Playitas Hotel - Sports Resort

I really like Playitas, let’s get that straight. I’ve been here 6 times in total over the last 3 years, and I am leaving happy every time. BUT The quality of their food has gone significantly down and so has the instructors. I like to workout using my entire body, in many different ways but mainly focusing on the cardio and strength, so I can’t speak for all the dancing / yoga classes. The only reason I want to come back every time, is because of the trainer called Stephane. He is, by far, the best instructor and is probably the only reason I wanna come back so often. You can tell by his workouts, that he is both the most intelligent of instructors and also the most experienced. Every single time I go to his workout, I know there is going to be options to train like a world class athlete, but also to learn a lot about my current capabilities. Many of the others instructors are not skilled enough, and the last two trips I’ve had, I’ve actually walked out of multiple workouts, because the instructor clearly wasn’t prepared or even seemed like they cared. As for the food, it’s still quite good, but every time I come back, I can predict what’s on the menu, since they have clearly started to just recycle the same 7-10 meals each week. It’s a shame when the place brands itself as “Europes best sports resort”, because the food doesn’t live up to that, and only Stephane can make that branding stay. If he leaves, the place needs to rebrand itself as “Europe’s best family and dance resort”

The Good The resort is modern and spotlessly clean, with lovely manicured gardens around it. There's a wide variety of sports - definitely something for everyone. The rooms are clean, well maintained, modern and very comfortable with good facilities. The staff are all very nice and very helpful. All the pools are very nice, clean and with more than enough sun loungers to go around. The black sand beach is very nice. The resort is large, so you never feel cooped up like you can do on other smaller resorts. There is the choice of two buffet restaurants, a pool bar, an a la carte restaurant and then three small local restaurants in the little fishing village attached (a 10 min walk away). The Not so Good: For the large majority of the sports you need to book. There is an app where you can see the day's schedule, but you are not able to see how many places there are available nor book online. To book you need to go to the booking office (in the sports clothing shop in the middle of the resort) and book in person. You can only book a class 24 hours in advance. The popular classes get booked up VERY quickly, meaning if you want to join the class you're going to have to get up very early the day before and head to the booking office 24 hours before to try to get a spot (this is not very relaxing on a holiday). This also means that you have no hope of booking the popular classes on your first day. It is pretty annoying to have to keep walking to the booking office only to be told that the class you would like is already fully booked. The booking is done by writing your name down on a list on a bit of paper (very un-tech). The place is generally short staffed. There was only one or two people at the pool bar, which meant at lunchtime there were very long queues and a one hour wait to get your lunch after ordering. The staff work very hard, but there's just not enough of the them. It was the same for the jazz evening. After waiting for 30 mins we gave up on trying to order a drink. At the pool, if you don't want to drink your drink in the pool bar (and instead drink it by your sun lounger/elsewhere), then you have to pay 1 euro for a plastic cup per drink. You can reuse the cup, but it means you need to wash it and remember to take it with you when ordering your next drink. This is MEGA annoying, as after queuing for ages to get a drink, you then remember you've forgotten your plastic cup and have the choice of either paying ad additional 1 euro per drink again, or going and getting your cup and queuing up again. The resort says it's to help the environment, but clearly this is not, it's so they don't have to hire more staff to collect classes around the pool. It's good to note that there are two ends of the resort, one which is more of a hotel and the other end which has mini apartments. Each end has it's own pool and buffet restaurant. The hotel side tends to be more couples and the mini apartments more families. If yo

Very nice location for sports, sunny, nice pools, friendly staff. Great coaches, in particular Stephane, he showed some great techniques for overall fitness, strength and insights on how I can improve my training and regeneration. Areas of improvement for the location: Swimming Pool should open earlier (6:30 or 7 am) in the summer months so we can get more training before breakfast.

Playitas is a great Sport Resort with an excellent location an great staff. The food is more than excellent and very healthy. The courses are great and the application is easy to handle. Check in and check out are very easy. The rooms are basic but very very comfy. We have been there 5 times already and will continue to go there. A great PLUS is the french instructor Stephane. He knows his stuff really well and surprises his guests with interesting training exercises. METCON is one of the main reason we go back, the I go YOU concept is insanely great. You feel positively exhausted and positiv in your mind. Great thanks for all the cool ideas and courses he proposes!

5 stars for Stephan as instructor and trainer. The hotel itself is very basic. The food is terrible; mainly frozen products and not healthy at all. Equipment really bad. Plastic basketball in women size. Most instructors are really bad, sometimes students. Anyhow, Stephan is the best instructor at Playitas and the main reason to go there.