Gavimar Ariel Chico Hotel and Apartments

We stayed here for a four night break from 7/5/2024- 11/5/2024 after an early flight and a long journey from the airport we arrived at the hotel just after midday. Though check in isn't until 2.p.m. our room was ready, unfortunately the room that we were allocated though spacious was very dated and dark, my wife said that it felt like a cave house. The door and windows didn't appear to be very secure so we returned to reception and the lady was very helpful and allocated us another room in the main block. It had a seaview very comfortable beds and was spotlessly clean. The food was excellent with self service drinks as part of the all inclusive package, the wine was ok and Cruz Campo beer very much to my taste. ( I had to keep sampling it to make sure lol.) The Hotel is made up of a mish mash of different buildings either side of the road, with the largest swimming pool and an outdoor evening entertainment area across the road from the main hotel building. The pool is only open from 10.00a.m. till 6p.m. each day with a life guard in attendance. There are plenty of sunbeds available but part of the pool area in front of the building is in the shade mid afternoon onwards. The evening entertainment was fairly poor with the main show only running from 9.45 untill 11 with the all inclusive finishing at the same time. It can get quite chilly in the evenings early in the season so I would recommend taking a fleece/ jacket to keep warm. From the hotel it is a short downhill walk to a beautiful beach. It is a very hilly area around the hotel so may cause problems for the less mobile. There are lots of shops and restaurants close by but many with quite expensive prices. All in all we had a nice relaxing break in a lovely picturesque area.

Our studio apar**ent looked nothing like any of the photos shown so i was a little disappointed, the apar**ent we were was in was very dated. There is no kettle in the kitchen for cup of tea in the morning before going down for breakfast. We were on the front with the bar and entertainment opposite which is very loud till 11pm. The food was good, wide variety for breakfast lunch and tea. There is lovely beach 4 mins walk away but you need to pay 15 euros each day for 2 sunbeds to sit on. There's not much to do outside the hotel but we were ok with that.There are 3 pools but the main one is always busy and the smallest one has only 6 sunbeds, the middle size one is never open. There's a little train that goes round, you can visit the marina which has nice restaurants. This is 5 euros each way.

The animation was really great in particuler Justin. They had really funny activeties especialy the karaoke. It was a beautiful acomodation with many things to do. And it was a pretty clean hotel. The food was really nice with every day somthing else.

The hotel is lovely, the weather was beautiful. We had a room that over looked the main pool area. The food was nice but repetitive. Cris on reception was very welcoming and helpful. The entertainment team were good (Margret, Justin, Sabrina and Suntai). Every night they would announce in spanish, French and English. The area where the hotel is situated is a lovely small town feel. A literal 5 min walk to the beach or the main restaurant district. Some lovely cocktail bars aswell.

The room was in the main hotel decent size the bathroom was dated the shower was very poor food was average night entertainment very poor location was very good but every thing you had to pay a deposit for your tumbler for your drinks your plates for the snack bar you had to pay 17 euros for a towel and only got 10 back also the safe you had to pay for the staff at reception were helpful and friendly unlike the restaurant staff would I stay here again no