Paradise Club Apartments

were told we could only move back to our original hotel in two days time so we decided to stay put.

The Hotel Paradise Club is close to the marina with shops, restaurants, and pubs and not far from the small beach.

The maid service was excellent, the hotel staff were polite and helpful, the complex was in good order with three pools outside and one inside, tennis courts, a fitness gym, pool tables and the kids entertainment team were also very good keeping the young ones entertained throughout the day and evening. We stayed half board and the food was OK with many choices each day.

We decided to go out around the marina each evening for drinks and leave the hotel bar to the families with youngsters being entertained.

We would recommend this hotel to anyone with young kids, as they would love it.

childrens entertainment, it did look very good and the kids seemed to be loving it. My partner really enjoyed playing water polo each morning with the other male holidaymakers and Pedro, who is fantastic fun.

I cannot really comment on the food we were self catering and did eat in the buffet restaurant once. The food was good and there was a wide variety of choice.

The apartments are in a brilliant position just minutes walk from the marina which has some lovely restaurants.

I would highly recommend these apartments, they have a lovely family atmosphere and I would say to anyone with children aged between about 3 and 10 they would have a ball. It was just a shame my daughter is past all that now !

was less than acceptable - it was a travel cot.
There were no coat hangers in the wardrobes in the lounge area and far from enough in the bedroom wardrobes.
There were no scald protection devices on the taps or showers. ( We had a youngster with us ).
There were wall lights touching the patio curtains and the plastic type blackout linings behind them.
There were four particularly sharp corners on the furniture in the lounge area. A tottering toddler could hurt themselves quite seriously on any of them.
There was some flowering shrub growing next to the balcony which needed pruning to allow the full use of the balcony area.
The bedding in the lounge couldn\'t be used as comfortable sitting areas.
On being used one of the \"plastic\" chairs on the patio collapsed. The occupant was slightly injured.
The entertainment was a joke, with the exception of the mini disco for the kids.
The pool was out of use for two days during our stay due to being full of sediment after rain.
The pool side paving is crumbling and you can\'t really walk barefoot around the pool safely.
There was plenty of ill mannered folks reserving sun beds, and more to our shame they were all Brits.

I\'d hesitate to recommend this hotel to others. I\'m not a fussy person. However, I think there\'s a point at which I feel that I am being ripped off.

We were not on a budget for this holiday, indeed we picked the most expensive of our quotes as we felt it suited our needs, which were suitably given to our travel agent in good time.

When this was brought to the Hotel Managers attention he did nothing. Well ok he did ... he assured me that the curtains were fire proof ... I took that as an admission that the lights touching the curtains were dangerous and indeed the plastic blackout curtains were not.

I will be taking much of the above up with both the Hotel owners and the Company we booked with as I feel they both did not live up to some simple requirements.

I\'ll also make sure I ask many many more questions in future and I\'d suggest we all do the same.

thought it ok to leave litter around the pool despite there being plenty of bins to use.

Our room was on the first floor overlooking the upper pool, we emailed the hotel to request this a couple of weeks before we went and were very pleased that we got the room as requested. We had a one bedroomed apartment which was very spacious, and in the main kept clean. Perhaps I am fussy but I felt the tiled floors needed a good scrub, I did witness the maid mopping the floor, but there was a lot of ground in dirt. Other than that the maids worked extremely hard to keep the rooms clean and the beds and towels were changed every couple of days. We also had a bit of a pong on occasions from the bathroom which appeared to come from the drains but I found keeping the bath plug in helped alleviate this. The bathroom was large with bath with shower over, and a seperate shower cubicle which we found really helpful with four of us to get ready. The showers were lovely and powerful and hot. The bedroom was also a good size with new mattresses which we found very comfortable. The room would have benefitted though with more drawer space. All this said I would rate the room as one of the best we have stayed in.

Cannot comment on the food as we didn\'t eat at the apartments, although there was a snack bar open during the day and the meals looked ok. There is also a buffet style restaurant for breakfast and evening meal and you can book a special offer for a minimum of 4 days which was half board for 2 adults at 18 eu each and two children could eat for free. Although tempted by this we enjoyed our meals out by the marina too much and decided against it. People that we spoke to told us that the meals were very good though.

Entertainment: To be honest I felt that for a complex of this size and geared towards families the entertainment was severely lacking. The evening would start off at 9 with mini disco, followed by Bingo, and then the main show would start at 10.15. There\'s no doubt that the resident animacion team worked extremely hard during the day and evenings and it was clear that many people enjoyed their efforts but it would have been nice to have more professional acts on. The few that they did have over the fortnight, Temptations, Drifters and Robbie Williams were excellent, but we found the room was at times too loud for our children. The barstaff serving the entertainment room were extremely slow and we witnessed people bringing drink in from the Topmarket across the road to have in there, this was seen by the waiters and nothing said.

Overall, I would rate these apartments as very good, and apart from a couple of little \'niggles\' which could have made them excellent we had a wonderful holiday and would return.

recommend a pool view at the back of the hotel as some rooms faced on to the main road, not much privacy if your out on your balcony! The entertainment team (Animacion team) were the best I\'ve seen! they were fabulous, if your taking kids, they do loads of stuff with them & nothing seemed to be too much trouble. one day I saw a bunch of kids throw one of the girls from the team into the pool & she took it all in good humor! (when we left, there was one woman crying in reception, because she didn\'t want to go home!!) the entertainment was fab! some nights we even left the bars early to go back to the hotel to watch it! We would give this particular hotel 5 stars & we will definitly go back!! See our review on the resort!

in particular to the Paradise Club again. This will almost definitely be on the shortlist for 2008.