January 10th to 20th 2005

My initial impression upon arrival at the Siroco was not too good. The main entrance is a little shabby looking, and the hinged glass doors which dragged on their lower mountings, made getting in with our cases awkward (one evening whilst in the bar/reception area we heard an almighty crashing noise as one of these doors shattered). My heart sank as we made our way to our 2nd floor rooms from reception, via a dimly lit, scruffy and smelly ground floor corridor. There are standard rooms along here, I would suggest avoiding them. When we reached our rooms (253,254,256 & 262) I was so relieved, (having made all the booking arrangements for this holiday on behalf of our adult family group of seven) to find that the superior rooms are superb, and well worth paying the extra modest amount for. Spotlessly clean and tidy, comfortable and spacious, two double beds a fridge and nice balconies with semi sea views. We eventualy found the heating/aircon control by the bed nearest the window, this worked well, but there were no info. cards to explain such things in the rooms.

The breakfasts and dinners were excellent, plenty of choice and good quality, definately no need to go hungry, or eat out, unless you demand gourmet standards. The House Red & White wine is great value at 6.50 euro, and very drinkable too.

The gardens and swimming pools are very pleasant and well maintained, but not very peaceful due to the traffic noise from the adjacent main road - take great care when crossing, sadly we witnessed a terrible accident involving a pedestrian just outside the Hotel. The Hotel is however, conveniently located, just up a short incline from the main road, which can also be reached via steps from the pool area, during the daytime. Just across the road there is a pleasant pedestrian walkway to the beachfront promenade. There are several small shops and bars in the immediate vicinity. 24 hour square is a 10 mins walk, and the Marina about 20 mins.

The reception staff are efficient but rather curt, fortunately staff in the bar and restaurant are more friendly. The cleaning maids are brilliant, bringing fresh towels every day, always smiling, and very helpful eg. providing extra pillows on request.

I can't comment on the Hotel entertainment as we prefer to go out for a walk after dinner. We did enjoy a few sessions at "The Bees Knees" (400 yds along main road towards Fuengirola) lots of good natured banter and conversation with Mike the owner. Me and my wife being the youngest of our group at 42 & 41 respectively, decided to give 24 hour square a couple of visits and quite enjoyed Disco Kiu till about 4.30 am one night.

We would certainly have no hesitation in returning to the Siroco, or recommending it. Great value for money, just remember to book the superior rooms!

This was a fabulous hotel. We found the staff very, very friendly and very, very helpful. The hotel was spotlessly clean there were cleaning staff working all day and even in the evening.

The location was first class, although it was situated on an incline this was not a problem as you could go out of the hotel through the garden or you could go out through the under ground car park and these both brought you onto the road below. There was a subway also to get you across the road if you didn't want to use the road to cross.

The rooms also were clean and tidy and very spacious, loads of cupboard space and toilries in the bathroom which where re stocked each day. Clean towels each day also. We even received every 3rd night a half bottle of red wine in the room which was free of charge with 2 plastic glasses.

The food also was first class, and the show cooking was lovely, freshly cooked pancakes every morning for me!!! There was lots of food to choose from, I would find it hard if someone could not find something to eat!!!! It was also my 40th birthday and the hotel arranged a bottle of champagne for us for the evening free of charge!!!!

A first class hotel, with first class staff definitely a hotel I would go back to again. The Best hotel range seems to be very good as we have also stayed in the Best Benalmadena hotel which is part of the same range.

The hotel was very clean and well maintained inside, the exterior could do with a paint job.

The hotel car park was full every night, cars were parked very close to each other resulting in having to lift a childrens trolley over the cars as we could not get in between them.

The hotel staff were very ignorant and did not speak English very well.

First time abroad so nothing to compare with,but if this is the standard of a 3 star hotel in spain I was very impressed.Nice clean hotel,friendly obliging staff and excellent choices of food,no hesitation in going back again.

The hotel was much better than expected for the total amount we paid and for 3* accomodation the superior family room was spacious with good storage for a family of 4.

There were plenty of sunbeds and the environment was safe for children. Food was varied and well prepared and presented. Childrens entertainment / club was unexpected and a bonus with a variety of activities. Variety of evening entertainment and it was appropriate for children.

We liked it so much we are going back for October half term.