Gastgebruiker
13 september 2023
This was our first visit to Ibiza. The Arenal is a three star hotel, located on the beach in Sant Antoni about a 10 min walk to the centre of the town. Ibiza is well known for it hedonistic night life and Sant Antoni is very much apart of this scene. The hotel is of an older design, fixtures and fittings are solid and reflect the hotel’s age, the hotel is very well maintained. We were missing a towel hook in our bathroom, without any comment from us it was replaced during our stay. The hotel has good soundproofing and has strict policies regarding noisy guests. We found our hotel room quiet, although we did shut the balcony door at night. Seaview balconies are better as apart from the view the inland facing balconies face the busy road. The hotel attracts a range of guests but the largest group during our visit were British retirees, as we are! The rooms are large, in keeping with an older hotel, with plenty of storage. Rooms are serviced daily. TV with some UK channels. Rooms have AC and ceiling fans, no extra charge. All rooms have balconys, table and chairs and drying rack. Rooms have safes, €2 per day. No refrigerator, these can be hired, but cost €50 per week, for two weeks €100, you could nearly buy a new one for that! No kettles, we brought our travelling kettle and a small supply of UHT milk portions and tea bags. We used bottled water, on the advice of the hotel staff. Rooms are kept immaculately clean, as is the whole hotel. Bathrooms are large, large walk in shower, basin, bidet and large mirror. However not enough hooks or shelf space. Always plenty of hot water. Wifi is free, but not very good. In the swimming pool area, I could not get any signal, the hotel’s next door worked intermittently. In our room it worked most of the time, albeit fairly slowly. 4g and 5g mobile data was available on our networks, but the obvious data roaming limits apply. There are three swimming pools; a child's pool, a main pool that shelves from 0cm to 1.6m and an indoor pool. The main pool as plenty of sun-beds and umbrellas so no early morning rush to bag a bed. The rear terrace faces the sea and has tables and seating and a few more sun beds. This area backs onto the main promenade, beach and sea. The beach has sun beds and umbrellas, but these are not the hotels and cost €7 for each bed and umbrella, so €21 for a set for the day. €21 seemed to be the standard at most beaches, although we found one charging €50 and more! We had half board. The extra cost between breakfast and half board on our package was minimal. Breakfast consists of a range of everything from full english, continental, cakes, pancakes, even sparkling wine to make bucks fizz some days. Dinner changed daily and was on a weekly rota. Great choice of good quality food. I felt that new guests arriving at the restaurant were left not being greeted or acknowledged for too long and therefore didn’t know where to sit, all tables have room numbers.
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