Guest User
November 19, 2021
We spent 6 nights at the hotel in late September. We landed in Alicante airport and our pre-ordered ride to the hotel was waiting for us (apx. 70 USD). After some 45 minutes, we arrived to the hotel. We checked in at 21:15 and were allocated The Level Junior Suite 423. We got a lovely wristband, which served as our room key and showed that we were guests of “The Level”. Unlike other 5* hotels, nobody bothered to walk us to our room and we had to find it in a maze of endless corridors. The 50 square meters room was large, but very oddly appointed. It featured 2 twin beds, a large TV, a minibar, safe, sofa, table and an (uncomfortable) armchair. The TV was facing the bed and not the living room, so when you sat on the sofa you were staring at the back of the TV. There were no desk and chair in the room. The a/c in the room was great. Next to the entrance, there was a huge closet room and a big bathroom with a shower, 2 sinks, a bath tub, a toilet and a bidet. The water pressure in the bath tub and the shower was insanely strong and the water were boiling hot. Embarrassingly enough, all the bathroom amenities were in large, ugly dispensers. Of the generic brand of Ritual. The dispensers nearest to the bath tub were at a height of almost 1 meter, which was impractical for anyone sitting in the tub. As if that was not enough, the bath tub was chipped with a sharp piece of stone/marble sticking out and the shower was partially broken and always leaked to the bathroom. There was mold along the area where the bath tub was joined to the stone/marble and all over the shower’s floor and doors. The towels were very large, but showed a lot of wear and tear. There was supposed to be a special amenity in the room for “The Level” guests, but there was none. The room featured a double-size terrace (apx. 25 square meters) with views of the golf course. The club lounge, called “The Level”, is located next to the reception, and is, in simple words – a complete and utter joke. It is open from 11AM until 9PM and offers very basic things: cold drinks, beer, wine, DREADFUL coffee, snacks, hummus and some olives. That’s it. Due to Covid-19, it is not self-service and you need to ask for one of the attendants for everything. This causes significant queues in the lounge with zero a**osphere. We were shocked to realize that the daily cocktail hour was cancelled and is now only done twice a week (Tuesday and Friday). During the rest of the days there’s a non-existent wine tasting and cocktail making. The cocktail hour itself, which we attended twice during our stay, was nicely put out in one of the terraces, but, alas, the finger food was very average. The hotel features a spa, which costs apx. 30USD for an hour in a hot pool (only top suite guests receive it complimentary). Outrageous! No wonder it was constantly empty. There were also 2 small gyms (complimentary), numerous tennis courts (paid) and a giant golf course (paid). The hotel is STUNNINGLY designed and loo