IBEROSTAR Malaga Playa

Hi can I start by saying the rooms are lovely. The staff are very friendly all through the hotel. The rooms are spotless. The restaurant has got a good array of food and you would have to be picky not to find anything to your liking. The out side bar has got nothing as for food it is small and the food does not look appealing. The other pool bar is closed I presume due to bad winds. They advertise daytime entertainment! If you consider stretching in the morning and bingo in the afternoon as entertainment so be it. I don't as the weather is bad some inside activities maybe should be considered. There should be a couple of more activities such as French bowls maybe twice a day. The outside area is well maintained but VERY cramped it is not big enough for the amount of people that come to the hotel. Would I come back to this hotel. No.

We are currently staying in this hotel the start of the holiday wasn’t the best with a lot of spainish pushing and shouting all the time the man at reception who check us in was not friendly (didn’t seem to like English) we asked about children’s entrainment and it’s stopped now so nothing on until 9:30pm which is hard keeping the little one up until that time with no entertainment. Food good and room clean.

This was our second visit to an Iberostar hotel and as with our previous visit to the Cristina Hotel in Palma we were pleased with our choice. This hotel is perhaps a little more grand in terms of the entrance foyer and similarly has just over 400 rooms. The Malaga Playa has a slightly better seafront/promenade location which also makes for a pleasant 15 to 30 minute flat walk each way to a lighthouse on the left of the hotel. The main asset which Iberostar hotels seem to have is that they maintain a very bright, friendly and encouraging staff group. They all work very effectively to provide all the ingredients of a good holiday. The double room we had was in a good state of repair and had a good/generous bed with ample storage. The bathroom had a shower over a shallow bath and a good sized, well lit mirror, along with a toilet and bidet. Our room came with a reasonably sized balcony which caught the sun in the morning and the room seemed to be reasonably sound proofed. The food and entertainment was very good, the maintenance and cleaning was to an almost exceptional standard. The Torrox beach front was typically commercial in nature but only what you might well expect on the Mediterranean. Our Jet2 transfer was around a half hour from the airport being the first drop off point on the route. Many thanks to all the staff for another enjoyable holiday. Oh, and yes we will consider visiting another Iberostar hotel in the future.