Sirenis Holiday Palace Hotel

was entertainment on every night, some nights inside the bar and other nights outside by the pool.

If you want a nice relaxing holiday then this hotel is ideal, but if you want for younger children then the Holiday Village at the bottom of the hill is for you. If you are at the Holiday Palace, there is full use of the amenities of the village.

Yes there are building works going on but in the whole fortnight we were not disturbed once by any noise or work. The hotel on a night we also found very peaceful, there were no rowdy or drunken arguments of fights.

Will definitely be back.

read stories about this \"hill\" you have to climb. We have been on holidays before where the hotel is up a hill, and we found people complained without reason - perhaps they were just lazy! However, THIS hill is even joked about by the reps taking you to the hotel - \"maybe we\'ll just drop you at the bottom\". There is a minibus that will take you down the hill and back up, for a charge of €1.50 per day. You must use this hill to get anywhere. The hotel is located in the middle of no-where, you must get a bus (good service!) either way to Torremelinos, or Fuengerola (the latter being the better place in my opinion). If you wanted to go to the beach, you had to walk at least 20 mins before you could find access down (20 mins after you have negotiated hill!).

2) VIEWS FROM THE HOTEL/ROOM
The part of the hotel that faces the sea, has only four rooms, which do not have an immediate balcony. There is essentially no sea views from this hotel. The sides give you a nice view of the flattened, pipe-ridden land. The rear has probably the nicest view, of the mountains behind.

3) INSIDE HOTEL.
Looks nice in general - they have tried to go for a green rainforest look of sorts, green tiles and water inside. If you have seen any pictures of the big windows, you will be disappointed to find that they haven\'t been cleaned for a long time, even at the lowest, easiest to reach, point. This gives the hotel a grimey feel, certainly not a 4-star feel.

4) ROOMS.
The rooms were pretty grubby.
- Bedrooms
We had a 5 person room, which contained two beds and a sofa bed. The beds were big, but if you had 5 people, three will have to share the sofa bed.

- Bathroom
The toilets were huge with a bath (shower overhead) and an extra shower (this shower was strange, the non-direction head was directly above the taps, if you moved, you were in risk of moving the tap turning the shower cold, or off; using the shower would expel water through the shower doors with some force).

- Kitchen
The kitchen is a farce, if you have 5 people. Very very small, basic microwave, hobs and sink. Only one small frying pan (enough for two eggs) was supplied, nothing better was availalbe on request.

-Living Room
The sofa was definately in need of a good wash! Quite small compared to the bathroom.

-Balcony
The hotel is in a sort of pyramid design. This means that all rooms above you can look over to your balcony. We found that people would sweep their balconies straight onto ours. People even poured drinks onto the table, ruining what we had left on it. The balconies have plants, built into the walls. There was a huge ant army (150+) constantly moving on the balcony, living in the soil (4 floors up!). They managed to get into the bathroom, evn tho\' the doors were always shut. Cigarette butts (lots) were in the plant soil, which were obviously from the previous guests. That was disgusting.

-Other
TV has only news for English channels, not that you will probably be watching any TV.
The safe, which was already fitted in the room, had a charge of

loudly every night at around 2am for upto 3hrs, the hotel were unable to locate the fault or move us to a different room.

As we went through the holiday it became clear that this is in no way a 4 star hotel, and everything was being done on the cheap.I found the staff to be slow and unhelpful, the hotel is quite dirty in places and the cleaners do not make a very good job of cleaning the rooms.

As for the daytime entertainment, we did see the hotel team make some effort with the smaller children, but come 11am the lifegaurd would turn up and put on whatever music he wanted, at what ever volume he wanted with no regard to the tastes of the guest! If this wasn\'t bad enough some of the music contained bad lanugage.

I felt that the only concern the hotel had was of cost, the poolside umbrellas were so cheap and nasty that with one gust of wind they would just blow over and break.

I cannot recommend this hotel, it really should not have opened for business, you have a view of constrution on all sides with dust tracks. As the food is also so bad we ate out every night, taxi cost 10 euro to Benalmadena or 12 euro to Fuengarolla, don\'t bother with the bus it\'s waste of time.

the evening, only on Mon, Wed, and Fri, really enjoyed Argentinian show, other nights movies were shown in lower floor bar - staff also much quicker in serving.
We used the Beach Club once, however there was difficulty getting sun-beds - not a problem in hotel.
The hill was quite steep (steeper ones in Benalmadena) but anyone who is reasonably fit should be able to walk up, (taxi costs 4-5euros up the hill) lots of landscaping has gone on in last two weeks.
The hotel shop is a mix of basic food, drinks and gifts, it is dearer than in the supermarkets - like your corner shop here, however the cost of living in Spain has risen by 30-40% since they changed to the
Euro.
When making tea/coffee you can use hotel water so long as you allow the kettle to boil for a little longer.

Leeds we are quite used to them and relaxing all day we needed the excerise. It was steep but quite a short way, I wouldnt like to carry any heavy shopping up it though!
I would definitely go back, though I suspect in a couple of years when the other hotels have been built it will be quite a bit more expensive and a lot more noisy.

Fuengirola is a 30 min walk away and is ok for restaurants and gift shops. Still a lot of building work going on, roads and pavements not completely finished, so had to be careful with kids when going anywhere.

Would go back in a few years time when area is completely finished. All the hotel staff spoke English, but i must say a big thank you to Suzanne and Alfonso for the kids club, the spanish lessons and the sangria demonstration and tasting sessions!

la Tahona restaurant in hotel was ok for breakfast but service was slow, evening snacks adequate and value for money. Pool side bar was good but food always seemed to be the same - no unusual or local foods and chips all the time and with everything.

Although the hotel itself was so impressive and the village and beach club was so close, would not hurry back! We did however join the serenis vip members group as we would go back to the serines hotels in other places.