The hotel's website accepted and confirmed my booking without giving me any chance to pay. Later I received an email cancelling the booking without giving any explanation or offering any means of redress. I emailed asking for the booking to be upheld, and to tell me how I could pay for it. That email was ignored. Unable to wait or to be messed about any more, I booked through hotels.com.
I've never stayed in a hotel which was more bare and spartan. The breakfast room had all the ambience of a works canteen, with tables crammed in far too close together (see photo). There was no muesli.
When I went back to my room after breakfast, I hung the "Non Molestar" sign on the door (see photo). Soon afterwards the chambermaid knocked on the door wanting to know whether she could clean the room. When I said "NO!", pointing to the "Do Not Disturb" sign, she said "later, or tomorrow?". I said "later, but NOT when I'm in it!". Very unsettling.
The hotel reception persistently refused to tell me the times of the buses to the airport. I got the times easily from a friendly and helpful receptionist at the Playa Bella Apartments nearby, where I wished I'd stayed because it had much better pools, located right on the beach unlike the Playa do sol Riviera's which are surrounded on three sides by buildings (see photo).
20 Euros deposit was charged by the hotel reception for the loan of a beach towel, an extortionate and hostile amount for something costing about 5 Euros to replace.