Hotel Bahia De Lobos

As the title, this hotel is a very strong 3.9* or a weak 4*, I think to hit the 4* they tick the boxes such as food quality/kitchen hygiene, services offered, 3 pools, gym, free Wi-Fi, maid service daily, laundry, very large bedrooms with fridge, safe, tv, tea/coffee, evening entertainment

Good bits, the food is truly lovely, massive selection, breakfast obviously the same every day, very fresh and tasty, lunch is big enough to have something different every day without being sick of it, and dinners are awesome, we were luck that they opened the downstairs restaurant on a Thursday (normally just weekends) probably the best food I’ve had in a 4* ever, we had budgeted for 2 nights to eat out as we expected it to be bland and samey, we ate out once due to how nice it was in the hotel, on that note the reason we only ate out was due to the hotel only showing the World Cup semi finals on the tiny bar TVs, they refused to use the projector for some reason even tho Spain was playing 1st .??? Would of been great but what a shame 60 people crowded round a 40”tv we watched it round the corner in a burger bar, the hotel staff are fantastic, bar staff are not shy with the spirits, we had to tell them to stop pouring at one point 😂

Nothing to do with the hotel but the area is so safe, great location, lots of couples, families and small groups of girls. A real safe chilled vibe along the shops/strip to the bars and restaurants 30 second walk to the strip of shops from the hotel and roughly 15/20 min walk to the music square

What knocks it down is that the rooms are tired (revamp this nov) the pool guys test and treat the water every day but ignore the tiled area, if a drink is spilt one day the area is not hosed down the next or even swept daily I saw it washed twice all week, so pool area feels a bit manky, on top of that grout falling out and broken tiles here and there, the “quiet” pool is very chill vibe, plenty on sun beds to go round just not enough umbrellas, no need to get up early with your towels unless you need a umbrella which is a shame, female lifeguard is very strict on keeping this area by the rules, no floaties/toys, keep quiet, no diving. Bit OTT but hey ho, also no poolside toilets or bar up at the quiet pool so it’s a walk to the main area for that, main pool and kids pool is the complete opposite with banging music and games going on, toilets and drinks close by, can’t comment too much on that area as we only used the bar for drinks, the gym always had people in it but we never used it so can’t comment on quality

All in all it is a great chilled hotel, TOP TIP bring your own plastic cups, it’s 1 euro to use Theirs, but they are very small so you will keep needing a refill very quickly, my wife took a stainless steel goblet which held 1/2 bottle of Prosecco at a time 🫣 I had a pint plastic cup, the staff loved the idea

Would I recommend to stay here ..YES ✅

We stayed here as a family of 3, all inclusive. Firstly I’d say this hotel and service would be more suited to a good 3 star hotel.

Service is quite basic. Most things are self service apart from the pool bar where you pay a small deposit for plastic cups to reuse and staff get the alcohol but you get your own soft drinks. You seat yourself at breakfast, lunch and dinner with all meals bar one at the same restaurant which is a casual atmosphere. All you can eat buffet can be quite limited and usually most of it is repeated (pizza, salad, rice dishes) with one main changed each day. Lunch and dinner has very little difference. Soft drinks, wine and larger is self service. There is a nicer restaurant downstairs but only opened once which is more ‘smart casual’ in atmosphere and a nicer setting for dinner but unfortunately it is not utilised. There isn’t the usual ‘vibrant/interactive’ staff interaction that you often see at 4*+ hotels.

The pool opens at 9 and it usually quite easy to get a sunbed at this time as they do have signs up about not ‘reserving’ beds before 10am. However, it is a battle to get a sunbed with a parasol as these are the ones that people reserve early morning and then leave the beds until 10am. Often the life guard will help with moving a parasol from a bed not being used. There are only approx 1 parasol to every 15 beds with very limited shade options. And it gets very hot mid afternoon!

The pool is clean and big enough, can’t complain with this one.

On an evening, there is an seperate bar with bar service. All inclusive ends at approx 11pm. Evening entertainment is very basic and usually quite late on. Games night included 1 game of bingo done via your phone with very little commentary to make it enjoyable.

Rooms are spacious and clean except for a few squished bugs on the ceilings. Quite dated with scruffy paint work and ‘worn’ out looking features. Beds were hard but manageable. They had everything you needed in it so wasn’t something to complain about.

Location was good. Shops all within a couple minutes walk. Beach was a 10 minute walk away. There are sunbeds with parasols on the beach but they charge €10pp for this. Sea and sand were lovely. Highly recommend snorkels to see the fish!

Overall, it was an okay hotel. Wouldn’t rate 4* but definitely 3*