Hotel Tropico Playa

9 readers found this review helpful

Visited the Tropico from 27th May 2011 for 1 week. Age's of visitors, Mid 50's x2, Mid 30's x2, 4 YO and 1 YO.
I visited this hotel for one week at the end of May. Never had any problems whatsoever. I read a number of negative reviews on various sites and travelled with some uncertainty. I need'nt have worried.
The hotel was clean and our room was made up daily with fresh linen. The foos was quantiful and varied. Full English for breakfast with all the trimmings. Eat as mush as you like. Drink as much fruit juice and coffee as you can !
Lunch was excellent every day. All you could wany and more. Lovely salads !
The evening meal was satisfactory. Still a good choice but maybe they do need to up the quality of the evening meals slightly. Altogether though had no complaints.
The hotel seems popular with OAP's but that suitd us as the pool was empty and the hotel quiet.
Drinks at the bar were great. Nothing watered down or anything. Pool bar with the lovely Gail throughout the day serving everything including slush, cocktails and ice creams.
Pool table, internet, TV, Kids play area and video games all close to pool with a great crazy golf right next door.
Hotel situated right over the road from the excellent plama nova beach and close to numerous shops, bars and restaurants.
Great entertainment every night. Childrens entertainment followed by bingo. Then we had a quiz night, 2 singing acts including Leapy Lee, a hyponist and a group who put on a animal show with snakes, lizards and other creepies and let the kids handle them. Fantastic !!
Slight negative if you can call it that was there was a few steps leading up to the pool but nothing really to worry about.
All in all we had a great time and may well visit again. Would definately recommend.

We came here last May and thought we had found a nice quiet hotel, right on the beach. Went again this May to find out it had gone all inclusive as well as half board-big mistake. Drunks in the bar, noisy drunks later in the night! The food quality and choice had been cut to accomodate the all inclusive and it was horrendous. Such a shame that thomas cook and thompson are refusing to take hotels unless they take all inclusive now-we dont all want to be part of drunken, loud misfits and kids running around everywhere thank you....

7 readers found this review helpful

We have just arrived back from our weeks stay at the Hotel Tropico. The staff are very friendly especially Gail at the pool side bar. On our first day my boyfriend badly sun burned his legs and she got him an aloe vera leaf to put on his sunburn and it worked wonders. All the waiters are very helpful especially Miguel. We went all incusive and found it very hard to get drunk as the beer and spirits are just local cheap drinks. The food was very good, there was lots to choose from at every meal time. The entertainment wasnt very good but there was quite a few older guests in the hotel so they might have enjoyed it. The rooms are cleaned every day but are very basic rooms. The beach is on the doorstep. You have to pay for the sun loungers but we just put a towel on the sand. Lots of shops nearby and only a ten minute walk into Magaluf. Its not really a hotel for younger couples, more a family hotel or older people.

3 readers found this review helpful

If you have trouble with stairs keep away from this hotel as the pool,sunbeds,television and afternoon snacks and some of the bedrooms have no lift access you need to climb up a flight of 14 steps.When I complained to the female manager that my wife was excluded from using the pool etc.she replied that we were lucky that the beach was across the road,I hope that she never has to try and use a three wheeled walker across sand although I would not give her any sympathy or assistance if she did.
KRR
8th./15th.May 2011

7 readers found this review helpful

Normally i would never write a review, but then i have never stayed in such a disgusting hotel.Firstly we had requested a sea view but instead we had the view of a plain white wall and a huge satellite dish.There was no lift to our room therefore we had to carry all our luggage up the stairs and then listen to other guests dragging their cases up each stair at all hours of the day and night for the full week.
The beds were made of a tatty metal frame and a piece of hardboard, covered by a thin matress.On day three of our holiday there was a blockage in one of the bathrooms above our room which with a lot of noise unblocked into our bath and sink.There was actual sewage from other guests floating in our bath.There was also small insect cocoon's all over the walls/ceiling of our room and in the passage way leading to our room.
We knew before we went that the pool was on the small side which wasn't a problem but the rotten smell of sewage which came from the drains around the sides of the pool made it an unpleasant experince to sit outside for long. This hotel is not designed for sun bathing as once it gets past two in the afternoon there is very little sun gets to the pool area.
Although we were halfboard we didn't eat any of the food in the hotel but even if we had wanted to there was always a queue outside the restaurant to get a table.
The only thing which we actually liked about the hotel was the location. Palma Nova is a beautifull resort with plenty to do for all ages, this is the reason why we have been four times. We have stayed in a variety of hotels but none of them have ever left us counting the days down until we could go home like this one did. Before we went on this holiday we read previous reviews on this hotel which mostly seemed ok but since staying there we have found that we are not the only ones who feel like this, we have spoken to three other couples who all had a similar experience to us.

3 readers found this review helpful

Hotel in main was great, location excellent food could have been a bit more varied. Most of the staff were excellent and went out of their way to help, apart from who I assume to be the manager or senior receptionist. The night before my departure I asked what time the taxi had been booked to take me to the airport, she said we did not have a correct reference number and refused to ring the taxi company to find out what time it would be there. A quick phone call to the travel agent back home got me the info I needed, but I shouldn't have had to do this as receptionist could have got the info for me

8 readers found this review helpful

Had a relaxing time at this hotel please do not listen to any bad reports at this hotel is lovely

3 readers found this review helpful

the hotel was clean, entertainment was adverage nothin spectacular but the staff was amazing awful friendly, especailly gail!! i still talk to them and am planning to go back :)

15 readers found this review helpful

Perfect setting right across from the beach. Quiet hotel which suited us. All staff friendly, room basic but fine, beds a bit hard!!! Food was good quality and plenty of choice, but being a vegetarian there was no choice, but used to that!!! A bit lacking in entertainment but what they had was very good. 10 mins walk to Magaluf for a change of scenery. Palma Nova is a lovely place with plenty of places to eat and have a drink and plenty of shops selling tack...... If you like a walk after tea, its perfect. Weather fantastic and will definately return.

12 readers found this review helpful

Dont listen to anyone who says this hotel isnt good. I have stayed here 4 times with my family youngest aged 10. It is a brilliant location with lots of lovely restaurants and bars and across the road from the glorious beaches. The food is excellent, with the most variety we have ever witnessed on half board holidays, even after two weeks were never bored with the food, unlike another hotel (Samos) we stayed in in september, the food was inedible, tinned everything - at the Tropico everything is fresh and lovely. My daughter loved all the food and she is a picky eater. Nightlife in magga is excellent, when we go on our own we visit bar Lush, Red Lion, Chaplins etc. bars in Palma Nova are a bit more quieter but the Stadium is best place to go where they have brilliant tribute acts, and offers on drinks, atmosphere is great. Go tropico and enjoy, we have never had a bad holiday there, rooms are slightly on small side but we have always managed ok. Pool is not massive but the beach is just across the road, can never understand people who go on holiday and sit around a pool for their entire holiday !! may as well go to Blackpool lol. Happy Holidays. O yeah we are booked in here for July - 25th Wedd Anni just me and hubby cant wait - Magaluf strip here we come !!!