Summer sun at the Playa!

Advantages: Staff, cleanliness, rooms, food etc
Disadvantages: n/a

...If there's one thing I looked forward to all year, its a summer holiday. We try out best to make sure we go away every summer, and to date we haven't had very many bad experiences with the hotels we have picked. Last year, our choice of Holiday was to Tenerife. We booked our holiday at the very last minute. We were due to fly on July 6th, and at the beginning of April, we went into the travel agents and booked. Our choice of hotel, was the Iberostar Torviscas Playa, Costa Adeje, Tenerife. ** Travel Agents Recommendation/Booking. We started browsing through brochures and searching online for a summer holiday in around January. We came to the agreement that Tenerife would be our choice of hotel. We studied the prices in the brochures and haggled online, however although the offers online looked very good value for money, we...

SweetTooth93 20.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Iberostar Torviscas Playa, Tenerife

Beware of the Stinklers

Advantages: Quiet location, pretty views, All inclusive
Disadvantages: Busy,

...they weren't run the way I'd want them to be run but that's a professional thing with me), the golf, tennis courts and play park. It's a short walk to the rock pools as well as about 40 minutes to an hour into playa Blanca. The most we every paid for a taxi was 4?. I'd definitely recommend this hotel to anyone and believe a holiday is what you make it and it was a really good holiday which all 6 of us enjoyed....

Groovee 29.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of H10 Rubicón Palace, Playa Blanca

Lanzarote Princess, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

Advantages: Warm in April, great hotel
Disadvantages: Not warm enough to swim, not a pretty island

...This is a review of a package holiday to Lanzarote. 5 * Lanzarote Princess, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote We paid £737 each for two adults plus £367 for one child for 11 nights HB at the end of April , 2001. We travelled with Airtours and booked through a local high street travel agent. Flight and Transfer Our first trip to Lanzarote, in fact our first trip to the Canaries. It’s four hour flight, we had an hour’s delay at Gatwick but apart from that the journey was fine. Usual delay getting on the bus after arriving at Arrecife but we arrived at the hotel within an hour or so. Lanzarote is not pretty in the conventional sense. The landscape you would see from the bus looked something like a cross between a moonscape and a building site. Water must be at a premium because “lush” is not a word you will be...

michael_john_owen 03.11.2002 · Read review
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Review of Lanzarote (Spain)

Pur Blanca - a beautiful scent

Advantages: Cheap, smells great, other products available to match the spray
Disadvantages: Staying power is not long enough

...Pur Blanca eau de toilette spray is a fragrance that can be purchased from avon. I am quite a fan of avon and I noticed that many other ciao members also are. This is why I thought it may be helpful to write a review on a lovely avon product. The fragrance ------------------ Pur Blanca eau de toilette spray has quite a floral kind of smell. I don't consider myself to like to many floral smells but this fragrance is very light and harmonious. It is certaintly not overpowering and has a kind of simplicity to it. The floral smell comes from the white peony, blanca rose, waterlily, ylang ylang and white freesia. Sandalwood, heliotrope and musk are also included in this fragrance. This fragrance gives a very fresh feel and smell to the skin. When the fragrance is sprayed onto the skin it provides a rather relaxing smell...

cloudberry 25.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Avon Pur Blanca Perfume

Cheers 2 U - Playa

Advantages: A few good tracks to pick from
Disadvantages: Blinkered subject matter and inconsistent level of performance

...snares and heavy basslines set you up so high you actually forget the guys are on it! The line 'I cant stay in one place i cant sit still' kinda sums this track up. It could have been anyone singing on here the beat would have won the battle. The first single off the album but not sure if it charted, criminal All The Way - Slow the tempo down slightly and you get this little ditty. Quite a nice come down which shows to me that like Timbaland tunes you dont know whats coming next Everybody Wanna Love Somebody - Not bad, not as good as the first tracks but acceptable. Slow tempo with a heart felt message. Not one for me really Together - Same again on this track. Playa showing they have a soft centre, bring back the beats, bring back the beats I-65 - Again not bad, middle of the road stuff, the lack of features are telling me they...

Capodon 26.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cheers 2 You [PA] - Playa

Torviscas Playa is Top!

Advantages: Great location, Near beach, Attentive & happy staff and good food.
Disadvantages: Cold Pool, Built up Area, Noisy Road, Dinner gets packed

...We have just returned from the Torviscas Playa (September 2007). On first impressions, I wasn't sure as the building looking like it needed a little paint. However, once inside the hotel is clean and well kept with shiny marble floors everywhere. The Reception staff are efficient and really friendly. On arrival the Hotel supplies a small token orange drink, which we thought was a nice touch. The Hotel is in Costa Adeje and is very near to shops, bars, restaurants and a pharmacist. Playa das Americas is not that far away but you would need a taxi. There is even a Pharmacist across the road. Its very close to the beach and there are steps from the hotel, so not good for prams but you can get to the beach another way, which takes an extra 5mins. The Reception and bar area on the ground floor is very spacious with comfortable sofas...

lenny29 11.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Iberostar Torviscas Playa, Tenerife

Sa Caleta Playa resort

Advantages: family friendly. lolvey staff. Relaxed atmosphere. Safe
Disadvantages: None.

...Okay so this is infact my third attempt at writing this review because ciao keeps deleting it! Anyway? Menorca/Minorca♥ I thought that, in order to talk about the resort, Sa Caleta Playa I would need to just brief you on the island. Minorca is a small island and it?s one of the Balearics. Its neighbour is Majorca but it is nothing like Majorca. You can drive around Minorca in a day because it is so small. Minorca still has its traditional features and it nowhere near as ?touristy? as Ibiza of Majorca. Sa Caleta Playa Background info♥ Sa Caleta Playa is located in the town of Sa Caleta. This is a very small town about a 40 mins drive from the island?s capital- Cuidadella. Sa Caleta Playa is a First choice travel; agent resort. It is fairly small and right next to the beach. The apartments are pretty much in a row...

francesca.sd 16.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sa Caleta Playa, Minorca

The major pleasure is...

Advantages: Do NOTHING
Disadvantages: If you are not so lazy as me

...For me it's very easy... the major pleasure of the world in vacations mainly is to do nothing... and this is what I did my last holidays... I went Lanzarote on summer holidays and here is where I stayed for a week. It is a complex of bungalows, really "mini-small houses" which are in the south of Lanzarote. In Playa Blanca (White Beach) to be exact. Lanzarote is one of the island of Canary Islands which are part of Spain althought thay are near Africa. Most beaches there have black sand so this is an special place for many reasons but the colour of its sand is one of them. The site is enough good. It has two keys (I believe that in these things the best hotels have three) It has a surface of 25000 m2. The entrance it is a small building in which is the reception, a small room with reading, Internet and information...

Blancag 26.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Bungalows Riosol Club, Playa Blanca

Playa Moreia Apartments S'illio Majorca

Advantages: Very cheap very good accommodation with brilliant views
Disadvantages: None

...Playa Moreia Review - Mallorca After just returning from what is probably one of the best last minute holidays I have had I thought it important to share my views with you. I, like you, always like to read reviews of places before I visit them, but, this time it was even more important because it was the first time that I had not booked with a Tour operator - I booked on the internet at a wonderful price with just 10 days to go. In the main the reviews for the Playa Moreia on the internet are good and thankfully I took no heed of the bad ones, what do some people want I ask myself. I have now returned to England and I have nothing but praise for the Playa Moreia. I think its important to point out that the official rating of the Playa Moreia is a 2 key - but I would certainly rate it as good as any 3 star I have stayed in...

rachel1431 21.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Playa Moreia, S'Illot

Cuba Playa Caleta: Hotel and Service from Hell!

Advantages: Could not find any
Disadvantages: A streessful, sickening, waste of time and money

...February 2009. Playa Caleta is rated a 4 star. Sunwing Travel advertises it as a Sunwing Club Exclusive...whatever that means? We would call it the ?Club Torture? The hotel has a spacious, open-concept lobby on two levels. The lobby and the rest of the hotel are filled with cigarette smoke. When we asked the front desk staff if there was any non-smoking public areas, they answered with giggles as they held their lit cigarettes below the counter. This is supposed to be a family hotel; if you or your children can survive the second-hand smoke that saturates everything, you will still have a family. Buses idled right in front of the open hotel entrance, filling the lobby with carbon monoxide. As we discovered, vehicles in Cuba have no exhaust standards. From scooters to buses, they all spew black or blue smoke. ROOM: There are...

Longtravelled 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Playa Caleta, Varadero