We have just come back from 2 weeks at the Victoria Playa. The rooms are basic (no tv, tea/coffee facilities etc) but very clean and nice. The staff at the hotel and very helpful and the restaurant staff love the kids! Food was excellent, best we've had in a hotel. Can get towels from reception for pool so saves packing space! Entertainment staff are superb. Lovely beach just 1 min walk away. Would highly recommend. Not much outside of hotel apart from a few restaurants but hotel catered for everything we wanted anyway. Only downside was the lifts - only 3 and if you need a life (eg wheelchair or buggy) then you may wait a while. Can hire a fridge for your room too. They have a laundry room with washer/ dryer & iron and board too. We hired car and went all round the island which is recommended. Check whether hotel are running kids club for 18-36 months as advertised in brochure though as when we got there it was cancelled and we had to entertain our 2.5 year old!!!

Just return from this hotel. We are from Moscow, Russia.
My trip was good. Weather was fine - air 31, water 23.
The hotel was clean, rooms were good, and food was good quality.

Plus:
- Good price
- Not far from beach
- Swimming pool
- Live music at evenings
Minus:
- Animation only at Spanish
- Not so good sound insulation of rooms

Like the previous poster, we were the only English people ( couple, early 50s) for most of our 5 night stay. It was very busy with Spanish families around the Oct 12 bank holiday and the following weekend, but this wasnt a problem. The buffets at breakfast and dinner catered for a wide range of tastes, without losing sight of the fact that you are in Spain, despite a bit of a scrum one morning when the hotel was packed! Wine and drinks at the bar were reasonably priced too. Our room on the 4th floor was relatively spacious and kept clean. It had a nice view towards the hills and orchards, and a liitle bit of sea in the other direction. On the other side of the hotel there were good views across to the old town and castle. Staff were friendly, helpful and seemed to work really hard. Difficult to compare with the other larger hotels pricewise, but we had an excellent deal, hence a rating of 4 for a 3* hotel One moan: the "gym" was small with broken kit. Almunecar was still recovering from a disastrous flood only four weeks before, and was a little dusty/muddy, but a huge effort had gone into cleaning up, and the authorities had achieved a lot. Should be OK by next year.

arrived quite late ,but had saved us a cold buffet with good choice ,wine waiter stayed,even though he should have left hours before.The room was clean and well equipt ,beds comfy and huge! Staff could not do enough ,treated us like royalty. We were the only British people in the hotel (that was fine by us gave us a chance to try and speak a little Spanish).Would stay there again , didn't bother us but could understand some people feeling ill at ease, most of the other guests had learning difficulties and tended to take over the pool and evening activities until about 10pm.