Barceló Fuerteventura Mar

“Beautiful hotel and fabulous location”

Perfect holiday accommodation in every way ..spacious rooms, clean and welcoming with sea views, friendly staff, everything you need in the hotel short walk to beach. Food is fresh, varied and really tasty, plenty to choose for all types. Highly recommended.

“Great hotel right in the middle of the resort and steps from the beach”

Great stay in the Fuertaventura Mar. Really clean and modern hotel. Staff were so friendly and welcoming. They really went the extra mile to make our stay so comfortable. Jannicke Diaz from Guest Experiences really helped put on a little extra event for our Sons 18th Birthday. That’s what this hote… more

Great stay in the Fuertaventura Mar. Really clean and modern hotel. Staff were so friendly and welcoming. They really went the extra mile to make our stay so comfortable. Jannicke Diaz from Guest Experiences really helped put on a little extra event for our Sons 18th Birthday. That’s what this hotel will do to make your day special. It’s the little touches that make a big difference. It’s located right on the beach and in the middle of the resort rear to shops, supermarket and evening entertainment. If you wis leg to stay in the hotel that also put on entertainment throughout the day and evening. If you have a car, the onsite parking is barrier controlled and free. The room safe is €3 a day to hire and the hotel has the usual buffet restraints plus a Mexican and separate Brazilian themed restaurant that you can book. The Mexican was a buffet style for €32 a head and well worth it. We stayed in a deluxe room and had a great time, would I recommend and stay again, oh yes.

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“Tremendous Improvements at "The Big Barcelo", Caleta de Fuste!”

Review of Barceló Fuerteventura Mar Senior TripAdvisor /Assessor/Reviewer Assessed for Senior Review from 6th November to 16th November, 2024 Took my wife to the Barceló Fuerteventura Mar, Caleta de Fuste, for a ten-night holiday, at Half Board, double-room, and was most encouraged in the changes… more

Review of Barceló Fuerteventura Mar Senior TripAdvisor /Assessor/Reviewer Assessed for Senior Review from 6th November to 16th November, 2024 Took my wife to the Barceló Fuerteventura Mar, Caleta de Fuste, for a ten-night holiday, at Half Board, double-room, and was most encouraged in the changes made by the Hotel Director and Staff - especially in the aspect of evening entertainment. You are making great progress, Sir! More Tribute Shows, and you are definitely heading towards what was "The Big Barcelo" high quality entertainment renown of past times! Good work. Check In: Arrived 2pm and was greeted by courteous Receptionist Isabel - whose most efficient, professional, and cheerful attitude soon had us on our way to Room 7301 - complete with 3 euro per day Security Safe, and Barcelo wrist-band indicating we were booked in under a Half-Board regime for dining. Excellent service, Isabel. Happy to say, the check in at the Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar was smooth and most proficient. Informed that the hotel is a 'cash free' hotel, we accepted the offer of paying for any soft drinks/water we ordered during our stay when checking out at Reception. This arrangement worked out very well. Good work. Room: Room 7301 seemed quite small, but adequate for a 4 Star hotel, it had the king-sized bed we were expecting to have on holiday. The room was very clean and tidy, it had a security-box which we paid 3 euros per night to have and for which the Receptionist had provided a key to operate; a double wardrobe with some clothes-hangers; again quite a small wardrobe for a 4 Star Hotel, plus some clothes drawers. Bathroom: the one-sink washing area was separated from the bedroom by a dividing wall, with a separate walk-in-shower room - no bath - and a toilet. In honesty, although very compact, it was an excellent walk-in shower with a raindrop shower-head and a smaller shower-head included. There were a variety of necessary toiletries - shampoo, body-lotion; conditioner; shower gel; and a good working toilet with plenty of toilet-tissue supplied. There were two hand-towels; two bath-towels, and a bath mat. Good water pressure in showers and constant hot water. Excellent. Tea/Coffee, Kettle Facility: There was an adequate electric kettle and a coffee-maker (which we never used) and a constant coffee/tea/water daily top up - but we always bring our own biscuits, tea-bags and coffee. Better safe than sorry. Sleep Quality: Sleep quality at night was great, but light sleepers be forewarned, there is noise during the daytime - pool drum-beat noise continually; noise from yoga-classes and busy activities from the hotel grounds around the swimming pools below. Later on, when the hotel settled down for the night, sleep quality was very good, with a tremendous air-conditioning unit assisting a good night's sleep. Room-Cleaning: Those ladies were, as I often find as a Senior TripAdvisor Reviewer, the stars of the Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar Hotel show. Daily towel change and cleaning of rooms, efficient and professional staff etc kept our room fresh and tidy. A SPECIAL mention must be made of Nigerian Room-Cleaner, Charity: this lady is a very real asset to Barcelo Hotels at Fuerteventura, cheerful, efficient, industrious and meticulous in her daily cleaning/tidying up/tea/water/coffee replenishment. A treasure of a worker for Barcelo indeed. Top marks to lady Charity! A keeper! Food: Breakfast had a choice of cooked eggs and some omelettes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, harsh browns, baked beans. There were also some cold meats/cheese yogurts, etc. Vegan meals on offer too. Fruit juices and tinned and fresh fruit were in plenteous amounts. Get in early (7.30am to 10.30am) to avoid queuing for eggs. Excellent restaurant staff all round. Evening meal: Great variety, well cooked, good cuisine, hot soups; meats, fish, and well serviced by staff. Drinking water in small bottles cost 2.40 Euros each, chilled and fresh. Perhaps the nightly queuing at the Tindaya Restaurant could be organised much better to avoid such queuing, but apart from this, excellent. Restaurant: Excellent and courteous Staff, tables cleared promptly and politely - all Staff seemed very alert to the needs of guests in a 4 Star setting Restaurant. Tea/Coffee machines, ice-creams, and the pastry-chef prepares cakes to die for, with an accompanying flavour of ice-cream and fresh fruit. All in all, a great variety of food/dishes and soups to eat. Well done Restaurant Staff, well managed too. Dress code seemed to be properly ordered for a 4 Star venue. Good work. Guest Experience Managers: GEM Managers, Jannicke, Lauren, and that excellent young protégé whose name has slipped me, worked tirelessly to support the highest quality of guest experience for us during our 10 night stay, and are yet another asset to Barcelo Resort Hotels in Caleta de Fuste. Well done, GEM ladies! Great work. Pools: Three ground floor pools, one heated, with plenty of pool entertainment daily. Plenty of good quality sun-beds, but some guests still seem to need to insist on going early to place towels on sun-beds to reserve them - and some then go off to the nearby sea-side and waste the use of the sun-beds. Incorrigible 'Brits in the sun'. Please be more thoughtful of other guests. There is also a fully manned spa available and a Massage Spa with yet another available pool for paying guests. Entertainment: No more Beijing Acrobats; Abba, Golden Oldies; and Motown Tribute Shows. All absent! Sad. However there was a most noticeable improvement from last year, and the Broadway to Hollywood singers, at least, raised the bar somewhat. British Holiday-makers, especially the more mature age-group which frequent the Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar Hotel, really appreciate good singers, singing songs from the 1960s/70s/80s, something we can sing along to on our Canary vacations. Bring back the Tribute acts! Barcelo Manager take note: Bring back the sterling quality of entertainment Barcelo Fuerteventura provided for so many years! You KNOW it makes good business sense, Sir! Try it, and see the rise in returning British Holiday-makers to "the Big Barcelo"? Disabled Access: Disabled ramps at Hotel entrance and necessary areas, some partially blind/blind guest present also. A good safe venue for the disabled guest. Suitability Factors for British Holiday-makers: British holiday-makers expect high quality standards, less queuing, when paying for 4 Star, high priced, holidays. The Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar is certainly a really nice holiday venue for British guests, BUT any corners getting cut in quality levels, experienced returning British holiday-makers will immediately notice. Keep the Barcelo standards high, Sir, and continue to provide a wonderful holiday experience for guests of all nationalities. Would I recommend the Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar Hotel to my extensive 100,000 plus TripAdvisor Readership? YES, I most definitely would have no hesitation to do so. We enjoyed our ten night stay there, and will gladly seek to return to holiday there at this venue again. Well done, Hotel Director, and professional Staff at the Barcelo Fuerteventura Mar, Caleta de Fuste. Senior Hotel Expert Review Code name: Father and Husband

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“Good, but a couple of issues..”

Our second visit of the year to the hotel and we are happy to report it was a great break away from the miserable and gloomy UK. We stayed all inclusive and have no complaints with the food or drink. Breakfast was always busy but never found a shortage of food and it was all good quality. For l… more

Our second visit of the year to the hotel and we are happy to report it was a great break away from the miserable and gloomy UK. We stayed all inclusive and have no complaints with the food or drink. Breakfast was always busy but never found a shortage of food and it was all good quality. For lunch we usually went to the AI self service area at the pool where there was sufficient choice for us, sandwiches, salads, pasta, pizza, burgers etc. You also have choice of going to the main restaurant too. For evening meal we tended to go to the main restaurant around 8.00pm when it seemed a little quieter. Again, food was perfectly adequate and plentiful, as well as hot. Being AI we had ability to go to the Brazilian and Mexican restaurants once during our stay which we enjoyed as a nice change. Pools were popular but we never had an issue getting sunbeds, particularly around the quieter pool. We didn't much care for the noisy activities around the heated pool nearer the pool bar so the other pool was ideal for us. Evening entertainment has improved and all shows were professional rather than in-house. Shout out for the ABBA tribute who were very good. Our room was fine, nice and quiet in block 6. As Barcelo Unique members we book direct with the hotel so get a few nice treats like a welcome minibar, Cava, chocolate, bathrobes and slippers, and also free water each day. So, overall a good stay. We have a couple of niggles though. In the self service AI area at the pool bar there are no longer plastic cups available so you couldn't initially help yourself to soft drinks, water or beer, you had to ask for these at the bar then re-use your cup yourself later. Seemed a bit silly really as it meant longer queues at the bar. I ended up just sneakily helping myself to cups from the bar, not sure if this was allowed or not but no-one stopped me. Our other issue was needing our room for an extra hour or so on our last day. I asked at Reception the night before if was possible and before I ended my sentence it was a flat "no". I explained we were Barcelo Unique members and one of the perks was supposed to be the ability to keep our room a bit longer but it would seem that this is never possible (I have asked on previous stays). "Subject to availability..." apparently.

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