Top Class

I am reviewing this in relation to our stay which was on a bed and breakfast basis. We always try to book on that basis wherever we go so we can also enjoy the local restaurants. The Botanico was excellent on all levels we experienced. The staff throughout the hotel without exception happy, smiling, courteous, and nothing was too much trouble. Our room was very comfortable, clean, great outlook, more than adequate storage with no need to ask for more coat hangers and the balcony was a reasonable size. A coffee/ tea making facilities would have been the cherry on the top of the cake. The pool and extensive well kept gardens offer a good place to relax. Breakfast was excellent. Great choice, comfortable surroundings, excellent service and no queuing. In terms of location, though it’s out of the centre, but the hotel operates a good drop off/pick up bus service and a taxi back from the centre is a modest 5 euros. Also right outside the hotel or within a one kilometre walk are several local restaurants with four to five ratings on TripAdvisor. Though we stay B&B we also like to use the hotel a la carte restaurants occasionally for dinner. We chose not to at the Botanico for the the reasons below. The restaurants offered were a Thai Restaurant, an Italian Restaurant and one called Slim which focused on “healthy” eating. It was disappointing that there was no restaurant offering top quality Tenerife cuisine. Within 500m there are many restaurants that offer Tenerife cuisine at, as we found, significant lower prices than the hotel was offering in their restaurants. As a result in the evening the restaurants appeared empty and lacking atmosphere at least when we were there. I think the Botanico needs to rethink its restaurant offering but for a hotel and management that gets everything else right that shouldn’t be difficult.