We stayed here for 5 nights mid-February in a sea view superior room on an all inclusive basis. Whilst the sea is a fair distance away the room itself was spacious, newly decorated and the clothes cupboard had loads of hanging space. The room cleaning was excellent and the staff very helpful in all areas (other than the chefs in the show cooking station in the evening who, on a couple of evenings, seemed to deliberately avoid eye contact leaving you standing there). As part of the AI offer it included one visit to the spa which left us a bit underwhelmed. It was not as good as the H10 hotels spa we had been at a couple of months before so we certainly did not pay for any further visits. There were several activities on offer throughout the day which, although we did not go to any, seemed popular and mostly fairly well supported. We did feel the nightly entertainment held in the Mataleñas Bar was good every night and the drinks on offer at the bar were all top quality. The food was buffet and at breakfast had all options with a good egg station serving fried eggs and omelets to order. Lunch was served at a different restaurant near the main pool and had various salad options, pizzas and some cooked meats and fish. The wine here was really poor so after a couple of days we stuck to soft drinks or beer. The evening buffet was back in the main restaurant and was OK but after two or three days was getting repetitive. We spoke to someone else who said if they were to come again would opt for B&B and visit the restaurants overlooking the marina for their evening meals. The wines included in the basic AI were generally not very good (of the three we tried anyway) and when we were drinking our wine on the second evening someone on a nearby table said I can see you are not enjoying that. He said that he had tried several of the included wines and had found that the best wine was ANALIVIA VERDEJO BLANC. We tried it and it was certainly drinkable and did not risk trying any of the other wines again! The grounds are extensive and there are sun loungers by the pools and dotted throughout the grounds so if you want privacy you will definitely find some loungers in quite secluded areas. The pools are large and despite what it said on the info the pool by the diving school was not heated and despite braving it and getting in was too cool for me to enjoy swimming in. The other pool (two lanes roped off for people to do lengths in) was lightly heated and once you were in was nice. We had been to Lanzarote before and had done trips that covered most of the sights and did not see anything on offer that inspired us. We did however catch the water taxi from the marina to Puerto del Carmen which took just under 20 minutes and was a fun trip. A return ticket was around €16 and if you caught the first trip out you could stay there from 2 to 8 hours if you wanted to catch the water taxi back. Would we return, probably not, partly as we enjoy trying new places. The hotel an
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