Aparthotel San Eloy

We went for a week in 2006 and returned for a second time in Aug 2007. It's the first time we have been back to the same place - and we even went for 2 weeks for the first time ever. We weren't disapointed. I have just booked again for this August - 2 weeks AI for 2 adults and 1 child in school hols at height of season for £1600 (can you beat that?).
Clean and friendly, and loads of families that return every year. My daughter made so many friends that return year after year, and has kept in touch with them all. We are meeting 8 families again this year - like a reunion!
Loads of activities - and not just for the kids. My partner and I barely saw each other in the day what with the organised activities every hour. Football/volleyball/pool etc for him, and boules/darts/quizzes etc for me. A lovely tennis court too. Evening entertainment by the team who worked relentlessly was adequate and easy to watch whilst chilling out. We were dragged up on stage many times to join in and had such a laugh. My partner even took part in "The Full Monty" which was a scream.
Retaurant small but acceptable. Always a choice, including home made soup which was enough on a lunchtime. My daughter (15) loved the pasta and various sauces. The rooms are massive - self contained accomodation which is unusual for AI. Fridge was a blessing. Our room was kept spotless. From your balcony you can see everthing so your kids are safe. All rooms look onto the pool and gardens. You can even watch the activities from the shade of your balcony if you want to chill. TV in all rooms.
It is a good distance from Tossa so not so easy to take a walk round the shops on an evening - though we did walk there a couple of times (20 minutes) - plenty of walking into the hills if you like that sort of thing. With a courtesy bus every hour its not really a problem. And if you want to pop in for a paper or cigarettes, the driver (Gizmo) will wait for you. Fab market on a Wednesday as well.
Can't fault it - give it a try, specially if you have kids. You won't know they are there and will have a relaxing hol

Hi, i'm a teenager and i went to san eloy last year. it was the best holiday i have bee on so far! everyone was really nice ad i made loads of friends, everyone alks to everyone. the food was good they had lots of stuff to eat like burgers and spaghetti and that. entertainment was ok, it was just funny to watch them all! some of the activities are quite good too, ad drink was really good, i'd recomend the cherry brandy !
hope yous have fun.. oh btw the pool and rooms are great too.

this holiday was the best ever . The accomadation is fantantisic and the are the best ever dont hesitate to book this holiday .I would give a rating of 10 out 10 for the overall holiday the entertainment is great and all the night activity is based for the kids.
food is 8 out 10 and plenty of it. staff are so freindly and kids come first no matter what.
would defo go again as it is best hol we ever had .
the party size we traveled with was 8 adults 3 kids.

We wanted a cheap last minute get away, and that’s what we got. We booked everything separately, flights with Ryanair, San Eloy with Sun4u and transfers privately too, this worked very well with getting us what we wanted!
We've never been 2 star before, but this hotel is not a 2 star, it’s nicer than some of the 3 star hotels we've been in!
The rooms were very spacious and kept clean just how you need it!
The food in the restaurant was excellent, plenty to choose from, really good variety! The fast food bar what did toasties, burgers, chips etc was also good too, but not like the restaurant!
The pools were good and these were cleaned every day!
The entertainment team, well I don’t know when they get a break! There was 4 entertainers, during the day they entertained young children, teenagers and adults, then on a night they did a show! This was something to see really funny, they put a lot of hard work into it!
The town of Tossa we didn’t really like, it was ok for a hour or so, but the beach was stones rather than sand.
So we was glad we was out of the town really!
I and my husband and our child of 18 months really enjoyed this hotel and we would definitely go back!

Firstly I would like to say that we did enjoy our holiday but that wasn’t down to the San Eloy.
The day we arrived we went straight to the check in desk and got allocated our rooms, we went with our friends, altogether 4 adults our 2 children aged 2+4 and our friends child aged 15 months.
On booking we requested our rooms be next door to each other, as unlike a lot of people when our children are tired we put them to bed so we knew we would be able to go out on our balconies and chat and drink with our friends as none of us would leave our rooms with the kids in bed.
We got our rooms...5 balconies apart! When we got our paperwork out to show the Spanish lady behind the desk that we had requested rooms together we got BIG attitude not only from her but the other women with her,{after plenty of pushing we got rooms next to each other the next morning but they weren’t nice about it}, we then got asked for our 50 euro deposit? No mention of that on booking, then asked for our passports! These were kept in a small cubbyhole right at the front of the windowless office in full view of everyone. I don’t know about you but this is a first for me even at 5* hotels.
W then asked if we would get any help with our suitcases {as we were given rooms on floor 3, the top floor} we got "no" and a shrug of the shoulders, expect a lot of that if you are going there! Not helpful at all.
We then had to get ourselves, our children, our buggies {1 double and 1 single} and our suitcases up to our rooms.
The rooms were nice enough, it is only 2* after all, but in 10 days we got our beds changed once, they did make the beds twice other than that, and we had to ask for clean towels as up to day 5 they hadn’t been replaced.
The food was very good though and you got a good variety and the drinks were good quality not cheap tasting, you could get toasties, burgers, chips, and ice cream any time you wanted from behind the bar. the bar staff were nice.. well the 2 men were anyway.
I can’t comment on the entertainment in the evenings as our children were too tired to wait up until 8:30pm when it started.
There was plenty to do as in 3 pools a park a giant chess board a tennis court a basket ball court/football pitch a pool table {you had to pay for that} and arcade games.
There is a bus that runs every hour into Tossa de Mar that is free if you are all inclusive, NOT if you are on any other board basis, the driver gizmo was helpful if you needed to know anything but did seem to have mood swings and could be very off at times though. I can’t blame him with some of the ignorant people that he must meet.
We went to the beach a couple of days as we needed to escape the noise i.e rough families who came with their parents/sisters/brothers/wives/neighbours etc shouting at their kids and drinking from 10 am as soon as the bar opens.
Don’t get me wrong we got on with everyone, but you have to when you are stuck with them, also we like a good drink and a laugh but the whole holiday didn’t depend on our needs, as we had kids with us!
We wouldn’t go back there, in future its back to pay more and with that you are surrounded by people with manners and a little more about them than fags, drink, leave the women to look after the kids while we get drunk or shout like fishwives all day long.

First 2 weeks in August 2007
If you are looking for a quiet relaxing pool holiday - you have found it. My 2 girls aged 12 and 9 loved it. We booked this to try out our first all inclusive holiday. It was by miles the cheapest holiday I have ever been on.
The accommodation itself consists of 3 storey apartments in a "U" shape, around the large main pool. The rooms are enormous - we had a one bedroom apartment.
The bedroom had 2 full size double beds with loads of storage space. My kids slept in the lounge on the sofa beds. Although tired and basic the maids cleaned every day - changed towels every day and made the beds etc - excellent.
The pools were cleaned every morning and someone seemed to be cleaning the grounds all day long. There were enough sunbeds for everyone. But people still liked to do the towel ritual.
I was surprised at the food. I expected rubbish. It was actually not bad. Plenty of choice and the staff were always bringing fresh stuff out and they never ran out of anything. We didn't bother with the snack bar - never needed to.
The drinks were brilliant anything you want that’s locally produced from 10:30 to midnight. Beer is San Miguel draft. There is no fuss, no bother the staff just serve you with whatever you want - also under no circumstances do they serve under 18's with alcohol. The bar is also where you get bottles of water from to put in your fridge.
The bar changes to a pay bar from midnight to 01:00 but no-one bothered much and just went to bed.
There were no drunks, no excessively rowdy children, and no gangs of marauding teenagers.
The guests were a mixture of nationalities -French, German, Dutch, Belgium, Spanish and of course British. The staff seemed to be able to speak every language.
The animation team was tireless, but not pushy, you could join in if you wanted, no bother if you didn't. The first week my kids seemed a bit wary of the activities but in the second week they joined in them all.
The entertainment at night was the animation team dancing and miming to various themes. Pretty dull but the kids loved it - even took part on a couple of nights.
The aparthotel is in the middle of nowhere on a main road. There is a fantastic courtesy bus run by the hotel, driven by lovely Gizmo who is English. It runs from 09:00 - 21:00 but stops at 13:00 and starts again at 15:00. It takes 5 minutes to get to Tossa. Don't panic if the bus is full as Gizmo just comes back and does another run.
Tossa de Mar is a pretty place, small pleasant and picturesque especially from the old walled part.
I was going to be picky and say the whole Hotel is very basic and very tired, isolated and a bit boring. Then I remembered I paid £2300 for 2 weeks high season all inclusive for 2 adults and 2 kids. What did I expect? If you want a 5 star hotel - you had better pay for it. This is a 2 star and is about right.
Go with an open mind and fairly low expectations - like I did and perhaps you will be pleasantly surprised. All in all - enjoyable.

August 07. On first impressions we could have quite easily got back on the bus and come home. How wrong our party of 9 could be.
The holiday was brill. The main pool was brilliant, it was deep enough to dive but also shallow enough for none swimmers. All the facilities and entertainment team were a credit to the hotel.
The rooms were spacious and cleaned every day even though our room smelt a bit of drains we did report this and the problem was solved.
The restaurant was too small for the number of guests staying at the time the food was excellent although more selection was required at the snack bar i.e. pizza not included with the all-inclusive. We shall definitely be going back in the near future.
Gizmo the bus driver was great told us the weather every day that was a god send.
The weather wasn’t brill but that didn’t spoil our holiday.

Myself, husband and Grandma and 3 kids (5, 8, 13).
We have just returned from our all inclusive holiday at San Eloy. It was our first all inclusive holiday and we were a bit wary as our 8 year old daughter is a bit of a fussy eater, but there was no need to worry... Because the food was fantastic.
We all ate really well from morning to bed time thanks to the chefs, Valantino and her dining room staff that tidied away your plates too making up at the table for you, we couldn’t fault it 5 stars service thank you.
If you didn’t make it for breakfast no need to worry as snacks and hot and cold drinks were served from 10.30am throughout the day.
The bar service was very good and quick. The only thing I would say is that they could make the service even better by having a separate counter for snacks and hot food. It was not a problem for us but I could see in high season it might be.
Entertainment: Was also fantastic from grandma winning the bingo and getting a bottle of bubbly, to my husband and daughter getting certificates for winning some of the games played during the day.
That’s when they could pull themselves out of the 3 swimming pools and a little park also crazy golf and the sand pit. Or just chilling with all their new friends the children made.
As the San Eloy is about 5 minutes from the centre of Tossa de mar, but it’s not a problem as there is a free bus driven by Gizmo who knows everything you need to know about getting around.
The bus runs from 9.00am in the morning until 9.00pm in the evening apart from 1pm till 3pm in the afternoon.
If that’s not enough the evening entertainment was just as fantastic, from 9.00pm mini disco with a game for kids to kick off with.
Then either the entertainment team did a show which were all very well performed, or we has a show from outside which were also very good. With the hotel team entertainment prepared to join in.
We all had a good laugh thank you needless to say we are going to book again for next year.

I would like to just say a few words about our recent holiday to the hotel San Eloy, Tossa De Mar.
The San Eloy hotel is situated in a wonderful and picturesque spot just outside the town of Tossa De Mar. I felt the complex felt reassuringly safe for the children to play and enjoy themselves.
The room was large, comfortable and clean, a little on the basic side but at the end of the day if you are all inclusive then, hey relax and make the most of it. The housekeepers attended daily and replaced the towels. Pillows and extra bedding were available on request.
The restaurant was on the small side and seemed a bit cramped during meal times, I don’t think the air conditioning worked at all times either. I felt the choice of food was poor, not knocking the chef he can only work with what’s he given and within his budget. Obviously some days were better than others. The drinks served were great, they were local brands but still tasted great, with generous measures. The waiting staff were also pleasant and worked hard to ensure tables were clean.
The entertainment team worked very hard and made are holiday more enjoyable. The shows they put on were fantastic and funny! I also enjoyed the games that they put on including those who wanted to be included.
I would definitely recommend this resort to other people especially those with small children, the flights time were wonderful and the actual flight was not too long for the people especially children to get irritable. Once again transfers went smoothly from the airport to the resort and only took about 35mins.
I would definitely book another holiday to the San Eloy

What a holiday. This place was marvellous. The rooms were cleaned daily.
There was always a good choice of food, snacks at the bar such as toasties, chips, hot dogs.
The staff were brilliant every 1 of them. Free bus to Tossa every hour till 9.30 at night, best holiday ever going back next year.
The swimming pools were spotless to and entertainment great well done the San Eloy.