Another View from Our Hotel Room - a photo on Flickriver

Another View from Our Hotel Room

            The hotel where we stayed is called Dream Hotel Gran Tacande, belonging to the Dream Place Hotels & Resorts group. At first, I really liked the place and even thought I might want to return (well, it's still a possibility), but then there were also a number of downsides. Still overall, value for money seemed quite good. Pros: Spaceous room with a nice deck, even though on the first floor, a view of the ocean as well as of the pool and the mountains (including the peak of Mount Teide), very friendly staff, very baby friendly, wireless internet and things like pool billiards included with the room. A bottle of free Spanish champagne on Sat and Sun, room made up twice a day. Cons: Several of the lights in our room did not work properly, some of the lights around the pool were flickering at night, room cleaning was good enough for me, but not always quite up to Margot's standards, the guy handing out the pool towels was frequently AWOL, and then one had to wait several minutes until he would show up. Internet was sometimes very slow or even unavailable. Food was okay, but, in my opinion abundance and variety was better than quality and taste. The orange juice on the breakfast buffet was excellent, possibly fresh-squeezed, but the coffee and cappoccino was less than mediocre. Location is great - 100 meters from both the beach and a decent mall, also located at the finer part of the south-west coast (more toward the northern end, a bit a away from the cheaper mass tourism of the areas directly south of there).
   

Taken in: España / Islas Canarias / Playa del Duque (show map)

Taken on: December 14, 2013

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Sets appears in: • Tenerife, Spain, 2013

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Camera: Olympus VR330,D730, f/3.0, 1/1000 sec, 4.2mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus VR330,D730
Aperture:	f/3.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length:	4.2mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Version 1.0
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