Kairaba Sandy Villas

Booked Sandy Villas. On arrival Sandy Villas reception entrance was boarded up. Aware that Sandy Beach was the sister hotel, drove there. We were told we needed to check in via SB as SV reception was indeed shut down. We were then told that, in essence, all the restaurants and facilities had been closed at SV and we had to use SB. SB is Butlins in the sun! So it was a 25 minute walk to breakfast, lunch and dinner (we ate off site) plus the main restaurant was subsequently rammed with kids. I've got nothing against kids! I've got two. I would take them to SB if they were young. We're a couple in our early 60s and this was not the holiday we booked! It's not that SV is no longer adults only, it's that there are no longer any facilities there! Thank goodness the pool bar kiosk was open.

Been here in 2024 was very suitable for my wife with mobility issues, adult only was ideal. Unfortunately there has been changes that were not noticed by our travel agency. The hotel has closed the reception and dining at the villas and not having to go to the family part for meals. Is a fair walk for my wife who can’t, the hotel has been very helpful and has a cart that can take us to where we now need to go. Will make the best of it but not the holiday we planed.

We booked a swim up villa and all meals at our nice restaurant near the room.supposed to be all adult,it’s been bought and added to other family hotel and all meals are at the butlins restaurant and it’s like the Wild West down there,luckily got a room upgrade curtesy of the lovely Nicolette at guest relations or holiday would of been a disaster.Villas are top class and pool and pool bar up villas end are lovely but have to get buggy half a mile to 3star resort feel sorry for old villa staff working here if was left how original advertising would definitely return but not in current state.even the villas reception closed had to walk at 2am half mile to other reception and was given wrong room terrible start but improved by eating out at mondos.Staff are very good and my favourite was chatting and having early morning coffee at our pool bar at villas with the amazing staff up there

When you arrive at Sandy Villas it’s a really pretty entrance with lovely welcoming staff. We were very lucky to get a free upgrade from a swim up pool to a villa with private pool, as it was my birthday. Villas are beautiful and having your own private pool is a really lovely touch. Would highly recommend these as it’s very luxurious. The ground are very pretty and all areas are very clean and tidy. For some reason there are frogs here and they do jump in the pool. I’m fine with frogs so it didn’t bother us but if you don’t like them then it’s better to be aware of this. The pool bar and lobby bar are nice and the staff can’t do enough for you. We went high season (Aug) so this holiday worked out expensive for what it was £7,600 for 3 adults. This isn’t a 4plus resort, the food selection is poor for the value. It was so repetitive that sometime I just couldn’t deal with having same dinner as my lunch. You can also book 2 restaurants that are on the complex for dinner. Wow don’t even bother as the food is like slops and we had to politely walk out because it was that bad. I’ve been to many 4plus hotels so I could see a big difference between other 4plus resorts food variety. To top it off you have to pay extra for what I would class as a classic cocktail (piña colada) so on top of the £7,600 we had a drinks bill when checking out. To sum up our holiday we would have breakfast and lunch at the hotel and chose to go out and pay extra for dinner which added another thousand pounds or so to the holiday cost. Which I know was our choice but it made the holiday thats much better. If you could do a B&B at this resort for a reasonable price then I would 100% return. The accommodation is beautiful it’s just the food that lets it down for the value of money you pa. You are close to beautiful restaurant and bars so you have everything nearby. This hotel is no way worth £2,500pp+ for 11nights our hotel ended up costing a total of just over £8,600 and felt like a total rip off.