We stayed for 2 weeks at the end of January 2012, as part of a "cheap and cheerful" getaway. The hotel certainly lived up to the "cheap" part of that, but you get what you pay for with this type of hotel, and as you don't pay a lot, you don't get a lot.

The hotel is a high rise, 15 storey, building that looks like it was built as an all suite hotel - we had a bedroom and large sitting room on the 12th floor. I understand that floors 13 to 15 are larger and more attractive rooms - they offer an upgrade at €20/night at reception.

The building standard was quite poor and many of the facilities you would expect to see included are "optional extras". So there is no air conditioning - but you can rent a unit. There is no in room fridge - although there is a cabinet for it - but you can rent a unit. There is no iron - but, you guessed it, you can rent one! It's a Ryanair approach - basic cost and everything else is extra.

We had the breakfast plan - it was maybe a mistake. Breakfast was served buffet style in a huge room full of hard surfaces, so it was very noisy with clashing of plates, banging of chairs etc. - at times, it was overpowering.

There was absolutely no variety in breakfast day to day - actually not quite true as they alternated plain and coconut yoghurt and frankfurters and English "bangers" on a daily basis - but everything else was the same boring old stuff. As most of the visitors seemed to be British seniors on long stay vacations, they didn't seem to mind, but something other than scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages and beans would have been nice.

As you walk along the front and round the bays to Los Americanos, you realist that there are 2 items on which the beachfront restaurants compete - the price of a pint of beer, and the price of a "Full English" breakfast. The cheapest beer we saw was €0.85 cents, and the cheapest breakfast was €2.45 with a considerably wider range than was available in the hotel. So maybe, if you don't mind a short stroll before breakfast, don't do the Breakfast Plan at the hotel and instead find somewhere quieter, and with a better breakfast, on the seafront.

The best thing about the hotel was its location - just a 2 minute walk to the seafront and maybe 5 minutes to the centre of Los Christianos. There's ample free parking if you hire a self drive car - we got a real "Rent a Wreck" from Auto Riesen - you don't often see rental cars with over 110,000 kms. and dents on every panel! It wasn't particularly cheap and as it was running, they refused to change it - a firm to avoid, I think, for our next rental car in Tenerife!

The hotel has no in-room internet, and has the gall to charge €4 per hour for Internet in the lobby - but we could never get it working there. It is quite frustrating to be in your room and get login pages from adjacent hotels but not the one you are staying in - I guess that with their customer base being largely retired folks that there's not a great demand for "t'Internet".