The Sun Royal apartments are in a quiet street 6 minutes from the beach and 12 minutes walk from the centre.

It is large complex with comfortable well equipped rooms that are cleaned regularly.

Good staying for a base but not if you are looking for on site entertainment.

Always something being cleaned around the complex, be it cleaning windows or shining the metal bins. The place seemed spotless. Couldn't fault the cleanliness here.

I have stayed half board many times and expect basic food, however this was the most very basic and repetitive food I have had. As some food wasn't labelled it was hard to tell what it was, even after tasting it! Food is not the main consideration for us on holiday so no worries for us and if you are vegetarian, better like salad as there didn't appear to be much else for you.

Sun Royal is in a quiet location, set back from the beach (600m in brochure, now I don't know if they were telling porkies or if it was 90 degree+ heat, but it certainly felt a lot further than that with a 6 year old and 9 month old melting in the heat!) It is about 1km to town, shops and many restaurants along seafront. Taxi back from town bargain 2.5 euro and takes about 30 seconds, seatbelt on or slide off the leather seats - "no-go-slow-in-Lanzarote" I was told by one cabbie. If you are a very nervous passenger, may I suggest "no-get-in-in-Lanzarote".

The staff were terrific.

The boring buffet was certainly brightened up with the waiting staff who constantly entertained my kids. They were so polite and cheerful, no discrimination if you were half board or paying customers, fantastic.

Our 6 year old loved Kids Zone club, kids reps were great I noticed especially with the more shy kids they really made the effort. My favourite had to be Lili, the animation team (yes just one person calling herself a team, but she had the energy of about 10 people) She was great, clearly adores kids and just wants to make sure everyone enjoys their holiday. Fully kitted footy referee, quiz master, bingo caller, karaoke queen, kids clown with the same same same songs every night at the mini disco (then running over the road to another hotel and doing the same same same songs there before coming back for the next event). She was even there waving us off home on the coach, seeming genuinely sad that people are leaving. Now I was told that she has been doing this same job for 12 years, completely nuts the woman is a total legend.

The only reason I wouldn't visit this complex again is the location. We love Playa Blanca and know of accommodation nearer the beach, Sun Royal is just that bit too far out for us.

We booked last minute so were allocation on arrival and had no idea what to expect or where we were going to be staying.

Being five months pregnant I was a little dubious but as soon as we arrived Sun Royal allayed all my fears. The complex was clean and tidy with two large pools and plenty of room to wander around.

The supermarket was more than adequate for self-catering purposes although on most nights we headed down to the sea front for our main meal.

The food in the cafe was not particularly fantastic but they do chips which is always a bonus!
The staff and especially the cleaning staff were very friendly and helpful. I would definitely stay here again.

The only two niggles we had were that there was no air-conditioning in the rooms and it was very stuffy on an evening, although you can hire a fan from the reception.

The other thing was that the evening "entertainment" in the bar was rubbish. The bar itself was rather small and very smokey and loud so it wasn't ideal. We went out most nights.

This complex is very clean although its location can be daunting if you have any in your group who have difficulty walking to the main prom (about 1000m).

We could not fault our room or the facilities - large bedroom and spotless throughout.

The complex is very much suited to families and so you can expect a lot of children around the pool and indeed in the bar late in the evenings. I'm no snob but I found some of the guests in the bar to be very loud and quite frankly the liberal use of bad language was unacceptable to us so we found another bar near the resort centre.

Overall as a value for money complex the holiday was good - we had a 'last minute deal' - if we had paid 'top whack' then I would have been disappointed I suppose.

Th Sun Royal is quite a large hotel but there is plenty of space for everyone and we found it attractive and very relaxing.

The maids worked very hard and were exteremely efficient and there was always a member of staff cleaning the pool areas etc.

There are 3 pool tables, a table tennis table and an internet area which were of interest to our two teenagers. However the evening entertainment could be improved as could the bar area.

The apartment was quite spacious but the kitchen area relatively small. As we ate out in Playa Blanca (very reasonably) this didn't really affect us.

We have been on many holidays in the Canary Islands and I would definitely recommend this hotel.

Somehow my previous review ended up with a cleanliness rating of 1 which couldn't be further from the truth!!!
Having put that right please read the other report for my comments!

Sun Royal Apartments are a large complex.

The rooms are more than adequate well equipped although some of the fixtures and fittings needed replacing.

A nice pool and staff were efficient.

The entertainment was lousy, fourth rate, and the bar had little to offer.

Because our apartment was a fair way from the way out it we found it a fair stroll to get to the town centre.

We have been to Lanzarote many times first time to Sun Royal and what a wonderful place. The maids came in everyday bar sunday and one day we put the do not disturb sign on the door as I`m disabled and was having a bad day and after she had seen to other apartments she came back to see if she could do it then, they were excellent.

We went self catering and found the food in the restrauant was really good and we found excellent choice, as far as hotel location it was central and I could use my wheelchair with ease, really flat, the hotel was really good for disabled people ramps every where and even lifs to upper floor and to the bar and supermarket.

I could go to the shops myself in my wheelchair I did find the supermarket small to get my wheelchair round but the assitants came and helped me wonderful.

I went with my Mother and Sister mums age 75 then me 58 and my sister 51 and the hotel was good for all of us.

This hotel was in an excellent location.

The staff always seem to be cleaning.

Didn't use hotel entertainment.

Not far from main resort or beach.

Only thing to let this down was the food there wasn't a lot of choice and one night it was cold.

Would use accommodation again but only go self catering

Sun Royal belongs to the Sun Group and all their hotels seem to be of a really good standard. Well laid out giving that `room to move' feeling, lacking in some hotels.

The ever-so-pleasant maids were round every day except Sunday. Can't praise Sun Royal too highly, wait, except perhaps for one of the female staff on reception who seemed to have selective hearing when British were about. Ignoring her we had a great time.

If you stay in your apartment at night to read, etc, it's worth taking with you a couple of 60watt screw-in bulbs to change for theirs. They have 25watts, a bat could only just manage.