Vincci La Plantacion

You get 4 cartons in the mini bar but they are small and 2.50 euros each. Your closest shop is a 24/7 mini market at the bottom of the hill, just along from the GF Costa Adeje Gran. Every other day we bought 12 bottles of water or 8l to refill them but it’s physically exhausting carrying it up the hill. Sometimes we went out for dinner far away we would buy water and get taxi back.

• We visited end of Sep/early oct 21. The hotel doesn’t seem quite full yet, but it’s hard to tell. One restaurant and one bar were closed but it didn’t matter.
• Breakfast is from 7.30am to 11am. We found that 7.30am is extremely quiet, peak time is around 9-9.30am. They filled tables very efficiently though and there was never a time we didn’t get a table right away.
• We had a villa with an outdoor whirlpool bath. These are great. You can fill it hot or cold or somewhere in between.
• We never had an issue with getting a sun lounger throughout our 2 week trip. For just one day in the middle there was a wedding so a lot of the pool was closed off for this but even on that day we got beds fine. I don’t know if this is just because the hotel is under capacity or whether that is usual.
• There is no reservation of sun beds and on the whole people stuck to that. We were confused at first as lots of beds had towels on them, but then we realised that the hotel do this in the morning. We’re not sure why. But you can just take them. If you just leave towels, a staff member does tour around every 30 mins and just removes those. You need to leave possessions (flip flops, bags, sunglasses, etc) to show you are in pool or around and about.
• The wedding had extremely loud fireworks, set off from just outside the villas at around 10pm. The hotel were good at warning us about most minor things, eg access ramps being closed, but didn’t tell us about this. Could have been very scary for young kids.
• We did not use a car, but the hotel appears to have ample parking.
• Everything is very very clean and very very well maintained. It’s really apparent everywhere.
• There is a turndown service, which could be any time between 5-8pm. Be warned, if no red STOP label added to the door, the maid can just wander in! Sometimes she would ring the bell first but not always. They leave chocolates. If we were in and I answered door we were handed the chocs and given the option of new towels.
• I’d recommend eating out locally. Some top tips - San Marco is a lovely pizzeria, La Tosca a good Italian, Bombay Babu is a fantastic Indian but the one is torviscus is better than the one close to the hotel and Miranda Mx is a great mexican - order the panchos nachos starter to share and 2 of you will not need any more food. You can also get 1l jugs of frozen margarita. Mokelino in Los Cristianos for tapas (or secrets tasca in la caletta - not yet reopened). Thai botanico in safari centre was our fav - amazing Thai food and good cocktails too.
• We got no late check out. You are only allowed to ask on the day. Instead they noted that you can just use the changing rooms and showers in the spa. You can just go in and use them. Separate for men and women. And it turns out they were great - large, spacious, no one else there, contains changing area, Showers and toilets. Note no shampoo or shower gel in showers.
• If you use the app and log-in the room you’ll get notifications from the hotel eg telling you the cocktail of the day at the pool bar.
• You can charge anything back to you room during your stay. You’ll be asked to sign for it.
• Cleaners could sometimes look to get in room as early as 8am so we got in habit of putting the STOP sign on door night before. When they did clean the room they seemed to do really good job and very quickly. We always found the room had been cleaned by the time we got back later in the afternoon.
• There are a lot of pools. The long adults only pool and the one next to it are heated. The two large pools in the middle with the waterfall are not heated.
• The pool you see from breakfast is for spa customers.
• There are large beds around the pools. We thought these were for suite residents or had to be paid for but actually anyone can take them.
• Mask wearing enforced, as anywhere in Tenerife.

Only had bed & breakfast as we like to try different places when away. Fabulous daily selection and again staff friendly and attentive without being intrusive. Would highly recommend