Although I don’t personally own Timeshare, through my work I have had enjoyed the privileged opportunity of staying in numerous Timeshare resorts over the years.
You do get used to the facilities and quality that a gold crown rated R.C.I. resort has to offer and certainly before the twins arrived; my wife and I firmly believed that when you both work hard you should try to enjoy the best quality holiday time you can afford and always booked four or five star accommodation so I suppose you could say we’ve been spoilt (or lucky) in the past
Now the twins are nearly two years old, I’ve come to realise that it’s not so much the five star quality that’s important but more the facilities on site that a resort offers to keep a pair of tichy humans that seem to run on Duracell batteries occupied.
As always we had left it late again to book our August holiday and didn’t want two fly with the twins so finding a Timeshare resort on the Costa del Sol with availability last minute in mid August proved impossible.
I was quite pleased when I was asked to check out a fairly new resort in Sancti Petri, Chiclana and took the opportunity to grab a quick four days holiday with the girls as well. After all the best way to check out a family resort is, take the family!
The Tartessus Apartments is not a Timeshare resort although the apartments are well equipped and on the same lines as many standard R.C.I. resorts I’ve stayed in before.
Laid out very similar to a lot of Caribbean complexes the Tartessus resort offers a large reception area that hosts the comfortable and relaxing lounge with free wi fi internet connection, flat screen television showing sports all day long and is also the centre of the main restaurant and bar.
The bar is open all day long and offers snacks when the restaurant is closed and also serves the pool terrace.
The large pool is the centre piece of the gardens and all the apartments are well placed Caribbean style around the pool with the split level bungalows dotted around further down into the well kept gardens where you will also find the tennis courts and children’s playground.
We stayed in one of the two bedroom apartments which are ample for a family of four and with the supermarket next door and the fully fitted kitchens that include, microwave, cooker, hob and even a toaster you could stay for one or two weeks quite comfortably and cheaply if you wanted to eat in every night.
On the downside, the buffet in the restaurant wasn’t very extensive and didn’t offer much choice. We didn’t notice any kids clubs and apart from one night of live entertainment that lasted forty minutes. The rest of the night time fun was provided by the life guards and animators who dressed up in very badly made costumes and mimed to cd’s of the same Disney shows every night.
In conclusion, maybe I’m getting fussy in my old age or I’ve been spoilt in the past but I wouldn’t book there again. If I wasn’t in the Timeshare industry and have the opportunity of using R.C.I. and I.I. resorts without having to own Timeshare, I would probably invest in a good Timeshare resort to secure my family holidays for the foreseeable future as I’ve never been disappointed with any Timeshare resort I’ve stayed at in the past.
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