Marbella Playa

Squeaky beds slipping back and forth on the shiny tile floor during the forking results in the headboard banging continuously and loudly against the wall. You can't fork properly in these beds. So if your intention is to fork your girlfriend or wife, choose a hotel with beds more suited for that. Great food though. A lot of noise.

Excellent delicious and various food, beautiful accomodation directly near the sea. Staff was very kind and hospitable, really big applause for them :) one of the best hotel i ´ ve ever been accomodated ;)

Anyone booking via Jet2 or TUI beware, English children are not welcome into the kids club. We’ve just returned from a week on holiday at the Marbella Playa and while the facilities and nice, pool area good and rooms ok what let it down for me was the kids club. When I took my son to the kids club (age 5) the mini club. I was told that he wouldn’t understand what was going on as the two Spanish girls don’t speak English and there was no other English children in the club. This was all done via one of the animation team who did speak English but he was there to cater for the French children. There was no one for the English children. I did raise this complaint to the manager but never received a response. There isn’t a representative from Jet2 at the hotel either. It didn’t ruin our holiday but more made me angry because they market the hotel via Jet2 and TUI as having an accessible kids club. Having spoke to a few other families, they had the same experience. We upgraded to a suite which was nice and gave us more room but was a little tired and could do with a refurbishment. The food however is very good, I didn’t have one bad meal and there was always something for the kids to eat. We were all inclusive and there was always food available, a small choice of actual snacks like crisps but you never went hungry. The animation team do put a lot of effort into the entertainment, even re-enacting the lion king one night but again it’s all geared to Spanish and French, other than hello and welcome they don’t translate anything else into English. Same goes for any of the games during the day. On the whole the staff were very friendly but there was a few that didn’t like anyone none Spanish and made it very obvious when they served you. Again i canvassed opinion on this from a few other families before including this in my review incase it was just me. There isn’t a lot around the hotel so you need a car or get the bus if you want to break out for the day which we did. It was 30 euro to Puerto Banus in a taxi. Finally if you need to leave before 10 am there’s no porter to help with luggage. You pretty much have to sort this out yourself. We were ok as we were in the main building but if you’re in an outlying building you’ll have quite a walk, possibly twice depending on how my luggage you have. Overall we had a great week but I wouldn’t go back to this particular hotel.