We booked this online with Thomsons, flying from Humberside Airport. Once we were in the queue for check in, it emerged that due to the high winds the night before, the plane had landed at Manchester Airport. They had thought about brining it to Humberside, but decided that the crew would run out of flying time for the return flight, so bused us all up to Manchester (we were one of the lucky ones to get dropped of at the correct terminal).
Checking in at the hotel was efficient and the only problem was that as it was dark took us a few minutes to find our room! It was very clean (although did smell a little of stale tobacco, but not a great deal).
There was a shop on the Sun Royal site which we actually found to be cheaper than the Netto 5 mins down the road (not just for water, but San Miguel as well!!, although the hotel shop did not stock every variety, but still a good choice), and is open 8 am - 8 pm we had time to get some essential supplies - the Netto down the road is open till at least 10 pm maybe later.
The Bathroom - small but adequate and the shower was like a power shower - fantastic.
Bedrooms - nice and clean and plenty of wardrobe space, although it was two singles pushed together. Also had safety deposit safe in the bedroom which you sort out hiring with reception.
Kitchen - 2 electric rings - take a couple of minutes to heat up but not a major issue - you get a massive pan, a small pan and a frying pan (and the hotel shop sells nice english style bacon - even though you only get 3.5 slices per pack - just enough to fit in the frying pan). Also have a microwave, kettle, coffee maker thing (havn't ever used one but that is what it was!), a toaster - although weird cos it only did one side of bread at a time and so you had to put it in again, and an electric juice squeezer.
Living area - get a table to sit at and eat if you wish, a sofa/bed settee to sit on, coffee table and a tv, although not very many channels - but then you don't go on holiday to watch tv.
Patio area - although we were up some steps, we were on a second level of the hotel, so we did not have a balcony, but a patio area - 4 chairs and a table and it was a right little sun trap as well.
Pool - there are 2 pools - the one were we spent a lot of time had mostly english people - one day there was no spare sunbeds, so we asked at reception who got the maintenance man to bring two from the other pool. The other pool - mostly used by germans as they are on all inclusive and have their childrens entertainers on the pool side, but this pool is slighty heated so we did go in this one as it took the edge of the coldness of the other pool (but it is only March). Weather was about 23 - 24 degrees - but warm enough to get a tan or burn if you don't use cream.
thomsons rep - good welcome meeting, but we only went on one attraction which was the volcanic grill, which at 54.90 euros each was expensive for what it was, but then they have got a captured market as the only way you could get to this if you didn't go on the trip was to hire a car and you couldn't have a meal in the restaurant at the time we went (not sure when it was open to general public).
My husband hired a bike from Sun Park (as Sun Royal's slightly cheaper hotel next door for 12 euros & 30 euros deposit) - I opted to stay and sunbathe, but he said it was ok and as the day was a little cloudy was a good day to do this.
The resort - it is a good 5 or 6 mins walk to Netto at the end of the street. You can then either turn right and walk another 10 mins and there is an Irish pub called Paddy's, and upstairs from that, The Nags Head which sell really nice food at reasonable prices and Fiddlers next door, although did not go in that as they were not doing food when we went.
Alternatively if you don't turn right at Netto you can go straight on - another 10 miuntes walking and you will come to loads of restaurants - a few shops, there is a burger king, another Irish bar called Mollies - although a warning - we had the sunday dinner there - my husband had the lamb which he said was delicious - I had the turkey which was Bernard Matthews style processed turkey slices (not proper turkey which I had expected), so unless you like this sort of turkey, don't have it! You can have any sort of food you want - as per the usual for these sort of resorts.
If you turn left at Netto, you walk in paralell to the promenade (or walk straight on and turn left) - there are not as many restaurants or shops this way, but it is a nice walk.
Coming home, we left the runway in Arreceife about 10 mins early, went to land at Humberside and, for people who have landed at Humberside before, you know you have to be really low down when you come over the fence next to the road as it is a shorter runway than other airports, so the pilot, was not low enough over the fence, went to land, then aborted the landing and didn't say anything to the passengers, but we all knew he hadn't landed. Apparently could not land at Doncaster as although we were on a Thomsons holiday we had come back on a Thomas Cook plane and Thomsons have the rights for landing at Doncaster so we landed in Manchester (the pilot said longer runway), the landing was the worse I have ever had (and I would say that I have probably had over 20 landings in the last 8 or 9 years) as when he landed he couldn't control the plane and it toppled from side to side a couple of times - the pilot said it was windy and that is why he hadn't landed at Humberside. We went to the frieght terminal at Manchester, got off the plane when the steps came 45 minutes later, collected our baggage an hour later and eventually got on a coach at 9.55 pm, getting back to Humberside at 12 midnight instead of the 7.40 pm it had meant to be. Several passengers were also of the same opinion that the pilot did not want to land at Humberside, as he did not even take a second go at it.
Overall, apart from the plane episodes, we had a nice holiday. I would only stay for a week personally as I do like to go to explore and felt that it was very quiet (nice for us for a relaxing week), but felt not much else to do. I would return to these apartments again, although would not recommend to anyone who cannot walk very well or does not like walking distances as you had to do to get to the restaurants (unless you get a taxi every night).