good points close to beach park on site for children and a park 50m attached to restaurant. nice walk at side of beach with parks along the way. staff and animation team very good.
bad points food! terrible if you used to shopping in iceland then you won,t have a problem. however the staff did not remove the container to refil and would just slop it in splashing onto to the dishes next to them. they had a childrens counter self serve but it was nuggets ect. the veg were frozen and not warmed properly practically still frozen. I don,t if it was because it was end of season, but i was'nt impressed.

My wife, myself and our 1 year old stayed in the Stil Victoria Playa in late October 2011. We booked the holiday wanting a late, cheap, all-inclusive deal to get away and hopefully a little bit of sun. We are the type of people that like to explore the local area as well as spending days relaxing on the beach or by the pool.

Santo Tomas was a very quiet resort, the other hotels and restaurants were closing for the season, but even in peak time there is very, very little to do there. There are a handful of other hotels, a couple of bars and a couple of small shops. We hired a car for 3 days to explore the island and just used the hotel as a base for those days. (There is a car hire in the resort and driving on the island is very easy). It was possible to walk around the resort in about 45minutes. There was a pleasant coastal path running from one end of the resort to the other.

So the hotel....This is not a 4 star place as Thomson advertise, it is a 3 star hotel that the hotel itself advertises itself as. Yes it was a bit like butlins, yes there were people whose idea of dressing for dinner is to put on a clean football shirt, but you get what you pay for!

Our room was a little cramped with a double bed and a cot, but clean and basic. There was a TV with English channels.

The food was ok, there were chips served with every meal, but plenty of other options as well, there were some good choices of seafood plus a good variety of help-yourself drinks under the all-inclusive scheme. The coffee machines were only on at breakfast times and switched off at dinner times. The waiting staff were really friendly.

There were two large bars, one where the evening entertainment was hosted and a quieter one. We tended to go to the quieter bar in the evenings with our son in a buggy and he drifted off to sleep, whilst we had a night-cap.
There was also a bar by the pool open during the day, which also served snacks.

Outside there was a main pool, a paddling pool and a children's pool with slides. It was just a bit too cold to use the pool when we went in October. As per previous comments, I would imagine it was be unpleasantly crowded around the pool in peak times. There was also a grassed area and a playground area for the children.

During the day Thomson ran a daily quiz and a few games a round the pool, but as it was the penultimate week of the season, it was clear that they were running down their programme (which was fine with us!)

Overall we had a good holiday however we were glad that we were able to escape the confines of the hotel and the resort, otherwise we would have been very bored.

Our holiday begun with the management attempting to Tell us we had the last room in the hotel as we had specified that we wanted a room away from the lifts - both managers lied and told us we had to take the (box) of a room right next to the lift on floor 5 , they then proceeded to criticise myself and my wife in Spanish when we requested to see the room allocation sheet they have for the tour operator, this showed approx 50% occupation and we managed to move to a room further away from the continually dinging lifts. Unfortunately the hotel was built with midgets in mind and all the rooms are built to dolls house speci fictions. I would love to say the holiday got better from here but unless you like 70's butlins entertainment and chips and beans with everything it will rank, I am sure as poorly with you as it did us. The resort has no restaurant's worth visiting and no nightlife. In 20 years of worldwide travel the worst package holiday experienced

We stayed here 19th-26th Oct 2011. First of all I have to say that the weather was brilliant, One storm over night but made the next day even better, I guess we were lucky! The hotel was very clean, average size rooms, Beds were ok but sleepable. Large restaurant with a wide range of food and drinks. One large bar seating area away from the entertainment with tvs, and a large entertainment room with another decent size bar with a self service area. The outdoor area has One big pool with a childrens pool next to it and a kids pool with fountains and slides. We had Three kids with us and all Three wandered off and done there own thing, the grounds are safe and we had no worries. The entertainment was superb, tribute acts to Thompsons own performance of Cinderella, and Five dancing parrotts, it was well worth watching. Handy Andy was brilliant with the kids, dancing, singing and even Thompson the Dog making a guest appearance. There is a beautiful walk along the cliffs to Som Bou with fantastic views, but we only managed half of it because of flip flops and a push chair (take note if you`re going to do the walk). All in all we had a excellent holiday and have already looked up for next year. A big thanks to all at Thompsons for welcoming and entertaining us for a very nice week.