Mena Palace Hotel - All Inclusive

So the hotel is nice enough, staff friendly and helpful, generally clean and the food and drinks aren't bad considering it's all inclusive but there is no way this is a 4 star hotel, it's aged and dated.... good points are the staff, drinks and convenient location, the rooms are OK but ours (202) had mould in the shower, cracked tiles, leaking shower screen and the ac is nothing but a fan with no cooling effect. But by far the biggest issue is the lack of shared space, there are by far not enough sunbeds, (roughly 100 for a hotel with maybe 400 rooms? ) same goes for seating at meal times just not enough seats especially when kids sit alone on a table to avoid sitting with their parents. Hotel is ok as a base but needs some investment and the cook needs to eeason the food.

Mena Place OMG where do I start. I have been traveling abroad for over 40 years and this is 100% the worst hotel I have ever stayed. 99% of staff don’t speak any English. Went to our room, noticed the shower head holder was broke, took them 24 hours to fix. On all our holidays we always set a trap, we put a bit of paper down in the bathroom just behind the toilet. Day 7 when we were leaving the paper was still there. Cleaning of the bedroom and making of the beds was far and few between, bed sheets only changed once in 7 days. Beds were NEVER made 100%, dusting around the room was non-existent, the beds only 14 inches off the floor and they must have been a min of 15 years old with spring mattresses. Sink in the bathroom had a LARGE crack in it and also was NOT cleaned for the week as we left tooth paste on one side. Dirty glasses were NEVER taken or replaced, the cleaning staff did about 40% of the work they should do for a 4 star hotel. Day 4 of the holiday water starting coming down through the bedroom ceiling. Disgusting LAZY cleaning staff. The hotel itself was like time travel going back into the 70’s. Their website advertises “the hotel's a' la carte restaurant offers a great range of cuisines for breakfast, lunch, and dinner” TRUTH the restaurant was like a Motorway service station and the service station would be cleaner and better food with more to pick from, and hotter. • They advertise “Restaurants” LIES as there is ONLY ONE restaurant. On the restaurant wall was a certificate showing for a 3-star sorry what a joke I wouldn’t give it a 1 star. • Also advertise Minimarket, more lies there is none you have to walk 20m outside the hotel to a shop. There is NO a’la carte restaurant. The food, sorry it was pig’s swill. PLUS a a’la carte restaurant DON’T serve frozen veg. We only eat here for the first day. 3 out of the 4 of us has a stomach bug, says it all. Breakfast OMG cold beans, mushrooms which were frozen mushrooms and full of water, tomatoes, tin sausages, NO toaster, bacon was 85% fat 15% meat, NO cereal, dried bread. Tables were NOT set up, no cutlery, plates, glasses or cups NOTHING, you had to go and get cutlery from the side. Chipped and cracked plates. On their website & on Loveholidays site it shows tables all set up even with napkins and tablecloths what a joke and LIES and FALSE advertising by the Hotel & the travel agent Loveholidays, tables just had just OLD dirty plastic covers. Lunch n evening meals what a state. Choice was 100% limited but you had the guarantee that there were meatballs in sauce or fried. Frozen COLD veg. Toilet for the restaurant people complaining re no towels to wipe their hands, we sat there and watch a waitress who we noticed was a bully put paper towels in the toilet, wipes down a sink THEN came out of the toilet NOT washing her hands or anything, picked up clean cutlery from a trolly and started putting them into the holders for people to use. Sorry, that was it didn’t eat there again. T

Had such a great time staying at mena palace would definitely recommend also would like to say a big thankyou to Victoria the very hard working lady works behind the bar for being amazing all throughout my time at mena palace always smiling and happy to help making me and my family feel very welcome. I cannot fault this hotel apart from I found the lady who works by the pool area Valentina quite rude and did more sunbathing than anything else!