Aloha Gardens, Apartments, Marbella

Advantages: Sunny, friendly people and good food.
Disadvantages: Can be expensive and when it rains, it certainly rains!

...corner balcony and could just see the sea off one side and looked over to Puerto Banus on the main side. Sitting out at breakfast time we could watch all the comings and goings and in the early evening some magnificent sunsets. Marbella became a famous resort because a Spanish marques told his rich family and friends how wonderful it was. One of his nephew’s Prince Alfonso of Liechtenstein bought a farm near the beach then started developing it by building chalets surrounded by wonderful gardens and in 1953 it opened as the Marbella Club. It became the “in” place for the rich and titled. You can stay there at a cost beyond my means!! So sorry I can’t report on it. Since then a lot of luxury homes have been built and large hotels and blocks of apartments, between the sea and the mountains, which are called Sierra Blanca, this is responsible... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful and very clean.
Disadvantages: i found none during a 2 week break.

...The NH Alanda hotel in Marbella is without doubt one of the best hotels I have stayed in and Marbella itself is a beautiful city. A holiday in Marbella is always going to be a great holiday but you really can add to your time there by using this hotel. Marbella is situated along the Costa del Sol and is Spains answer to st Tropez, this holiday resort is chic and is well known to be favoured by the rich and famous. It's not hard to see why when you visit you will be instantly taken aback by the beauty of your surroundings, which brings me to this fantastic hotel. The NH Alanda hotel with its beautiful pool, four star rating (five in some brochures now I believe) and its 199 rooms looks more like a palace than a hotel. I personally was there in the summer of last year, as we walked in to the outstanding reception area to be greeted... Read review

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Advantages: Pretty views
Disadvantages: Exspensive, smelly and unfriendly locals

...Okay! I see I could do with more practise! Im used to other review boards such as holidays uncovered where the format is different! Although I participated in a 2wenty's package holiday (and was therefore expecting drunk and rowdy teenagers and less than decent accomodation) I was disappointed with tenerife. I stayed at 'Aloha Gardens' apartments, about a 5 min taxi to the beach front/bar scene. Although the hotel was OK, the staff were rude (for example, the security guard locked my friend out of the hotel for 20mins, at aprox 3am because he wanted a tea break!), food was often over cooked, the pool was small and the apartments seemed to have a large community of cockroaches!! On the plus side, as we were on the mountain side we had a fantastic view from the pool, and the atmosphere round the pool side was nice. The bar scene... Read review

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