Iberostar Averroes

the rooms were very nice. I had an amazing sea and pool view, and I could not have been happier with the housekeeping services. The food at meals was also well above average.

The first night, at dinner, I had water with my meal. I had half-board included in my stay and assumed water would be included in that. Apparently, it wasn’t, as I would find out the next night when my waiter would publicly chastise me, accusing me of not paying my bill, stating that by leaving without paying, I had forced him to pay it, himself, out of his own pocket, on my behalf. I apologised and said I understood and would, of course, pay. He repeated the accusation three more times, more and more loudly, and as heads from surrounding tables turned to view the spectacle, he then brought me two tickets for the last night’s water and for the water I had just ordered. I didn’t have any money with me, so I had to leave my meal to go back to my room to get the coins he was demanding. It was humiliating. And then he acted confused, wondering what had upset me so much. Another issue I had was a rather strange one in the bar area. The first two days, I brought my work down with me to sit in the cushioned area at the bar, and a young gentleman brought me coffees, cakes, a dish of nuts - all without charge, which was very sweet of him. The third day he asked me if I was single, and when I told him no, he stopped serving me the rest of the week. On my fifth day, the water in my bathroom stopped working. I guess that’s not a big deal, except no one warned me this might be happening, but soon after, I discovered the reason: full construction started, loudly, at 10:00am, consisting of literal sledge hammers striking concrete for rest of the day. It was mind numbing. When the water started working again it came out spluttering and full of grey stuff and then when the silvery stuff was gone, it came out brown-tinged for about five minutes. No one addressed this at all. No phone call to even explain what was happening. No warning in advance of my stay that there was going to unbelievably disruptive construction (I later found out it’s planned to last for the next three months),