Guest User
June 3, 2024
ROOM Stayed in a an Emblem Premier Villa. Room was clean and recently modernised. You’ll learn to live with the ants. Good quality furniture, ample sized shower and good toiletries. Bed was comfortable enough, odd-shaped pillows but again comfortable enough although you may waken a few times. Being an Emblem Villa we had hot tub, double bed and garden furniture. Definitely highlight of the room, jacuzzi was in working order and furniture more comfortable than those beside the pool. Fake grass garden that was hot in bare feet and could have done with a hoover. Extremely quiet at perimeter of resort. Happy we got value/net description of what we had paid for. Mini bar refilled daily with beer and soft drinks. FOOD By far the weakest part of this resort and considerably weaker compared to other HD resorts (on which the marketing spiel appears based). Make no mistake if you are all inclusive there is ONE restaurant and ONE bar. The same buffet restaurant provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast is the highlight which doesn’t say much , good range of breads and never had to queue for a table/food for too long. Good quality sausages, bacon alternated between Spanish streaky style and thick ham each day. Cereal was horrific, beyond budget level cereal on offer as opposed to branded Kelloggs. As if the cardboard cornflakes wasn’t bad enough they did not provide fresh/cold milk so had room temperature (22c) UHT milk to try and eat your disgusting cereal with. Omelette station was popular. This hotel doesn’t have fresh juice. They have glass jars filled with pineapple/orange cordial/diluted juice (think Mi Wadi/Robinsons except worse tasting). Nobody has ever wanted that for breakfast since the stuff was invented. Tea was weak and again struggled to source milk for it. LUNCH Keen readers will have seen reference to a an all day snack bar. Outside of the buffet there are some heater cabinets in which a limited variety of foods are deposited about 11am. Frankfurters on one day, breaded vegetable burgers on another, ‘meat’ balls the next, all with French fries and some pre made unlabelled sandwiches that nobody seemed to eat. I was here one week and could never get an edible snack out of this. The buffet was also open at lunch. About 40% of this was widely spaced pieces of stale cake. Every day. The remainder was a limited bowl of pasta, the leftovers from previous night’s dinner buffet, french fries and usually some horrible cut of pork. Families with kids must struggle as none of the usual suspects (pizza, chicken tenders, burgers) ever made an appearance. Dinner resembled the same as lunch. No cooking stations, kid friendly foods or anything that would resemble a proper dinner any of the guests would eat on an average evening at home. There is the ‘Organic’ gastro bar which has an additional menu to order from (at an extra cost). Someone paying almost €2k for one week for two people may wonder why they would have to pay more to get their ha