Hesperia Sabinal Hotel

Having been in Spain many, many times this without doubt is the best hotel I've ever been in.
Why not 10/10? Poor service in lounges at night.
Your staff are attentive and pleasant, the food is of high quality and variable with many choices.
Quite simply the best. Looking forward to next year.

Wonderful food facilities, friendly and helpful staff, good excercise facilities incuding sauna, pool, steam room and jacuzzi. Safe environment, very clean and large spacious pool.
Pool bar serve the best chicken meal - best chicken I have EVER tasted.
Only small complaint is the effectiveness of bar staff - very slow to take your order.
All in all a brilliant holiday. Will return for sure next year.

My wife and I have just returned from a weeks holiday at the Sabinal Hotel, did we enjoy it? Silly Question!!! We absolutely loved it!! Right, lets put everything into context.
This is a large hotel catering for over 1000 guests and they do this superbly! Let's start with the food. The quality, quantity and choice was quite staggering! From fresh salads to main dishes like smoked salmon, roast beef, every type of fish etc, to sumptuous desserts which were so well presented you didn't want to eat them!!!!
The staff here all deserve awards for such care and attention to everything. Entertainment every night was good and dancing as well.
The beach was 15 seconds away from the hotel, but we mainly stayed by the pool which was magnificent.
This is NOT a holiday for youngsters as there is hardly any nightlife in the resort at all! But if you want a quite relaxing holiday in beautiful surroundings this is the one for you. We cannot recommend it enough!!!
By the way... Go to Mini Hollywood, it's fabulous, and worth every euro!!!

Well what is there to say... to start with I would like to say that the hotel is very clean and all cleaning staff were fantastic maybe some of the restaurant staff could take a leaf out of their book , well done cleaning staff. Also the bar staff were very polite admittedly we did wait longer than the spanish did but we would be the same here so fairs fair, but I still found them very nice.
There is one person who I must mention don't bother trying to be nice to the head waitress she was very rude to a lot of english people and I know that even our tour operator had put in a compliant about her.
The evening entertainment was a complete waste of time, if you do want a good night go out the front and straight across the road to Carlos its happy hour up to 10 at night and every one is made to feel welcome what a lovely man. Also Theo's bar very english but a really good night of fantastic entertainment. For people who don't know if you go out the front and walk straight out to your left and keep going for about 10 mins or walk along the beach there is a lot more to see and do, we was not told any of this by our tour operator he really didn't seem to tell us much unfortunately we found this out ourselves but on the last three days of our holiday they were the better three days.
I would also like to say about the flies I read reviews saying they didn't have many flies well all I can say to that is you must of been covered up from head to toe ....we were inundated with them god they drove us mad and every body was jumping around quite funny some times but two weeks of it does your head in, there must be some think the spanish can do surely but on the beach none thank god...
Ahh the beach clean, nice and Tonys is the best place to get your beds also we were very happy to see wait for it .....yes a beautiful dolphin and only about 30 ft from the beach we saw this twice in two weeks, how fantastic is that, they did say it was rare but she/he was so beautiful to see.... oh and I cant forget the old man from England who lived on the beach he was so polite and told us of many places to go and see. It took and english tramp to tell us where every think was thank you.
Anyway I personally would not go back it is for the older person and not for family's my two daughters were bored 12 and 14 , they enjoyed Theos and Carlos but that was about it, but enjoy if you go ...... cant complain about the food that was fantastic, staff need cheering up though.

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After trawling the last-minute holiday websites for what seemed like eternity the pretty resort of Roquetas De mar stood out as an affordable location that had all the potential for a relaxing beach front holiday.
The hotel Sabinal varied in price depending on the tour operator, the cheapest I found was with Direct holidays offering a standard room for two adults, half board for week in august for only £580.
Upon arrival at the Sabinal first impressions were excellent. The lobby is spotless, modern and the check in staff are very helpful. We had to wait about an hour for our room (203) to be available which was a bit disappointing as we were tired from travelling. However, when we finally got the key card the wait was forgotten and we could get ourselves settled into a comfortable, clean, air conditioned room.
Our room did not look out over the pool but out to the front of the hotel. There were a few bars and restaurants opposite which at first I thought might cause a lot of noise during the night although I was proved wrong as we were not disturbed once from any outside noise, not even from the big children’s play area.
Breakfast was served from 7.30 till 10. There was a wide range of food, hot and cold, free teas coffee and orange juice. Breakfast was the same every morning which was a bit dull nearer the end of the week. The pool area was very clean and plenty of sun beds to choose from as long as you got there before 11am. The snack bar is well equipped to cater for food and drinks throughout the day and is great value for money.
Diner was a buffet. Each night there were 4 or 5 different dishes accompanied by chips, salad, pizza, pasta, and soups. Desert was limited to jelly, ice cream, mousse or pastries. I consider myself a fussy eater and I really enjoyed the food every night.
Entertainment during the day consisted of keep fit, water aerobics, and cocktail games and of course a children’s club. The evening kicked off at 8.30 with a mini disco for kids.
Although, the Spanish songs were so catchy it was common to hear English holiday makers unconsciously singing along! At 9.30 the main act would begin, usually live music. There was also parrot show and karaoke.
As we are a young couple the entertainment wasn’t really for us but many older guests enjoyed dancing to the live music. Outside of the hotel there was not a lot to offer for young people so this is not a place where there is lots of bars and night clubs.
This hotel has all the facilities for a relaxing week in the very, very hot sun the temperature was around 34 degrees every day. I think longer than a week at the Sabinal would not suit young couples or families that want more than just sitting by the pool. Roquetas is small and there’s not much other than hotels there.

I was not impressed at all. The hotel was ok, no entertainment apart from two nights in two weeks and only the magic show was worth watching.
Food was good but that’s about it. The staff in restaurant were very nice apart from one, she was very rude to all English people.
Our room wasn’t very good and round and about the hotel was not worth going outside for apart from the bar across the road, this man was the only Spanish person that made us welcome.
Maybe the rest of Spain would like to take a leaf out of his book. This was my first holiday to Spain and my last thank you.

This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth!!!! Food, pool area and location fantastic.
However the check-in staff you meet really could not be bothered in dealing with you, made us wait till last, after all the Spanish had been dealt with. We got there at 1.30 and did expect to wait till the time stated that the room would be ready 2pm. However, we got told it could be 2 hrs ish!! When we finally got our room approx 3.30pm there was no additional bed for my 4yr old and as you can imagine she had been up since 3.30am and was really needing a sleep. I was told probably about 6pm for the additional bed. I asked for the manager who then got me a bed within 3 minutes and stated they did have 501 bedrooms to clean you know!!
Every day there was a problem with something, I felt that as we had booked through the internet and not through a tour operator we probably got second rate rooms with bits falling off all over and the electric wires hanging. The best staff were the cleaners and the pool bar staff who really tried to make your day the best it could be. Even the British entertainment lady tailored it more to the Spanish! Roquestas is a great place and does have places for the younger people who want to go out further round by the Playa Luna Hotel. My parents have a house here and I visit every year, however due to a family friend staying there I ended up in the Sabinal for 5 days which to be truthful, if I d not had my 4 yr old, I'd have taken my chances on the beach!

Don't go!!!

Having travelled to Roquetas every year for the last 15years, I feel it is like a home from home.
I never get sick of the place.... the fine foods, fine wines, and relaxed atmosphere is everything I look for in a holiday!!
Theos is by far the best place for entertainment, and Dermot is a true friend for life. Being only 22, people may think this is one of the quieter costa's and they would not be mistaken. But due to the number of times I have visited the region, you become friends with the locals and the Spanish fiestas just become apart of your holiday.
The Sabinal is the nicest holiday within the region, and gets better each year with stay.

We have just returned from 2 weeks at The Sabinal. We had a fantastic holiday.
The hotel was superb and the staff very friendly and helpful and all spoke pretty good English.
The food was delicious and the choices at each meal were plentiful and even spending two weeks, the variety was so good that we never had to eat the same meal during the whole fortnight.
Roquetas is not the place to go if you want night life as its where the Spanish spend their holidays, however we had a marvellous time at Theo’s bar run by ex pat Dermot who is brilliant, every night is karaoke night and not to be missed is Dermot’s cabaret on a Sunday it’s a brilliant show.
The other place we enjoyed was the Caribbean Breezer bar again run by an ex pat who entertained with 60's 70's soul and motown he had a fabulous voice and made us very welcome.
The only downside we could find are the flies around the hotel pool & gardens very distracting when trying to lounge on the sunbeds. We got round this by going to the beach we bought lilos and settled by the water’s edge and weren’t bothered by flies there at all.
If you prefer a bit more luxury the loungers on the beach had padded cushions and if you want to reserve the same ones for the duration of your holiday, Toni does you a good deal.
All in all we found Roquetas a very relaxing place to holiday.

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Very quite and peaceful area and this hotel is great as a base. Good food, good service and very clean. The only 2 problems are the flies (yes they do exist) and no tea/coffee makers in the rooms.
The flies are all over the resort not just this hotel, and they can be avoided if you go a little further up the beach out of the hotel area.
Best for adults and very good for disabled, but not really for children as there is nothing for them to really do.
All in all, great hotel, but a bit too quiet for me.