This 'renovated' hotel is very old and out of date. awful old aircon units in rooms that are noisy, poor quality and go off when you are out. If you have a family room/sitting room, the extra room has no aircon so it is impossible to sleep in it. If you have a room on the back (half the rooms are looking out back) you get to look at waste ground and rubbish stewn back yard. the food is terrible, very basic, greasy and cold. entertainment is a bad DJ. the hotel caters for OAP day trippers and coach tours, cheap and nasty. there is a little row of shops bars and restaurants nearby, you can sit there at night and listen to the awful karaoke at the same time watching the prostitutes at the roundabout across the road and on the corner. you need a car to go any where, the route to the town centre is along a dual carriageway! please, DO NOT GO HERE - it is awful!

We arrived at the Torrejoven not expecting too much as the write ups on different sites were a bit damning, our comments on the negative press;
Many people said the place was hard to find; True, well not hard just not where you expected it to be (even with a sat nav!). It's on an urbanisation called Rocio del Mar but unfortunately you never see a signpost with that on it. It's actually on the roundabout just before the shopping complex with Mc Donalds on it - Mc Donalds is well sign`posted even if the hotel isn't!
People said the breakfast was pants - very true, stick to bread and croissants the 'hot' food just isn't worth thinking about!
The bar/ restaurant manager is a miserable git - also true!
The pool is small and only gets the sun in the afternoon - yep, but not a lot the hotel can do about the orientation and as it is in a residential area space is limited. The sunbeds are pants as out of a meagre seven of them, four or five are broken!
We only paid 56 euros a night for bed and breakfast and for the price I have stayed in a lot worse. It's a safe feeling area, the reception ladies are very helpful and friendly, the room (119) looked recently decorated, there was plenty of hot water and the sheets and towels were clean.
There are plenty of places to eat (mind you watch the drinks prices if you venture into Dave's Sports Bar - 3 euros for a large glass of water - robbing swine!).
The busses run to Torrevieja every 30 minutes.
The beach was clean (and almost deserted - in August!)
Yes, there were a lot of Spanish people in there but fer goodness sake, it's in SPAIN!
The disco wasn't open when we were there so I can't comment on that aspect of it.
We drove up from our home in Southern Spain and felt comfortable parking the car in any of the side streets round the hotel.
It's a 3 star hotel and in Spain that's not so high a rating as you might think. I think the place represented good value for money - perhaps we are more easygoing than some?

I've just returned from a 3 night/4 day stay at the Torrejoven with five girlfriends (we're aged between 22 and 27.) This wasn't a typical tourist hotel by any means but was good value B&B for a short sunshine break out of season.

Two friends and I stayed in 302 which I thought was a really good size and was cleaned every day. It consisted of a main room with two single beds, desk, fridge (working!), wardrobe, TV, safe and air conditioning. (We had to pay a refundable deposit of 20 euros for the safe and air-con.) The third bed was in an adjoining room which led to the bathroom. This room also had a sofa (possibly a sofa-bed?) and a desk.

The bathroom was very clean, all marble-tiled and included a shower over bath (with glass screen), hairdryer, toilet, bidet and sink. We were given clean, good quality towels everyday.

Our room didn't have a baclony and was to the back of the hotel, overlooking the highway and a grassy wasteland. Considering its location I didn't notice any problem with traffic noise nor music from 'the Area' nightclub downstairs, but I was woken up once by them emptying their glass bins at 7am.

(The other three members of our group stayed in 306 which on the same side of the building and was very similar apart from it didn't include the sofa.)

We found the staff to be very helpful, for example in booking us taxis, providing extra drinking glasses for our room and change for the vending machines etc. I did get the impression that they didn't really get many groups of young English people staying their though so perhaps we were a bit of an oddity!

Pool area - hardly any sunbeds and they were very uncomfortable. I did see staff testing the water quality of the pool, although I didn't see anyone cleaning it and noticed a few bugs and oil floating on the surface.

Area - across the road (a busy dual carriageway) from the hotel is a shopping complex with a large supermarket, 24-hour McDonalds, Subway and a number of other bars and restaurants. A few of these were English-owned, including the Captain's Table fish and chip restaurant where we had a really nice meal. There were also a few other bars/restaurants within walking distance. I only had breakfast at the hotel once and stuck to bread as the cooked food was cold by 9am.

I hadn't read other reviews before we went but didn't notice any problems with prostitutes/crime etc around the hotel which others have mentioned. The hotel is not in Torrevieja as such though and it costs 12 Euros in a taxi to get there. Woudn't bother with the beach near the hotel as it's tiny/rocky with no facilities.

Just returned from two weeks at this Hotel and found it perfectly adequate for my needs.I found the Staff friendly,with the exception of the Restaurant Manager who was very moody!
Luckily it was fairly quiet at this time of year,although I would imagine it would be pretty hectic later on in the season. As I lived in Torrevieja twenty years ago I was horrified by the overbuilding that has taken place,at that time the Hotel stood alone in it'[s own grounds with just the Camp ground opposite,now it is a concrete jungle.