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I’ve been here twice and will continue coming to this hotel. It’s located on a beautiful garden, with the beach over the road and at the right distance from summer-crowded Tarifa. Its laid-back atmosphere pulls you immediately to a vacation mindset. I love the retro touch of its decoration, the no-thrills approach of the facilities and the exotic touch of the peacocks wandering through the garden. The restaurant is extremely pleasant with its outdoor seating facing the beautiful garden, fish is fresh and service is careful.||Having said this, it’s a pity that this hotel doesn’t improve a few things that are below standard and not aligned with their prices:||- Breakfast: good variety but low-cost products. This can be easily improved with cherry-picked items such as specialty coffee, ham and cheese of superior quality (instead of basic supermarket quality), option to have eggs cooked as you like (instead of only boiled eggs), another natural juice apart from orange.||- Service: generally nice but could use a more proactive approach. When asked if I could switch to a larger room, I received the answer “we are full but please swing by to see if there are any cancellations during the week” instead of “let me make a note and I will call you if there are any cancellations”||- Tennis: Nice tennis court but hotel guests need to pay €10/hour to use it, which is of really bad taste given the current price point. Also even though there is a good tennis teacher in the area and you can hire him for classes, this is not advertised on the hotel’s leaflet given at the check-in.||- Bar: the beautiful lodge deserves a better-quality bar, with a barman preparing some mean cocktails and a few all-day tasty snacks and salads ||- Gym and spa: again, don’t know if it is possible to do any massage or treatment because no one proactively tells you about this at check-in. But with the lovely facility facing the garden and the pool, seems a waste not to use it. ||- Beach service: With a desert (yet rocky) beach just on the other side of the road, it would be a plus if they would prepare packaged lunches and a beach kit (sunshade, towels)||All in all, if you enjoy a high-level service hotel, this is not your place. But you’ll have a blast if you fancy a no-thrills, laid-back vacation.