Hotel Verdemar

I stayed for 4 nights in August 2023. Booked via *********** at a very good rate for a seaside location (we also checked on the hotel's own website simultaneously and it was basically the same price). Location is fantastic - 30 seconds from the front door to the beach where there is a lovely promenade to walk along or the beach to relax on. It's also only a 10 minute walk across the bridge to the main part of the town with shops and restaurants, but on this side of the bridge there is still a supermarket (Dia) as well as a bakery and ice cream shop. Staff were always friendly and accommodated the fact I can't speak Spanish. There is a side door which you get a key to enabling you to easily access the building when reception is closed which is helpful. When booking it seemed to indicate breakfast wasn't available, but it was. I didn't actually have any as I brought my own (and there is a very nice bakery a couple of streets away, Nerian Salon de te - you can sit in or takeaway). Room was a good size - I was on the top floor and could just about see the sea from my skylight. Ensuite bathroom also a good size - towels and complimentary shampoo & shower gel included. The wifi worked well enough for me - I was able to Whatsapp call, watch youtube videos etc without issue. Lift was a little noisy when in action but once asleep didn't bother me. Lights turn off in the corridors after a time but there are light switches outside the bedroom doors so you can easily turn them on to get the key in your door! No air conditioning (that I could work out) and I was there in one of the heatwaves so it did get fairly warm but I had a travel fan with me and kept the skylight open so was fine. I didn't actually enquire about fans - maybe they could have provided one, I don't know. TV in the room had a very wide variety of channels, almost all in Spanish but for Brits like me it was nice to watch a bit of BBC News from time to time. I was particularly impressed with the cleaners - barely noticed them but they worked around when we weren't in the room which for me was quite random as I was in and out to the beach/town quite a lot, coming back to escape the sun! I just popped the 'do not disturb' sign on the door when I was in, and they cleaned when I wasn't. As I have friends who live in the town, it's quite possible I may return, and if so I am likely to look to stay here again. Checkout was 9am-12pm but they said there were arrangements that could be made if I wanted to checkout earlier. Only little niggle was when checking out they tried charging me for a breakfast (which I never had) but the moment I said I never had any, they said that was fine and there must have been a confusion, so there wasn't any negativity around that.