My husband and I have just returned from a holiday in Torremolinos at the El Velero apartments.

We arrived at the apartments on Monday 8th October at approx. 10pm and had no problems checking in and on first inspection of our apartment (Room 101) we were happy with the clean, basic accommodation. As it was dark we were unable to assess the view or anything else.

The following morning when I opened the curtains of the apartment I was disappointed to release that the only view we had was of the back of a modern religious building with a washing machine outside and old gas bottles. There was also no sun on the balcony at anytime throughout the day.

I asked the gentleman on reception if it was possible to change rooms he informed me that all the rooms were taken however over the course of the holiday it was more than apparent that (apart from over the weekend) there was hardly anyone staying there.

We went down to the pool area in the afternoon and... more