Apartamentos Bitácora Club Lanzarote

Great value for money with clean functional rooms. Fairy good sleep quality with good curtains that keep out the light. You do experience the usual noise of people moving furniture 24/7. Great amount of sun loungers and availability every day. Very good supermarket on site. Be aware though this place is FULL of serious chain smokers so you cannot enter reception or bar area and supermarket from room/pool side without walking through the smoke and stink. Smoking at the pool while trying to disguise it and on balconies is common. You certainly cannot eat or drink on the terrace outside the bar if you are a non smoker. Hotel promotes smoking as it retails them in a prominent bar area

Stayed at Bitacora in August 2024 with my wife and daughter. First of all I must say the Bitacora is NOT on cardiac hill ! Yes it's located up the hill but incline isn't that bad when you get used to it and we found 3 or 4 different ways back to hotel. We had emailed ahead requesting an upper floor room as with us being 2 able bodied adults and a 15yr old we have no bother up and down stairs, but on arrival we were informed this wasn't possible , ok no problem. The room we were given was downstairs, clean and large enough for us but no privacy as veranda wide open to guests, no sun on veranda and a view of the pool , in fact rooms 104 to 120 have no sun at all and over the course of our stay we noticed ALL the 1st floor rooms were occupied by either young families who had to try and carry pushchairs,inflatables etc or elderly who struggled with the stairs. Now onto the sunbed wars , yes wars ! You have to queue from 8.30am for the pool to open anytime from 9am to 9.45am depending on the mood of the pool cleaner. My wife queued one morning and had to run and use the towels as Frisbees to get 3 sunbeds ! She said she never felt so embarrassed in her life , needless to say we only used pool twice in 10 days and went to beach instead. As usual sunbeds had towels on them all day and weren't used definitely needs policing. We brought this up with the gentleman on reception who informed us "it happens everywhere " no sir it doesn't. Been to PDC twice before and many other resorts on Europe over 20 years and never been as bad as here . May return to Bitacora at a quieter time of tear but definitely not in July/August there simply isn't enough sunbeds , we counted around 90 beds to over 100 rooms .

Another enjoyable stay, I've been staying at the Bitacora for over 10 years now. Many of my friends have come with us who now make it there regular place to stay. All staff are very nice and friendly, apartments are clean and comfortable. Recent upgrades to the room, poolside bar and reception have gave it a nice new modern feel.