I Stay In A 5-Star Luxury Hotel In Tenerife - You HAVE To See This!

I've just checked in and I tell you what this resort is ridiculously big, so big in fact that they've given me my very own golf buggy to get around the resort but more on that in just a moment. Let's go and check out my insane villa with ocean views. It is so quiet so the reception area is up there and each of these villas all have their own private pools which we will check out most probably in the morning because the sun is starting to go down but let's go and check out my room. I'm in number 222. I really love the colour scheme, the Moroccan theming as well. Now whether or not she was lying but the lady in reception said this is one of the best views in the whole resort. She probably says that to everybody who checks in. Let's go in. This is one huge suite. Let's go and check it out. A little welcome note. I was actually expecting maybe a welcome little drink or snack like I have seen in other five-star hotels. What's in here? The minibar. It looks all very enticing doesn't it? So when I checked in I had to put a hundred pounds or 100 euros on my credit card for incidentals so I have no idea about how much any of this is. Let's have a quick look. Here's the price list. The crisps are 5 euros 50 so if I want a packet of these 5 euros 50. I don't know if that water is complimentary or not. A nice little Nespresso machine though. I like that. Oh that's nice isn't it? A little tea and coffee. Once again I think they don't think that people will want to use the kettles because the kettles often that I find in five-star hotels are a bit, a bit naff. I mean look at that. It is basically like a travel kettle but I guess I do like to have a cup of tea in the morning so I do look at them. There's more water down there. There's a bottle of red wine. I think we've got a oh a wine chiller. I hope this is not censored. Is it going to be censored? Do I dare touch it? I couldn't get charged now. There's some champagne. There's some wine in there. There's the coke. There's the beer. I've got some chocolate and some spirits. For those prices I don't think I'll be touching that but that's actually really nice. I'll probably find out that that wine was complimentary. This is a lovely table. Nice place to sit and relax. Maybe have some dinner up here. Although most of the food is in the restaurant unless you get room service like the ceramic pots. And then over to the living room area. Lovely nice big space. I mean this room itself is just massive. This is a really nice couch actually. Wouldn't mind one of these couches in my house. Huge tv. A little ottoman type thing and there's a little lonely chair over here. I'll show you the view in just a second. So I've got two balconies. One from the living room area and then one in the bedroom. Let's go and check out the bedroom because this is insane. Look at the ceiling. Look how much headroom I've got. That is one big bed. Look at this. Oh wow. It's like suede. It's actually been brushed. That is really nice. And these lights. How funky are they? There's a reading light there. That is what you call one retro radio alarm clock. I love that. The windows are ultra thick double glazed and it's so quiet. Perfect for the bedroom and sleeping. Let's try out the bed. That's nice and firm. Wow. Looking up to the ceiling. Over here got a phone, the remote and wait till I show you the bathroom because even I was like wow that's amazing. I've got even more wardrobe space down here and a little safe. Ritz-Carlton dressing gown and matching slippers. I hope they have the logo on them. But wait till you see the bathroom. Yeah, this is amazing. With its own skylight. I just can't get over how nice it is. The marble all the way around here. Hairdryer and extra towels that have been put in a soft closed drawer. Very nice. Ultra polished. What free stuff have I got? Some mouthwash, a shower cap, a razor. We've even got a comb. Is this a real flower? Oh let down. It's plastic. Some body lotion, a nice soap. Look how they put the flannels. That is so cute. A box of tissues. Love the lighting around the mirror. There is another robe there right next to the shower and I have to say it is a pretty small shower. They head in. Look how polished that is. I can see myself in that very clearly. The shower head is something I've never seen before. That's just weird. It's almost like a, you know, one of those Breville toasters or a frying pan turned upside down. Oh rubber. Wrong one as always. Always happens. You push this in, right? That is what you call a very soft shower. Also got some shower gel, some shampoo in there. There is the throne just here with this closed off door. It's quite tough. And look at that. We have a bidet. Does anyone actually use the bidet? There's a phone in here. I am really surprised the hotel of this standard doesn't have a very nice little push button chain. But this, all plastic. I've seen these in public toilets before. Quite surprised about that. We do have the fold on the toilet roll. But check out the bath. This is so cool because surrounding the bath, all these, I believe, open up. Yeah, they do. So, I can open these. In fact, I can open all the little bottom ones as well and check out the view while I'm having a bath. Although to be fair, I'll be so low in the bath. Oh, will I? Hang on. Oh, hang on. There's these smaller windows down here which probably help. Oh yeah, now I can. Hopefully, no one else will be able to see me in the bath. I don't think I've ever seen a bath though this clean. I mean, it almost looks like it's a brand new bath. That is really nice. I just don't want to get it dirty. The attention to detail with the polishing though on all of the silver, even in there. And I can't see any little black curly hairs. Also got a skylight up there. Is it bad to say that I'm not a big fan of the bedroom? I really like the living area and I love the bathroom. In fact, this bathroom is just, like, wow. I mean, it feels like you're somewhere, like, really tropical over there with the bath. But let's go check out the balcony. The sun is setting, so the glare is going to be a little bit much. So, I apologize. We'll see it better in the morning. But this is balcony one of one. Now, what I could have done was paid an extra couple of hundred euros more and I would have had the one below this that has its own private pool, which we can see from here. So, I guess not so private because I'm looking down on them. But there's my other balcony. But there's my other balcony from the bedroom. Let's go and check it out. I can't believe I'm going to say this. Yes, the balcony is lovely, but these sunbeds are way too big for this balcony. I mean, like, it's really tight in here. You've got to really squeeze around. But it is west facing or kind of southwest facing. So, you do get to see, and we hopefully will get to see, an amazing sunset. So, I've been given a map of the resort and the place is just ridiculously big. But because the resort is so huge, there's only one way to get around. And that's my very own private buggy. This is insane. So, I can use this to get around the resort. If you go for a little trip. I think I know how to drive one of these things. It's got to be easy, right? Going a little bit steady. So, as sunset is literally about to happen, I thought we'll go and check out the the beach and also this infinity pool, which looks amazing at sunset. There's also a restaurant down there, but I can't check that out till tomorrow. Let's hope I don't stall this as I go. No, good. Hasta la vista. Bye. So, I had to do a little driving test before I took this out. And I had to sign a waiver. You have to have a driving license to drive these as well. Anyway, let's head down because sunset is happening in about five minutes. They've got their own little road that is next to the main road to use. So, you just see basically other people in their buggies and there's little parking spaces and somewhere to charge. Thank you. Easy. I bet you I've missed the sunset. Yeah, I've just missed it because there's some clouds in the way. It's a little bit of a shame, but this looks gorgeous. This is what you call an infinity pool. So, they have a lot of restaurants here. In fact, it's actually quite mind-blowing how many restaurants they've got here. And when you're spending just one night, how on earth am I going to fit them all in? So, I've picked one of them, one of the one Michelin star restaurants to go and check out. I've got reservations at eight o'clock, so that gives me just enough time to just have a call. You definitely need to book in advance because all the Michelin star restaurants are all fully booked. So, the only option I have, there's a couple that's a vegetarian restaurant and there's something called the Mirador restaurant. So, I'm going to have to eat in there. I don't know if it's the same place where I go for breakfast in the morning. I don't know, but I'll get scrubbed up and we'll go and check it out. Well, the lady on reception said this is probably one of the best rooms for sunset and she wasn't wrong. So, I'm going to just enjoy this and then we'll go down to the restaurant to have food. I am actually really gutted the fact that even though I arrived at four and by the time I got to my room and the lady showed me the golf cart, it was six o'clock. When I tried to make a reservation, all the reservations were gone in all the restaurants and the place where I'm eating tonight is also the place where I'm going to have breakfast. So, I'm not really showcasing the restaurants as much as I wanted to, but don't worry, I will do a bit more of a tour around the hotel in the morning because this place is huge. It's like a shopping centre in here as well and I'll also check out the pools and breakfast. Can we just for a second appreciate how big these curtains are and how much effort it takes to draw them? I mean, look, just open them. They're just... I've never ever been in a hotel room or anywhere like it that has curtains that big. I have to show you this. Just went to turn the lights off, right, before I left. Once I did, I kind of knocked this and then realised it's not even on properly. It's not very five star, is it? I'm four minutes late for dinner. It's 8.04. I've got to get on the buggy and get down there yet. I forgot to tell you as well, if I lose this key, it's a 50 euro deposit, which I almost lost in the room because I couldn't find it. I've got to hold on to this key, otherwise it's going to be expensive. Am I allowed to drive these if I've had a glass of wine? Don't worry, I've only had half. Off we go. And by the way, if you wanted to know the top speed, right, I am flooring it right now and I think the speed must be at least five miles an hour. This is definitely worth coming to this hotel and staying in that room for this buggy alone. It's so much fun. Coming in hot. Remember to take the key, Tim. See, I always follow the rules. We were expressly told not to park our buggies outside the restaurant. There's one, there's two, there's three. I park sensibly in the buggy park. So apparently this is good for seafood. Let's check it out. That's a lot of wine. That's busy in here tonight. Thank you. Lovely. Thank you very much. Fine, thank you. Well, it might not be a Michelin star restaurant, but I can smell the seafood and it smells really good. What the food's like. Oh, this is local wine from La Gomera. Okay. Oh yeah. Very nice. Yes. Thank you very much. Here we go with the beef tenderloin and these little white bits that you can see are actually mashed potato. I've also got some, some dips, some tuna and some bread outside in. If you're a meat fan, if you're not, I apologise right now, but that looks pretty good. That is very good. Well, I've gone for a cheesecake, Tenerife style. This looks like a camembert kind of cheese. Nope, definitely cheesecake. So it's basically like a cheesecake with the, with a topping on the side. Very nice though. Dinner costs 79 euros. I'll break it down for you. So the bread, which I thought was complimentary costs two euros 20. The water, which I also thought was complimentary, but no, it wasn't because I didn't ask for it, was six euros. The wine that I had, one glass was 16 euros. The tenderloin beef was 43 euros. That was very nice. And the dessert was 12 euros. There was a little bit of a tax added onto that, came to 79 euros and 20 cents compared to some other big five-star hotels that I've stayed in. I didn't think that was actually overly that bad. If you take the wine away in the dessert, 43 euros for a nice bit of beef and fluffy, airy mashed potatoes. Not bad. What a view to wake up to. Look at that. The only problem is where I am. The golf course is kind of around here. I heard them cutting the grass at around about eight o'clock. So that did wake me up a little bit because I did have the window open. So just before I go to breakfast, I'm going to check out my pool because obviously there are three different pools I can use, even though there are many more pools in the resort. I'm only allowed to have access to a few. One thing this place does not have is a lot of signs to point you in the right direction because I've got lost quite a few times actually. Apparently it's down here. I couldn't see it from my room. That's why I was a little bit confused. Oh, here it is. Wow. There's nobody in the pool at all just yet. It is very early. It's lovely though. I always say getting up early to go for an early morning swim is the best. Oh, they have got a bar in here. So the thing is I could have booked one of these rooms that have a pool view or an ocean view. So I did choose an ocean view, but I don't know. I think I would have preferred a pool view now. I love how the pool just zigzags. Wait, that's the, that's the shower. That's one way to get a shower before you go into the pool. By the way, if you're liking the video, it would help me out if you give the video a thumbs up. And if you haven't already, it helps me out more than, you know, please make sure you hit that subscribe button. I'll come to the price at the end. The price does include breakfast. So let's go check it out. We go. Going down here was so much fun. Well, this is my view for breakfast in the same restaurant as last night. Unfortunately, it's a buffet, but you get to choose a few items off the menu a la carte. So as always, you have to order the eggs separately rather than going up there and getting them. So if I want poached eggs or fried eggs, Eggs Benedict, I have to order it from here. See what's on offer then. We've got yogurt, pancakes, there's waffles. Not a big fan of Spanish bacon, so I think I'll leave that. Some fresh fruit. Would it be wrong to have champagne for breakfast? Maybe with a little bit of orange juice as well. Why not? The orange juice is fresh orange juice. Cold section and cereal. Well, nothing on the buffet took my fancy, so I thought I'd go for the Eggs Benedict and the French toast. Although looking at the sizes, I might be hungry afterwards. Cheers. Probably can eat this in one mouthful. Well, breakfast was lovely and actually the French toast was quite filling. I'm now going to go and check out the beach. There is a little train that goes from the top of the resort all the way down here, but because I've got a little buggy, I don't need to, but I can't take the buggy on this road. I can only pull up to where I was just eating breakfast. Let's go and check out the beach. That looks like a very nice beach. I can go down the stairs or there is a lift and this lift is pretty cool. You'll see why, because it goes down at an angle like that. Good morning, sir. Good morning. How you doing, sir? Fine, thank you. At the very bottom, there's a little break, so try to hold on to the very, very bottom. Hey, little guy. Want to go to the beach? Want to go to the beach there? Nice little ride down to the beach. Saves my legs. So you can get your towels down here. There is also a little beach bar. The resort seems to have pretty much everything you could want, really. There's golf, there's a beach, there's swimming pools, which is actually quicker than the lift. So I thought I'd start from the very top and work my way down. There's a little bit of a shopping centre up here and then down to one of the many pools in the resort. Look at the size of the fish down there. So up here, you've got a little bit of a shopping centre, a few high-end shops, mostly Spanish, I think. Could be wrong. Never heard of that brand before. A few restaurants up here, which have quite an amazing view with waterfalls. Look at that. You don't think that you're in the Canaries, but it feels like you could be in the Caribbean. Let's head to the pool. Wow. Now this is what you call a pool. Considering the times around about quarter to eleven, I'm very surprised that these sunbeds are not full up already. That's probably because there are so many different pools here and a lot of the villas have their own pools as well. There's another restaurant here overlooking the pool, which must be lovely at night. Well, as nice as this pool is, I'm going to go and check out the infinity pool because, well, actually everywhere you can get free drinks up until 6pm and that also does include Carver. Now this is my kind of pool. Can't beat a good infinity pool and it's even better when you're pretty much the only person in the pool. So you get free drinks up until 6pm. I've got Carver and they have actually filled it right to the top as well. So yeah, included in your room rate, you could get free drinks, free soft drinks, coffee, Carver up until 6pm. Cheers. So the Ritz-Carlton in Tenerife, an amazing hotel. In fact, you wouldn't believe you are actually in Tenerife and I think that's what a lot of people like about it. It's also a very quiet hotel. I mean, it is quite a ways, about 25 minutes from Los Cristianos, but you know, if you want a relaxing holiday and you want some winter sun, this is a great place. The only issue I have is obviously check-in is so late four o'clock and if you are only staying one night to maximise your stay, you've really got to turn up around about midday to get the full use of all the facilities in because check-out is also at midday. So it doesn't leave you enough time. Yeah, that's the only thing about when you're paying this price for a room is that you don't feel like you get enough time in the resort. So I feel it would be great if check-in was a little bit earlier than four o'clock, but especially this time of year, it gets dark at six o'clock. So if you do do what I did and come at four, you've probably got two hours till the sun goes down. And then if you don't get up early, you've only got a few hours until you have to check out. Although you can stay here for most of the day and still enjoy the facilities, but I've got to go and get a flight. The best thing about staying here was the buggy. That was so much fun driving around and actually you really did need it because it was quite far away from the beach. A little bit gutted that I couldn't eat in one of the Michelin star restaurants, but my wallet is happy. So how much did it cost to stay here? To stay in the villa that I'm currently staying in, it cost me £906 for one night and it does include free drinks from four o'clock until six and then from ten until six the next day that you're leaving. Did you like the hotel? 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