We were at the Binimar for a week at the end of July which we booked as a late deal. We had always fancied trying Menorca after hearing how family friendly it is and with the Binimar being all inclusive we thought we would give it a go. Will give you the good bits first - you could not fault the pools at the hotel, our daughter loved them all and the childrens splash pool was fab, although the pouring water was a little harsh for little ones and did knock our little one of her feet which meant she was scared to go back on to slides and things. The hotel was only a short walk away from the main street which has lots of restaurants who all cater brilliantly for children, that is one thing they do fabulously in Cala'n Forcat! The reasons we wouldn't go back - No aircon (which granted we realised when we booked it, however what we didn't realise was that if you end up in a ground floor apartment the only ventilation is patio doors to the front and the back of the apartment, which we really wouldn't feel safe leaving open with the little one asleep in the apartment when we were sleeping, so we did had no ventilation at all - we all woke up feeling ill every morning). The apartments are very tired, the kitchen cupboards were all crooked where they had obviously been fixed too many times, the fridge door had rust which had just been painted over and the bathroom just smelt awful constantly, probably because of the lack of ventilation. The smell did get a little better when I asked at reception for the disgusting toilet brush to be removed but still did not go completely. The maids come in every other day - but only to change the towels and make the beds - and I really do mean only to make the beds, the sheets were not changed for the whole week despite the little one knocking into me and spilling coffee on them on our first morning, the coffee stained sheets remained for the full week!! They do not clean anything or sweep the floor and they did not even empty the kitchen bin for the whole week, so thankfully we had not been putting food in there!! Now for the All Inclusive - the food was often cool, was very repetitive and the choice on offer for children was really poor. I thought that they would at least have nice desserts for the children each evening but it was the same horrible cake or mousse type stuff every night and the fruit really didn't look the best some days. The drinks were always in horrible little plastic cups and the breakfast juices were disgusting. Also, they only time you could get ice cream for the children as part of the all inclusive was in the main restaurant, which you were not able to take out of there so if they wanted an ice cream by the pool you had to pay for it!!! We chose to eat outside of the hotel quite a few nights as we could not face the same cold food again and wanted to offer our daughter something that she would enjoy eating. Shame really when you pay extra to go all inclusive. So all in all, we enjoyed our family holiday as it is what you make it at the end of the day, but would we be going back to the Binimar.......no thanks!!!!!
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