Hotel Mexico offers spacious, immaculately clean, modern rooms. The entire interior of the hotel is fitted out to a high and comfortable standard and all immaculately clean. Unfortuntely the same cannot be said for the exterior and pool area. There is a great deal of building development in the area, inlcuding the construction of apartments to the rear of the hotel (which has been ongoing for over a year now and I would anticipated at least another 6 months!). As a result everything outside is dusty. The sunbeds and chairs do not appear to have been cleaned for the on-coming season and require a thorough wipe over before I would be willing to use them - consequently I didnt which is a shame as the pool area, although adjacent to a very busy road, is nicely laid out and the pool looked very enticing.
For first time travellers to Vera, be advised that the amount of construction in the area is a detraction from the resort. There did appear to be an impact on tourists to the hotel this time compared to the same period last year and for some reason, despite being end of May, alot of the restaurants and bars did not open for business the entire week i was there. Perhaps the amount of construction is having an affect on the tourist industry?
Although there are a few facilities (shops and bars) within walking distance from the hotel, you will definately benefit from a hire car.
The hotel itselfs is only really let down by the quality of the food which is of poor quality (especailly the dried up breakfast) and over-priced and lack of attention to the dust impact to the pool facilities.
The staff themselves are very helpful, friendly and the majority are english speaking.
Equipped with an apartment with kitchen facilities and a hire car, I would recommend Hotel Mexico as a base for seeing this area of Spain.

Made the unfortunate mistake of booking a week B & B at The Mexico in July 2005.
Hotel staff, from check in to restaurant all surley, unfriendly and totally unhelpful.
Restaurant ran out of coffee, food etc every day. Instead of replenishing just told us food had stopped.
Our bedding was NOT changed throughout the stay.
Our room was smelly, smokey and in poor repair. No fridge or other facilities. telephone never worked.
We have obviously told the management about our concerns they just ignore them and say YES you are right but there is nothing we can do, it is our summer staff.
This could be a GREAT hotel but there seems to be very poor managment and customer service.