Casthotels Fuertesol Bungalows

“Spot on for the money”

Yes I have given the bungalows 5/5 ! Let me explain why…… Because you get exactly what you pay for! This is very very budget friendly accommodation and frankly for what we paid I think it was spot on! We have stayed here twice previously but have not stayed in the last 9 years. We enjoyed our st… more

Yes I have given the bungalows 5/5 ! Let me explain why…… Because you get exactly what you pay for! This is very very budget friendly accommodation and frankly for what we paid I think it was spot on! We have stayed here twice previously but have not stayed in the last 9 years. We enjoyed our stays 9 years ago when we were a family of 3. At that time myself and husband had the bedroom and our 3yr old daughter slept in the sofa bed. Our family has changed now and we are a family of 4 with a 9 year old and a teenager. For this reason our children had the bedroom as the beds can be configured as two singles or a double - and we had the sofa bed in the lounge area. The girls were very happy in the bedroom and I can confirm their beds were very comfortable. The sofa bed was passable. My husband and I are not the smallest of people and we did not have the most comfortable nights sleep. But we slept. And if our girls could have shared the sofa bed without fighting that would have been more ideal. The sofa bed is perfectly acceptable for children or one small adult to share. The bungalows have had a very minor bit of an upgrade since our last stay - the sofa beds are actually newer than the old ones that were there and the dining tables/ tv area is all new (used to all be pine). We had no issue with missing kitchen utensils - yes it’s basic but for preparing breakfast and lunch for 4 people we had everything we needed. As stated in the information the accommodation provided - the cleaners will visit 3 x per week . We stayed for 2 weeks and they came as they should and changed towels and bedding. We requested extra pillows from reception and these were brought to us by the cleaning staff as requested. The WiFi is awful and barely worked for us - not an issue as I didn’t realise it was provided and my UK phone network (o2) has free EU Roaming for the little bit of internet that we needed. The location is what draws us to come back here ! It is perfect - a 5 minute walk into the central area where all the shops and restaurants are located. It is “up hill” from town as most things are but it is barely an incline (it gets steeper further up). The market is held immediately outside the bungalows on a Tuesday and Thursday. There are currently roadworks being done all around Caleta including outside the main entrance of the bungalows. This will not impact your stay as they work on them very infrequently and certainly not early morning or late night. A handful of bungalows will unfortunately have a view of this but from what we can tell these ones are permanently occupied by staff living on site or other long term lets of people working locally. The grounds of the bungalows are clean but in need of some maintenance , they appeared to be trying to tackle some of this during our stay. The pool is large and cleaned every morning , some of the sun beds are a little tired but you’ll not have an issue getting one - no need to put the towels out early! There is an adult only sun bathing terrace on the roof of reception with more sunbeds and a daybed which people seemed unaware of. The pool bar is not open in the evening as it used to be and closes in the afternoon. - we prefer this as we like accommodation to be quiet at night. The bar staff are friendly and the drinks are cheap (as are the ice creams). We didn’t eat here but saw several people order chips / burgers etc which looked ok. My only comment would be that it would be great if they could put come bars/ grids on the windows to allow them to be left open safely at night as some other properties do. Being all ground floor accommodation it is not wise to leave these unlocked without bars. Fans and a safe can be rented from reception - we did not rent a fan as we bring small individual usb fans that can be on each persons side of the bed . But we hired the safe and had no issues. In summary - we plan to return as a couple for a short break as we love this accommodation for its location and feel we get what we pay for . We may return as a family of 4 but likely not for as long as 2 weeks unless the sofa beds have an upgrade or my children can share one without bickering 😀

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