Hotel 55 Santo Tomas

Excellent hotel with friendly and helpful staff, great location and fantastic wine.We will be coming back next year. The rooms are comfortable size with good facilities. The pool is huge and the service around the hotel very good.

A very relaxing peaceful holiday at end of season . Excellent accommodating staff , huge beds , wonderful food . Lots of luxury sun beds , huge Olympic size pool . Extremely clean .. would defo recommend & return . Open plan bathroom with no door & rainshower but I would of preferred a sealed toilet door rather than the less private glass sliding door .. but that’s all. Can’t fault the place !!

Despite a few negatives, we enjoyed a very pleasant week at Hotel 55 in Sant Tomas in September, and would consider returning there in the future. The hotel is in a great quiet location just a short walk from the main beach and the few shops that Sant Tomas has. The room was large, the bed huge and comfortable, and all of the staff were friendly and helpful. The long narrow pool is unusual but great for serious swimming if quiet, which it was during our stay. The indoor pool is actually a hydro pool in the spa, so not really for swimming, but the various massage jets are great therapy! The steam room and spa were great and often I was the only one there. Note that the spa facilities don’t open until 09.00 and are closed between 13.00 and 16.00. There are a few things which stopped us giving this hotel a higher rating: • When we arrived at reception to check in, there was a very loud rock band playing in the indoor bar area which is located alongside reception. The noise was deafening and it was impossible to hear what the receptionist was saying at times! A very unpleasant welcome. • All other nights the live music was in the bar’s outdoor terrace, but this could be a problem for you if you like an early night and are in one of the seaview rooms, as the noise would prevent this. Better to ask for one of the rear view rooms if you want a quiet evening. • The smell of drifting smoke from other balconies could be a problem – couldn’t the hotel designate sections of the hotel where balcony smoking is or isn’t allowed? • The room air conditioning can’t be set to lower than 23 degrees, which was a bit on the high side for us. There needs to be a bit more flexibility than that. • As others have said, the restaurant and its management needs a bit of work. There were often long queues of guests waiting for the fresh grill cooking, due to their only being one chef cooking one thing at a time it seemed. Many of the food labels were wrongly placed, causing confusion, and other foods often were unavailable and not replaced. • If you have a hire car, there are only a few parking spaces right outside the hotel main doors, and of course these are often all in use. The actual hotel car park is up a short steep hill at the side of the hotel, and with barriers which you need your room keycard to operate. To sum up, whilst we didn’t think it merits a full 4 star, it is better than a 3 star, but as there is no 3.5 option we have given it the 4.