Reviews of Sol Arona Tenerife

Excellent hotel, rooms cleaned and towels replaced every day. Food was good with a wide selection of choices.Plenty of room at poolside.Electric points for charging scooters or wheelchairs.

Going to try and be as detailed and as honest as possible to give the best non biased review. I have just returned home from what has been a fantastic weeks stay at Sol Arona Tenerife. I used to come here every year as a child but hadn’t returned since 2019 due to covid and wanting to explore other countries. Me and my partner decided we would come here for this reason. Reading all the reviews online I was a bit worried my partner wouldn’t be pleased with the hotel. I knew that as long as there was a bed in the room I would be happy as I hold this place dear to my heart but most of the reviews are incredibly dramatic. We stayed on the 14th floor with a view of the greater tenerife island, (not the pool/ocean view) so I suppose maybe the rooms on the lower floors are not of the same standard due to being older. Our room was incredibly clean. The floors must have been at least swept daily as items such as headphones which I had left half under my bed by mistake were picked up and left on the table. As for mopping I’m not sure as my partner left her case on the floor and it didn’t appear to move during the stay. Fresh sheets and towels were prepared every day and my partners pjs were even neatly laid out on top of them. In the bathroom, there was admittedly some staining on the floor of the bath and the shower took a little while to heat up and struggled to stay in position but again I could look past it. There did also seem to be somewhat of a sewage-y smell coming from the bathroom but nothing that affected us to complain, just was unpleasant in the odd occasion we smelt it. The pool appeared to have been cleaned on the bottom from photographs I had seen before coming away which I found relieving as I worried my partner would be put off. The sun beds are a little sunken in but do seemed to be washed it at least wiped as we didn’t notice any marks when moving to different locations beside the pool. The token system is a bit inconvenient but if you just use your brain it’s incredibly easy and shouldn’t have a detrimental affect on holidays. The activities for adults at least seemed to lack. On one day I was particularly excited for the water polo as it’s always a good way to get to know people and good fun. The nets were brought out and then left for 20 minutes before being taken back in without any organised game which I was a little gutted about. Thankfully the dart tournament did go ahead which made up for it. In terms of the food, it’s decent. They have a wide array of salad options on the one side of the restaurant and on the other side the cooked food is alright. You’re going to find something you like but the food on offer is a bit basic and repetitive. I think I had pizza pasta and chips of some form every day but as someone who is incredibly fussy with food I was overjoyed. If you’re quite into your food you’re better going out of a nighttime to eat at the restaurants just minutes away near the beach. The lobby area is clean and well kept although it’s a shame to see the sports ‘bar’ no longer operates as much of a bar anymore. They used to show live football and that’s where you’d congregate on a rare rainy day but it appears to have just become an arcade. The evening entertainment seems to have dropped off a little and also seems to go on much later than it had before which if you’re on that side of the hotel with your room must have been a little annoying. As for location you can’t get much better. There’s a free bus to Siam park on the door step, the beach is a minutes walk down the hill (but good luck getting back up, it’s like Everest) and the markets down the other hill are always good fun. Our room was ready when we arrived at 12pm and the receptionists seemed incredibly polite and attentive. All in all I had a fantastic holiday. I cannot speak for the experience of others but the reviews I have seen seem incredibly over exaggerated although some do make some key points. As others have mentioned there does appear to be plans to refurbish next summer as to be fair it is an old hotel.

Great place

Kind stuff, okay hotel, asked for double bed room, got two connected single beds.

En general la estancia ha sido buena, pero siendo by Meliá esperábamos algo un poquito mejor, aunque nos han dicho que tiene prevista la reforma para marzo. - Solo algunas habitaciones tienen aire acondicionado. Supone un plus en el precio. En las que no tienen aire imposible estar. - Habitaciones un poco antiguas y sin insonorización. Con las ventanas cerradas y en la planta 15 oímos todo lo que ocurre abajo en la piscina y los espectáculos parece que los tienes metidos en la habitación. - Personal de 10. Muy amables todos. Enseguida nos solucionaron el tema de la habitación y tuvieron muchos detalles con nuestra bebé y con nosotros. - Buffet variado. - Localización muy buena, a 5 minutos andando de la playa con paseo marítimo y muchos restaurantes y tiendas.