Despite arriving at 2am, the reception was present, and helpful. The room was spacious and clean, with reasonable cooking facilities, all the utensils/crockery needed, and a large fridge-freezer.

Twin beds with spare pillows in the cupboard. We bought a fan, which was small enough to take back to the UK. In May, it was 25-30 degrees, but the nights were too warm without ventilation!

The location is its best feature. Right on the coast, overlooking the marina, with the black sand beach 100 yards away.

We hired a har, and used the apartment as a base - parking was not an issue for the whole week. We were able to shower and store luggage after checking out.

Very Clean. Maid every other day. Not a lot of kitchen equipment if you wanted to eat in most evenings. Fan hire at around 1.8 Euros a day. Safe deposit boxes in reception. Laundry. Comfortable beds

We stayed in the Pobladeo apartments for two weeks over the Christmas period 2004.

It was our first family holiday abroad and were quite nervous, but we found that there was a mixture of English and Spanish people at the resort, which was reassuring for us as we don't speak Spanish.

We stayed in a two bedroomed apartment, room 118, lovely and spacious. The apartments are cleaned to a very high standard, with cleaning ladies coming in every other day who swept, mopped, made beds, left fresh towels and bedding. They were friendly and polite. We did have the occasional cockroach which is to be expected in warmer climates.

Our apartment was on the second floor looking over the courtyard; from the balcony we had an amazing view of the cliffs. As we only used the apartment as a base it served its purpose well.

There is a room near reception where there are 2 computers with internet access, a euro for 15 mins, a TV, with one English speaking channel, 2 pool tables, a euro a go and a vending machine. There is also a small play area with 2 swings, a see-saw and a slide handy for little ones situated at the back of the apartments.

There are plenty of shops nearby for all your needs. But do venture into Santiago or Playa if you plan on buying lots of food in for the length of your stay as you will save so much (do you

These apartments were a total and utter disgrace.

We were all disguted that the cleaners didnt clean the room half as much as they said they would and the kitchen was appalling!

The location was digusting and littered terribly!

We have visited here many times and it is always superb!!

The location is brilliant the views are spectacular!

The hotel is always clean and the pool is beautiful especially the unique sea water pool with giant turtles and fish in there! There is also a rooftop pool but I actually didn't visit this!

It is located opposite the harbour with shops and restaurants nearby! Views of Los Gigantes Cliffs are amazing on a good day you can see dolphins! Added bonus if you go with Thompson is you are able to use Los Gigantes hotel entertainment which is brilliant! beautiful 5*hotel!

Excellent definitely go back again

We are a family of 4, I'm 39, my wife is 37 and we have 2 boys aged 11 and 13.

The apartment (number 132) was 1 bedroom which had a double bed, very comfy but the pillows were thin so you might want to ask for more if you're used to anything other than a horizontal head at night. The lounge area had 2 pull-down beds which the boys thought was cool, but the beds rattled a bit if they fidgeted. There was also a sofa bed, but this was a bit ratty so we used the pull-downs.

The apartment itself was clean and tidy, with a large fridge and small freezer (essential in August, 33 degrees C), 4 electric rings which I have to say we never used and a breakfast bar. There was a small balcony which overlooked the marina which was lovely, the sea beyond the breakwater and the cliffs as a backdrop.

On the negative side there was no air conditioning which would have been nice, though you can pay for a fan which I would recommend at that time of year. The bedroom was at the front of the apartment and we kept the double windows open all night and the curtains drawn which helped. This window opened onto the courtyard for the apartment block (ground floor). No problems with noise or other issues here.

Another thing was inside the apartment could use a lick of paint. It wasn't a showstopper but for example on the balcony was a small metal table and four chairs. The laminate was badly peeling from some areas on the table and it was rusty underneath. The window latch wasn't very secure so if you're worried about security of valuables use the safe's which are available from reception. Having said that I don't think security is a particular worry here.

The maid service was 3-4 times a week, and she made the beds and emptied the bins and changed the towels, usual stuff. The shower was great, the best we've experienced in a resort - powerful and hot (if you wanted hot, most of the time we had it running cool). There was also a bidet for washing your feet (yeah, I know). Again the maintenance issue was apparent in the bathroom, there was a chandelier-type light fitting in there (why?) and one of the 3 arms on it was loose. No big deal but why couldn't it be sorted?

All in all if you're self catering it's only a base. You're unlikely to do this then cook 3 meals a day, you might as well stay at home. For what we needed, it was clean, spacious and had a great view. Nuff said.

When we arrived, we were extremely pleased with the appartments. They were absolutely enormous, with 2 good-sized bedrooms which had heaps of storage, a bathroom, a separate toilet, good-sized kitchen, huge living area, and a gigantic veranda (because we were on the ground floor, we had an especially large one!). Maids cleaned our appartment once every 2 days to a very high standard. The appartments were in a small complex, which felt very safe, and police patrolled around the outside of the complex at night. The hotel staff were very friendly, couldn't do enough to help you! The lido, which all clients of the poblado marinero can use for free, was right across the street, clean, cheap food, staff were very helpful, fabulous pool...i could go on!

The only complaint we had of the pobaldo marinero was that the walls are paper thin. any movement from upstairs sounds clear as a bell in the appartment. However, the presence of the police (who told us off a few times for noise - we are four 18 year old girls after all!) meant that there was rarely a huge amount of noise at night to keep you awake

we stayed at the poblado arrived only to be dropped off by the mini bus driver and not told where to go. this was extremely funny but not very good considering it was half 2 in the morning!
we woke the next day to beautiful views and scenery from the balcany. room was very spacious and clean.
the only down side was the walk up the hill! e regulary drank in the Highland Paddy at the top of the hill which was excellent with brilliant staff and entertainment.
an excellent trip was the glass bottom boat which we would highly reccomed lots of dolphins brilliant!
swimming pool was very clean and lovely to use in the afternnon when the weather got a bit hot!
definintly go back as a very enjoyable holiday.

I recently stayed at these apts with my boyfriend and another couple. The apts are extremely clean and very large inside them. We had a great view over the harbour from our balcony, which was great to wake up to every morning. There was no entertainment in the apartments but by taking a walk up the hill (which is steep and not suitable from people with mobility problems) you would find a range of bars but the best bar was the Highland Paddy 1 and the Highland Paddy 3. In the highland Paddy 3 there was entertainment on every night from 10 til 12pm. The highland Paddy 1 was great mainly because of the bar staff Wayne and Charlie who became great friends of ours while we were away. The resort is quite quiet but great for a relaxing holiday. Would definately go back to these apartments. The pool which is salt water is very cold but great for cooling off in. We all had a great holiday and we are trying to get back at some point to go and see our friends Charlie and Wayne.

The rooms were clean and lovely quite place for relaxing and the breakfast in the morning was well worth it.