Balcon del Mar

Spent a week at these apartments, good size, spotlessly clean, well equipped kitchen, air conditioning (20 euro deposit), shower, provided with fresh towels mid week and room clean. Low key, quiet chilled vibe, good sized pools and plenty of sun loungers. Friendly helpful staff on hand when required otherwise left to your own space. Amazing views of the surrounding area. No issues with some occasional noise in background of the odd cockerel and the full resort has cats living life in the Canarian sun. We regularly walked down to Amadores beach, 20 mins, along lovely path spotting local wildlife, birds, geckos, cacti. Amadores has nice facilities and bars, restaurants and you can follow cliff side walk round to Puerto Rico beach - 7 euro for taxi back up for those that want to avoid the steps/path from beach to hotel, but enjoyable walk if your fit. Short walk to the Europa Centre from hotel with lots of restaurants and bars to choose from - enjoyed entertainment in Barbacoa. Kids loved Angry Birds, adults boat trip to Port Morgan.

Just spent 8 nights here. Hotel is dated, and could do with a refurb. However, there is a lot to like. Friendly staff, location, claanliness, spaceous appt and everything functional. However, a few small things sort of disappointed us. First, no BBC or ITV channels, (We used youtube to get some Enlish channels, GB News and some music channels). There are cokerels right outside the appt to wake you up, and the maids trolley going past your room quite early sounds like a train passing!! Finally, we chose self catering to divide our meals between eating out, and making our own basic meals (we took a few packets of sauces, curry, chilli c.c etc) and the basic self catering items not available was noticeable. Cheese grater, potato masher, measuring (microwaveable, pyrex?) jug, salt and pepper pots? Also, the microwave was on a shelf so high, we had to stand on a chair to keep an eye on whatever is in it!! We did manage though, and would definitely recommend the hotel, but would like to see these few issues addressed.

Drive away! Worn apartment with poor cleaning. Cats that go through night and day, poor with sleep. Outstanding who live in a shed below the hotel, roaring and driving out at night. Garbage and junk at the bottom of the hotel. Nice service that helped us with noisy neighbors who would not be quiet at night.