Yaramar

Came to the Yaramar with my husband and 2 teenagers aged 19 and 17. This particularly stood out to us when booking being a Tui Blue hotel. Sadly it’s not up to the same standards as our previous holiday in Cyprus also being a tui blue.

We did half board and the breakfast was lovely, no problems at all. However the evening meals are dire, not to a 4* standard at all. The evening meals were not great at all, and if you are gluten free forget this hotel. They show 2 gluten free items locked in a box with a glass front, no separate toaster for gluten free customers either. The choice of food was rubbish, so if you do have dietary requirements you will struggle. There wasn’t any dietary information on the food labels either. There was raw chicken in the restaurant one night and I received a full apology from the head chef, and they offered us a free meal in the restaurant across the road. I was poorly from it but thankfully I travel with medication so I was able to recover after a few days. Again this being a tui blue all food should be labelled with dietary information. If you are gluten or lactose intolerant this hotel really isn’t for you. So please check food before eating. We ate 3 times in the evening and went out for the rest of our holiday. So we did spend much more than we expected, the evening meal in the hotel just wasn’t up to standard.

The pool area was lovely, you do need to be up for it opening for 9am to have your choice of sunbed. But there were a few dotted around up till 10am. Again, the same story of people reserving with towels and then leaving them for hours, management didn’t really do much. My big issue are drinks around the pool, they charge you a fortune and the prices could be lower, if they reduced the prices more people would buy! Happy hour is between 5-6pm only, and it’s actually ridiculous watching the staff running around the pool, there was a QR code on the parasols which you could order from, but not at happy hour!! The food from the pool bar was lovely, and quite reasonable. A few people bought their own drinks around the pool, and were told this was forbidden, not one sign saying you couldn’t so this needs adding to the pool rules. We put water in Stanley cups, as to buy a soft drink was 3 euros, for half a glass.

Rooms average, we had a sea view but the only complaint is the rooms aren’t the cleanest, I dropped a lid under the bed and it looked like no cleaning had been carried out under there for a while. Fridge not very cold, and it was hitty missy having the tea/coffee restocked. Air con fab in our room, but not in our teens room. We did ask for it to be checked and the engineer said it was working, but it was not as cold as the air con in our room. Sometimes towels were missed too.

Pool towels, they charge you 1 euro for a towel change, you do get a towel per person on check in but you obviously need to change it a few times when you are there. With this being a to blue you shouldn’t be charged for towel changes!

Good location and loads of bars and restaurants around. Would we return, no. I feel that this hotel should have been a much higher standard being a tui blue.

This hotel is advertised as a 16+ hotel but due to Spanish laws they are forbidden to turn them away, so if it’s adults only you are looking for it’s not for you.

Shout out to Frida for helping with the raw chicken incident, she was able to resolve with the hotel management.

Would we return, no, the Tui Blue standard was lacking at this hotel.

Perfect location, good service, and very good food quality. The new rooms are also amazing and clearly a highlight of the hotel. However, I was extremely disappointed by the condition of the towels and bathrobes. They did not feel fresh or properly maintained, which was particularly disappointing given the otherwise high standard of the hotel. I hope the hotel will review and replace these items, as this detail significantly affected the overall experience. Big thank you to the cleaning staff.