SBH Taro Beach Hotel

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Nice location with beach very close to the hotel, spectacular views, good food with helpful staff and chef cooking extra food for child if requested. Location less windy compared to other parts of island.
  : Single bed was too narrow and high, my 4 y. Old daughter fell of it twice first night. There was no kettle in the room. Free WiFi only available at reception. Staff speak German even knowing you're not from Germany.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : The Hotel is ideally situated with direct access to the beach and 5min walk from a bus stop with frequent connections. All the staff is very friendly indeed and they try very hard to get everything right. The rooms are spacious, if a little tired, but there is a good sized fridge in all of them, which is great. Nice balcony with unobstructed sea view.
  : Unfortunately too many things did not work out. The food (although plenty of choice) is bland and only few local items offer real flavour. During my last stay, you had to pay for internet access in your room, and it worked. Now it is free and it does not work. A combination of holiday with a little bit of "home-office" is not possible. They congratulated me 6 days late for my birthday and the promised bottle of bubbly never turned up.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The location was great and our room was right in front of the beach. The restaurant had a good variety of food and the quality was overall good.
  : 1) When we arrived the restaurant was about to close. There is only one flight per day, they could keep it open a little longer considering that clients have no other choice. 2) The overall look and feel of the place is quite dated and lots of areas are in desperate need of maintenance. This place has been neglected for too long and I started doubting about the safety of a few spots at some point. 3) Our bathroom had a dome skylight broken and the bathroom was a total mess. The hotel sent someone to clean up but we had to wait until next morning for the repairs. 4) Our room wasn't at all like in the pictures and looked like a motel from the 80s. 5) Clients smoking everywhere outside of designated smoking areas and nobody really cares about it even if you have kids. 6) Most of the staff wasn't freindly at all, some of them were actually angry at people. The only exception was just one excellent lady at the reception who spoke multiple languages and was really super helpful with many things.

Poor
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : close to the ocean beach, good food in the restaurant, good evening events for kids (many thanks for 2 of your women which made these events)
  : It is absolutely not a 4 star hotel, Im not sure who and when checked this hotel for the rating Very slow WiFi even near the reception and you will never get it in the room Old furniture and everything looks very old especially in the bath room No tea for dinner No kettle, fridge and water bottles in the room No AirCondition in the room Absolutely non-comfortable beds and pillows Many questions to cleaning: why these workers dont want really to clean room?? They just adjust toilet paper and shower soap, clean the floor, change towels and thats it. Never wipe the dust. Also strange that cleaning sometimes can happen at 4pm or 5pm?! Why so late? Why other hotels do this during early mornings? Also this place is absolutely noisy for family with kids: we had the room near the reception and I was surprised first when at 5am a delivery of goods or food to a restaurant arrived, Im not exactly sure, but they rumbled all morning and it was impossible to sleep, and so on several times a week. Why are you doing this??? Are you not sure that your clients want to sleep at 5am?? We closed our window but it was noisy also, really really noisy. Unbelievable. Laundry near the room window and almost all the time it was really noisy. Dirty plates in the restaurant: sometimes you just spend time to search between plates to see which of them is clean. One day my daughter took one plate and it was piece of pancake under it. So Im really sad that I chose this hotel, definitely will not recommend it.

Very Good
Traveller Type:
  : Top location on the beach

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : parking, price, spacey room
  : pool area need new sunbedsfood is below average, very poor quality you expect at cheap all inclusiveroom need new furniture

Very Good
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : The hotel is very good, albeit some things here and there they can improve. The rooms are large, cleaned everyday and the beds are large sized. The food is good, there is a choice of few bars in the Hotel and they have covered you for drinks and snacks as well. The location is best in Costa Calma with a Supermarket and Pharmacy just outside. The beach in along the hotel and the hotel has a beach bar as well. It was my first resort holiday and I absolutely loved it. Will I go back to Hotel Taro, most definitely!
  : Costa Calma is not Spanish, it's very German. Other than the janitors, everyone around in the Hotel and Costa Calma is German and so were the guests - mostly elderly German couples. I wouldn't personally rate Hotel Taro as 4 start, though the hotel is great. There was no complimentary water in the room, no kettle for the odd time tea or coffee (though tea was available in bars most day), the safe in the room had to be rented, the WiFi had to be paid for, and there was no iron facility in the room - for a 4 star all inclusive package, these things would be basic. The reception staff unlike other places have no clue or suggestions on what to do locally - didn't find them very helpful. Would I go back to Fuerteventura, absolutely not.