Hotel Monarque Cendrillón in Fuengirola

The restaurant in the hotel is very large in area, because it serves guests from two related hotels. There is an unpleasant odor in the restaurant that can be noticed immediately upon entering, probably due to chemical treatment. The restaurant is very noisy, as chairs make loud noises when pulled out from tables, plus very noisy English pensioners, although the local Spanish ones try to keep up with them. The food is very monotonous, boring, and becomes tiresome after 3 days. Breakfast is especially dull, and although there seems to be a choice for lunch and dinner, the food itself is tasteless. It's mass-produced, I would say conveyor-belt food, designed for quantity rather than quality. The food is also very greasy - pasta floats in cold water, fish is all in oil, fried eggs are swimming in oil to the point you could blot/soak them, and the meat/fish is fatty. It's very unhealthy food, and this is the biggest drawback. In addition, we saw a fat cockroach near the "cakes and pastries" section - see the photo. And if you want to see cockroaches upfront, just open the lid of the ice cream compartment, and you'll see about half a dozen cockroaches crushed by the lid itself, which no one even bothers to clean up. Dishes are often greasy, with food remnants, with some yellowish stains on the plates. The coffee is simply terrible. The juice is artificial. Desserts are tasteless. Overall, the impression is very negative - we were so reluctant to eat in the hotel restaurant that despite having paid for full board, we were forced to eat in restaurants in town. The hotel owners need to decide: either they want to save money, whatever the outcome may bw or they need to change the chef because this food is inedible. We do not recommend this hotel - it has only one positive aspect: it's a two-minute walk to the beach, and that's where it ends. The sound insulation in the hotel is poor, all doors slam, and the staff is quite helpless. You'll end up more tired than rested! Overall, we rate it a C minus.