Palacio de Sancti Petri Gran Melia

Great beautiful place. Employees went above and beyond to help out. Always greeted with a huge smile and a hand on heart salute. Cleanliness was sublime. Breakfast in the beautiful El Patio restaurant was divine with an extremely wide range of food. Dinner in the Entrevientos was out of this world. Meats were exceptional. All in all an extremely relaxing and enjoyable 3 days. Thanks to everyone involved.

A very beautiful hotel in the style of a traditional Palace. Low key smart. Attentive staff. Fab pool, breathtaking beach and overall facility. Good choice of restaurants from Michelin to Buffet to bar snacks to a la carte. Beach bar a highlight. Very pretty environment, especially at night when the courtyard garden is lit up and fountains dancing. Tasty contemporary buffet. Great Prawns on grill. We have been visiting for the last 26 years since it opened and seen many evolutions but always for the better. Good sustainability practices.

We have just returned from a week's stay at Gran Melia Sancti Petri. The hotel was wonderful. What makes this hotel special is its location to a beautiful, sandy beach which is well maintained and very clean. We ate at the amazing Dunas Beachclub, whose fish dishes were incredible. This was our favourite restaurant. We enjoyed the rooftop bar after dinner for the most amazing sunsets. We enjoyed a day trip to Cadiz which is about half an hour away but well worth it. Thank you to all the staff who looked after us and the red level staff.

This was our sixth visit to the gran melia hotel. As always we were very satisfied with the service. Great food, clean and spacious rooms, friendly staff... We appreciated the red level service, lounge and swimming pool. We hope to come back next year.

Having stayed in this beautiful hotel twice a year for many years I was so disappointed with the quality of the food this visit. As I was alone I selected to eat at the buffet each night El Patio…. I like to eat early so I would be one of the first guests into the restaurant and every night the food was cold. The chef cooking the fish, langoustines, chicken , etc was waiting for guests to order then telling them it would be a 6-10 minute wait…. Why can’t they have precooked food and let the guests help themselves while the chefs cook more. The paella was totally cold on the second night, chips soggy and cold, salads dried up and pork absolutely dry! I have to say some of the cold starters were good, sushi one night was delicious. The breakfast in the buffet on my 2nd morning had run out of the chopped mixed fruit I was looking forward too and there no croissants left. Breakfast ends at 10.30 and I was there at 9.45…. This should NOT happen in a 5 star hotel! The fresh cooked omelette was good. I also asked twice for a teaspoon which never arrived so I had to help myself from another table, again not 5 star service. I hate to give this hotel a bad review as we have had wonderful times staying there but I really think the food in the buffet lets itself down badly when it could and should be amazing. I stayed in the TUI Blu Playa Barrosa for a few days with a group of golfers earlier in the week and even though the hotel was full with 500 guests the buffet for both breakfast and dinner was just fabulous. Hot plates, huge paellas bubbling away, fresh crispy chips being cooked all during service, amazing grill with food ready to eat… fabulous. Please take note Gran Melia it can be done.

In recent years I have visited several of the best hotels on the coast of Cadiz. The Palacio de Sancti Petri Gran Meliá is undoubtedly the best choice. It is probably my favourite hotel in the world. The facilities are perfect in a perfect setting. The staff are wonderful and make you feel in paradise. I will be back as soon as I can.