Occidental Jandia Playa

Simply not a 4* hotel, while it was clean and had a good pool area it did not provide the 4* experience we were expecting. Food was not the best and we often found birds sat in the bread baskets at breakfast. The dining area was awful, very loud and resembled a school dining room. The rooms are in need of an update with flimsy plastic furniture and no privacy in the bathroom. Not necessary a terrible hotel but would not return.

Overall a nice hotel, lots of sun beds and multiple pools, one which is heated. Spar shop and burger King nearby is great but its a 20min walk to a Chinese restaurant and there are no Indian restaurants in the vicinity! Personally it just falls short of 4 star for me. This is mainly due to the carbonated drinks not being fizzy at all.. flat coke, flat fanta, flat beer! The food variation was OK, including good breakfast options. However no a la carte restaurant option was a surprise as most other 4 stars I've stayed in offered this.

The OJP is a maze of rustic style concrete pathways running between 9 (?) blocks of rooms, swimming pools etc. First impression of the room (Block 3 - nearest to the beach with sea view) was of dark wood that needed sanding and varnishing. Not at all modern. Bed was massive and very comfortable - 5cm memory foam topper, shower always hot and powerful. We were All Inclusive (I think everyone was) and the food was very good - always lots of choice and always with meats being cooked on the large griddle at dinner. Drinks were local lager and (I'm a Scotch drinker) Ballentines/J&B. The beach is wonderful with some nice beach bars - great places to buy a coffee or beer and watch the world go by. Big waves, with surfers, so didn't swim. I used the gym 6 times (I know - sad isn't it but I've been a gym user for over 45 years) and it's a bit cramped. 1 treadmill that was worn out and difficult to use, 3 bikes, a broken leg press, leg extension, seated chest press, seated shoulder press, seated lat pulldown, free weight shoulder press, bench press, dumbbells from 6Kg to 22Kg. Towels and water provided in the gym. One warning - On checking in our party of 4 were offered the safe and beach towels. Safe was 24ish not refundable, towels 10 each refundable. 2 tokens to collect/change each towel. In the confusion I signed whatever papers they put in front of me and only on check out did I find they'd given me a paper for 1 towel and not 2, at 10 Euro. Although we returned 2 towels they insisted I'd only paid a deposit for 1, so I lost 10 Euro. Not a massive issue and it could have been a mistake on the paperwork on their part, but we all remember me paying for safe and towels with a 50 and getting about 5 in return. I'd love to know who ended up with the missing 10 Euros.

The actual hotel was amazing. The hotel was very large, open and bright. There are lots of bars, entertainment and lots of outdoor seating areas. The pools were amazing. Very large and amazing views too. We sat round the quieter pool which was so lovely and peaceful, it was close to the snack bar too which was good. They had lots of snacks throughout the day and lots of drinks too. The burgers weren’t very nice though. The buffet restaurant was ok. Lovely and sunny in there and well set out but the food wasn’t great. There wasn’t very much variation from day to day and the food all tasted the same. The chicken I had was undercooked too so I didn’t touch that again. The chips were good though. The room itself was nice, lovely sea view and the room was quite big too. The bed was lovely and comfortable and massive too! It was quite dated though, they definitely need updating. We really didn’t like the Louvre door on the bathroom. It obviously wasn’t soundproof or very private at all. All in all though, we did have a lovely holiday and made loads of memories. The hotel just needs updating and the food changed too. Would come again

Need more late check out as 3rd time and still not been able to book late check out at her than that good hotel may need update but absolutely spot on great service and staff will be back

Good hotel, but have a problem with Access card to rooms, a few times we must go to reception to take new card couse our old wont work. The best thing of this hotel are man from Bar, his name is Meaguel and Pablo. This is good person in good place, most positiv and SO much nice for people, they make a lot of smile on guest Face:)

This is our 2nd time here, we went in Nov 23, but it will be our last. I understand a change of management team since November last year, certainly for the worst. No free bottles water at the bars, a water dispenser and small paper cups. No outside evening entertainment, the Royal level have that pleasure now. Food was good now not, never hot and instances cold. Baked beans at breakfast about as warm as straight from a tin, veg etables never hot, rarely warm. However, the worst is to come. The Spanish guests !! The hotel is over run with them, we came back 11th May, previous night in room below us loads of the dreaded Spanish Pensionistas partying until 2.40 am. The hotel has 500+ rooms estimates are 70% of those occupied by Spanish. They are incapable of talking without being loud, they are always in groups, mobile phones to hand, all talking on speaker whether in bar or dining room, round the pool. No peace, they rule and they know it. Now, if all that you still want to go there, then my advice is don't waste your money going All Inclusive. Only one bar, the lobby bar, charges none All Inc guests for a drink. Pool bar, get what you want. Dining room, yellow wrist band is Half Board, but people help themselves to beer and wine and only once in 11 nights did anybody come to their table to make them pay. Nobody at the door to check your room number thus checking if you All Inc or whatever, therefore again half board people just walking in on a lunch eating and drinking and they should t even be there. So if you go, go half board, if anyone does ask you pay then they can only make you pay for what's in front of you. But if you go here you must like to mix with noisy, arrogant, Spaniards who think this place is just for them. And they say us Brits are loud, drunks etc. Hahaha.

If you're looking for a great place to stay to unwind, relax, and chill, look no further than the Occidental Jandia Playa. The beach is a 5/10 minute walk. I would recommend going all-inclusive, everything you will need. The hotel offers additional items, eg. Gym, Spa, to name a few. I, for one, will definitely be returning back.

We had a lovely stay at the hotel, it was exactly what we were looking for a relaxing week in the sun however if you wanted to be a bit more active the entertainment teams provided daytime entertainment and there was also evening entertainment. The beach is beautiful and reached easily via an underpass (a five min walk). The food was generally good however my daughter is a vegetarian and she struggled a bit some days and the food wasn’t always labelled with what it was so for example you might get a spoonful of “ coleslaw” and there were chunks of meat in it. Overall I did enjoy the hotel and would return, there were a few pet peeves that are easy to rectify but it was a good hotel