Palladium Hotel Costa Del Sol

My friends & I had a great weekend here in October. The weather was warm enough to sit out during the day. The hotel is well situated about 25 minutes from Malaga airport & we utilised a private transfer. The hotel is really well appointed - clean, modern, with great facilities! There is a beach front as well as two pools & a selection of great restaurants & a roof top bar! The hotel is all inclusive which was great and meant we didn’t need to worry about money whilst we were there. Our rooms faced the sea & had amazing views. They were well appointed - clean & tidy, and topped up daily. The restaurants were good - good selection & well cooked. I’d recommend maybe some screens in the main Resturant to provide a barrier as we had people pushing past / nearly spilling food if we had to sit in that area. There was also a lot of bones in our fish in the Fish Resturant. On our arrival a guest mentioned to us about popping towels out to reserve a space. Annoyingly - I’m glad we did. We witnessed a couple of altercations around towels & reserved beds otherwise we would have struggled as a bigger group - plus we were down on the beach pretty sharpish after breakfast! Would happily revisit!

I stayed her with 3 friends for a 40th birthday celebration. We booked direct with the hotel and everything was very easy and all went smoothly from check in to room requests. The hotel is lovely, can not fault it. The location of this hotel is lovely, right in the beach from of 2 lovely bays, 2 pools, one aimed more at families, large sunbathing area and bar although this pool is a little walk along the front so do have to go back and forth to snack bar or rooms which are based at other end of the hotel, the other pool aimed more towards adults, lovely area with small pool, snack bar and bar, although there are lots of palm tree blocking the sun if you like to sunbath in this area. Entire hotel was spotless and brand new, the restaurants were wonderful, the food and wine and prosecco served was delicious and never had to ask for refill, the staff were very attentive and friendly. The bars are great, we used the roof top bar which is lovely with music and great views and the other bar we used was also just as nice but little quieter if don’t want to music. Would certainly return to this hotel.

A group of six of us stayed for four nights in three rooms. Rooms - Decor is modern and all rooms have a sea view. You are better off being a higher floor level (ie 7 or above) as if you are lower your view may be restricted by trees. There are tea/coffee making facilities, mini toiletries, hairdryer, satellite TV in the room. I had requested that the rooms were made up as twins but on arrival they were doubles -reception sorted straight away on request that they were changed. Be careful of the showers as the water suddenly changes temperature from warm to scorching!! Food/drinks - A very good selection of food at the main restaurant.......Fish, chicken, steak being freshly cooked on the hot plate. Pasta, pizza, focaccia, wedges, chips, all types of veg, soup, salads, cold meats etc. Lots of sweets/ puddings/ice cream....plenty of fruit. There wasn’t always biscuits for cheese which is only a minor thing but when there’s a cheese board it seemed a bit odd to have no biscuits?! At breakfast there was plenty of cereal, yoghurt, fruit, cold meats, bread, full English. The beach cafe/bar had much the same as the main restaurant but on a much smaller scale. Pasta, chips, meat, salads. There are two a la carte restaurants but only bookable when actually at the hotel. My friend tried to book beforehand by email and even though she explained it was for my ‘special’ birthday was told to book on arrival. We tried to book on our first morning but the earliest time was 9.30pm and other than that fully booked. Disappointing! The alcoholic drinks and cocktails were good. There was branded spirits - Captain Morgan’s, Smirnoff etc Bar areas - there is a roof top adult only area which is lovely. There is no swimming pool but three ‘cold’ tubs......they are freezing! There were lots of sun loungers and plenty of space. There is a bar serving drinks from 11am. This area is also open in the evening too. They do need to get the balance right with this rooftop area in terms of music/entertainment. There was a dj playing dance music one night and the atmosphere was great with plenty of adults sat chatting and having a good time. The next evening it was a quiet solo artist and nobody was allowed to talk or make a noise! This entertainment would have been better suited to the other bar on the 8th floor. As mentioned there is a bar on the 8th floor with an outside area. There is also an entertainment suite that serves drinks which leads on from this bar. We didn’t go to the entertainment area as felt it was more for families. There are two swimming pools - infinity pool near the beach cafe/bar and a family pool which is a walk along the prom. The family pool wasn’t crowded and there were plenty of sun beds. The infinity pool area was quite small and shaded by trees. The beach is man made and has free sun beds for use by hotel guests. You need to be there early though as the usual culprits are out at 7am to reserve them. Pool towels are supplied - returnable deposit taken at reception. There’s not much nearby to the hotel although the local bus passes quite frequently. We caught the bus to benalmadena marina €1.55. I wouldn’t recommend as quite trashy but okay if you like that kind of thing! There is a train station quite nearby as we used it for our airport transfer....very easy and cheap at €2.55. There is a small supermarket nearby. As this hotel has just been taken over by the Palladium group I think they are still finding their feet. All the staff were friendly and hard working. I would definitely stay here again and recommend.