Riu Costa del Sol

We had a room on the 7th floor with an amazing sea view.It was spacious,modern and comfortable.The bathroom was large and everything worked well,although the tired brown towels definitely need renewing. I enjoyed the food in the main restaurant, and the Asian one,but the Italian one was disappointing. The evening shows were good,but rely too much on the hardworking entertainment team,and tend to follow the same format.I would have liked to see different acts,such as the excellent guitarist who sang and played on one night. Everyone working here is so cheerful,and nothing is too much trouble.Thank you to everyone,especially the bar staff at the outside bar near the restaurant.All those lovely Mojitos and large Ballantines were much appreciated,thank you! We were lucky with the weather,and had a fantastic holiday.We will certainly return.

Had a wonderful week at the Riu Costa with my husband and son. We booked two limited sea view rooms, and we got two wonderful rooms with excellent sea and pool views, Fridge, free wifi (whole hotel and grounds). The hotel is very large with three large pools to chose from, a splash area for kiddies, babies pool, and another pool inside the Spa. There are at least four bars, plus self service soft drinks, beer and wine, a coffee menu, cocktail menu etc. Also there was food in abundance! A very large buffet restaurant, also a much quieter one if you prefer, this one was also used for the Andalusian and Asian nights which you have to book for in advance, we enjoyed both these. Also an Italian restaurant which we booked, but sadly we were slightly disappointed with the limited choice here, our son was gutted there was nothing on the main menu he fancied, only five choices, and was hoping for Carbonara or similar, so he bulked up on the starters instead. Entertainment was great some nights (we did not enjoy the brought in Male singer sorry), our favourite was the Comedy night. The Entertainment Team was fantastic, working hard night and day, they are Superhuman and so amazing with their energy and enthusiasm!! In fact everyone at the hotel works extremely hard, from the Managers to the Cleaners and Bar staff - all amazing! We took the train to Benalmadena and did the Cable car ride to the top of the mountain and saw the Falconry display which was amazing! Also visited Benalmadena park -absolutely beautiful!! I have come home happy and singing the Riu song and look forward to visiting another Riu Hotel again next year :-) Thank you All so much from Clare, Nigel and son Kyle Evans.

I booked an all Inclusive holiday which was meant to be a lovely girls holiday for me and my sisters. We were scheduled to stay at the club riu costa del sol in Torremolinos (costa del sol) for 1 week which was rated as 4 stars. On arrival the hotel looked very presentable even though we were told our room was not ready, when the room was finally ready we discovered there was no kettle or tea making facilities in the room Which you would expect for a 4 star hotel, also there was no iron in the room and we had to request one which was a €50 deposit for 24 hours which i found absolutely shocking. On the first evening I became very unwell with a stomach bug which seems to be common at this hotel bearing in mind i had only eaten from the hotel during this day, I spent the 2nd day of my holiday in bed due to this, on the 2nd evening my sister also ended up with a stomach bug, for the duration of our stay we were unable to eat at this hotel for the fear it would Occur again.The hotels entertainment was poor and we were kept awake late at night due to the outdoor hotel entertainment being noisy, all drinks including alcohol Was from a self serve pump machine, cocktails were not authentic, not to mention we had to buy domestic bleach from a store as the hotel and our hotel room stank of sewage from the drains and would wake us up in the night as it was so awful, I was so disappointed in this hotel and would Not rate it 4 stars at all more Like 2.5, I would defiantly not recommend this hotel and would never go back, the standard was Just not good enough for 4 stars