Relax at the hotel; July the 2nd , 2011

Today we preferred simply to relax in Sandos Papagayo Arena 4 * hotel. I’ll tell you a little about the hotel: we were in an AI (all included) regime and the truth is that it was not bad.

It has 3 large swimming pools and 2 children pools with enough sun loungers for everyone, at least at the time when we were there were no problems to get one. You also have a service of towels for the swimming pool, you leave a deposit at reception that it is returned to you when you leave the hotel. You can change them daily or leave them at the end of the day and the next day you take a clean one.

Regarding the hotel's beach, it is a black stone one and we didn’t step on it, and as far as we knew neither the rest of guests. I show you a view to give you an idea.

For eating, you have several options: the free buffet, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. With a part dedicated to Italian food, in general the food isn’t bad, but is a bit repetitive. They have a Chinese restaurant, which you must reserve and is also a buffet, but we didn’t like it as it had very little variety.

At the pool there is a bar where you can eat something since the buffet closes after breakfast until 5pm. This bar has a variety of salads, sandwiches, pasta, burgers, ice cream, fruit and for tea time they make crepes.

There is also a French restaurant we did not try, it is à la carte and you have to pay a supplement.

There are several options to take a snack: in the pool bar, the Canary one, a pub for adults only. About cocktails I cannot say too much since they only had 2 non-alcoholic drinks: they were good, but it did not vary much. My husband doesn’t remember anything remarkable about the cocktails with alcohol, so I presume that they were not spectacular but not bad either. Take into account that the cocktails are included until 11 o'clock.

In the afternoon there are shows for children and in the evening for adults, but I remember that schedules are quite European since when we went after dinner shows had already started.