Sheraton Fuerteventura Beach Golf and Spa Resort

The hotel in itself is huge, so depending on the location of your room you might need to walk a lot along the endless corridors. The rooms are quite big, well appointed and the beds are comfy. I would note rate it a 5 star resort as there are a few negativ points they need to adress: - Prices of snacks and drinks are way to high compared to the quality received. - Food was either hit or miss, sometimes barely warm. Long waiting times at stations. Deserts were tasteless most of the time. - Water in the different pools was too cold (in august) There is a shopping mall next to the hotel with a few restaurants, a stroll along the beach brings you to Caleta with its bars and restaurants. Overall not a bad hotel, but definetly no 5 stars.

We live in Lanzarote but decided to have a four day break away in Fuerteventura. We chose Caleta de Fuste and was very undecided regarding the hotel. Eventually we settled for the Sheraton, what a good choice. We chose this hotel for its five star rating. Our room was ready well before the 3pm check in time and we were grateful to be able to go straight to our room. We were upgraded to a junior suite which was a lovely welcome surprise. A huge living/sleeping area with a massive super king bed, dining table and four chairs and sofa and easy chair. Nice little lamps a desk and chair and two suitcase seats. The bathroom had double sink and walk in wardrobe, through another door to the oval shaped jacuzzi bath and walk in shower and through another door to toilet and bidet. The balcony was also double size with two very nice sun beds two easy chairs a table and pouffe. Tea and coffee making facilities and complimentary water. The piano bar was open early evening until late and the little restaurant by the Chinese was open for evening meal. Also for daytime snacks and drinks the outside Veranda bar was open. For breakfast the small dining room. Unfortunately the Chinese was not open at all during our stay, which to be honest we would have liked for at least one night in our four day three night stay. The evening restaurant choice was cold or hot starters, mains including meat or fish and veggie options. They did succumb to giving us an actual menu as our bar code reader wasn???t that good and wi fi seemed slow to download and I do think the management need to consider a lot of older people do not have smart phones or are able to negotiate and even remember the menu.Anyway, thankfully they gave us a physical menu. Starters were lovely as were mains. Desserts a little disappointing and they do not have a menu for this but tell you what you can chose. We had water and a bottle of house wine each night. Third night though menu became a little samey, having tried 2 starters each and each of us tasting each other???s we ordered same starter as we had before. Again the mains although a good choice we had tried four of them so ordered same again on the last night. Chicken, iberico pork, lamb and beef. Also there is salmon and turbot but we aren???t that keen on fish. Food could be a little hotter. It was apparent the staff are very thin on the ground which made it look like they were run ragged when in fact out of 266 rooms we were told only 40 were occupied. Everyone wasn???t half board of course so it wasn???t like the restaurant was crowded but there was a long wait between courses and about three staff on. Knowing the system we know that to bring back a lot of staff at this precarious stage, taking them off ERTE would probably be a mistake but I don???t think it???s quite the right balance at the moment. All service in the evening was table service. At breakfast this was buffet style and again pretty well organised but again very few staff. Referring to the heat of the food again, cooked breakfast was lukewarm. You can help yourself to tea and coffee, juice, water and even cava if you like that in the morning. They had the HP sauce for us Brits in a cupboard but if you ask for it they have it. The hotel at this time is mainly occupied by Germans and French, which is the same Canaries over with no Brits allowed to come its obvious all the islands badly need the UK market. Pool was beautiful and warm and heated to 30 degrees. A colder pool was 22 for those who prefer a fresher dip, children???s pool and jacuzzi. No golf open which we was looking forward to, but hey ho there is a Pandemic. Room cleaned lovely every day, satellite channels, bath robes, complimentary slippers, nice comfy bed and pillows and good nights sleep to be had. All in all a lovely few days away and we would definitely go back, knocked off one star just for the limited choice at dinner and lukewarm English breakfast. Well done to all the staff who were very accommodating and pleasant. Such a lovely Belgium chap on reception when we checked out.