pcarruthers4
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We stayed here for two weeks at the back end of July, and what a fabulous two weeks we had. We were in the Hacienda IV part of the village, and the apartment was very spacious. If you are like our family, we do not like to be all cramped into one room. ||We paid for the extra large terrace, which was huge. We had family staying in FG Fanabe and had all ten of them over for food and drinks one evening, and there was still plenty of room. The kitchen is well equipped and easy to use.||Hacienda is set a bit back from the beach front and would take approximately twenty minutes to walk, which isn't too bad on the way there as it was all downhill. On the way back, it was a bit of a killer, but we managed it most night. On a couple of nights, we got a taxi, and it was just over €5. ||Things that let Hacienda down.....||Pools, over at Hacienda IV, there are to small pools with 9 beds around them, making it 18 in total. Bare in mind there are 49 rooms with most having a minimum of 4 people per room, from what we saw. Then the main pool outside the reception is about 30 beds, but again, the main hotel had more rooms again. Hacienda state when checking in that you are not to reserve beds, but on multiple days, we were left without a bed whilst some people had towels on beds and didn't return for 3 hours plus. Which no one polices. So, for us this let it down.||Another thing that let it down was 2 incidents involving staff. On the first night we arrived, reception was shut, so we rang the emergency number for out of hours as we had an issue and needed help. We were told someone would be with us within 2 hours, which wasn't ideal, but we waited, and no one turned up. When I tried to ring them back, the emergency contact number had been turned off and was going straight to voicemail. ||The second incident was booking a taxi at reception as we were leaving in the early hours. I asked for one at 3am, which the fella behind reception looked at me like he'd never had that request before. He took my room number and said he would book it. But I left not feeling convinced. Anyway, we got to the pick-up point at 2:45am and waited until 3:30am for no taxi to turn up. Thankfully, I'd kept a taxi card from a previous journey and was able to contact them myself, but at the cost of using my phone abroad. ||Would I return to Hacienda again, I'd say yes, but only for the fact or the spacious rooms and terrace.