Sun Beach Apartments, Santa Ponsa Review

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We stayed at The Sun Beach Apartments in August 2007 for two weeks. It was myself, my husband and my 12 year old son. We are not old only in our 30's and found this place awful!
It is a PARTY hotel for 18-25 year olds that NEVER sleep during the night only during the day. The bedroom is set at the back in a claustrophobic room with no air conditioning right next to the corridor with a tiny window with bars on it. The first night we arrived we were shattered from travelling and needed sleep. There was no chance of that. All you could hear was a party going with very very loud techno music on in one room. Then there was the constant door bell ringing and banging by drunken people. Then came the arguing and shouting. And finally the girls crying and screaming. We didn't sleep at all and felt wrecked.br/>The sheets were filthy, ripped and even had lipstick on them to show that they were not washed. The towels were the same.
We were on the 6th floor so we thought the only solution to get any sleep at all was to physically move the beds from the bedroom to the front room and leave the sliding doors open to get some air. It was better not to hear the awful corridor noise. But, you then had the extremely loud bar noise underneath the hotel.
One morning around 6 am I was half-asleep and someone walked right past me! I thought it was my husband but I looked over and he and my son were still in bed! Someone was in the room. I screamed to my husband and he tried to chase the man out but my husband was half-asleep and didn't catch him. The man got out the front door and ran down all the stairs. He was running from the police because we were told he had hit a woman at one of the bars. A few days later they had eventually caught him.

We reported it to the staff at the hotel and the man at the desk just said, "ugh..idiots! I hate this season! So many idiots in this hotel!" The staff just looked utterly fed up as were we. You had to take 2 separate lifts just to get up to our room.
Some people surrounded the pool with loud techno music so you could not even go to the pool.
The resort of Santa Ponsa is lovely though but very very Irish and Scottish and I would go back but to a different hotel on the other side of the resort. The best bar for families is Bar Code 7 with terrific entertainment every night. The beach is gorgeous but I would not recommend the watermelon or soft drinks on the beach as they are expensive. Get it from the supermarket. Fat Sam's has the very best food but get there early as it is always packed.