Hotel Colon Rambla

除了套房的面積大之外，沒有值得期待的服務與品質，酒店位置很偏，門前是單行道，進出很不方便。前台毫無服務意識與笑容，兩人一直在聊天，即便你已經站在他們面前很久。我訂的是套房，如果住的這麼偏再不把房間面積搞大一點，就真的一無是處了。早餐太簡單，熱菜少的可憐，一個客人夾了一盤木瓜之後再也不見補餐，水果盤就這麼一直空着，餐廳在一個昏暗的地下空間，陣陣黴味。酒店有一個游泳池但很多落葉，也沒人游泳，混了兩晚趕緊退房。

Our experience is /was lovely! Although we had to wait a little for our room, as we were early, staff made us feel very welcome, Each night we sat in the bar area called Jarana, we had a bottle of wine suggested and served by a lovely happy smiling young guy called Juanma! Such a lovely happy guy, you could ever wish for to meet and serve you! Top Marks!

Almost one year after my stay at Hotel Colon Rambla in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with my two boys, I find myself reminiscing that this was a really wonderful week. I was actually going for a conference, which first had advertised Colon Rambla as the conference hotel, and the switched to a different hotel. I'm very happy that I kept my booking at Colon Rambla. We had a very spacious family room, right in front of the swimming pool. It was really not a room, more like a three-room apartment. Each of those three rooms was larger than a standard room in most high-end hotels I have visited. The general interior also left a very high-end feeling, reminding me of posh condominiums in Singapore. There were some small issues with the beds (would have preferred proper double beds over these easily movable twin beds) and with the aircon (no aircon in the bedrooms if I remember right) but these were only minor nuisances and I slept much better than in most other hotels. Both beds and pillows had OK firmness to my taste. The breakfast was decent, but after a week I started to get a bit tired of the same selection. The boys never got tired, as it had all they ever wanted. We also had dinner several times at the hotel. The kids loved the restaurant. My oldest kid loved the tuna tartar, while the youngest was happy they could also prepare more kidfriendly meals. However, one of the things I really like with the hotel is that it is not too far to walk to a much larger variety of eating options in Santa Cruz. It is also not too far from the Parqua Garcia Sanabria, a kind of small arboretum in the middel of Santa Cruz. My youngest kid loved visiting this park every day, too look at the trees, to play at the playgrounds, or just to eat ice cream. For going to the beach (Playa de Las Teresitas) the hotel reception was helpful with booking a taxi. I found the hotel staff friendly and helpful. What made this the best holiday ever was the serene swimming pool right outside our room. We had this treasure for ourself about 70% of the time. I believe the minimum depth is about 1.20, so a kid below 1.30 or so who cannot swim may not be able to appreciate it. But this is where my youngest kid, at 1.27, definitely learned to swim. And after this, he practically lived in the pool. For one week we paid slightly more than 1000 euros, which I think is quite reasonable for a hotel (room) of this standard.