Smy Tahona Fuerteventura

The accommodation's standout features include exceptional breakfast options, friendly and attentive staff, ideal location near the beach and amenities, comfortable rooms with amenities, and high standards of cleanliness.

So on my first night here I read a few reviews whilst I was lay in bed and was absolutely dreading what the stay was going to bring. Just to address some of them: 1. The whole site is absolutely immaculately clean; 2. We found the food lovely at each meal; 3. Our room was in good repair. The bathroom sink was metal so no idea how somebody had a cracked sink; 4. Our shower was more along wet room lines and not over a bath; and 5. I've never once stayed in a hotel where the rooms contain a kitchen area. Now for my opinions, the house keeping staff are honestly high on the list of the nicest people I've ever spoken to! They maintain spectacularly high standards throughout. Nothing was too much trouble for them and everything was done with a smile. The beds were very comfortable though ideally, I'd have been happier if there were spare pillows in the room as I like quite a fluffy pillow. We were in a room with a very good sized seating area, a bedroom and a bathroom. Between those 3 spaces, there were only really 2 'spare' plug sockets. In an ideal world there would be one at each side of the bed and maybe 2 more empty on top of that. They advertise as having a hair dryer in the rooms but they actually mean if you pay a deposit of €2 you can use one. But you must pay in cash. At busy checking in times they have 2 staff members on reception but they both appear to be serving the same person. The dining room and the staff in there is lovely and clean and the staff are polite and professional. It's located centrally to lots of amenities so very handy. The only negative and honestly pretty significant negative, we were in room 223 facing the gym and near the boules area. This means you are NOT going to get a lie in! The gym has huge plate glass windows which open and throughout the day they play very loud 'music' from early doors. I use the term music loosely because it's extremely loud electronic noise with some great music from the 80s with a really loud thudding base line added which sounded exactly like a headache! You can also hear the poolside bar from there but the exhaustion from being woken by the gym means that you can normally sleep through that. However, we both agree that it's the best place we've ever stayed in caleta so definitely worth a visit but bring ear plugs just in case.