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Fantastic Hotel. I first came here in 2022 when my sister and her husband hired the whole hotel to hold their Wedding. Staff are Amazing and I want to particularly praise Carmen who is fantastic. She is friendly, happy and has great character. It's about a 10 minute walk into town, but only about a 2 min walk to the Algas Bar by the beach which is my favourite place in the World! Hotel is Clean, Tidy and quiet. Stayed here in 2022, Last Year, and got back from staying here last week! Will be back next year.

The Diamante hotel is in one of the few actual hotels in Calpe, although a relatively busy resort. It is not far from a well kept promenade and beach with many shops and restaurants fronting but some way from the centre of the town. Very large but well able to accommodate many guests without seemingly appearing overcrowded. The rooms are spacious with the usual 4 star facilities and the same can be said of the bar and cafe. The restaurant is large enough to accommodate with a very large choice of dishes at breakfast lunch and dinner. Very impressive that they can also cope with so many people and maintain sufficient food for all with such ease and maintain food looking attractive. Although the guests come from many countries of Europe, predominately on my visit were people from the host country. In this regard children might find it difficult with the kids organised activities if they were not from Spain. The same can be said of the evening entertainment which is geered towards Spanish guests. Very helpful cheerful staff and all areas of the hotel are spotlessly clean. Although not having knowledge of the spa (extra cost) it appeared excellent and there is a free to use gym. There are 3 pools - one is small for children really. The sunbeds are certainly squeezed together and there is no quiet outside area, although the hotel is itself quiet, the night entertainment carries. All in all one will go long way to find a hotel of this rating being better

The hotel is tall, but the service staff is a little less than China. The breakfast is rich in variety and the rooms are fully equipped and stylish. Not close to the beach, but far from the nearest.

The Cookbook has 2 good quality restaurants and calls itself a boutique hotel. Unfortunately the hotel is not boutique as this brings to mind luxury and quality when in reality the rooms are looking tired and in need of attention. On checking in, first impressions were very good, staff are very pleasant and attentive, the reception area is modern and attractive. We were offered a drink while we were checked in, which was very welcome. Unfortunately once we got to our room, we discovered that the air conditioning was not working at all, it was running but just moving around ambient air. We called reception and they advised that they would call in the engineer whilst we were out for dinner. On our return, we were advised that they discovered that the unit had broken and we would be moved to another room. The replacement room air conditioning was working as it was a brand new unit, but instead of replacing the old unit with this new one, the old unit was left in place on another wall and the new one added as well. So the room contained two air conditioners which looked a bit odd. The hotel corridors were roasting hot, it appears that either the air conditioning is not working in these either or they had been turned off to save money. Our replacement room was looking very tired in places with doors needing sanding and revarnishing and drawers that were falling out if you pulled them out too far. Using the bathroom, we discovered a couple of issues. Firstly the sink tap was falling apart. Secondly and to be honest, totally disgusting was the wet black mould that I only discovered after I ran a bath and had a close up view of the bath tap. We reported both issues to reception and asked that they be resolved. Staff assured us that they would be immediately dealt with and on our return from dinner that evening, we were told that the sink tap had been fixed by the engineer, the mould would be dealt with by room service the following day. We were reassured that staff were on top of the issues and found the sink tap now fully working in the room. We felt confident the mould issue would be resolved the following day but to our disappointment, discovered the tap in exactly the same disgusting state. As were were spending our last night in the hotel and we had already bought it to the hotels attention, we decided to not bother to report a second time, but just list the issue here for other travellers to decide if they want to stay at this hotel or not! Breakfast at the hotel was fine although there was a bit of a lack of choice which other reviewers have complained about. It seems that there was a chef shortage as the receptionist was also doubling as the cook during our stay at the hotel. He advised us that the only thing he could cook was a plain omelette or scrambled eggs. Luckily we were fine with that choice and he cooked them well. I got the impression that most of the money spent on the Cookbook has gone into both restaurants (which are lovely) and