Sol Don Pablo

Lovely hotel, rooms, pool area and food. The dinner buffet was one of the best we have had during our time in Spain. Lots of options. Supermarket across the road which was also very handy. Highly recommend

We enjoyed our week at the Sol don Pablo. Having stayed at other Meliá hotels we had high expectations for our holiday but with a couple of tweaks this could have been a 5 star review. The hotel is kept immaculately clean and could not fault any of the cleaning standards. The room was a bit on the small side but we didn’t stay in the room a great deal and it was adequate for our requirements. The food in the hotel was to a good standard and plenty of choice every night. I challenge anybody who says they couldn’t find something to eat and the quality was good. There are nine pools to choose from and we could always find a sunbed. All of the sun beds require cleaning as they are showing there age and the majority of the parasols were either ripped or broken. The cost of the drinks in the hotel are extortionate to say the least. 5 Euros for a beer and 8 euros for a cocktail. If you are a big drinker it would be worthwhile going all inclusive. A big disappointment is that the cocktails are pre made and poured from a bottle. For this price you would expect them to be made from scratch. Hotel is well located for the beach and the town. Entertainment on the night time was of poor quality with the Mama Mia show being the particular lowlight of the week. A group of hotel entertainers prancing around a stage and lip sincing to music and speech isn’t my idea of entertainment. The shows at the horizon bar were slightly better. All in all we enjoyed our week at this hotel but wouldn’t return as we have stayed at better hotels such as the sol house Costa del sol which we stayed at in January.

Just returned from the hotel and it is beautiful, the surroundings around the hotel are tropical and well maintained. The pool and bar areas spotless and staff are pleasant and as usual in Spain work all day everyday and really hard. Can not fault the service at all. Plenty of loungers but was starting to get busier as we left. Entertainment for the kids and family shows are typical of Spanish holidays but on two nights they had different entertainment at the bar over the far side and it was very unorganised but ok to watch. Food; I only eat fish and ate well, only one or two sittings I was a bit disappointed. They have a place a chef does stir fry with meats and fish which I visited a couple of times. The same chef does a pudding selection on two nights too. The only thing that annoyed us was waiting to go in the main eating hall as there is a mix of full board and all inclusive so you would have to wait for them to be sorted even though our bands are visible. Can be a waiting time at the pool bar and if the sun is at it highest it’s a loooong wait. Waiter service at pool bar too but some food you have to pay a small supplement as not in the all inclusive package. Some branded drinks included we drank Gordon’s gin, baileys and Fanta bottles or cans for the kids. Bottle beers available to. You also have to sign a receipt with room number. You can get more than 2 drinks at one time also. Drinks served in really nice glasses as well as plastic ones. We had a family room but no balcony which I was a bit disappointed at first but the air con was great. The only thing about the family room is the window opens wide and your on the 9th floor so if you have a climbing toddler please be aware that they could easily fall if they got on top of a table and climb up. It was around chest height when my 11year old was stood near it. Other than that room was fine and adequate and clean. Loads of pools to choose from and only one pool your allowed lilos in which is the smallest pool 🙄 my son had a pool ban for a few hours for jumping in. Life guards on all pools apart from the over 16years and the jacuzzi. One of the jacuzzi’s goes red hot like to hot to put your toe in around mid afternoon. Some activities in the pools during the day. Can’t comment on kids club as we never used it. My kids 11 and 14. Not much for the kids during the evening other than the shows so my 14 year old got a bit bored and took advantage of the WiFi which we found good in some places and not so good in other places. 11 year old made friends so played hide n seek and had a great time. Security on both the entrances/exits so I felt my children where safe to play. Bar just outside the back gates near the beach for my husband to enjoy a brew dog! Taxi from airport Is around €15/20 (service charge from airport applied)well worth it rather than a coach transfer as it’s so close to the hotel around 10 mins) €12 to marina or 50 min walk. Average price for two gins and two soft drinks €20 Pint brewdog €6 near hotel Lilos if you bother buying them for them to be used in the smallest pool ever 🙄 shop around don’t go near hotel you will pay more and the same for shades. Crazy golf €6 per person great for two brothers who think they are competing for the open and end up wanting to club the other one for getting a hole in one 🙈 great fun for most families however once was enough for my two 😂 Both my boys loved the VR set ups which was around €10 to have a go for the both. Little fair for the kids and arcade to have a wander down the main road. Both mine loved the bumper cars. Torremolinos centre is nice to walk up ( you can get a lift apparently but didn’t see it). Only seen a couple of cockroaches outside non in our room, no wasps and no bites in the evening. The beach is nice and we popped over twice, the sand is course and more shale like than sand. The marina is worth a visit. There is a Burger King and loads of bars and shops local to hotel. No major problems at all and I loved the holiday, and I would go back.