Hacienda San Jorge

This hotel is a real bijou! It looks more like a resort than a normal hotel. Spacious room, wonderful pool, very nice restaurant with a local food buffet facing the tropical garden. At night the piano-bar is really fantastic. And price-wise, nothing comparable: 90€ for 4 people! We’ve loved it!

I am vary uses to travel also low key. Not really sure when the room were last really cleaned. Had a huge problem with ants. There was dust everywhere. However the location is great. Very quiet. Saltwater pool a few dining options close by.

About the hotel in general: We had a superior apartment with pool view. It was recently refurbished and beautiful. The pool was huge and lovely to swim in (24 degrees in October - it isn’t heated). The gardens were beautiful and the staff very friendly. Breakfast was lovely with a huge buffet selection. Service was friendly and efficient. I liked that they prepared a meal for us when we arrived after a late evening flight. The only negative is the dinner buffet. This was like something out of the 1970s! There were even sculptures out of cheese cubes and glacee cherries! Hilarious, but only to be tried once. Do not take the half board option. The clientele are mainly German and of retirement age with a few young families. A relaxing and respectful atmosphere. Elderly Germans do like to smoke, however! On Los Cancajos La Palma clearly struggles a bit to get tourists in, and there are signs of that in Los Cancajos with quite a large number of closed units. That aspect aside, it is a lovely resort with a stunningly dramatic rocky coast (with a lovely car-free footpath along it) and a quiet black sand beach with several rocky coves to swim in. There are a number of excellent restaurants. Our favourites were Pulpo, Sadi and Lagar. All three are exceptionally good. A huge plus point for us (and the flip side to the closed units) is that Los Cancajos remains quite underdeveloped. There are just two things next to the beach, Hacienda San Jorge and a banana plantation. Yes - Prime beachside land is still used to grow bananas! The complicated one-way system that confuses keeps out the traffic and in particular the traffic is kept well away from the beach. On staying with a baby We chose this resort as we thought it would be perfect for a stress-free holiday with a six-month old and we were not disappointed. A good quality cot was provided and the partitioned apartment and lovely balcony was perfect for evenings with the baby sleeping in the bedroom next door. The mini-supermarket in the hotel was very handy for wine and nappies and other essentials. The pool was lovely for the little one - never crowded and a good temperature in October. The gardens and animals really grabbed the babies attention. It would be possible to have a lovely holiday here and never go more than 100 metres from the hotel (to reach beach and restaurants). The grounds are a bit hilly but easy to navigate with a stroller (sometimes you need to go the long way round). Our room was up a flight of steps. If level buggy access to your room is important to you, you could request a step free room (I think about half of them are). The steps didn’t bother us. Overall it is a wonderful place and deserving of the rave reviews it gets (just leave the dinner buffet to the elderly clientele who don’t seem to mind it!)