Aparthotel Columbus, Playas de Las Americas Review

Overall Rating

1)Suitable for self catering, definitely do not go half board or all inclusive!
2)The rooms were clean and spacious, studios very nice, beds comfortable.

3)Do not recommend the Aparthotel Columbus. We were a family of 5 (2 adults and 3 children) and we were thrown out after 2 days for offering our sister a sip of Fanta.
4)Staff were unfriendly, rude and the hotel manager was awful. We were humiliated and we were treated like second class citizens. If you were all inclusive, you were not allowed to sit in the hotels lounge and have your drink.
5)I would only suggest staying here if you want to be very close to the strip in Playa De Las Americas and if you wear ear plugs as the noise in this hotel is unbearable.
6)There are two blocks to this hotel, Block 1 is very loud as it faces the main road and Block 2, looks out onto residential flats.
7)Food and drink on half-board or all inclusive is a joke, if you have booked this hotel, then if it is possible to change it, the Playazul Apartments are very nice and clean.
8)The food is not that nice and not a lot of choice. Drink on all inclusive is horrendous. Only one drink per person, you can only use one bar out of three, right at the back of the hotel. Snack bar is pathetic, one croissant if you are lucky and the dinner is very poor, a bun and a bit of chicken and salad. The all inclusive bar is not open between 6.30 pm and 8pm, pathetic. If you both want a drink you have to go individually. By the time you have walked there and queued up, you will need another drink.
9)Entertainment is dreadful, nothing for younger children at all, even the so called mini-disco was just pipe music and starts at 9.30pm, which is too late. The all inclusive bar shuts at 11pm and the adult entertainment, although I never watched any of this, didn't start until 11.30pm, absolutely ridiculous. The hotel is just trying to make money out of its guests all the time. The day time entertainment was literally 1 hour of rifle shooting at about 1.30pm and that is it.
10)The view out of a lot of the balconies was facing residential apartments but very few had pool views. The noise from the outside bar was horrendous, loud music till the early hours.
11)When we stayed there was a Music Festival blaring out loud music all day and all night for two days straight as there were nightclubs just across the road.
12)There are much nicer hotels and apartments in which to stay.
13)Los Christianos is a much quieter and prettier place to stay

Do not go here! Read the bad points above.