Globales Apartamentos Binimar - All Inclusive

This is our first and last 3* holiday! We usually go 4* so we wasn’t expecting much but the things we thought wouldn’t be good were ok. Accommodation was basic but clean and the grounds immaculate. We enjoyed the food too. The rooms aren’t cleaned everyday though! My little boy wet the bed one night and it was a day they weren’t cleaning. I had to go to reception 3 times to report it before the cleaner was sent! This aparthotel is not big enough for the amount of people they cram in!! Never before have we not been able to get sun beds. I went for a run every morning and when I got back there was a sea of people waiting for the beds to be unchained and some individuals were taking 4-6 beds each. Why don’t they put the apartment numbers on the beds and allocate 2 to each one?? We ended up on plastic chairs all day and some beds had towels on from 10am till 6pm with nobody using them 😡. Very selfish!! It was the same in the evening nowhere to sit and nobody giving up any chairs! Entertainment was rubbish anyway but when you’ve paid all inclusive you don’t want to go elsewhere spending money! Queues for drinks is a joke too. Where we have been before you just go and help yourself throughout the day. We had an early flight so on the day we left it was continental breakfast only which is fine but when we got there all that was on offer was coco pops and sugar puffs for cereal, warm milk due to air conditioning not being on and dry bread with no means of toasting it! Also still dirty plates out on some tables from evening meal the night before! Food isn’t available all day. We went on a trip out and arrived back at 3:05pm to be told both restaurants had stopped serving and no snacks till 4:00pm!! Surely all inclusive means you can get something to eat all day?? A big positive was the splash pool, my little boy loved it and spent most of the day in there. Also the kids club was ran very well but only did one session per day? We’ve had 2 sessions before in previous places we have stayed. Alex was great with the kids and Billy Boy from the animation team.

The journey to this hotel took nearly two hours, instead of the 45 minutes. No air con on the coach either and this made the journey even more uncomfortable. The long wait to check in and no rooms yet available also made our day longer than it should of been. We waited two more hours for our room to be ready! The hotel is clean, tidy and gardens are immaculate. Just too busy and felt there was no space especially around the pools, bar and restaurants. There is no beach as such just a small cove. You have to pay for drinks and sunbed hire whilst there, only if you don’t want to sit on the shell/shingle beach. Jelly fish were in the sea on our visit so this made it a no go for children. The current was strong again not good for children. The hotel has 3 pools, one has a child’s splash park and the other two are very busy. They are not large pools. Be prepared for accidents as it’s full of inflatables, parents throwing their children around the pool and general splashing and jumping in. Everyone trying to have a good time. Inflatables were huge costing a lot of money, someone told us their one was £50. Cheaper to bring one from home. Good luck with trying to get a sun bed later than 8.30am and even before that you need to windmill your way through to get one as they are unchained by the staff. Not our kind of holiday, so we left it to the windmillers to do their thing and prompted for the grass just outside of the pool area. Fights did happen and one chap had his arm cut by someone pulling the sun bed from him during a scrum. Who ever did get a bed of champions would often leave them empty for the day, whilst they ventured out. This was annoying to those who did not want to participate in gladiator style fighting. The surrounding pools area is manic it’s Everyman,woman and child for themselves. You have to climb over people, beds & large inflatables to get in the spare space of water to cool off before being hit by some unfortunate child being hurtled through the air, shouting “ more daddy” The pool had to be shut down at one point due to poo-gate, no one admitted that they or their child pooed in the pool Whilst it’s being cleaned, by a pool cleaner who was saying very rude words in Spanish about having to keep cleaning up poo. Whilst everyone else just looked for the guilty person through the top of their sunglasses. A child was sick in the pool another day this was not cleaned up, even when the mum notified the swimming pool guard. Think he was too busy on his phone to care as he texted away behind his square bag. It’s ok, kids like swimming in spaghetti and pizza!,! The girl lifeguard was on the case when it happened again and had it cleaned up by a cleaner. ( this was not in the pool this time) yayyy for girl power. Drinks are served in small non-reusable plastic cups. You have to buy beakers and reusable travel mugs if you want a descent drink and not a thimble full of some watery stuff and large ice cubes. The food was monotonous and mish-mashed. The flys loved it though!. What we did have was nice. We had donuts, various croissant, toast, prawns, muscles, chips, chips chips, bacon, eggs, sausages, chips, veal, vegetables, chips and undercooked paella, rice pasta,pizza,pork/ lamb chops etc etc puddings were nice with chocolate mousse, ( other flavours are available) ice cream, fruit ( sometimes not fresh and very mushy) lots of food really. Just nothing seemed to go with anything. (Mish-mash) we went out for 5 of the 7 evenings we were there for. We ate Chinese, (cooked) paella, pasta, steaks, tapas really lovely to get out and relax. Entertainment was not that good. Thank god it only lasts 45minutes if that! If it lasted longer I must of zoned out. We went to Jimmy Hills for their entertainment as did a lot of others from the hotel. Can’t comment on the kids club my child didn’t want to go, not sure if he was to old at 12yrs old. I didn’t ask. He enjoyed the football though. But what I did see of the younger children who went is they all loved it. The Tui girls seemed lovely and very child focussed. Didn’t have anything to do with the hotels animation team other than football, so again can’t comment on them. Reception staff seem ok, checking in and out was the only time we spoke to them, we had no need to. Seriously go if this is your sort of hotel, it’s great for small children and families that want to get up early and fight their way for a sun-bed and enjoy drinking out of small plastic cups and mixupyourdinner food.