welshamm
September 16, 2024
Greeted on arrival with a cava. Suitcases left in a store place as we’d got there about 11:30am and check-in wasn’t until at least 3pm. Had to mill about for the intervening time, asked for a wifi code so we could at least go online and were given a temporary one until we could use the one allocated to our room. Went to lunch in between as well, but this did seem such a long day as we’d been up since 2am, had this in other hotels but usually until 2pm. Had a call at around 3:15pm to say the room was ready, but when we went to reception there were loads of people who had just arrived and only 2 on reception so we had to wait for all of those people to be checked in before we were eventually given the room keys. Staff we interacted with throughout the hotel were friendly and helpful and we never had to wait long for assistance at any of the bars or for drinks service at any meal. Room was clean with a headroom area and sitting area. Both had separate air conditioning units, but both didn’t work properly, the one in the sitting area was just noise and produced no cool air, the one in the bedroom did produce cool air which you could feel directly underneath it, but even leaving the keycard in while we went out in the evening the temperature seldom dropped to below 26 degrees. There was a fridge stocked with drinks for AI guests but once these were used they were not replaced, we did feel that this could have had a replacement at least once during our holiday as people there for 1 week had exactly the same as us and we were there for 2 weeks. For the first 8 days neither the bedding or towels in the room were replaced. So I resorted to leaving the wet towels in a heap on the floor of the shower. Came back to find they’d been removed but not replaced so had to go to reception to ask for towels. They were supplied to the room with in 10 minutes, but should I have needed to do this? Water, both fizzy and still were available from a self service machine at the pool bar, so take a refillable container with you. The pool bar opened at 10:30am, but you could use the water machine before this time as the door was opened earlier. Breakfast was from 8am, lunch from 1pm and dinner from 6:30pm. We’re always early so there was no difficulty getting a table, but we did see those who came later having problems finding a table that had been reset, and in the evening they operate a digital call system so you often saw people with the digital receivers I. The bar waiting to be called to tables for their evening meal. Food was very much as expected for AI so fairly similar choices and never that hot (although the serving utensils were boiling under the heat lamps). Breakfast had omelettes, fried eggs and British bacon all cooked in front of you. The problem we continually found was there was only 1 person doing all the cooking so when the bacon was ready there were no eggs ready and vice versa - if you’re going to do it this way then there needs to be one pers