Hotel Vibra Beverly Playa

The Beverley Playa is a large clean, well presented hotel but I found it fairly disorganised in relation to the different levels of board and how people were treated. Full board and gold hat to drink from plastic mugs but paying guests got glasses. A cocktail on full board was plain but if you were paying you got fruit! The food was adequate only, there was little variety and the sauces were heavily over salted or greasy. I felt there was a lack of any decent fresh fruit and the offerings that were provided were not as fresh as I would have hoped. The most disappointing was that, in a hot country, there were no water fountains or stations where you could obtain fresh drinking water, all water had to be purchased. I asked for a kettle in my room which cost me €14 and a €10 deposit - which to me seems extremely excessive. The nights we were in the disco room we were not allowed to take in drinks or water so had to buy bottled water at an over priced rate but I am not sure if it was a hotel rule or our group had hired the bar so they were applying the restrictions, either way there was no air conditioning in a room with no windows so we needed hydration! I used the gym a couple of times and though there was equipment one of the running machines was broken and the towels were not replenished so not always available. Despite signs clearly stating that you couldn’t reserve beds with towels this didn’t appear to be supported so you have to search to find a free bed or lug the about into the sun. The dining room seemed to always be lacking cutlery and rarely had a dessert spoon. There were multiple locations for the crockery but again you had to search to find the one item you needed whether you were early or later to eat. We upgraded to full board for our first 2 nights as we knew we would be having drinks but with the quality of the food we chose to stay on half board for the remaining 6 days hence we noticed a clear difference of how we were treated on full board vs being bypassed when on half board - even the animation team looking for participants in their ‘fun’ games walk past and would rather have 2 people play than include someone on half board! All in all we had a fun time as we were on a dancing holiday with a large group.