Barceló Cabo de Gata

My wife Christine and I blessed to have stayed at many 5 Star hotels around the world, Barcelo Cabo de Gata is very, very underrated as a 4. A major contributor to our vacation quality of life has been Ana Vallejo Santo. She being the Head Concierge and together with her charming colleague Paula, has been a life-line into connecting us with the areas best restaurants and services. Ana always willing to help us, her chief quality together with her dynamic personality is REAL TIME follow-up. Having served the hospitality industry for 56 years starting in my home town of San Francisco, this Barcelo property is exceptional. My credo has always been that restaurant and hotel service is a shared experience. The kindness, courtesy and respect that guests provide the staff comes back a million fold. Upon entering Barcelo last evening, we were heartfeltly greeted at reception by Jorge, a very elegant and affable gentleman. Our immaculately clean room featured a LG wide screen TV that was not a "smart" unit. Miguel, a kind and savvy hotel technician helped us to make the TV intelligent, by assisting us in connecting an Amazon Fire Stick. Instantly, NETFLIX, YouTube and Prime were available. The dinner buffet was as sumptuous as it was scrumptious. We had the pleasure of being served by Aitor and Daniel, 2 fabulous and very articulate young men. Enjoying the lavish breakfast buffet every morning during our entire 8 day stay, we express our utmost gratitude to Leo and Juan, the omelette station captains. We also have been fortunate in meeting Adin, Anastasia, Belen and Francis, the swimming pool lifeguards and maintenance manager. Anastasia is genuinely kind and forthcoming and has been a joy to discuss various high brow topics with. Another team member that deserves special recognition is Jose, the manager of the pool bar. He is otherworldly intelligent and has been a delight to converse with every day. You can meet Jose directly across from pool #2, which is impeccably clean featuring crystal clear waters and is absolutely perfect for adult swimmers. Last, and surely not the least and actually the hardest working and genuinely kind team member we have had the pleasure of interacting with is Estefania ~ our daily house keeper. Estefania has been a God-send in her maintaining our room impeccably clean and graced with her effervescent vibrational energy. Firmly believing that a guest-first intuitively minded hotel staff tremendously enhances the guest experience, Barcelo Cabo de Gata exceeded our inaugural day expectations and is truly a world class 5 Star property!!! ALBERT GARCIA CME IMMOBILIEN FRANKFURT, GERMANY

Room was big and comfy with great mini bar included. Would have been nice to have three slippers and robes with us booking 3 people in the room and us using the spa facilities. Food was lovely again but sadly at breakfast they finished serving the pancakes early and it was the one thing my son was looking forward to for breakfast so he was disappointed. Staff were lovely and efficient.

Our hotel was changed from roquetas de Mar with a few weeks to go to here. The hotel is very well maintained. However the indoor pool and spa facilities weren't available most of the week. Only Friday to Sunday. The food is extremely average and there was always something up with the coffee machines in the mornings. My key stopped working one day and another occasion the locks on the doors were changed without us being notified. This meant we couldn't access the bike room with the new key too once it switched over. I can imagine this is lovely during the height of summer but with a few things closed it doesn't appeal as much

Decent hotel for the price. Not much around so you are stuck eating at the hotel for food. Nice, clean and big rooms. Location is secluded in the middle of nowhere.

It's by the sea so going there for a walk was convenient and pleasant. The room was spacious and confortable. The staff was accommodating. We had a comfortable short stay.