Hotel Rural El Navío - Adults Only

Wonderful, setting amidst the banana trees, lovely pool unheated but great for a pre breakfast swim, or reading on a lounger. Breakfast was good, plenty of choice, surprised when what I thought was a sausage turned out to be delicious sweet fried banana!! Dinner is interesting, at breakfast you see the dinner menu for that day, choice of 2 starters, 2 mains, desert of the day, a glass of wine or a large beer, tea or coffee for €20. you choose time to eat, between 7-8.30. We had dinner twice, a delicious rabbit dish with Canadian potatoes, and tuna followed by a wonderful tiramisu (I'd love the recipe if anyone from the hotel sees this!!) Great helpful staff. The walk to the beach through the banana plantation was wonderful, the beach and bathing pools were amazing, the very best crashing waves.

The Hotel Rural El Navío is located outside the town of Alcalá in a banana plantation. The trees stretch in all directions, including down to the Atlantic shore, less than a kilometre away and accessible on foot through the plantation itself. The rooms are pleasant and well equipped, each with a large terrace looking out over the green carpet to the ocean and the island of La Gomera in the distance - when it is visible under its cap of cloud. Bananas are available for guests to help themselves at will and the lounge at reception has a large collection of useful guides and other books about Tenerife. For us the only negative point was the hotel food, which other reviewers have praised. We stayed for 3 nights and had dinner at the hotel each evening, because there are no other restaurants within comfortable walking distance and we did not want to drive out at night, especially as we enjoy a drink with our dinner. Dinner must be ordered before midday on the day itself, and the hotel contacted us before our arrival to ask if we wanted dinner on the first evening. Although we had confirmed that we wanted one of the two starters (it's always only a choice between salad and soup) and the only main course on offer (which is the case each evening, although a vegetarian alternative is available) the waiter (who doubles as receptionist) seemed to think we wanted only the starter salad and offered us dessert afterwards. We succeeded in the end in getting a main course and, to its credit, the hotel waived the charge for this dinner. Although the hotel prides itself on serving authentic local dishes, we actually found the food bland and unimaginative, and worst of all, although the soup was hot, all three main courses that we ate were cold. The same was true of the "hot" dishes at breakfast, which were in a bain-marie but cold. We observed that none of the other guests staying at the same time as us ate dinner at the hotel more than once. We enjoyed our stay at the Navío and the staff at reception were helpful - getting our laundry done and booking a whale-watching cruise from los Gigantes (we saw only dolphins!) - but in the restaurant we had the clear impression that they would have been happier not to have to serve us dinner. Worst of all, one of us found a sharp piece of plastic in her soup at dinner on the second evening, but when we told the staff they just shrugged and quickly changed the subject. So a good hotel all in all, but with some improvement needed in the restaurant.

Belle surprise que ce petit hôtel charmant au personnel super accueillant, au calme absolu, en plein milieu d'une bananeraie. Je recommande. Des chambres spacieuses avec terrasse donnant sur de magnifiques couchés de soleil. Une restauration locale et excellente et des petits déjeuner buffet complets. Et pour couronner le tout, des régimes de bananes fraîches à disposition et à volonté... Une belle découverte.

Wir lieben diesen Ort, und waren mit Freunden auch schon öfters über Weihnachten oder Silvester hier. Alles, was die anderen exzellenten/ sehr guten Bewertungen geschrieben haben, stimmt, ein Ort der Ruhe, weit weg von den Touristischen Hochburgen, eine Augenweide, die angenehme Atmosphäre, die super mega tolle Terrasse, der Blick auf Gomera, die netten Brüder, Alberto und Gustavo, die diese Bananenfinca betreiben. Natürlich gibt es auch immer ein bisschen „Meckern auf hohem Niveau“, die Rühr- und Spiegeleier zum Frühstück, die meistens kalt sind, das kanarische Abendessen, welches mit 20€ pro Person für 3 Gänge, sehr fair kalkuliert und lecker ist, aber leider auch meistens kalt, die Dusche, wo wegen des Kalks o.ä. der Wasserstrahl sehr schwach und oft nicht heiß ist … Und wenn in den Bergen die Wolken stehen, hier im Süden scheint immer die Sonne und im Winter hat man 3 Stunden mehr Helligkeit als in Deutschland.

Abbiamo trascorso una notte in questo hotel. La cosa bella è che l albergo si trova in una magnifica proprietà di coltivazione di banane. Accesso tramite due cancelli privati al mare, camminando per la piantagione che solo lei è una magnifica esperienza. Per quanto riguarda i servizi dell hotel sono abbastanza buoni, titolare e staf gentili camere semplici ma pulite cena e colazione da rivedere ma loro dedicano un gran impegno alla struttura che va bene cosi. Il posto merita di essere visto e soggiornarvi….pulito e molto attenti alle norme anti covid.

In dit toeristische deel van Tenerife is dit kleinschalige hotal als het ware een oase. Op zoek naar ruimte en rust, niet verder zoeken. Toerische drukte en vertier zijn niet zo ver dat je er niet te voet kunt heen gaan maar bij El Navio staan persoonlijk contact en rust toch op de eerste plaats. Niet supperluxe maar alles wat nodig is voor een prettig verblijf is aanwezig ook in het geval,dat nodig is management dat in tegenstelling tot hetgeen ik op de site vond ook de engelse taal machtig is. Daarnaast waar vind je nog een diner inclusief een drankje, wijn van eigen wijngaard, voor 20,- . Geen culinaire hoogstandjes maar wel prima in orde.