Oasis Papagayo Village

This resort is massive! There is lots for the kids to do all day and night so you don't even have to leave the complex and the Thomson reps are brilliant with the kids. I took my 3yr old daughter who loved it and cried when it was time to leave.
We went in September and the place was empty, this was a good thing as there were plenty of sun loungers, able to take part in all activities and loads of room in the kids club. We got talking to another couple who’s friends had been in August and hated it as it was far to busy and the kids didn't get a look in with anything. The rooms are really big, clean and well equipped with a microwave, kettle and toaster. The down side about the rooms is there is no air conditioning so you need to hire a fan. There is a TV in the room but this is also charged at E6 per day, there isn’t even a free radio station!
The town (Corralejo) is ok. The main street has lots of cafes and restaurants but all seem to serve the same food. The brochure stated it was a short walk into town, this is an understatement. It takes about 20mins down hill, so pack good walking shoes - no heels like I did! The beech is about 10 mins. But don’t let this put you off as taxis are very cheep and we did the walk every day with a 3yr old in a buggy so it can be done. Overall Oasis Papagayo and the reps made the holiday and we would return.

I have just returned from Oasis Papagayo & felt I had to write a review as I stayed in 1 of the 17 villas on site along with my partner, 4yr old daughter & my parents. The villa was fantastic we really could not fault it. It was immaculate, we had maid service every 2nd day along with towels being changed every day.
The pool was checked regularly & cleaned if need be. There were 3 large bedrooms along with 2 large bathrooms & a kitchen supplied with everything we needed (although the cooker wasn't up to much!) It was very private & peaceful, with a short walk to the kids pool. We didn't use the larger pools at all as my daughter hated the salt water! We also only ate on site once, most of the time we went to the Plaza in town as there was so much choice we didn't really have a bad meal, we also ate down at the harbour which was really nice.
I would also recommend the ferry trip to Lanzarote, it was a great day out. We hired a car which we would def do again as it only takes about 1hr to drive from the North to the South of the island, Caleta De Fuste is also a nice town to visit. About 5 mins drive from the villa were some gorgeous bays, too many to choose from & a short drive to Puerto Del Rosario you'll find a great shopping centre with decent shops!
All in all, we had a fantastic holiday, could easily have stayed for 3 weeks & would definitely go back again if we could book another villa!

We have just returned from spending two weeks at the oasis papagayo. We had a fantastic two bedroom apartment and thought it was brilliant. It was a quiet complex towards the end of our holiday as we were there at the end of august and it was pleasant to sit out without all the noise!
We didn’t think much of corralejo town but didn't need to visit there except for the cheapest supermarket. Fantastic waterpark right opposite the apartments. Just down the road there was an English cafe/restaurant called tiffany’s where the staff there were very polite and friendly. Also cafe Corralejo was round the corner from tiffany’s where there was a wide variety of food.
It was a 5 minute walk to the market which was on 2 days a week with some bargains to be bought. It was a long walk to the nearest beach and we didn't go to the beach at all as we were quite happy to stay by the pool. The only let down about the pool was the main ones were salt water and we found the other pool more crowded and for younger children.

Just got back from 2 wonderful weeks at this resort. We had a one bedroom apartment sleeping 2 adults and 2 children (6 & 10). The only downside was a poorly repaired sofa bed which we, the adults slept on.
The bedroom was spacious with plenty of storage; the living room again was more than adequate. The resort was clean and well serviced; towels and sheets regularly changed, rooms cleaned out regularly too.
The Thomson entertainers were outstanding. It amazes me that adults criticise what children entertainers do; they are there for the kids, not adults. Special K, Little L and Big Man are well motivated and energetic they work hard from 10am right through to 10pm. The poolside activities and resort clubhouse activities later in the day were more that adequate for our kids.
The resort is out of town, and you do have to walk for anything between 10 and 20 minutes to get right into town, this is downhill though. Cabs are dirt cheap and good quality; mainly mercs, well maintained - never paid more than 2.5 euros from the main strip rank back to the resort and it was 3.5 euros to the old town rank.
The new plaza places are great for food, we found the steak house and the Mexican very good on both service and value for money. The Indian is quite pricey so be aware of this if you fancy a curry.
The bars and restaurants in the old town, especially on the water front near the old harbour offer even better value for money as they have more competition, definitely worth visiting, the variety of food is vast and of good quality.
Fuerteventura has a slow pace, it has limited resources and is quite simple in the best of ways. Correlejo, although classed as the most commercial, is quiet but wonderful at the same time. I would always recommend this resort to anybody as it offered great value for money.
The Thomson Reps are a real credit to the resort and should be proud of their hard work.

We loved this hotel. We travelled with three children 1,3,8 there was something there for all of them, the spurs soccer school was excellent. The coaches were excellent with my son, they really made his holiday special.
We didn’t use the salt water pools as the fresh water ones were near the brilliant baby pool so the little ones could play safely. The rooms were lovely although the maids were a bit hit and miss.
The entertainment was what you would expect from a super family resort. I don’t think I would have enjoyed the resort so much if we had stayed anywhere else. Overall a very relaxing laid back holiday...just what you want with three kids.

The Oasis Papagayo Village is probably one of the best hotels I have ever been too. Right next door to the hotel which belongs to the hotel is a bowling alley where they serve food and drinks and when me and my brother went to the bowling alley it was £11 pounds for both of us for 1 game - which was pretty good.
Also next door to the hotel is a Restaurant, Pizza Place, Perfume shops and a Club bar which you go to at night for entertainment. Staff at the Oasis Papagayo are really good because you can just go to reception and say "can you order me a taxi please" and the staff would order you a taxi, you'd wait outside for it and it would be there in 2 minutes.
The holiday reps are really good and also at the Oasis Papagayo are 4 or 5 computers which children or adults can go on, it's 1 euro for 10 minutes and 2 euros for 20 minutes. The pools are quite good the only problem with the pools is 3 of the big pools are salt watered and sometimes can get in your eyes.
The beach is fab, the waves are absolutely huge (went over my head millions of times) and the flume park is absolutely great! There are little slides for toddlers and really steep, fast slides for adults and children over 5. If you do go to Fuerteventura and the hotel Oasis Papagayo have a really, really great time and enjoy it!

I stayed at this hotel in Aug o6 with my partner and two year old daughter the Thompson super family entertainment was brill my daughter had a ball all day and at night with aqua splash and the mini disco that the reps put on.
In my opinion the reps made the holiday for me as my daughter could not go to any of the kids clubs they still kept her entertained with story time and Thompson the dog and other games round the pool all day there was also a park and a soft play area for her. The only down side of this holiday was the location was out the way a good twenty minute walk to all the shops. Also the rooms were not that nice considering the price, I paid just under sixteen hundred pounds for the holiday.
They were clean the towels and bed linen bit shabby and also I was put on the top floor and had to carry my pram up and down all the time.
Reception not that helpful when asked if they had a phone was told to use the ones out side or on the complex all of which were broken, I told reception about this on day one and was told there was nothing they could do, and on day three I noticed a man on the phone I reception and was told I could have used their phone all along, when I did was quite expensive but beats walking twenty mins to find a phone that works. I did get the impression they don’t really like you to use it by the reception staff.
All in all it was ok I would go back because of the entertainment and facilities for the children.

After reading other peoples comments before I went away I wondered what the holiday would be like. The hotel was clean and tidy and the rooms were clean. Towels were changed frequently and so were the beds.
We often walked into town and although it takes about 20 minutes our 5 year old and 8 year managed without too much complaining. The cabs are really cheap 2 euros from town to the hotel and vice versa and they came quickly.
Only time we had trouble getting a taxi was on change over days when the drivers want the long run to the airport. There are a few useful things you may like to know it cost 34 euros for a fan for 2 weeks you get 10 euros back when you return the fan but if you go out of the hotel and walk in to town just past the water park there is a big shop that sells them for 19.99 euros so buy it and leave it rather than rent it.
Other annoying point was our room wasn’t ready when we arrived so we had to hang around for an hour. It was daytime but we were still tired and wanted to get ourselves sorted. The pools are massive but as others have said the big ones are salt water and none of us cared for them so we swam in the smaller pool and that was fresh water
There are many good restaurants in town at the plaza we didn’t have a bad meal once. If you want to eat near to the hotel go to Tiffanys out of the hotel turn left 5min walk run by English and the food is brilliant.
Take cash though as they do not except credit or debit cards at Tiffanys but they do take cards in all the places in town we ate. The kid zone reps worked really hard with all the kids and they enjoyed going to the club. We saw Thomson the dog every night and there was the opportunity to have your picture taken with him before your trip home.

We returned about 2 weeks ago and we had a really nice time. I will break my review down so that it is easier to understand.
CHECK IN
I would advise you to get to the desk as quickly as possible as they are very slow we waited ages and when we came back to get our fan an hour later people were still queuing it is not a nice wait after travelling all that way. Hire of fans and safes were about 30 euros for two weeks each which we thought was quite expensive and should be standard in the room but you definitely need both so what can you do.
THE COMPLEX
It was reasonable but sadly only a three star not four as stated. the facilities around the pool were poor such as there was only one table tennis table and it was not sheltered so you could not play anyway because of the wind, also the pool tables where always missing balls I don’t think we found one nice one and the air hockey table was broken.
There are 4 pools the two main ones were big and looked lovely however were salt water and after going in once we did not go in again it was not very pleasant! The other pool was nice and situated at the back of the complex but it was always full and was small. The pool bars were expensive as you can expect and so was the onsite supermarket. There is also a bowling alley and an ice cream parlour which was nice.
The day time entertainment at the pool was excellent and never stopped! The kids clubs also looked very good although we didn’t use them.
The night time entertainment was definitely kids only and seen as how our youngest is 14 was no good to us. The kid’s entertainment stopped at 10 and then you had something cheesy on for the adults. I have to say it was poor. The only good night we went to was a magic show.
APPARTMENT
The apartments were very nice. They were quite roomy and you got plenty of storage space. I don’t understand what people have said about the sofa beds, ours was fine! The bathroom was a very nice size however I would warn you of a bad smell that came from the toilet especially at night and in the morning this happened in both apartments we had and was very unpleasant we kept the door shut most of the time!
The maid service was very good, they always arrived at the same time around half 3 and changed the towels every day except Thursdays and Sundays I think were their days off. We didn’t find the no air conditioning to be a problem, we had our fan on throughout the night and kept the windows open as the breeze is really quite strong and this kept the room cool. Some nights we even turned the fan off when it got too cool in the night.
CORRELEJO
Correlejo itself is nice the beaches were gorgeous flag beach was definitely the best but it is a far walk about half an hour I would advise you really get a car we didn’t have one and regretted not been able to travel more.
Waikkiki is ok very small not a patch on flag beach. This took about 10 minutes walk. It takes just over 5 minutes to get to the nearest netto which is under Brismar or something like that and is very good value for money especially for water which we were constantly buying.
RESTAURANTS
Here is a list of places to eat that we recommend:
La Cortina on Waikiki beach
Slow Boat 2 was an excellent Chinese
Don Corleone 3 or something just past the plaza was delicious
Plaza Steak House was also really nice and good value for money
Poco Loco this was also lovely
La Tasca
We went to the Baku water park and were very disappointed. There were not many slides for you to go on anyway and to go on the rapids which were good you had to hire a ring which was 5 euros so we didn’t bother with this. There were rings you didn’t have to hire but there were only five and you had to wait for people to get off the slide which could be a long time. Also the lazy river was closed and when we looked in it was full of rubbish. However the wave pool was good.
I think that’s everything, I probably wouldn’t return to this hotel because of the salt water pools, the smelly rooms and the poor entertainment however we had no kids in our group.
The walks aren’t as long as people make out and it really is good exercise and they are nice scenic walks anyway. I think this hotel would be excellent for families with small children! Hope you have a good time!

We’re a family of 5 (2 adults 3children) just returned from this complex and have to say how disappointed we where. As a self catering apartment this was indeed very poor there was very little in the way of cooking facilities with the bathroom opening directly onto the kitchen. Buying food in was very expensive and very little choice.
Eating in the resort faired no better the food was disgusting and again not very imaginative (it appeared what little veg was available was tinned) hot food was warm, overcooked. Our apartment had damp on the walls and curtains. NO bath towels even though we asked repeatedly for them. Reception staff where curt to say the least (unless you where Spanish) often being left at reception waiting while the Spanish guests where tended to quickly (often while tending to us they would leave us to tend to others) There is very little outside the complex and the walk into town is not for the children.
The two weeks we where there on Saturdays we had to endure the noise from the local rave going on till 4 or 5 in the morning also being woken up during the night by other guest's leaving/arriving (luggage trolleys wheels clanking on the cobbled floor). Car hire was impossible, excursions expensive, and there’s a lot more I could say about this complex. The only saving grace was the entertainment team they worked very hard and bent over backwards to assist all no matter where you came from they are simply the best.
In fact they are only thing we could give 10/10 to. Well done big man, Special K, Little Al, the rest of the team you did wonders for this resort and we hope Thomson’s realise this.