El Guarapo

We stayed at El Guarapo last year and loved it, so booked a return trip and were allcocated the same upper floor room, which was great. The apartments are in a great location, easy to get to Playa Bastian beach and bars / restaurants, and also to Playa Jablillo and 'the Square'. Our weather wasn't great on arrival but we enjoyed walks in the area. The staff are pleasant and helpful and communication by Whatsapp before our stay was great. We normally did breakfast in our apartment but ate at the pool restaurant one day and the food was excellent. It was spoiled a little by some noisy children running around and leaving stuff everywhere, but not the fault of the restaurant. Apart from some noise from the same children a few nights, the complex is relaxed and peaceful, no music by the pool, which suited us, and no bar other than the restaurant at lunchtime. There was no building noise, that we had been warned about. On our last day, the pool area was closed at lunchtime for refurbishment (earlier than the 1pm we had been told). The showers and lockers are excellent for late check outs, but it would have been nice if somewhere had been designated for us to sit to wait for our transfer pick up.
There were a few areas that would have improved our stay. Some mornings, every sunbed had a towel on it for a lengthy time with no people using them and no action taken. Not a big issue for us as we normally go to the beach, but it would be nice to have the option. Some evenings after reception had closed, groups of Spanish people came into the complex and used the pool and played ball games which prevented us from swimming in the pool. Perhaps the security code needs to be changed more often. And last but not least, our apartment was not very clean. On arrival, I had to clean the bathroom sink and toilet, even the seat was unclean, and the freezer compartment of the fridge was so iced up that the door wouldn't close. We couldn't see how to unplug it or a defrost button so had to scrape a lot of ice out before it could be used. During our stay the cleaning wasn't done to a very high standard either, I think more attention needs to be given to this aspect. In the hope the standard of cleanliness is improved, we would stay in these apartments again as there are a lot of really good points, including a great hairdryer in the bathroom!

We have had a lovely stay at El Guarapo, these lovely apartments are ideally located just minutes from "The Square" and beach. Very relaxing and while I don't doubt what others have said about sunbeds we had no problems getting them and there were always some spare everyday, maybe we were just lucky? Apartment was clean, a lovely size, very comfortable bed, asked for extra pillows which were delivered the same day. Not sure what others problems with towels have been but ours were better than we've had elsewhere. We arrived after reception was closed and had all details sent by WhatsApp. We have stayed in other hotels on an AI basis and have been looking for a SC place and have found it. Like so many others we will be back hopefully later this year.

Hi, just back from a lovely stay at the El Guarapo apartments. After enjoying our stay there last year we decided we would come again this year and glad we did. The complex is very clean and tidy, staff were so friendly and helpful. We had a very spacious two bedroom apartment overlooking the pool and as we didn't use the pool we had sunbeds on the spacious balcony so could relax. Location wise it's only about a ten minute walk to town centre. As we were on the top floor the walk up to the apartment I felt was a little steep and could possibly need handrails fitted especially when carrying luggage. With that said thats coming from a seventy one year old. Other than that would highly recommend the El Guarapo apartments and will be back.