Having returned from Lanzarote 4 days ago i am still in the holiday spirit and much of this is from staying in the montana. This is my second trip (and not last)to Lanzarote, and this is by far the better of accomodation. The last time i stayed at the Atalaya Apartment, absolutely nothing wrong with them. The apartments were clean and spacious, the staff curtious and polite, the location (as a family) were excellent, although a hell of a lot of stairs if you were on the second level so therfore not so great!!. The Montana is only set on two levels, a short walk from 3 beaches, (do not believe what the brochures say, Playa Grande beach is not the nearest, it may have all the usual trappings there are nearer ones that are more like large coves but you can let your little ones run and still keep site of them and the beaches do not shelve so quickly as the main ones and are safer for paddling and the locals use them so that is saying something).. I agree with further reports that the entertainment on site could be better but if you wanted that then you would book to go somewhere else, but bear in mind that if you travel with any of the first choice companies, you can use the facilities of the Aquamar hotel, which is located just over the road, which has a childrens club (which is payable locally at a very reasonalbe 3 Euros and hour), entertainment and so forth.

In conclusion, my family and i booked this 6 weeks prior to departure and met various families, couples returning to this particular complex not just for the second time and in my own opinion would have extremely hard pushed to find such a hotel/ apartment complex if we had booked as far in advance as the brochures come out and been as happy as us.

Just as a point to note, we were staying on a self caretring basis but did become friendly with a family who there on a half board basis and were very happy with the amount of choice there was on offer of a breakfast time and an evening. The food was hot, again the staff curtious and a bar to boot.

All in all an extremely enjoyable holiday.

High recommendations and i would have no problem returning there again.

We stayed at the Montana in the first week of June, 2004, booking the holiday about 6 weeks before departure. I found the hotel generally very clean, with the pool and surrounding areas being cleaned and well maintained each evening. Being half board, we ate in the hotel restaurant each evening, and although there was not as much choice as some of the larger complexes we have stayed in there was something for everyone and the food was of good quality. The weekly barbeque, free for half board guests, was particularly impressive and went down a treat! The location was good, only about a 10 minute walk down a steady slope to the main resort. But ladies, be prepared and pack some flat shoes as heels aren't really suitable when walking very far as there are some slopes and pavements are not very level. Staff were on the whole polite and friendly but the entertainment was not excellent, maybe suited better to older couples. One suggestion I would make to the hotel is to provide a luggage room, as there isn't one, and luggage has to be left in the bar, which can be a bit choatic on departure. Also, there is no allocated courtesy room to freshen up before your flight home. But we found if you ask your rep or at reception, a free apartment was provided.

I went on this holiday with 6 of my friends and we were very impressed with the accommodation. It was very clean- fresh towels every second day etc (although the maid ended up giving up on our very untidy apartment by the end of the holiday!!!! Four 18 yr olds, what can you expect?!) The rooms are spacious and I think our two apartments (4 of us in one and 3 in the other) were practically the only ones which did not have a pool view- which didn't bother us anyway since we were hardly in the apartment.

I only saw one cock roach in the apartment the whole 2 weeks and that was one the last night, so if any of you are like me and very scared of creepy crawlies, you have nothing to worry about!

We always managed to get sun loungers at the pool, although in saying this we were there in mid june and just as we were leaving, the resort seemed to be getting much busier so maybe loungers are harder to come by in high season.

The pool bar was nothing special, food was ok (all toasties) but not very good for vegetarians, if you are like me!!! The receptionist was fairly friendly, although I think she thought we were pulling her leg when we had to report two problems with the apartment-1) Half way through our first week our extractor fan above the cooker started stinking of fish, and even after the maintenance men fixed it, our apartment smelt foul!!!!
2) Our door handle broke- we were only able to open it from the inside- quite a safety hazard.

The hotel also had internet access (1 euro for 12 mins) which came in handy since most of us were awaiting our uni exam results which were being posted on the web!!

The hotel location is about a 10-15 min walk (longer if you're wearing heels) to the main nightlife strip. This does cause a bit of a problem when returning home from a nightclub when you are drunk and tired!!!- We sometimes got taxis though which were only about 2-3 euros!

The entertainment was a bit timid for our liking and seemed to never have many spectators. I think there was Karaoke, a parrot show and cabaret singing. I can

The hotel was very clean as was the pool and bar.
The block behind the bar was funny and spoke very good english.
The apartments were close to the beech, shops and cafes.

I can not failt this property the food was great they cooked you what you wanted fresh of the grill the bbq was great so much to choose from and well dessert eat you heart out. The complex was always so clean and tidy and all staff were great to us and made our holiday one to remember. Entertainment was abit cheesy but it certainly was a laugh. Iwould recommend this complex to anyone close to the sea front, close to the centre and close to the night life but not that close that it would keep you awake at night.

Ive been to this hotel twice now and still would love to go again it was fantastic. The cleanliness if brilliant its very clean. All the staff their were great they made you feel at home, the rooms were rather big and all of them had a great view of the pools. The food was lovely especially the burgers! There were 3 beautiful pools, and it was always easy to get a bed as there were so many. The location was great it was just 2 only small streets away from the town centre so you would never have to get a taxi. It had lovely suroundings aswell. Its a very good hotel for familys and couples .