GF Victoria

Lovely hotel and suites. The hotel is very clean.Good food and the staff were so pleasant. No problems getting beds around the different pools which made a lovely change. This is the second hotel in the GF group that we have stayed in and would certainly go back.

We spent the first week of January at GF Victoria with our 7 year old daughter. The hotel is very well located for shops, beaches (El Duque & Fañabe), bars & restaurants. It’s a huge hotel so you can keep fit just walking around it. The staff were friendly & helpful and everywhere was clean & well maintained. Rooms (standard suite) were clean, spacious, comfortable & great to have 2 bathrooms. Unfortunately our balcony (pool view) didn’t get any sun. Good selection of pools - BUT disappointed at how cold the family pool was. Water slides were a big hit with our daughter (she even persuaded me to try!). We were B&B - enjoyed breakfast & the lunch & dinner @ Amina. Nice to be able to have food at the pool bar or even at your sun lounger too. BUT we didn’t try evening Buffett because at €50 per person & €25 for child it just wasn’t going to be value for money for us which was a shame. To keep costs down we ate out at Playa Fañabe most of the time. Kids club was pretty good. The staff were great but our daughter found the inside activities a bit boring (maybe because she was on cusp of being in the older group) but loved going in slide pool and doing the climbing (although we had to be there for that bit). In summary: I’d have given a 5 rating if the family pool had been warmer, if there’d been free drinking water poolside & if the buffet pricing (particularly for children) was better. And a harder thing to fix but something to be aware of is, depending on when you travel, a lot of the rooms & loungers are permanently in shade. But really happy overall with the experience.

We stayed at the GF Victoria in December 2019 for 1 week for a family holiday. The hotel is in a great location a few minutes walk to the beach and there is a nice shopping center outside. We went there sometime for lunch and to use the supermarket. The weekly market (on a Thursday) is only a few minutes walk from the hotel. The hotel is very clean and the rooms were very nice. Pools are clean and heated. The pools also get sun all day which is great. The kids pool area is excellent. I did not like that you had to pay extra if you wanted to use the surf simulator pool. For the price you pay to stay in this hotel it should be included. All the staff were very friendly and service was excellent. Some people said that drinks were expensive but it is a 5 star hotel. The food selection for breakfast and dinner was very good and the food was fresh and very good quality. The food was so much better quality than other hotels I have stayed in. As good as the food was we still grew a bit tired of it after a week and swapped the dinner for lunch and ate out a few times. This is normal for us anyway. The selection of food for lunch was not great, I can only guess this is because most people stay half board. The kids club was excellent and the staff were really good with the kids. Our little one could not wait to go there every morning which is always a good sign. I liked that it was in doors out of the sun and they go the pool in the afternoon for an hour. We did a family spa during our stay which again was really nice. The spa facilities are very clean and staff again were excellent. The roof top bar was our favorite place. When our daughter went to the kids club we headed up there for cocktails and a dip in the overhanging pool. The cocktails were really nice and it was such a nice place to spend and hour or so with lovely views. Even the road works outside the hotel were not enough to dampen our enjoyment. We enjoyed out stay so much we are looking to book it again for 10 days in July. It will be interesting to see if the service will be as good during a very busy summer period. We loved our stay here and cannot wait to return!