Hi the hotel has been refurbished and is under new management. We have been in there and it looks good. There is a very good restaurant close by. Nuevo Horizonte seems to be on the up. Visit for up to date info and any questions

yes i am just back last saturday and would not recommend it, unless you have to stay there. do not do all inclusive. its set times for food and pizza until midnite. so if you dont like pizza your beat. most all inclusives are 24/7 with food. this one isnt. its in the backside of nowere as well.

not recommended.

Just back last saturday, hotel was ok. (see report elsewere)

but for self catering, there is not much to do in the area. so be prepared to spend a few euro on taxis each day.

apart from the hotel, there is only 2 other decent places to eat or drink. a "so called" irish bar called kavanghs just round the corner. its a bit gruby, alot of the food is mirowaved (listen for the dings and shortly afterwards food is served). i think they have just hi-jacked it to be irish to get a better crowd. it wasnt irish at all. 2 tricolours on the front wall of the bar. all staff and 90% of the regulars were english. incidently i came into the "irish" bar to watch the ireland v holland game while the england v greece frienldy was on. guess what got priority? yip the england game. my family and another 2 irish families walked out. i didnt mind but why pretend its irish when its quiet clearly english. maybe should change its name to the cock and bull or something.

further down from it, is a lovely bar. foods good to. its called mustang sallys. just opened 8 weeks, its clean and friendly staff, there is a pool table, a few wee games for kids, a pool out back for customers and of course 3 satalite recievers and an arab dish. plus 5 tvs and a massive projector. this place is amazing for sport of all kinds. live premiership matches on all day saturday, in english commentary (and sundays).

would reccomend it, but its a crappy view gettin there. past all the building sites. but the place itself is potless.

Many thanks

I got back last week from a week at Tropical. Well, it is the second time we have been (same time each year) and i was a little disappointed this year. I know it was really quiet but they have let the place go rather a lot. Our bathroom was terrible. The bath had what it looked like was an attempt at being re-enamelled, but i think it was just paint. It was flaking off and we were unable to have a bath all week, making do with the piddly shower & the hot water going off after 1 minute, and then all the water going off after 4 minutes (not good if there was a family). They changed the towels but didn't clean the rooms well, and our stank of holiday homes (my dad used to run a guest house in the early 80's and the smell still stays with me!) The food was great 50% of the time, but as there were so few they had daftly closed the restaurant & opened the buffet up every day, why, i don't know. On occasion there wasn't anything available for breakfast other than yogurt or dry cereal. The tea and coffee machine was rarely on, so you had to make it in a microwave. The juice machine wasn't working. There were very few staff about and you had to wait about for ages sometimes to get served. There was no daytime or evening entertainment at all, not even a game of bingo or shuffleboard. The pool was filthy when we got there and was cleaned 4 days after we arrived. There were builders loafing about everywhere too, many just taking advantage of all the food and drink on offer and not really seeming to do much at all. The reception staff- well two out of 3 ain't bad. One of the women suffered from selective English, and even when I spoke to her in Spanish she looked blankly at me. The only currency we could change was £20's worth. The gym, jacuzzi and sauna were all out of bounds.
On the whole I was really disappointed, as the year before we had had a great time, even though it was quiet. They seem to sack their staff on the spot and a poor couple who arrived the day before we left, booking all inclusive were told they couldn't have any food! All bookings after 1st May were for self catering only. The manager said , and I quote "I would rather pay the fine and stop all food than lose money every day through wastage"

They stated that the hotel was no longer going to do any all inclusive bookings at all, not even doing food or drink of any description (oh yes, and all the icecream was out of date and when the freezer broke down, they left all the ice cream in it, and after getting the freezer fixed they just switched it back on and let the icecream re-freeze!

So if you have booked for Costa Tropical, Costa Antigua for anything other than self catering, I urge you to check and check again that there will be food, as we were told on our last day we couldn't eat there as they weren't even cooking. We had to go to Kavanagh's next door & experience their basket meals (but then anything was better than nothing)