Barceló Corralejo Sands

Just returned from 7 days half board, Barcelo Sands has its ups and downs. Firstly, the weather........................WOW!!!!! high 20s and low 30s on 2 days, cant complain about that!! This hotels USP is its staff and its cleanliness................faultless. Like other recent reviews, the food in the evening can get a bit repetitive, although you will find something that suits, we ate out twice just to break up the routine. The theatre bar has entertainment each night, a step up from your average pub singer but good enough to while away an hour with a drink. Unfortunately, the atmosphere is dire, this is due to the lack of interest from other guests, on most nights its less than 20 and on 1 night there were 6 of us in, the other 4 were Germans who sat in a corner chatting so the only encouragement the guy got was from the 2 of us!! Our biggest gripe though..............................SMOKERS AND VAPERS!!!!! No segregation around the pool and its you who has to move if you are unlucky enough to be next to one.......or more!!!! Both exits from the main hotel building seem to be the area they congregate for a quick drag so you have to run the gauntlet when leaving or entering the building. There is no segregation of rooms either. We had a ground floor terrace room and unfortunately for us, one of the rooms on one side of us and 3 of the rooms on the other were occupied by smokers so at some point in the day you were exposed. I know this can happen wherever you go (except on a cruise ship) hotels really should make more of an effort to have smoking and non smoking blocks. Given this experience we shan't be returning to this hotel again.