Booked a 2 week “dream” holiday to Tenerife and picked this hotel from the usual “doctored” images online. I’ve stayed in H10 hotels before and they have been very good. I can’t really say this hotel is not good as such, it’s just not for us. When we arrived our flight had been delayed so it was around 0130am. We were met with a large security guard wearing a mall cop style uniform wandering around reception with a giant baton on his belt. There were A LOT of heavily intoxicated people sitting on the step outside and one even fast asleep on a nearby bench. Inside was a scattering of drunk groups of younger adults dressed for a night on the town and making an extremely large amount of noise. I felt the colour drain from my face as I realised that I had fallen into the trap of not doing sufficient research and realising that this hotel strongly promotes all-inclusive and draws in the drink focussed tourists who enjoy being at home when they’re on holiday. The receptionist who checked us in made several awkward pauses as she scowled across at the noisy groups who were making hearing anything other than them absolutely impossible. She looked disgusted and she works there! We were handed what appeared to be quite a lot of paper for checking into a hotel room. There was a meal information leaflet, Wi-Fi details, receipts for the safe, vouchers for a shop, tickets for a ****** and the room key. This was the beginning of a pattern of needless paper production which took place throughout. I had booked a “Superior Room” and when I opened the door my heart just sank. The room was small, not just unbig, but actually small. Very small. It was a square shape of about 5.5msq. There was small bathroom and a balcony too. The walls of the room were a woodchip style paper that was fashionable in the 1970’s and looked very out of place. The furniture and fittings were all wrong too and nothing looked like it belonged in a hotel of any standard, it was like the room of a house. There was a bright garish silver metal trim around the bathroom doorway which cheapened the room further. Everything had a cheap, hostel type feel to it and felt a lot like an Airbnb property not a branded hotel, there was no brand identity at all. There was a broken stop valve tap in the bathroom which had been pushed back on and secured with silicone. It kept coming lose and the cleaner would just balance it back on again. Why not repair this…? The actual bedroom doors were like doors in a cell block, just too industrious with big metal rivets all down them. Something not quite right with it all. There is just no hotel vibe to anything. They provide your room card in a small cardboard wallet which contains your room details. This is printed on, however I noticed that our room number had been altered with Tipex and another room number written on over the top. The date of arrival was also altered in the same way as we were delayed and arrived one day late. It seemed
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