You will love arenal.

Isla paraiso is a nice little complex, but it can get a bit push and shove at meal times.

I would recommend Isla Paraiso, sa mirasa, castell soll, sol isla - anywhere really as you cant go wrong!!!

There are some lovely restaurants in arenal, the only one I would not recommend is the chinese by the hotel on the hill.

If you wander out of the resort towards the aguamarina and up the hill, there is a much nicer chinese, and this is in a little square of restaurants and supermarkets.

You will certainly want to return to arenal!!!!!!!

Hi Debbg, thanks for the reply. After much research I was a little unsure whether Arenal would be right for us (maybe a little too quiet?) and after dilly dallying the free child place on the holiday I was considering must have been booked because when I checked again the price had gone up by around £300. So we have plumped for Cala D'or in Majorca for 2009, got a good price with Thomas Cook with free child place so I went ahead and booked it quickly! We are going to hire a car when we go to Cala'n Bosch in August so will have a good look around the island and will certainly visit Arenal to see what we think, if we like the look of it we'll perhaps consider it for 2010! Thanks again, Nic.

It is a very quiet resort.

Everything except 2 bars are open after midnight!!

It is very family orientated, and entertainment is usually at the hotel/apart complexes.

Hi there Arenal is quite saying that the entire island is quite,really good place to take kids but teenagers might report you to social services for cruelty,joking aside i would recommend Arenal because of the beach and the restaurants were good value returning there in June so will have a more up to date view.

Barry.

Arenal D'en Castell is quiet, but we stayed at big Aquamarina Hotel and it was great.

Sure you can wander in to their grounds at night and enjoy the huge outdoor stage show of kids mini disco, bingo then live singer normally.