well we stayed here in 2002 & came back in 2003 the hotel, food & resort cannot be faulted!! The food was fantastic..such a wide variety. the hotel was practically imaculate..we just had one little ant problem in our room, which was sorted out asap by the room stewardess. The location is fantastic, so much so that I'm going back there this year with a friend. The hotel is situated in a great place as it is a 3 min walk from the beach and 5 mins from bars & shops. Hotel staff are so friendly and very helpful, the dining room staff line up and say good morning/evening as you enter the room (at the beginning of breakfast/dinner). The hotel entertainment was really aimed at young children or young families, as we were a family with a5 & 18 yr old the hotel entertainment was not really suited!! We would definately visit this hotel again.

The Rey Don Jaime was absolutly amazing. I, along with other members of the family, had an absolutly fab time.

The hotel was cleaned very well each morning and the cleaners worked around the clock.

The food was lovely and there was a great choice to choose from so you have something different each day.

The location of the hotel was great because it was only 200 yards from the beach plus there were some great shops too.

The hotel staff were great they were there for every single one of your needs.

The entertainment was great and the games during the day were excellent. The entertainment staff were great we all had a great time with them and they cheered you up all lot.

We previously went the year before and had a great time and we went again in 2004 and that was fantastic and we would definitely go again.

For the first time ever, my entire family decided to go on holiday together - that included a 7, 11, 14 and 16 year old! we arrived first thing in the morning, and were treated to a fantastic full english breakfast, everything you could possibly want. After unpacking, the entertainment staff began their day's activities, ranging from darts, water polo, killer pool etc. The kids were all happily taken care of, leaving their parents to enjoy a fantastic range of drinks at the poolside bar. All the rooms are air-conditioned, and fantasticly clean - we've been on holiday every year for the last 17 years, and this was by far the best place we've ever stayed - amazing food, entertainment, location - 5* for everything!

How wonderful,- and how strange, to find a board about the hotel my family and I used to travel to every year when I was growing up. We would go there for at least 3 weeks every summer and sometime also during fall.
We befrienden everbody there, from Tony, Pacos and Santos in the bar to several of the restaurant servers plus the guy playing the piano every night. We had fun with the football games shown on the big screen and the "model shows" for fun on Saturdays. We webt back year after year and it felt like coming home to us. My grandmother and I have been dying to go back to visit but also fear the changes that have happened there over the years, so I was actually surfing hoping to find some pictures of the hotel as it looks today. Can anyone help me out here????

Thanks!

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ok, well i have to start with the comment from the person who said that there was hot dogs for breakfast and there was no variety...are you sure you went to this hotel? i don't think that i could possibly fault the food at all at the rey don jaime. fresh fruit, yoghurts, cereals, hash browns, eggs, bacon, beans, mushrooms, pureed fruit, toast, an abundancy of tea/coffee/juice...just what exactly do you expect from a 3* hotel?? if you wanted a place that catered for 'kids' then this did..just because there were no pop tarts or any of the other synthetic rubbish that you feed your kids with does not make this a bad hotel for food!!!! in the evenings, selection of 'good' and 'bad' foods, so that you are not limited to 'burger and chips' but instead a delicious variety of dishes, including fresh fish, salad, pasta dishes, chips (for those who cannot live without them), roast dinners plus gravy (wot no coronation street?! oh dear...) with a selection of cheeses, biscuits, desserts, yoghurts & coffee for afters. eat as much as you like, plenty of variety for those who don't want to leave a few pounds heavier than when they arrived (my mum actually LOST 2lbs when we went, dining like a queen, having lost 5stone before we arrived). final comment on this matter: superb. if you just want mundane, english fried @#%$, then sure, you can have it, but don't complain if there are delicious alternatives, and not just a fast food gaff. we loved it.
decent room, view over-looked back of hotel, so if rubbish bins and feral cats are not your thing, i would recommend asking for a room at the front of the hotel. by all means, this did not ruin our holiday at all. air conditioning did not work, and wasn't repaired, BUT, hey, it was a cheap holiday and the quality of the food/ location of the hotel etc outweighed this slight hiccup.
beach was lovely, not too crowded (and we went in june/july so wasn't exactly off peak, so to speak). beware of beach toilets..........dark and filthy, just like the ones at home, so perfect for all you traditionalists.
the little beach cafe was excellent, friendly staff, joking about the @#%$ weather the english have. they were polite, attentative and very helpful.
plenty of shops, mini-mart things nearby, a chemist, loads of restaurants and plenty of night life a bit further down the road from the rey don jaime, english pubs, irish pubs, clubs etc etc.
excursions that JMC organised were great...well, the ones we went on were, including a trip to a monastry, an old train excursion that went around the mountains and a wildlife park with a bit of history thrown in. you could have the option of going on the clubbing trips, but i wasn't up for this as i was with my mum, and i couldn't trust her to behave herself.
had a bit of a noise problem a few nights, with groups of 'lads' and their oh-so-cool ghetto blasters & rap music, and a few 2am wake up calls from hysterical, drunk, teenage girls cantering knickerless down the corridors, after a wild night out, free from the restrictions of mummy and daddy for the first time in their lives, ricocheting from wall to wall as they feverishly searched for their door key in their moc-croc micro handbags. but there, we were all young once (and i still am actually, unless you'd call 18 old that is).
all in all, we had a fantastic relaxing break, and i highly recommend this hotel. we would go again this year, however mum's anti-thrombosis flight stockings shrunk in the wash, and she refuses to travel without them!!! and i'm saving up for a boob job, so rey don jaime will have to wait.
watch out next year!!!!!

We stayed here June 2002. Staff wonderful, food great, beach superb - what more can we say? Oh, only problem is the mosquitos!

I dont know about jmc but in Thomson it is a 'young at heart' holiday and that would lead you to beleive it is not really a place for children. We stayed for 10days but wish it could have been longer. We went in March which I suppose is out of season but had a throughly enjoyable time. Cannot really fault anything about the cleanliness and food and location. The staff were always very helpful. My wife and I were looking on the web to possibly book there again when we came upon this site. All we can say is highly recommeded.