Aparthotel Tamaimo Tropical

3 readers found this review helpful

Booked Tamaimo as last minute break, self-catering for one week. Apartment was spacious, clean and well equipped with air-conditioning, microwave, fridge etc, Hotel staff helpful & friendly. The problem with lack of airbeds did not bother us as we did not intend to lie by the pool all day. Good supermarket across the road.
Found good non-British restaurants in the area (I don@t go abroad for British breakfasts!)
Regular bus service to other beaches
Visiting Mt Tiede and the cable car is a must!
Only complaint was the Thomas Cook rep was less than professional /efficient in sorting out a problem with the bus pick up for the airport.
Tragic news about the rock fall on 1st Nov which killed two women on the beach in Los Gigantes.

6 readers found this review helpful

My wife and i booked for 1 week, I read the reviews and decided the only way to find out how true they were was to try for ourself. I would not go again if it was offered free. As for getting a sun lounger its a no go, they unlock around 9am and within seconds they have all been put down with a towel on them and left, some nearly all day before the people returned, even though it has signs all around the pool saying no reserving. I videoed this 3 times in the week to show people and they cannot believe how the hotel could let it go on. We were fortunate with the cockroaches we didnt get any in room all week, although we had 2 dead ones in wardrobes, we saw on 3 occassions cockroaches in dining room, one was actually running down the servery, put me off my food, the food is also repetitive, chicken pork veal and fish, every day you knew what to expect. The dining room was only available by one entrance and you had to walk all the way around the hotel to get a snack and had to eat in dining room could not take outside. There was a door at the poolside which gave entrance but was a fire door for the dining room but they put on a hasp and staple with a padlock to stop people using. Maybe we have different laws about locking fire doors. You need to travel if you wish to see shops etc as it only has a couple there which are no use to anyone. All in all i would not recommend to anyone but see for yourself like i did, look forward to read your review.

11 readers found this review helpful

Me & my boyfriend (both early 20s) stayed for 7 nights all inclusive at the end of september and paid £395 per person for this break, and frankly I'd pay double that if I had to, to go back! The hotel is spotlessly clean, our room was cleaned every day apart from 1, when the cleaners even left a note telling us they wouldn't be cleaning the next day. If you need extra towels or bedding you only need to ask at reception. All of the staff speak very good English and are friendly and helpful, will let you know which bus you need or help you get a taxi etc. The rooms have a kitchen with cooker, microwave and fridge/freezer. Ours didn't have air-con which I wasn't too bothered about but if going in Summer season I would definately request an apartment with air con.
As for the food, it was delicious, I've never had such great food from a hotel. So much choice. Breakfast - different cereals (including sugar puffs), sausages, bacon, scrambled and boiled eggs, beans, chips, tomatoes, loads of different fruits, cooked meats, toast and varieties of bread and pastries.
For the main meals there was always 2 meats, a different type of rice, pasta and potato every day and obviously chips along with at least 2 kinds of veg and any kind of salad you can imagine. And vegetarian options available too. Sooo many puddings to choose from and fruit aswell if you want to be good.
You can order a picnic basket for lunch to take out, and there are snacks available all day including hot dogs and burgers after lunch so you could eat non stop if you wanted to! Pots of ice cream included aswell, however no food can be taken out of the restaurant which keeps the pool area nice and clean.
There are main brand soft drinks available including Coca Cola, Fanta and Sprite. None of the alcohol is watered down at all and the bar staff are brilliant, all spirits and shots are included aswell as beer and wine.
The entertainment team were fantastic as were our Thomas Cook rep. The kids club was brillaint and always planning something throughout the day and doing "booms disco" at night and handing out awards for kids and parents. Cash prize Bingo was on most nights and some professional acts so didn't need to go out of the hotel at all. If you did want to go out theres plenty of bars & restaurants just around the corner from the hotel about 2 minutes walk including a mexican, italian and chinese and an english bar which plays all the sports on tv! Theres also a couple of supermarkets if you want to buy some snacks for the room or souvenirs. There were plenty of sunbeds, and you don't need to get up early to grab one and no-one can put towels on overnight as they are locked up. The pools were lovely and you had a choice of the pool with music and entertainment around (including diving lessons) or the quieter pool.
Puerto Santiago is beautiful, with plenty of stunning scenery including a natural swimming pool and black sand beaches, and a few shops however it is hilly so not good if you have walking difficultys. Theres a great bus service which is very cheap and takes you all around the island including playa de las americas and costa adeje. Taxis are reasonable too. I'd highly recommend the water park Siam Park we had an awesome day there something for everyone including a very scary wave pool.

12 readers found this review helpful

we have just returned from a week at the tamaimo tropical and it was a fantastic holiday ! the food was lovely massive choice and something different every day, none of the drinks were watered down at all. all the staff in the tamaimo were lovely, friendly and very helpful. our room was cleaned every other day with fresh bedding and fresh towels. all the rubish about the towels getting put on beds at 4am is absolute rubbish !!!! the beds were locked up all night and didnt get unlocked until 9 am evry morning after the area around the pool and the beds were cleaned. there are two big pools to choose from. we will definatly be returning to the tamaimo tropical. i had read all the reviews before i went but wanted to make my own mind up.

3 readers found this review helpful

not very good hotel shabby rooms very noisy at night sun beds got urinated on and never got cleaned the cleaner never give u clean towels even wen u asked the beer was watered down the food was terrible so i would say dnt book or if u av i feel sorry for u

6 readers found this review helpful

Have just returned from the Tamaimo Tropical. We too were a little concerned having read some of the reviews online. However, we were pleasantly surprised. We were a party of 8 and having searched endlessly for an affordable holiday came across the Tamaimo. Its 2 star and cheaper than everything else out there. Maids clean the room every day; pool was cleaned every day; we never ate the same thing twice and there was plenty on offer; never had to queue for food; 3 young kids were well catered for both in terms of food and entertainment (well done Em and Abbie!); fresh food brought out regularly; staff cheerful (other than lifeguard!). No - there was no food served after 9.30 at night; there were some omissions from what was advertised in the brochure but all inclusive resorts always reserve the right to change what is on offer and this rider is clearly stated in the brochure. Reps didn't intrude and were helpful when needed. Biggest problem was lack of sunbeds - with 2 large pools there are not enough to go around and my wife was one of many residents up early every morning to get one: not everyone was always successful. We certainly got what we paid for and enjoyed a very relaxing break and more than satisified with what we got. Kids made loads of friends, we enjoyed oursleves (including my hard to please mother in law!!)- holidays are what you make them!

9 readers found this review helpful

What a disaster this holiday was! We booked through Thomas Cook and have gone all inclusive with my two kids and sister for 20 years and this has probably been the worst! We were greeted into our unclean room to two cockroaches which after 10 mins of catching them had to leave them on the floor with a glass on top for the maid to pick up next morning.My kids don't get up till around 10:30 and we thought there would be no problem in them getting food as there was "snacks" between 11- 1pm however we went in and found left over breakfast, went to see rep and she said it was "extended breakfast" but it was stone cold. Had to get up at 7am every morning to get sunbeds and umberellas and there were teenagers up till 3am every morning jumping in and out of swimming pools as there was no security. Entertainment at night was supposed to be professional shows- only one proffessional spanish dancing. Absolutely crap entertainment and the so called "kids club" was a load of kids playing manhunt and running round the hotel screaming ! Only 2 people on the entertainment team all week and didn't have a clue how to entertain. We went out everynight around to the bars and restaurants and ended up spending a fortune as the entertainment was so bad. Couldn't get chairs and tables to sit on at night so we decided to go out. Went to "Courtyard" Pub and it was the olny good thing about the holiday, the live acts were FANTASTIC!!! If you have already book to go to Tamaimo Tropical make sure you go to the Courtyard. Pools were unclean grid coming out the bottom of one, was supposed to be a pizzeria, bbq and a la carte restaurant as advertised but were no open all week. Food was the same most days and my daughter who was vegetarian had to eat pot noodels all week bought from the supermarket. Things were labelled as vegetarian and she ended up eating pasta with meat in! Found a dead fly in my lettuce one day, went to see rep and she said she was "off duty" and had no interest in anyones concerns all week. Bar and restaurant staff were rude, asked for milk for cereal and had 10 mins of staff saying there was none- after i waited for so long outside the kitchen they finally brought some. Was lay on the sunbed one day asleep and a cleaner came and rammed the trolley into the back of my sunbed hitting my head and kicking the sunbed until i woke up. Got up and received a load of spanish abusive off her- didn't even do anything wrong! Gardner one day put the sprinkers on a load of sunbed with towels on, towels soaked wet through all day. Around 200 people per day lay on the grass as there was not enough sunbeds for everyone. It was clear that the hotel could not cope with this amount of people as they had completly filled the large hotel and could not cater for that many people. We were told that the hotel would not be all inclusive after this season and that thomas cook would not be putting the hotel in their brochure, i think thats says it all. The staff had clearly given up and the rep just could not be bothered. A games room, keep fit, aqua aerobics, snacks by poolside, bbq, pizzeria, a la carte restaurant, volleyball, afternoon tea and cakes and proffesional shows and acts were advertised but did not receive any of these. Ended up eating pizza most nights from pizza takeaway, sitting in pubs and bars and had mexican tea one night which was very nice. Ended up spending around £300 that week on the above and buying food from the supermarket, not the money you expect to pay when going all inclusive. All i can say is if you haven't already booked, DON'T!!!

3 readers found this review helpful

place was good staff were great but you had to get up early to get a sunlouger they had towels on them to res them from as early as 0400hrs although you were not allowed to do this we were there 2 weeks and got a lounger 3times also not enough chairs to go round so you had to stand aroundthe tables with your drinks the hotel though was clean and tidy and the food was great

6 readers found this review helpful

Me and my boyfriend are just back from a weeks holiday at this aparthotel and i honestly can say that it is a great resort. Its very family orintated which gives it a lovely vibe however, its a place which i would recommend for couples too. The area itself is quiet and a bit out of the way from the madness of young clubbers however, if like us you would like to visit the main tourist attractions of tenerife i.e las americas/los christianos then its only 3.55 euros and its about 45mins journey.The hotel itself was extremely clean, i was very pleasantly surprised, even outside on the balcony it was spotless!The only thing is that half the apartments are air conditioned whilst the other half are not.We were actually expecting to get an air conditioned apartment but when we arrived at our room we realised how we were without. This was an immediate let down but after speaking with the staff at reception they said they could move us in 2 days. I would have liked to have been moved straight away but figured that i was fortunate enough to be moving at all. The two nights we spent in the non air conditioned room were pretty difficult to withstand, the heat at night kept me awake mostly therefore it was a huge relief when we did get moved into an air conditioned room. So my advice is if you are looking to stay here, make sure you get an air conditioned room or be prepared to have a few sleep less nights.The pool was really beautiful and i enjoyed the evening entertainment.If you are going all inclusive then dont worry you will be well fed!We found the food good and of great varity, so if your a picky eatter dont worry, theres chips! and other foods to suit all.The drinks aswell were great, free fanta lemon,coala,fanta orange and sprite all day every day.All in all, its a great resort for a relaxing yet fun holiday with good food, entertainment, clal apartments and sunshine..what more could you want?

7 readers found this review helpful

If you have read people's reviews saying that it's rubbish you shouldn't believe a word of it. this hotel is the best i have ever been to in Tenerife as i have been here before. The weather is brill and can always catch a tan by the side of the pool or even on the beach, the beaches are lovely but we went on a black beach, i would recommend a dark coloured cozzie as it takes ages to get a stain out if it's bright. the food at the hotel is gorgeous (i should know i'm picky) and sometimes we even went up for seconds as there were 8 of us there were still plenty of activities to keep people occuppied especially for the kids. the entertainment were great so we would recommend you watch it especially eagles had picture taken with them they were beautiful creatures. the rooms were cleaned throughout the whole week and all staff had a smile on their face , rooms came with either a balcony or terrace overlooking the pool which by the way is lovely especially the heated one you could never find me out of it there were a few cockroaches about but what can you say it's there country of origin so you can't blame staff for really having an untidy hotel because that's where they live. the waterpark is amazing the slides are great you would always find me on one of them, it was a great day out. definately worth going back , let's see what the future brings, but overall a great holiday.