We had previously stay at the Vincci Estrella del Mar Hotel in Marbella a Five Star Hotel.
We are now living 25% of the time in the hills above Marbella and wishing to travel Spain
We thought a trip to Cadiz, We could also meet up with my wife’s cousin and his family who had flown to Spain from Canada the previous week. I thought having seen the Vincci brochure, I would book two nights at the Vincci Costa Golf Club a four star Hotel in Sancti Petri on the Costa de la Luz.
My wife and I arrived and booked in, our first impression was “very” modern and contemporary, not really to our personal taste, but that is very subjective value,
No one too help with the luggage. Then we got to the room 3104, a ground floor suite with the terrace facing the pool area (could have been very, very nice). What hit us when we walked in was an overpowering smell of damp. I then went to open the net curtains covering the terrace doors to open them.
The curtains were cluttered with dead ants, approx 1cm long, literally 100’s of them on the curtains lots dead and lots dying, then I looked down to the floor and there were 100’s more there and under the sofa. The glass on the terrace doors was filthy dirty, this had NOT been cleaned, either inside or outside for week’s. You then get tempted to look further, damp pushing the plaster off above the skirting board probably coving 70% of the lineal area, some areas of the “Wooden” floor bursting away from the walls leaving gaps of 1 – 2 cm wide (is this where the ants came from?), cobwebs in the table lamp shades. Cobwebs in all of the corners of the room. We then progressed to the bedroom, the linen looked grey, we opened the bed and it felt damp. We then decided to go to the bar for a quick calm down drink. The bar counter was very sticky and dirty. There were large splash areas on the walls which looked like wine and food, with some relief the glass looked clean, but the barman put them on a dirty tray, the whole area looked “tatty” We discussed whether we could slum it for at least one night for the sake of meeting Darren and his family. My wife said how long would it take to drive back to Elviria (Marbella), I said 2.5 hours, She then said she could not slum it, she would rather sleep in the car. Here’s interesting when we went to reception to say “shove” your grubby room, the male receptionist said “I fully understand how you feel” not, I’m sorry let me show you to a clean room!, it was with almost total resignation, I think he was quite used to hearing similar comments, he did not want me to settle the bar bill, a Gin & Tonic + black coffee…..
...........Be warned! …… ..
A copy of this will be sent directly to the hotel and to the headquarters of Vincci Hotels, i look forward to their comments
- Hotel Vincci Costa
- Vincci Chiclana De La Frontera
