The Comodoro, Los Cristianos, Tenerife
We had a holiday planned in Tenerife, in some cheap but decent apartments through a friend. Unfortunately, the apartments fell through, and we were left with flights already booked but nowhere to stay.

We'd got this apartment for a song, and we were suddenly looking for something similarly priced on the open market. We ended up at The Comodoro in Los Cristianos.

From the look of it, I'd say it was a 70's tower block hotel. On going inside, it soon became apparent that much of it was now residential, with the remaining rooms being rented out to tourists.

The door to our room had obviously only just survived being kicked in once before. I'd say whoever tried had been successful but the door had been patched up afterwards. Inside the apartment, there were the wires, switches and sockets hanging out of the walls, but that's not too far out of whack for Spain, where they still seem to treat electricity as they did when they were on 110 volts.

The biggest problems were the bathroom ceiling and the bedroom curtains. The curtains were strange things with massive holes in the weave that offered no privacy: The building is a cross-shaped tower block, meaning that you're directly overlooked by other apartments on the same floor.

As for the bathroom ceiling: There wasn't one to speak of - just a big hole where it was supposed to be.

We got out the next morning and found somewhere decent to stay, but not before the rep had turned up and stung us for the 160 quid we'd agreed to pay for the week. I imagine they're quite used to people doing a bunk the following morning after realising the state of the place.

I don't know if it has improved, but I still wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
( Horatio P Lemming, Mon 21 Jan 2008, 11:38, Reply)