Club La Santa - All Sports Inclusive

“Great sports facilities, shame about CLS Hotel mgt are so poor.”

Club La Santa Mgt have for years been a law unto themselves and unresponsive to clients. They have a huge captive market from Denmark schools and colleges who dominate the centre with 90% occupancy, large group bookings of teenagers on various sports camps. These teenagers are, on the whole very we… more

Club La Santa Mgt have for years been a law unto themselves and unresponsive to clients. They have a huge captive market from Denmark schools and colleges who dominate the centre with 90% occupancy, large group bookings of teenagers on various sports camps. These teenagers are, on the whole very well behaved an a pleasure to see enjoying themselves. However, this lax, if not arrogant, CLS mgt resonates in many ways. At present CLS is suffering from large construction projects until at least end of 2026 (running late so most likely 2027) and amazingly the temporary arrangements that CLS mgt has set up are just plain cheapskate and unusable. The huge tent that acts as the Pool Bar is unusable as very loud in any wind, soulless, hot in any temp above 22C and menu now very limited with the worst coffee on the island aka “press for expresso”. Two areas that CLS Mgt seem especially intransigent at conceding to clients requests are: 1. Heating the children's/Leisure pool. It can be very cold Nov-April and with three other heated 50m pools on site difficult to understand why Mgt would, for 40 years, not want to help children ? 2. Internet - with Starlink blasting fast internet anywhere in the world, the constant failure to provide fast internet to 1000 guests is amazing. Hint: if you want reasonable internet, go near the Mgt’s own offices/reception or download during office hours. Doing Zoom work calls is esp problematic. Even local Los Delores coffee shop in village has better wi fi. Good points: 1. Bike Centre team are great and very helpful IF you get the bike centre staff. During breaks or staff sickness/holidays they often infill with any staff member and you can get a swimming instructor or dance, who knows nothing about bikes etc. Also the Hire Bikes, are top quality and good value now. Bike Centre - bad points - Just not enough Hire Bikes. They sell out months in advance. 2. Gym - great well kitted out gym with large stretch area, it’s hours need extrending but otherwise very good and not too busy. 3. World’s best Hyrox facility ? With external Hyrox kit around track and next to good Cross Fit facility its a superb improvement. 4. El Largo restaurant is excellent and jewel in crown of all catering at CLS. Good team and dinner menu is superb. 5. Arena dining in Square is very popular serving good pizzas, wok food but poor salad bar with little variety. 6. Padel tennis - lots of courts and active 7am to 11pm. Bad points - Padel tennis hours past 9pm and light pollution is a a real pain, especially making stadium/padel court facing apartments less attractive unless you like the sounding of crepuscular grunting padel ? Overall - you come to CLS for one thing - its sports facilities, in those it excels,but at £1200 per week for a very basic apartment you do expect much better hotel mgt.

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“great sports facilities”

Sports facilities incredible. The rooms need a bit of a refurb. Cleaning was not thorough when we were there. Food fairly basic