Protur Badí­a Park Aparthotel

I visited Protur Badia Aparthotel at the start of October and stayed for a week. We arrived around 13:00 and our room was ready. The room was clean, had air conditioning and was a good size. It had a fridge, microwave and a safety box, it didn't have a kettle, which us British people do like, but it really wasn't a problem. The hotel was great, we always found somewhere to sit for our meals and evening entertainment. The food and drinks provided were good/OK. For the evening meals they always had a themed dinner and then a standard dinner, which changed everyday. Personally I thought the food was ok (my husband thought it was amazing) but I thought it was a bit bland and predictable, none of the dishes blew my taste buds, but I understand that we weren't eating at a Michelin star restaurant. There were cold drink and coffee machines, where you could get a drink throughout the day. The pool was a great size with lots of sunbeds, there are signs which stated that no one could use the sunbeds till 09:00 and we never had a problem. There is the main pool, baby pool and mini kids splash pool at the hotel, but you also have access to a bigger splash pool which I would recommend. My only negative comment would be that the pools, including the children's and splash pools, were really cold. I only swam in the hotel pool once due to this. Our son who is 1.5 years old didn't like pools and he would only walk up to his ankles ! We went to the beach which is a 5 minute walk and I found the sea water warmer than the pools. This isn't a negative comment, just feedback. We knew before we arrived, that the hotel is primarily catered for German guests. This didn't affect our holiday at all, the children's disco which lasts 30 minutes isn't done in English, but we couldn't care less and neither could our son as he was busy dancing. Also the entertainment stopped at 10. The only reason why I wouldn't stay again, would be the cold pools, other than that good hotel, amazing staff and ok food.

Family of six, 4 adults and 2 children split over 3 rooms. Hotel is clean but could do with a paint in areas. Rooms – Clean, spacious, lovely bathrooms with English channels on TV, BBC, ITV, E4, Film 4 plus a couple more about 15 in total. Beds comfy, pillows ok AC great. Had a fridge and microwave but no kettle, cups etc. Pool – pool area clean, pool was lovely, cold when you first got in but beautiful once you had dunked yourself under. never had any issues getting beds all together was plenty to go around. drinks available around the pool in paper cups. Food – poor, very poor. We did manage to eat something every night but most was over cooked and bland. Not much choice. At the end of the holiday we realized that the salad section had been left out what looked like all night, I hope it wasn’t served the following day! Location – Great family area, beach was amazing sea was really calm the 1st time we went down the other days where a little choppy but still safe for little ones and big ones to jump the waves and if you can walk out quite far with the sea only reaching your chest. Great restaurant across the road a Stake house meal was 5* and well-priced. Overall our holiday was OK but I think the £7500 spent for a week was high for a hotel that shouldn’t be rated more than a 3* when you only had around 4 meal choices to chose from and drank out of paper cups. No nice coffees just out of the machine. Staff occasionally greeted you but mostly pretended they couldn’t understand you or just looked through you. Entertainment on the evening was good but if you have young children then the Kids entertainment is all in Spanish and German. If you try to use the loos in reception at night time or early morning take a torch as the lights dont work! and if you check out early in the morning forget breakfast you can get a drink and if your lucky maybe make a sandwich from the left overs from the night before. We stayed at another Protur Hotel last year that had an inside bar that served beautiful coffees and branded drinks, hotel felt luxuries. Staff were amazing and greeted and welcomed you, pool side food was amazing with plenty to choose from all day long. Breakfast and evening meals were all excellent too with amazing choices, mini frige with branded soft drinks and water, topped up daily so with the other hotel to compare it too the Protur badia park was very poor in comparison