Jardin Dorado Bungalows

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5th - 12th Feb 2007
We booked a bungalow for a week here directly having got some cheap flights with XL airways from Bristol. We are 2 adults, a 3 year old and a 4 month old baby.
Had a superb sunny week, air temp about 21 C with clear sunny sky, for about 95% of the time. Excellent holiday at great price. Nice sun tan. A bit like south France in June.
Jardin Dorado, is set in the Campo de Golf. It consists of about 120 semi-detached one bedroom bungalows set in 3 concentric circles around the core restaurant and pool area. According to a local taxi driver it’s about 20 years old. It’s a very secure complex, with only one main entrance and no cars or dogs on-site.
It’s about 2kms into Maspalomas beach which is a long walk especially given the number of high curbs to navigate. However its 3.5 euros in a taxi and taxis are abundant.
The bungalows are basic but clean and well kept. Cleaned 5 days a week with fresh towels. The complex is very neatly landscaped and kept in excellent condition. Bungalows are showing signs of wear but nothing too bad.
The pool area is great and you could happily spend days by the pool. The main pool is unheated but was nice if a bit invigorating. To the side is a smaller heated pool for adults (1.5m) and a kid’s heated pool (0.5m).
This place is not on the books of any UK holiday operators and so we were only one of 2 lots of brits. It’s mostly German and some Dutch. But we prefer this.
The bungalow was pretty small and basic and it’s surprising that they didn't build some 2 bed bungalows.
This style of semi-detached one bed bungalows is quite common around the area - we only saw one other place with 2 bed bungalows. But none-the-less we coped ok. 3 year old on the sofa bed, baby in a travel cot (provided free) and us in the twin beds in the bedroom.
We took the option of having breakfast, which is served buffet style in the restaurant from 8am to 10am. Reasonable choice with hot and cold options, fruit, croissants etc. But a lot of residents, simply bought stuff in the on-site shop which was well stocked and ate on their own terrace.
Wouldn't bother with the dinner, which we had one night and was very average. You can get a taxi to the beach or other restaurants for a nice meal.
The pool side bar offers a range of reasonably priced salads, pizzas, pastas burgers etc for lunch if you're staying by the pool for the day.
Maspalomas itself is a bit confused. There's no real town centre. The main life seems to be on the sea-front strip, which has nice shops and restaurants but these are pricey because they were built primarily to serve the three or four, huge resort hotels which occupy the sea front.