Hotel Monarque Fuengirola Park in Fuengirola

I will start with the positive Great location, lovely and clean , fantastic staff, food is good always something to eat even for the fussiest eaters. The beach is out of this world. Negative The walls in the rooms are paper thin you can hear everything your neighbors are doing! The pool side decking is broken in serval area and is a hazard. A lady fell and broken her arm when we were there. The kids are not allowed balls, floats or water pistol in the swimming pool The day not much entertainment for the kids and when there is it's more for the local children. Which is fine but wat about the kids from the UK! Night entertainment again is more for Spanish and it is very out dated and the same every week it does not changed from week to week. This hotel is really for Spanish family's and I would say when we were there it was about 2% people from UK and the rest of the guests were Spanish. Which is totally fine it is in Spain after all but this should be advised before booking! The area of fuengirola is lovely and I will definitely be returning but this hotel just was not for us

I have visited the Hotel for a weeks holiday and this was my experience. I will cover all the positive points and also the negative ones too.

To get the negative out the way I have the following to say.

My wife had a chicken skewer from the buffet for lunch and it was pink inside. Not slightly pink but completely pink. This was upsetting as not cooking chicken properly is obviously dangerous and I wouldn't expect this from a hotel restaurant. I can't say much more on this it may have been bad luck but it put her off eating any chicken whilst we were at the hotel.

My second issue was the bed was extremely uncomfortable. To the point I did not sleep properly at night due to how uncomfortable it was. The mattress was very hard and the pillow was more like a concrete slab if I was to compare it to something.

On a more positive note

The swimming pool was very nice and appeared to be well maintained. There is a bar next to the pool where the staff would serve drinks and snacks to guests throughout the day.

Which leads onto my next point. The staff were great I was here with my wife and son who is two years old and I feel we were treated very well staff were very efficient in serving drinks and also greeted us entering the restaurant and the bar area. I would also like to mention the cleaning staff who every single day cleaned our room to a high standard and were too also very pleasant when crossing paths. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the staff here at the hotel for their warm and pleasant manner and doing their best to run the hotel smoothly.

We had some lovely evenings with the entertainment and some of the acts were very good. Some nights were more focused I would say for the older Spanish guests. But at the end of the day we're in Spain so thats fair enough.

I would stay here again but would probably not stay as an all inclusive guest again. It makes a good base with its close proximity to the train station and the sea front.