Hotel Sahara Playa

Great front line beach front location . Close to shops & bars . Very friendly staff. Room towels & sheets changed daily. Food is outstanding ! Great variety , Spanish flavours & very good quality. Free Cava at breakfast too. Pool is small. Bar is openair & away from the Hotel facing the sea. A steep walk up hill is the massive Yumbo shopping centre and bus stops to all areas including Airport.

Bedrooms very clean but basic & tired decor. No hotel lounge to relax. Evening entertainment takes place in the restaurant while you eat.However, the Hotel knows this and is about to have a total entire refit this year !

Food was okay, passible

Pool looks like a swamp very dirty at the bottom of it,youd see cleaners around but they got equipment out stared at it packed it away and off they went,staff very rude people looking at you as though you had two heads,if your over 65+ you would love this or a swinger this is the place for you,the bed was so uncomfortable we ended up on a rock hard sofa which was completely wrong as we paid through the nose for this,room was full of mould and damp,the bar lady at the Sahara bar at the front kept on making us crap drinks like not just the one like allll of our stay,really disappointed,she would look at you like you've just took a crap on her head,defo won't be going back if you face don't fit your not welcome or that's how it feels,dining room staff taking food and drinks before you've even finished,the list goes on

Poor

Bar not open in hotel paid for all inclusive only open at meal time no bar by pool no food all day example ice cream paid for sea view got a corner room

Location was absolutely perfect...short walk to beach and Yumbo Centre

I found the bed most uncomfortable. Pillows terrible and no window in bedroom.

Initially upon arrival we were disappointed as hotel seemed a little run down/dated and room quite basic. However this soon disappeared as the variety of great touches and positives greatly outweigh the negatives.Location right opposite bustly square and 30metres from beach.Restaurant food very good for all inclusive. Lots choice and nice touches not seen in other AI we have been to. Eg. Drinks - ice and lime/lemon available, proper full size glasses (pints for beer and large wine glasses), good quality beer (Amstel) and nice wine (white very well chilled), all on a “help yourself” basis. Bottles of Prosecco even available at breakfast!Freshly cooked delicious steaks cooked to order, food piping hot and regularly replenished, very good choice of food and generally very good quality - we were wary as sometimes AI food is not up to par but here it was all very good indeed. Deserts were delishious and varied, staff attentive friendly and helpful. Shots served on way in! And live entertainment during dinner each night added to a great atmosphere - live music, dancers, etc. lovely touches like bowls of nibbles (crisps) available, ice cream cones, sweets, fruit, etc.Shower - very powerful and plenty of hot water, large cubicle.Nice balcony overlooking road/square/beach.Bar: very nice bar with extremely friendly and attentive staff. it is at at front of hotel overlooking the main square, very pleasant to sit in and open to public with good selection of drinks which can be served to sit in (proper glasses) or to take away (served in paper cups) - they were happy for drinks to be taken to your room or the beach or wherever you like, so great flexibility. Drink measure very generous (eg Prosecco takeaway served in 300ml paper cups which they filled to the brim!).Cocktail selection quite limited however - only certain ones available on AI (eg mojito not included) and they weren’t that nice.

Two pools but quite small and generally shady, and location of bar not convenient for the pools as would be a bit of a walk (only a few mins tho!). Didn’t seem much atmosphere around the pools so this hotel probably not suitable if you wanted to spend all day in the hotel (but why would you want to with a lovely beach on the doorstep!). Roof terrace pleasant enough with good views, but again probably not good for spending the day at if you wanted regular drinks, music, etc. no parking, and the large car park by the hotel is expensive (17 euros per day). However ample free street parking available a short walk away. Wi-Fi poor - only available free by reception and it wasn’t the speediest. Have to pay per day per device if want it in your room - very old fashioned this day and age especially for AI. Some communal areas felt a little run down and dated - perhaps 3 star rather than 4 star a little more accurate?Large Safe in bedroom available at small charge (3 euros per day).

Absolutely nothing.

Horrible Experience - Avoid at All Costs!My stay at this hotel was nothing short of appalling. Here's a summary of the issues I encountered:Terrible food: Absolutely inedible and not worth the price.Rude staff: No effort made to assist guests or resolve issues.Early bar closure: The so-called "all-inclusive" bar shuts at 10:30 pm, which is ridiculous. Also, the bar is by the beach, leaving nothing near the pool area.Small pools: Tiny, overcrowded, and not enjoyable.Unusable gym: The gym is poorly lit, becoming unusable after sunset at 7 pm. The treadmills don’t even power on!Limited WiFi: Free WiFi is only available in the reception area—completely outdated.Ineffective air conditioning: Stuck at an uncomfortable 23°C.Shared iron: One iron for the entire hotel—an absolute joke.This hotel fails to meet even the basic standards of hospitality. Do yourself a favour and avoid this place.

The food was average, location great beside the beech. The room was basic and dated also not very clean, the beds uncomfortable and didn't feel sturdy. 2/3 star hotel masquerading as a 4 star

dirty bowls and chipped plates, no real option for a late checkout. we had a late flight so wanted a late checkout if possible. we were offered an extra hour as the cleaner finished at 3 o'clock. We were given an option to shower and cleanup before we left, there was only one shower, down by the gym.

Good location close to the beach. Food was pretty good although a bigger variety would be better. More fresh fruit would also be good.

Room very noisey at night. Pillows uncomfortable. Sheets old and quite grey looking. Towels threadbare. Swimming pools very small. Staff overworked and un-friendly. Bar not attached to the hotel and only one barman on duty so had to queue to get drinks.

Location close by the beach

The rooms looked very poor, safe boxes were subject to payment, internet was only working at the reception, otherwise subject to extra payment

Everything was great. The location is perfect. The food is excellent, the staff is friendly. I can recommend.

The hotel’s location is excellent, right by the beach, close to the promenade and plenty of restaurants. Very friendly staff, good food. The rooms are very clean, cleaned daily. There is a large parking lot 100m from the hotel. I definitely recommend it.

The downside is the weak and noisy air conditioning.

We liked everything. The staff is very friendly and will always help if you need help. Very close to the sea, literally 2 steps away, it is also convenient that there is a bar from the hotel and all the necessary places nearby: shops, cafes, bars, surfing club

There are two parking lots nearby, one paid, one free, but there are very few spaces in the free one, you have to stand in line to get a place and you never know how long it will take. But there is no parking in the hotel itself

The apartment was great, big and clean. The food was very good and had a lot of options to eat!

Nice pool and close to the beach

Food wasnt great.

Fantastic location right beside the beach. Really friendly and accommodating staff. Very clean _ apartmentscleaned to a high standardon a daily basis. Great choice of food.

Pools were small.

The apartment room was a great size the bathroom was great. Only shower gel. No shampoo or conditioner.

The food. It was exactly the same every day. Nothing was labelled so you didn’t know what you were about to eat.

Excellent location, great staff that always provided us with all information, nice food, very nice X-mas gala dinner. Thanks for the chocolate we found as a present from hotel for Xmas, really very nice.

Nice location, central. Asian buffet was nice but was for only one day.

Theres no drink facilities round the main pool areas, you have to go outside the hotel. Pool by the bar is filty, just for show. Gym area, if you managed to find it, was just a box ticker. Some bar staff were unpleasant, especially the half which seemed to be unrelated to the hotel, not sure. Some friends stayed in another hotel right across from us for about the same price and was a much better experience.

Rooms were clean and well served. Location was excellent. Facilities were really good - variety of pools and sunbathing areas, including a nudist section for those who enjoyed nude sunbathing.

Customer facing staff were a bit non communicative, bordering on unfriendly. One other point is that although there was a tv in the room, there was only Spanish channels (understandably) and German channels. It would have been nice to have access to a couple of English speaking channels, even BBC World would have been good.

Location of hotelValue for moneyFood was excellent