The hotel is great. I took it because Cadiz was too expensive, and took the fairy from Santa Maria to Cadiz. However, it's better to have a car in order to do that. The hotel is beautiful, with great views of the marine. It also has view of Cadiz from the other side of the bay, which is so-so. It is a nice place to get away and a very romantic spot, but you need to have a car. There is a lot of free parking.
The breakfast was expansive and we did not try it. The room is large and air-conditioned well, but somehow not quite perfect. definitely good value, but not 100%.

This is the 5th time we have visited this hotel. It is the ideal chill place. However, you can easily drive to the port in Santa Maria and catch the boat to Cadiz. this is cheap and excellent as it goes right to the centre of the city and saves all the parking problems.
The hotel food is excellent and a reasonable price, but there is the alternative of walking along the Marina to the right and continue on to the lovely little cove, and just before you get there, there are restaurants open all year round with a great view of Cadiz and well priced.
There is golf, horse riding and padel courts very close.
The staff are cheerful, helpful and friendly.
I am disappointed that the indoor pool is now closed, but Iunderstand there are plans for this.
Roll on next visit

This hotel was our first stop on a three week tour of Andalucia.
The hotel is located in the marina, a very peaceful area. You can walk to the centre of El Puerto de Santa Maria via a walkway along the beach where all the locals walk and jog at night. However it is quite a long walk (three quarters of an hour, not twenty minutes as told by receptionist), so we did this only one evening when we were going for dinner, as we had active days and were rather tired at night. The other nights we took our car. The hotel has free parking and we never had any trouble finding a spot. It was June and there were only a few other guests, so it was very quiet, which we prefered.
The room and bathroom were comfortable. A minor complaint was that the double bed is a bit on the small side. Service was good: housekeeping was efficient and reliable; the same applied to reception staff (except for inquiry about longtitude of walk to city centre, but this was not a big deal). Breakfast was included in our rate and was good: a reasonably big range of products of good quality. I also liked the outside pool area (frequently we were the only people there), which has a view of all the boats in the marina, as do the bar and terrace (watching the sunset is beautiful). Also there is a beautiful beach, which is virtually deserted, right next to the hotel.
We used the hotel as our base to visit both Cadiz (go by ferry boat and make sure to lunch at El Faro, which is a great fish restaurant), Gibraltar and Jerez de la Frontera (fantastic visit to the Sandeman bodega). The Costa de la Luz is still left unspoiled by megatourism, so you can enjoy the authenticity of Andalucia at the coast, with none of the kitch of e.g. the Costa del Sol. Hands down my favourite Costa. Would also definitely return to this hotel when visiting this area again.

We booked a standard room on the internet and when we arrived we got an upgrade because they were all full. That was nice of course, our room was enormous, just a pity you can,t make your own tea/coffee. The bed was very good also the bathroom was excellent.
We didn,t have breakfast. It's a pity you have to pay for using the internet downstairs.