Please beware of review sites. Remember that more people will complain about a hotel or apartment that will make the effort to praise it. Therefore if you see about a half and half mix, it's likely that unless you're really choosy and picky, you'll be ok. Also please remember that Med or Canarian all inclusive holidays are not quite as "all inclusive" as Caribbean ones which tend to be much more diverse and have much more choice and/or quality. It would be good if someone could introduce a tiered system so you know exactly what type of "all inclusive" you've just paid for. We stayed here for 2 weeks.

Location: About 35/40 mins from Las Palmas, we booked a minIbus online, and it cost about £150.00 return for 7 of us. You can however book a hire car to collect at the airport on arrival for about 90 euros for the whole week giving you the freedom of the island! (we've done this before)The hotel itself is about 10 mins from Puerto Rico, the nearest big resort, Argeneguin itself does have a nearby Spar supermarket, Chinese, and a few local shops within 5 mins walk of the Hotel. Tip: the chinese nearby will deliver to your apartment at the hotel and provides excellent value food. Take a few AI drinks to your apartment and you have a meal and drinks with a sea view for a fraction of the price! (if you're fed up with the hotel food, which whilst ok, will get you just through repetiveness in the end)

Also, do visit Puerto Rico, use the bus stop nearby it's only about 1.5 euros return from memory. Most indian restaurants here will also deliver to your hotel, grab a few menus on your walks (just give them the room number, you're getting an idea of how bored I got with the restaurant?)

Hotel itself clean, good spot, sea views from every room, you are frontline here, nothing but the Atlantic in front which makes for wonderful views and sunsets. Nice pool, kiddies play area was good, entertainment is there, you just have to be willing to join in. Get a couple of lunchtime drinks down your neck and you'll be in a european tournament of some sort, everyone will have a laugh with you, no matter where they're from but you need to get involved. Evening entertainment - don't expect too much and you just about scrape through, drink as much a possible (responsibly?) as quickly as possible and you'll survive.

You can walk to an exclusive almost private-looking beach and marina in about 15 minutes, spend the day there, very nice, probably one of the best on the island (called Anfi)At breakfast simply grab some rolls, some ham (that's always on offer) and some fruit, and you'lll not have to spend on lunch there at all. On the way there was my favorite fishing spot, another little bay, caught some weird tropical fish which was good. A family of stingray live in this bay, and they're big, very big, be careful where you tread, my sister stood on one and screamed like a baby. These stingray are really friendly and come right up to shore, burying themselves in the sand. I prayed they wouldn't go for my bait for fear of losing my rod, they really are a sight (mainly at low tide - take your camcorder/camera)

Hotel food: This is tricky, plenty of fresh salad, breakfast can vary between fried eggs, bacon and beans, to chips, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets. They always have toast, croisants, cakes and hard boiled eggs, so again, unless you're really fussy you'll manage.

Lunch and dinner is chips, potatoes, salad, fish, some meat, or cold meats - its all ok it's just really hard: 1. To eat at the same place everyday, and 2: Eat roughly the same stuff every day. You'll cope but you'll really look forward to the Indian or Chinese you've ordered you'll be eating on your balcony later! The thing about this all inclusive is that we calculated that just our drinks bill alone would have totalled the whole AI price, therefore all the food you eat over and above that adds extra value to it. If you've got kids AI is a must. This particular hotel is not an "ice creams free all day" venue so beware, but if you can fill up at breakfast, surive till 1pm, kids can get chocolate milkshake, coke, lemonade and periodic cakes to keep them going anytime so don't worry. Ice cream time is at about 4pm - 5PM

I recently had another AI experience in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote and couldn't decide where to stay (because, would you believe of mixed reviews, so I stayed at 4 hotels over a 2 week period) all within 3 mins of each other, and all of them were a good bit better than this place ( and i saved £250.00 doing it this way oddly) This said, I would stay here again, the beach next door 2 mins walk away has some great waves (buy a lilo, its good fun) and the hotel has some hard-to-come-by-at-this-price 5 star views.

People have such varied expectations, reviews are so hard to interpret for the reader. Spanish people generally are ok, hotel staff sometimes seem rude, please use manners, Hola, gracias or por favor cost nothing to say - we've always done it - try to have a joke about a rude receptionist, don't lose sleep and report it on these sites! Anyway, if you'ved booked, you'll be ok here, think of the dullness of England and you'll soon have some perspective!

I stayed here in August 2007 for a week with my friend. We are both aged 21.

The weather wwas amazing, not 1 cloud all week.

The location was nice aswel, it's next to a really nice sandy quiet beach within walking distance of a few shops and bars. Try the chinese by the roundabout near the hotel (just up from the main front hotel entrance). Food was lovely and so cheap!

Puerto Rico was a short taxi ride and only costs around 7 euroes which I would recommend if you do not want to go to bed straight after dinner as the entertainment was truely awful.

For the size of the hotel, and the fact we visited in peak season (August summer holidays), you would expect a minimum level of entertainment. I'm very glad i didn't take my children to this hotel as there was absolutely no children's entertainment at all. They occasionaly did the odd activity in the day but nothing atall in the evening.

There was a snake show 1 evening, lasted an hour and and finished at about 9.30 pm. 3 nights of the same diabolical keyboard player attempting to sing english songs, It was rare that you could guess which song he was trying to sing though as his english was terrible. Other nights there wasn't any entertainment at all. Not even any music was played by CD or anything.

The pool area was lovely and caught the sun from the moment it came out in the morning until when the sun went down so you never had to move your sunbed, they also had umbrellas if you prefer the shade. I never had a problem getting a sunbed, used to go down to the pool at around 10am and there would always be plenty and this was in August so I don't expect this is ever a problem.

The rooms were amazing, all had gorgeous direct sea views with massive balconies, and the rooms themselves were very big. Be warned though if you don't like walking up stairs as there are only 2 lifts and sometimes you can be waiting ages, and the restaurant is on the 9th or 10th floor, that's lovely though as it's overlooking the sea.

Food was ok, just your average all inclusive really.

All in all I had a great holiday, Just preapre yourself for the lack of entertainment and the idea of going elsewhere if you do want entertainment and you'll love the place.

The hotel I could not fault, nice clean and tidy room, fantastic unspoilt views, and good food (we went all inclusive).

However, there is a big BUT - the entertainment (or lack of) was diabolical.

There was one spanish girl who spoke very little English and she was the Animation TEAM !!. Day time activities were detailed on the board, and there was quite a lot on the board, but we saw nothing of her during the day, apart from one time (which may have been due to the time of year) when she asked my husband to play darts, he did, and guess what he won - cos he was the only one there !!.

The evening entertainment was worse - yeah I know. There was a 'dancing competition' yeah how excited was I until I noticed that 90% of the guests who were Spanish and al came with SAGA holidays, were at the Green Beach T Dance - all fighting for who was gonna win the waltzing competition!.

Back to the hotel, it is right on the beach and apart from stumbling over a few rocks - within about 30ft your on a lovely little bay with some great waves, it was not too busy - but I imagine at high season to be very busy - there is another beach at the Anfi Del Mar (which is imported sand from the carribean so does not get too hot to walk on) but this is very busy. Although only a 10 minute stroll away.

One word of warning do not eat in the pirate restauarant on the other side of the road from the hotel and higher up into the cliff.

Thankfully we did not venture there till our last day - it was pasta which was like mush and a bolognese sauce which looked and tasted like heinz tomato paste - and not cheap either - so aviod like the plague. Please check out some photos of the view from our room (602) and the beach.

A nice hotel in a very quiet location but only 4 euros into the lively puerto rico. PS great pizza place just opposite the supermarket - about 200 yards from hotel.

Enjoy (but bring your own entertainment with you :).