Elaine from Maldon

March 17th - 24th March

Having read many mixed reviews about the Marina Suites, we went very open minded. The hotel was excellent & really can't understand what people had to complain about. We had a room on the 7th floor which overlooked the marina, the views were stunning. The room was very spacious & was cleaned every single day. All the staff were very friendly & helpful. We went half board & the breakfast & evening meal were very good. We did plenty of walking & the beach at Amadores is a must! There are shops around the marina but if you are prepared to walk that bit further you will find a large shopping complex with bars all along the top floor. This can be found by walking away from the beach between the spar & the public swimming pool, then under the underpass.We would not hesitate to recommend this accommodation to any of our friends & would definitely go back.

We went on a holiday to the Marina suites with two children a fourteen year old and a nineteen year old. We all enjoyed our stay and would defintly go back as soon as possible! The staff were so friendly and helpful,the cleaners were very good changed the beds and left clean towels everyday.The pool is so relaxing you could spend the whole week watching ships and boats go to Puerto Rico harbor.A life guard on duty all the time and at different times of the day little competitions would take place which children and adults could participate.The area around the accopation was lovely with no nice of traffic at night. There was lovely resteraunts and bars near by serving all types of food. This was propelly the nicest accopation we will ever stay in!!

We stayed in the Marina Suites from 9th to 16th Feb. Overall our stay was fine but it was tainted by one main problem.....noise. We were given room 105. This room is on the first floor just across from the lifts entrance and the stairs down to reception. Therefore, in the morning we heard everybody - lots of kids - heading out to the poolside for breakfast (that's where it is served) and at night time we heard every conversation and all the music from the bar downstairs. There is no door on the large marble stairwell so the noise traveled up. The bedroom is facing out onto the open air corridor and has two large floor to ceiling windows which block no noise at all. As mentioned in other posts, the hotel is right beside a working boatyard. I found it hard to relax by the pool or in my room with the almost constant noise of machinery and engines. Also, on a couple of days the smell of solvents and paints from the boatyard was very noticable. The balcony for the room is level with the pool area (see photo), directly opposite the jacuzzi, and close to the childrens play area so there is noise all day almost right outside the window from kids running back and forth or from people in and out of the jacuzzi! If you get allocated this room or one adjacent (101 to 108) I would refuse it straight away. I have no doubt if I had been given a different room a few floors up, I wouldn't have experienced half that noise.
Overall the hotel is very nice, with a great location (as in you don't have to walk far or up any hills), and is very modern and clean. The pool is great, but I think they have far too many sunbeds laid out. At times there was no space to walk from one end of the pool area to the other.

We have just returned from a weeks holiday at the Marina Suites and whilst the brochure says sea, pool or marina view if you are allocated rooms 101 to 108 you will have a view or some palm trees and no more.
These rooms are on the same level as the pool and therefore have a terrace. Between the terrace and the pool sunbeds is a channel of water and then palm trees about 6 foot high.
At that is your view - at over £1000 with First Choice we were very dissapointed.
Other comments made about the fabulous pool, the clean and well equiped accommodation, the high quality of the food and very realistic ~ but if you want to be able to sit quietly on your balcony and read a book enjoying the sun make sure you don't get allocated rooms 101 to 108.