We stayed at Sidi San Juan for a week in late July. It was a perfect hotel experience!!! The San Juan beach is the best I have experienced in Spain and the views from the hotel are fantastic. Lying on their lovely sun deck reading a book and sipping a coke while overlooking the San Juan bay is unbeatable. We had a car and drove to other spots on the coastline from Alicante to Valencia, but hotel-wise I liked Sidi San Juan best. The rooms were lovely with great balconies. Service great (very nice front desk staff) and breakfast very enjoyable. Normally we do not like to eat inside the hotel as rather experiencing something local. We however tried the Sidi restaurant twice for dinner and it was exquisite. That restaurant is a well kept secret!

One thing that I really liked about Sidi San Juan was that the atmosphere was very Spanish. I do not appreciate going somewhere to find out that 90% of the people in the hotel are my fellow country men or German or English. Here there was a nice mix with a majority of Spanish couples and well-behaving large families vacationing together. Wonderful and genuine! The staff had no problem speaking English though.

I was not so found of Alicante, pretty boring city. Nice restaurants around the harbour though and Ok shopping. For a more metropolitan feeling ,Valencia was much nicer. However, hotel and beach wise nothing beat Sidi San Juan. I would definitely go back again for a beach vacation!!!

It isn't really a 5 star hotel from the perspective of rooms, furnishings, public areas and breakfast. It is fine though and comfortable enough. 4 star it would be.

The gardens are very good for relaxing and there are plenty of sunbeds. The beach is clean and a walk of about 15mins brings you to the promenade where there are several restaurants and cafes. On he street it takes about 20 mins to walk there. It is a pleasant area, popular (as is the hotel) with Spanish families.

English isn't widely spoken but phrasebook Spanish easily gets you what you want. There is a pleasant supermercado and a bar just on the corner.

We had one dinner in the hotel. The fixed price of 35 euros wasn't worth it and there were few diners even though the hotel seemed to be packed.

The hotel minibus is great value but you do have to book as it seats about 8 only. Taxi from the airport is 27 or 28 euros.

Have just returned from a short break at this Hotel 4th July - 7th July . I have stayed in many 5 star Hotels and this is definitely not a five star. The bedrooms are very dated with curtains not matching bedding. The bathroom was well equipped. The balcony was very small. In the evenings there is no entertainment apart from a Piano in the bar and during my stay only one restaurant was open for an evening meal. Whilst the food was good it is expensive. The Hotel is in an urbanization area and there is nothing apart from the Hotel and the Beach. A car is essential if you do not wish to use the local transport. The sunbathing area around the Hotel is very limited with little space between the sun loungers. You have to be up early to reserve a sun lounger as towels can be found on the majority of loungers early morning which is annoying when the person who has reserved it does not turn up until late in the day. The beach is good but you do have to pay 3 euros for a sun bed, 6 euros if you have a sunshade. If you are a family this can work out expensive each day.