Torre Joven

We have just come back from staying in this so called HOTEL for 3 nights didn't like this place at all. Firstly when we went to book in they couldnt find our reservation then we got our room on the 5th Floor which when we opened the door of the room we got this horrible smell of swerage from the bathroom and then we looked around the room and it was horrible i wouldn't put my worst enemy in it.....we went down to reception to change this room and she was nice and gave us another room but we asked her could we have a room with a poolview and her answer was "pool dirty, not nice" so that was really painting a nice picture for us when the staff was telling you this. The food wasn't good especially when you'd go down at 9am and there was nothing left and breakfast wouldn't be due to finish till 10.30am. Bar wasnt great you had to call for someone to serve you and then when you do get your drink it is out of date and then trying to explaining that to the staff was really really hard. Beds were like bricks too. So all and all NO i wouldn't stay there again and NO i wouldn't recommend this to anybody and i really think it should be taken off Alpha Rooms website. The was only 1 good thing in this place "Air Conditioning" other than that nothing else

Tracey, Dublin
Young Couple (18-35)

good hotel. Clean & comfortable. Room had TV, safe, fridge and air con. Breakfast excellent. We took our two dogs. try the WOK restaurant over the road. Eat as much as you want. Many restaurants etc around. Well placed and easy to find.

Dave Lee, Burton on Trent
Mature Couple (36+)

on arrival to the hotel torre joven,i was greeted warmly by the reception staff.i booked a single room via alpha rooms,i was pleasently supprised on the size of the room and how clean it was.it was well layed out,spacious clean tidy inviting..the staff were so helpfull i felt like royalty.from management down to the cleaners.i would whole heartadly recomend this hotel to anyone intending on visiting torrevieja,or surrounding area.there is a bus stop close to the hotel very handy to get about..and quite regular..out side the hotel are a few bars with great menus if you dont want to eat in the hotel from a real English chipy to indian to chinnese..so theres great variety..id strongly recomend that if you want to book this hotel please book it through alpha rooms,as its the best rate for tis hotel...i will be going back very soon and intend useing alpharooms again...

dave jacques, uk
Solo Traveller

have stayed in this hotel 4 times in last 12 months,great hotel,good food,good location,easy to find,cannot fault this hotel for the price they charge.sometimes we get upgraded to a suite without asking.would not keep going back if the hotel was no good.those who moan must be born moaners.

mr e walters, doncaster
Mature Couple (36+)

Just returned from the Torre Joven Hotel - very good location with bars, restaurants, lovely small beach approx. 10 minutes' walk away, safe swimming pool. Not great at hotel - quite small area. Still, very good value for money. Had a really nice stay - rooms were very nice - would go again.

sandra bloomfield, Cardiff
Mature Couple (36+)

We stayed at the Torre Joven as we were in the middle of purchasing property nearby. All the staff were helpful & very friendly. The hotel was in an excellent location for our needs. We were slightly apprehensive as we did not pay a lot for the room but were relieved that it was extremely clean & tidy. Our room had, air con, fridge, TV, hairdryer etc, and 2 king size beds and 2 single beds. The only complaint was the buffet breakfast which was very basic and often cold, but there is a microwave to use! There are plenty of bars, restaurants and supermarkets within walking distance. There is a small pool area at the hotel, but only 6 sunbeds! The nearest beach is about 15-30 mins walk away, or the bus goes every hour into Torrevieja. Los Naufragos beach is a large blue flag beach which was great to relax on & let our 4 year run riot after days of being stuck in solicitors etc. We would recommend the hotel if there on business or visiting, but not an ideal location for a family holiday.

Kerry, Hull
Family with Children 11 and Under

This was the 6th time that we have stayed in this hotel, so have obviuosly enjoyed it previously. The location is good, particularly if you want to explore the surrounding area. The hotel has also been extremely good value for money and my comments reflect this. We felt that this time, the food was not as good as previously but it was really the noise from the disco that affected our stay. On our last night there was an argument/fight between a group of men (not youngsters!) immediately outside the hotel at about 3.30 am, and even though this went on for some time, the hotel night reception did nothing.

Cheryl M Davis, Cardiff
Group of Mature Friends/Couples

We have stayed at the Torre Joven twice. Both times we found the staff helpfull and pleasant. The hotel is clean and comfortable, the rooms have a fridge and TV but only Spanish stations can be viewed. Breakfast is buffet style and you can help your self to continental or full English or a mixture of both if you can manage it. Well worth considering if you want a cheap base for a holiday.

Sandra Newman, West London / England
Mature Couple (36+)

This hotel is out of town.  The rooms are a good size and cleaned to a high standard also the staff were very friendly and helpful.  There were no working safe deposit boxes although you can leave valuables at reception.  Only Spanish, no satellite,tv( not even CNN ) and only one evening's entertainment a week. Good breakfast but tepid evening buffet.  There was a loud disco next door which disturbed some guests , not us. The beach is a 15 min. walk  away. I don't think this hotel would  suit a family holiday but ideal and good value for money if you are going to view or sign for property or just enjoy the countryside. We were there for two weeks.

mrs joan scott, glasgow scotland
Mature Couple (36+)

The Torre Joven hotel is easy to find just off the junction for Torrevieja north, situated on the main coast road between Torrevieja and San Javier. We found it clean and comfortable with the suites worth the extra few pounds and representing excellent value for money. Although the television is in Spanish, the staff were helpful and friendly and spoke good english. Apart from the food at the hotel where breakfast sets you up for the day, the surrounding restaurants, all within a few hundred metres were excellent with the Carvery providing good wholesome fare and the Puccini well worth its awards (book to avoid disappointment, the Prawns Romano were sublime and the sweets are to die for!). There is an excellent market every day in Torrevieja, ony 4 Kilometres away or the opportunity to explore the coastline via an excellent bus service or car hire which will allow you to journey inland to the impressive ancient capital city of Murcia. All in all we had an excellent stay and found the holiday to be surprisingly cheap and of a high quality.

Jim Porter, Kilmarnock, Scotland
Group of Mature Friends/Couples

I REALLY ENJOYED STAYING AT THE HOTEL TORRE JOVEN. IT WAS NICE AND EASY TO FIND, (WITH THE BIG H IN FRONT) IT WAS NOT BAD FOR A THREE STAR HOTEL, WITH A THREE STAR HOTEL THIS WAS ALL I EXPECTED AND MORE. I THOUGHT THE STAFF WERE FRIENDLY AND WELCOMING AS SOON AS I WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR. ROOMS WERE TASTFUL AND MODERN, AIR CONDITIONING AND TELEVISION WAS AVALIABLE WITH A 3O EURO DIPOSIT ALTOGETHER WHICH I THINK IT GREAT, THE ONLY BAD THING ABOUT THE HOTEL WAS I HOPED THEY WOULD OF HAD A LAUNDRY SERVICE WHERE I COULD WASH OUR CLOTHES AND I HAD TO HAND WASH ALL THE CLOTHES. THE BAR DOWNSTAIRS WAS NICE AND BELOW THE BAR THEY HAVE A LARGE DANCEFLOOR WITH A BAR AND ENABLES YOU TO PLAY POOL, AND DARTS. I THINK THIS HOTEL WAS WORTH IT, IT IS CLOSE TO THE BEACH ONLY A 15 MIN WALK AWAY THE BUFFET FOOD WAS LOVLEY UNFORTUALY YOU HAD TO PAY FOR YOUR OWN DRINK IF YOU WANTED A DRINK WHEN EATING. REALLY ENJOYED STAYING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO PAY A REVISIT

CANDICE, Middlesex
Young Couple (18-35)

This hotel is a clean and comfortable hotel in a convenient location situated near the main Alicante-Cartagena coast road, making exploration of this coast very easy. Although near Torrevieja, it is more in a village of its own and has some very pleasant walks down to the coast (10 mins), but there are no sandy beaches to talk of without a further 15 min walk along the coast. The staff are all very friendly and helpful and able to speak good English.

We stayed in a family room and had paid a supplement for an extra room. This gave us the main room with 2 KS beds and one single, and another room with a sofa and a single bed. Air conditioning was good, we had a balcony and a working fridge,a nd it was all very comfortable. We were even allowed to use the room all of the last day with no extra charge.

As we stayed B&B, I can only comment on the breakfast, which was a choice of cooked English-style breakfast or Continental (or both... "eat as much as you want"). Mind you the coffee had a flavour all of its own.

On the coast at its nearest point to the hotel is a delightful restaurant called the Nautilus, perfect for either lunch or dinner and not expensive. This walk takes you past some old style established Spanish villas with some delightful gates and gardens and more than one cactus display. Four of us eat dinner at the Nautilus for E60 one night and that included a bottle of wine. It was so good we went back the next night. There are many other eateries nearby to suit all tastes and pockets.

The only blot was the disco noise, but that was not unreasonable and was only open Sat and Sun nights.

Very reasonably priced and a much higher standard than I had expected. I'd recommend it.

vince steele, norwich/england
Family with Children 11 and Under

My wife, two friends and myself stayed at the Torrejoven Hotel.  The hotel was excellent and great value for money and the rooms we occupied were large with a sitting room.  A large variety of dishes were offered every meal time, with an excellent dessert table.  Two items that require mention. The first was that food was not piping hot, but we were provided with a microwave to use, which allowed us to heat the food.  Secondly we were not aware that there was a charge to use the garage, which was £8 a night. That came as quite a shock.

Mr. C. Westerman, Doncaster
Mature Couple (36+)

The Hotel is situated approximately 3 K/m south of Torrevieja, and the cost of a hire car should be taken into account when considering this location (local transportation was cheap but each driver operated with a different "time opinion"). The recently refurbished rooms are very large and cleaned to an extremely high standard. The Swimming Pool was only available for use on 2 of our 8 day stay and there was no entertainment provided for either children or adults (other than 2 "pay as you go" computers). Evening meals were available from 20.30PM onwards and the hot food was generally tepid at best. The nearest beach was only a 10 minute walk away but take your own food as there are very few with facilities. The Hotel will not satisfy the "family holiday" type tourists but appeared ideally suited for "out all day individuals" looking to purchase a property within the area.

Peter Higgins, Mexborough, England
Family with Children 11 and Under

We found the stay in Torre Joven most enjoyable.  The breakfast was very good and varied.  Rooms were good and maid service excellent.  The staff were very friendly.  Would have no problem with recommending the hotel to others.

Denise Smith, Guildford/England
Other

A very clean and friendly hotel. The only negative thing was that the food was sometimes not very hot ( maybe this is a Spanish thing? ) but they did have a microwave that could be used to heat up meals more.

Thomas Fleming, Ireland
Family with Children 11 and Under

the torre joven hotel was under rated the hotel was lovely wooden floors thoughtout food 10/10 rooms 11/10 cleaned daily staff lovely very helpfull price brillant i would rate torre joven 4*plus not 3* only letdown was no entertainment for children, ideal for couples however my 20,9,7,yr olds enjoyed there stay theres a clud underneath the hotel children welcome with games,snooker,darts,pools i will be going back summer

ms m higgins, england
Family with Children 11 and Under

The Hotel was overall what you can expect from a budget hotel. We stayed on the 5th floor. The rooms were neat and bathrooms of high standards. But the lounges were really just an empty room with sofabed. The TV in rooms has no English channel except for Eurosport. A lot of things in the hotel did not work during our stay e.g. phone in room and internet in lobby. We did not have(and were neither offered) a remote for our air con and TV either, which was quite a nuisance. It seems that the hotel is run on an extremely tight budget. Buffet style breakfasts were good but evening meals were dissapointing. Would not recommend Half Board as there are plenty of nicer restuarants nearby. Be aware of leaving anything unattended. I left my jacket in the restuarant area overnight, and was "relieved" of all my cash in my wallet.
Staff at reception was very helpful and the pub in the basement was not to bad at all.

Alex Heerschap, Ulster
Group of Young Friends/Couples

I booked a hotel on line as an emergency and warned my husband not to expect much but hopefully it would be at least clean.....as after all we had only paid £78 for four days!! We were greeted by a very friendly hotel reception and then went to our very clean room where EVERYTHING worked ie.heating, good water pressure (unusual) bidet,shower and bath all very clean.We came back each evening to a spotless and tidy room.
Breakfast was normal hotel breakfast, quite acceptable, but what stands out in my mind was the friendly staff, who would do anything to help. I would recommend this hotel to anyone who wanted a no frills, friendly hotel.

Thelma Williams, Brighton. England
Mature Couple (36+)

Although this hotel wasn't expensive, we were very disappointed during our stay. The photos of the hotel that I had viewed prior to our visit were misleading to say the least! The reception area was particularly bad, it comprised dirty sofas and a grotty table and chairs, there was a TV and a couple of computers but we didn't use these facilities due to the poor seating arrangements and smokey atmosphere. The rooms were quite pleasant - particularly if you were fortunate enough to get a room on the 5th floor - which seemed to have been refurbished - 6 of us arrived on the Monday evening and were allocated 3 rooms on the 4th floor - whilst 2 of our party arrived on the Tuesday and were given one of the refurbished, larger rooms on the 5th floor! The rooms did have air con, T.V. fridge and a safety deposit box which was good - these were free, although there was a returnable deposit of 30 euros per room required for the air con and T.V. controls, which we felt was perfectly acceptable. The bar area was ok although it seemed to be run on skeleton staff, we were often stood for long periods of time waiting to be served, not because it was busy, but because no one was there! However, when the bar staff did appear, they were very pleasant, as were the staff on reception, especially Cristina. The pool area was appalling... the pool itself was dirty and unkempt and the 8 or so sunbeds around it were either broken or in need of a good squirt of jif! Consequently, any sunbathing had to be done on the beach. I had read a number of reviews on the hotel before our depature and the majority seemed to imply that the hotel was good value for money and better than expected, particularly the food - unfortunately we did not find this to be the case as the food was just as terrible as the rest of the place... breakfast being the worst! The food was cold, bland and lacking in choice, the staff in the 'restaurant' were miserable and didn't bother to clear plates, neither did they take drinks orders - there was a bar in the corner, where you had to go and stand in the hope of being served, whilst your food went even colder - we thus ate out for the last 3 nights of our stay! This COULD be a very nice hotel... it is in an excellent location, it has a great disco/bar attached downstairs, and has real potential to be a 3* establishment (it certainly cannot profess to be a 3* hotel in its current state!) if it were to undergo a huge refurbishment.

Andrea Hodgkins, Wakefield
Family with teenagers 12+

Thanks we had a very enjoyable stay, nice clean accommodation, cleaned daily, as a family of six it was really affordable and great central location, we were very apprehensive as it had been such a good deal, and were very pleasantly surprised when we got there. Would go again. Thanks alpharooms.

Dawn and Mike Van-Looy, Essex
Other

hotel very nice, clean and large rooms.we did not find the food to be very good - had to eat out twice - breakfast very repetitive.beware,my wife's handbag was stolen from hotel dining room,the one place you tend to relax your guard. staff very helpful and friendly, bar prices very reasonable. more suited to the spanish guests.

ken broderick, newcastle upon tyne
Mature Couple (36+)

Very nice hotel, but did not cater for the British. Menu usually in Spanish - we did not know what we were eating which was normally cold and had to be heated in microwave. Breakfast never varied corn flakes like cardboard. Rooms very nice apart from smell from bathroom, cleaned daily. Staff were very nice. Would visit again but would take extra money to eat out.

janet mcallister, ayrshire scotland
Mature Couple (36+)

We stayed at the Torre Jovan during Oct 05, for 6 nights.
Our accommodation consisted of a large double room and lounge and fridge.
The rooms were cleaned daily to a good standard.
Breakfast choice for all tastes - quality of food very good, although we booked for B&B we did have buffet lunch and a buffet dinner, both meals were very good and a good choice of food.
We found all staff freindly and helpful.
Situated near a beach but not sandy, good choice of restaurants and bars nearby.
Hotel is easy to find and is in a good position to get around from and excellent value.
The whole experience was very pleasant and we will be returning again in Feb 2006.
We would not hesitate to recommend this hotel.

colin and christine johanson, Northamptonshire/England
Mature Couple (36+)

Food was excellent, all staff and personnel very freindly and helpfull, would certainly go back again. Rooms vary from spacious with sitting room to large room with balcony. Would recommend to people. Could vary the breakfast slightly.
Excellent value for anyone's money.

Mark Mitchell, Rochdale England
Mature Couple (36+)