Sol Torremolinos - Don Pedro

Unpolite, distespectfull staff. Small, dirty rooms, dated furniture. There are no clear directions to the entrance…it is only Sol written on the roof of one of the buildings, where they told us we are in the wrong hotel. We were looking for the entrance for 40min. Navigation leads to the parking where they don’t want to let you in so you always go back looking for it. I had to go around whole block by walk to finally find the entrance. Before all that we were traveling 2hs from the airport because of some triatlon since nobody informed us that the street infront of hotel will be closed. So we got stuck for 1,5 hour on the spot which should be 7mins to the hotel, by the car. On the reception they blamed Booking for not informing us about this blocade, saying it is not their job to inform us since we booked through the Booking. Reception staff was extremly rude and not willing to help. I travel a lot but never experienced this rudeness. So, when we finally entered the room, and got to the toilet after few hours of unplanned trip, we found dirty toilet. Never saw this in my life. So, went back to reception to change the room, but instead to say sorry, receptionis lady sent me to end of the row to wait all over again, after like few families who came to check in actually after me. This really pissed me off. It was like 20:30h already, my husbands suitcase was lost, we had to go to buy him stuffs while all shops were closing, we were hungry, thirsty, exausted…and recepcionist did not care at all. So I had to call a manager who was more helpfull and finally gave us a room at very last minute. Of coarse we did not have a time to use our dinner that night…we hardly made it to the mall before they closed it to buy basic stuffs. About the room…it is extremly small, the fridge is totally empty, no water at all, no slippers, no bathing coats, not any single kit… it should be a two star hotel instead. My glass was not washed at all for the whole 5 days while we were there. Also, hotel was so crowded we couldnt often find table to eat…most of the guests are over 60 years old, which is actually nice because most of them are quiet and pleasant people. But some of the guests were 90+ with the condition where they should actually be somewhere with professional care… like one gentleman who was probably wearing diapers (I hope!) I could guess by very unforgettable smell he gave me during the breakfast which I couldn’t eat after that. And once again in the elevator, the same guy, other day. I had no intention using pools or any shared facilities after this. So for us they did not exist. We didn’t get bathing coats anyway.

We stayed the last week of March and were bed and breakfast. On arrival at the hotel we were quickly checked in by lovely staff who were super helpful. Infact all the reception staff we encountered were happy to help. Our room was lovely and clean and had everything you needed. We did enquire at reception about the A/C as it wqs only blowing out hot air, but apparently this was the case for March, we couldnt have it on cold. This meant our room was quite hot and stuffy on some occasions. We did have to ask once for our room to be cleaned, but I think it was just genuinely overlooked. Breakfast was good, plenty of choice, but some of the hot food was of poor quality and not that nice. I was happy though with a freshly made omelete most days. We only went round the pool a couple of times, as the purpose of our holiday was to get some walking/hiking in, but when we did you could get sunbeds and it was very clean. Unfortunately they are renovating the hotel next door, so sometimes it was a little noisy, but this is temporary! I would happily return to this hotel in the future, and recommend it. Its in a great location aswell, near to lots of bars, shops and the beach.

Excellent stay at the don pedro, 5 days all inclusive and we found the food/ drinks were very good There was never a rush for loungers around the pools and the setting was very clean and tranquil. Hotel staff were very efficient and friendly. A lovely relaxing break.

We normally stay in the Don Pablo but is under reconstruction so decided to stay at the Pedro which were all pleasantly surprised how nice it was especially as they used a lot of staff from the Pablo, I would say the only negative was the size of the balcony

Returned last week from our 6th visit to this complex.weve always stayed in either don marco or don pablo this was first time in don pedro.we chose a pool access room .the first room we were given was a family room which had double bed and a single bed in ,this wasn't what we had wanted so we were able to change to a room closer to the bar end .it was great to just step out of the gate onto the pool area and back in again whenever we wanted.we had a lot of flies in our room at night,even with doors and window shut ,we had to.buy fly spray to get rid of them each day.we chose to go all inclusive as you get branded drinks,food isn't that great.breakfast is always good but lunch and dinner very repetitive and we usually eat out couple nights,we've been going to torremolinos for 15 years now so know where to venture out to.we had breakfast in our room a couple of times which was really good,we felt bad as we couldn't eat all of it so it would be wasted.don marco hotel has been renovated inside it looks lovely but a little clinical,we barely saw more than 2 people sitting on the chairs or on the new outside area,the space could have been used much better,maybe even an a la carte restaurant. we always come in September 4 my birthday or my partners birthday, we had bottle of bubbly in the room which is a nice touch.overall we had another good holiday here and I'm sure we will be back next year.