Sheena1962
January 19, 2025
I like most people have been sceptical about going to stay at the Club Jandia Princess, but I decided that there was only one thing for it and go stay there ourselves. I booked a TUI package for an exceptional price so I knew after reading all the reviews that this would probably be a base and we would eat out. I started the whole process off by emailing the hotel and asking if they could send me a list of the premium branded drinks so that I could look at the prices in case I wanted to pay for a premium branded drink or indeed see if it was worth paying the upgrades to silver or black band , there is no hard sell to do this when you arrive. They were pretty prompt, I asked at the time if I was able to upgrade to a seaview room, but unfortunately they were already full, I appreciated that they were pretty quick in replying and sending the drinks menu through to me. On arrival at the hotel we were given our key and we walked to the adults area in room 5-202 , as we walked up the stairs it looked very tired and look like it needed to have a refurbishment , I felt a little disappointed but we opened the door to the room and it was lovely and spacious, it had a sofa , nice large comfortable bed, lovely big wardrobes with safe in, adequate hangers , it had tea/coffee facilities , a 28 inch TV which was a bit of a shock when I read that it was this size but you soon adjust , a nice big bathroom with a bath and an overhead shower, it had plenty of hot water and the pressure was really good, it had a balcony , it wasn’t a full on seaview but I did have some lovely sunrises and a partial seaview which is what I had asked for which was good enough for me. Back to the drinks package - I wanted to see if it was worthwhile paying £143 for two people for a silver band or £250 for two people for the black band. I have to say that we opted to go with what we were given which was the blue band and local branded drinks, I am more of a G&T girl or Prosecco and My hubbie a wine drinker and we knew we could buy glasses of decent wine for a relatively cheap price , although a couple of times we tried and they didn’t have it available but he did say that the local red wine was ok , after reading that they did not have sparking wine as part of the normal A/I , it looked like you even had to pay for it on the black band, it wasn’t expensive but never the less I winged it and asked for a Caba ( Cava) which is their local sparkling wine anyway, the whole time we were there , we were never refused Cava, so I believe this in included in your blue band. If you ask for an Aperol Spritz, they will say it is chargeable, but if you have Campari instead of Aperol then it is free. It makes it look like you have to pay for sparkling and still water, but in reality they have a machine that you can get both from. There are two empty bottles left in your room for you take to be filled at the drinks machine station. They have Fanta/Pepsi Max/7 Up/Schweppes Tonic Water etc a