisy with kids and their parents running around squirting each other with those large water guns. We would probably have used the rooftop terrace, which is adult only, if the weather had been better. We spoke to several people whilst we were there who also were not very happy with the noise situation, and the encouraging of Stag and Hen bookings. Most of these had taken several holidays previously at this Hotel, but said they didnt like the way it was going and that they would look elsewhere in future!. We booked this hotel mainly because we got it at a good price, and wanted to try it because of many positive comments and the recomendation of others. We knew it was a large hotel of course before we booked, but we simply did'nt antisipate the level of noise there would be present! We thought with it being during a relatively quite month, that there would'nt be as many children there as there was too! Despite all the things that were not ideal for us, we still had a pleasant break and are glad that we "gave the hotel a try". However it has made us realise that we do prefer smaller hotels, more adult orientated, with more of a personal service, and have booked accordingly for our next two Benidorm Breaks!
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Posted: Sun Jun 1st, 2008 01:54 pm |
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A very consise report Taggy, looking forward to future hotel reports from you.
Denny
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Posted: Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 10:29 am |
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| Thanks Denny, will do. Our next visit is 2nd July for a week, this time staying at Hotel Avenida. Looking forward to catching up with Neil and Norma Again! Hope all is ok with you and your wife. Take Care. Best Regards - Taggy
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