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Occidental Torremolinos Playa
Spain, Europe
Torremolinos
This hotel is located directly in the tourist centre of Torremolinos and is separated from the sandy beach by just a road. An array of shops and entertainment attractions are located within 3 kilometres of the hotel. The closest airport is just 7 km from the hotel. Public transport departs from stops located directly in front of the hotel.
This attractive apartment hotel was built in 1975 and renovated in 1997. The hotel offers a total of 326 guestrooms spread over 4 floors of which 12 are singles, 128 doubles and 186 are apartments. The facilities include a spacious lobby with a lift, a 24-hour reception, a safe, a currency exchange desk, a conference room and a games room. In addition, it has a cosy café, bar, shops and an air-conditioned restaurant with a non-smoking area and highchairs for younger guests. Medical assistance is also on offer for should it be necessary. The hotel offers younger guests a playground and kids' club.
The rooms and apartments are tastefully decorated and include an en suite bathroom. In addition, they are fitted with a direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, central heating and a safe.
Guests are offered a swimming pool, a pool bar, sun loungers, parasols, a hot tub, water aerobics, a solarium and massage service as well as a diversified entertainment programme.
Guests may choose their breakfast, lunch or dinner from the respective buffets. Guests may also book all-inclusive stays.
Facilities
- Tennis
- Massage
- Entertainment programme for adults
- Children playground
- Sun loungers
- Children’s swimming area
- Outdoor freshwater pool
- Poolside snack bar
- Luggage room*
- Sun terrace
- Please note some facilities may incur an additional fee
The Local Area
Tripadvisor Reviews
4.0 Very Good2,662 reviews
Excellent
55%
Very Good
22%
Average
12%
Poor
6%
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perfect stay
perfect stay, room comfortable, food incredible, kids super happy - I strongly recommend this hotel.
Review by gibus007 Brussels, Belgium
5 night family Hoilday
Overall, a lovely hotel.
Positives: Staff are helpful and friendly. The location is fantastic, directly opposite the beach. There's a lovely promenade along the beachfront with several restaurants and bars, making it a great place for a walk at any time of the day or night. There is a small shop next to the hotel that sells everything you might need. The hotel reception also has a small gift shop. Only a 15-minute drive from Málaga Airport. The hotel is clean and has good facilities. The all-inclusive food offers plenty of choice, with something for everyone. The bars serve a wide range of drinks throughout the day. Our room was cleaned every day, with fresh towels provided. Green cards are exchanged for beach towels. If you wish to replace a beach towel, there is a €2 charge per towel.
Negative: Unfortunately, from our very first day we noticed that guests were not respecting the designated non-smoking areas. This was a significant concern for us because our daughter has a collapsed left lung, making her particularly vulnerable to cigarette smoke.
What was most disappointing was that no members of staff appeared to ask guests to move to the designated smoking areas. On more than two occasions, I raised this issue with staff, both at reception and at the outdoor bar. Despite this, throughout our stay we continued to experience guests smoking in the non-smoking areas.
The hotel should remember its duty of care to provide genuinely smoke-free areas, particularly when so many families and young children stay here. If you have designated non-smoking areas, they need to be actively enforced. Instead, we found ourselves having to move repeatedly whenever someone nearby decided to light a cigarette.
Our room was located directly outside a cigarette disposal bin, which naturally encouraged guests to stand there while smoking. As a result, we were unable to keep our window open because cigarette smoke would drift straight into our room.
There were also two cigarette disposal bins positioned along the main outdoor walkway leading from reception into the hotel grounds. This is a route used by all guests, including those leaving the restaurant, meaning everyone is forced to walk through groups of smokers. We do not believe it is acceptable for a hotel to expect guests, including children and those with health conditions, to walk through cigarette smoke simply to access the hotel's facilities.
We were extremely disappointed that we raised these concerns during our stay, yet nothing changed. We hope the hotel reviews both the location of the smoking bins and the enforcement of its non-smoking policy so that future guests can enjoy the safe, smoke-free environment that the hotel promises.
Review by 16Blanc Cardiff, United Kingdom
KR
Fantastic holiday, food excellent, GF food freshly cooked, staff Fantastic, super clean, would definitely go back.
Would stay again
Spent five nights here in July solo parenting with my 10 year old in a sea view superior room.
Location wise it’s less than 8 minutes via private transfer from Malaga airport, fantastic with a usually travel sick child. Yes you can see planes take off occasionally throughout the day however this did not spoil our stay.
The hotel itself is out of the way of the main tourist shops by a decent hour walk, would definitely recommend a taxi if with children on a hot day however is on a prime beach location and has restaurants and beach bars directly outside with beds you can hire for 10 euro each a day. There is also a water sports hire outside.
Within the hotel there is a small shop and just outside a supermarket (crisps, snacks etc) and a mile away roughly a pharmacy.
Upon check in, check out and any enquiries at reception you are required to take a number and wait, at busy times this can be a while although I appreciate why they do this. Worth noting rooms are not available till 2pm so be prepared to leave luggage securely.
Room keys are all inclusive wristband only which I personally preferred, however children don’t have the same one. Overall it felt incredibly safe, even needing to scan in with wristband to get the main beachfront entrance.
Pools - the hotel do provide pool towels and they do allow pool noodles/small floats etc just not blow up beds and large rings. The pool to the rear is deep and the main front pool is more shallow, day beds available to hire at both for 30/35 euros a day but book up so definitely book one on arrival, we did and had a much more comfortable pool day.
Superior sea view room - room was perfect for myself and my son had my partner joined us I fear it would have been a touch small. Beds were much larger than advertised and very comfortable. The TV has a decent amount of English programs on but not for kids (CSI/Chicago fire etc) this was ideal for us and also the WiFi is fantastic throughout the hotel. Fridge in room but empty on arrival could have benefited from an initial bottle of water or two but you can get these from the bar included if all inclusive. Balcony however is tiny however a sacrifice for the view. There is also a small drying rack on the balcony ideal for swimwear etc.
Food - all cooked satisfactorily, however just wasn’t tailored for English guests in my opinion unless you like pastries and cold chips. However we didn’t go hungry and it was overall better than I expected but my son found it difficult to find things he liked. Worth noting ice lollies are not included in AI and ice cream served only at lunch and dinner, other than whippy style during the day. I felt this was really lacking for an AI of 4* rating. Drinks were available from all bars and service was swift although some staff did not understand English and it was very obvious.
Overall it was clean, staff were polite and it exceeded my expectations based on reading many reviews. There were very few English guests when we stayed and it was a touch remote to explore without taxi so five nights in my opinion was more than enough. I would certainly stay again if I wanted to revisit the area but felt the cost was a touch high given food offerings etc.
Review by katrina919 Nuneaton, United Kingdom
Great for a short break
We stayed bed & breakfast but would highly recommend the all inclusive option which we will do next time. Food & drinks available are great especially the cava & cocktails. Hotel is very clean, plenty for all to do
Review by chunckyfood Reading, United Kingdom
