Name: Apartamentos Rocamar
Rating: 3.5

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Apartamentos Rocamar

Very positive: very good location, away from the centre, views of the Atlantic. Plenty of parking on the street. Great Wifi. Cleaning ladies are polite, correct, and friendly.

Positive minus:

The door to the street of the building has a pin security system, but it is sloppy and with a couple of pushes it still opens. The door remains open all morning and afternoon with a stopper at the bottom, or locked by the floor tiles.

I’d suggest you consider  creating access for people with motor functional diversity. That main door  with a chaplon, the stairs to the first landing and the other stairs to the elevator.  I thought it was mandatory to provide non-discriminatory access as a requirement to open any place to the public, both public institutions and private companies: bars, restaurants, hotels, etc.

Broken locks on all the balcony doors and on the windows of the bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom, so everything is open all the time. Anyone can enter the apartment from the outside.

The bathroom is renovated. There is a hairdryer, but when you turn it on the power goes down and you are left without light until someone notices and fixes it up from somewhere. I am missing some place to rest objects in the restroom.

The kitchen looks like something out of Torremolinos 75 GAS cooker! Completely unnecessary risk. I mean, if the pipes, hose and regulator are of the same age as everything else, we’d be glad that nothing happens before we leave.

The tiny TV with no internet access, one of the first "flat" ones. You could only watch the old channels, if you turn it on (the TV set works on properly). Basic sofa but it's ok as it's new.

Few plugs all around. They are poorly attached to the wall.

Size of the beds: 1.90 x 90. You have to sleep in a fixed position, being careful not to fall down the floor if you move, or that the frame of the bed base moves and you end up in the door. It's very uncomfortable for adults to sleep in those little children's beds.

A little apprehensive about the old bedding: a thousand uses, washed but you can sense that many bodies and many heads have passed through those sheets and pillows. 

To the owners: "Would you cover yourselves with this bedding? Try taking it home and sleep one night with them on."

Windows and blinds look from the Restoration Era.

The windows overlooking the inner halls continually bang when the air flows because they are out of adjustment from so many years working.
The brightness of the lights of the corridors of the common areas enters through the windows without blinds facing the inner halls through the curtains of onion layer. Bad for sleeping after a day driving around the island. 

For the floor of the apartment, it would be nice using a vacuum cleaner instead of an old times broom. Do you ever sweep the floors? Scrubbing hard with a new mop would make the place habitable for people with allergies to layered dirt. Most people are not used to living surrounded by dust in all four corners of the world.

What if they manage to remove the dust from the balcony floor some day? 

It would be great to  completely renovate what's left of the wood under the overlapping layers of paint on the railing in the balcony. Raising the height of the edge a bit wouldn't hurt either, in case some kid manages to open one of the unlocked doors and goes out onto the balcony on his own....

The apartments could be improved by checking with experts in interior design for not so much money.

Is there any public or private tourist entity that agrees on a common decalogue for the tourist places of hospitality in La Palma?

Will be back when things change

The building is currently undergoing noisy renovations, but of course they don’t tell you this when you make the booking and they take your money. There are problems with noise in general here as the windows are the really old “bay” type, and the floors are made of solid marble effect tiles. Loud sounds come from above whenever somebody so much as moves a chair. 
The apartment was spacious, but old with windows and doors that stick. The walk in shower leaked. I had to use towels to mop up the water on the bathroom floor. But these are minor issues to compared to the constant noise of renovations taking place from the crack of dawn. These places shouldn't be allowed to operate when building work is going on.

Too noisy. Building work going on.

My friend & I were nicely surprised by this lovely place. Our apartment was spacious, sunny and very clean with a balcony and ocean view. Each morning I could watch the sunrise from my bed or balcony, wonderful experience! Breakfast was another nice surprise; served from 7:30 till 10:30 so really plenty of time for everyone. Coffee machine, various coffees, teas, juice and milk, cereals, brown & white bread, cheese, ham, jam, yogurts, fresh fruit (oranges, apples, pears, bananas) served every morning, also biscuits and some wrapped cakes. All this for £3 a day! Nobody would complain for that price! Staff so friendly, polite and helpful. Lovely, really nice receptionists, cleaners changing towels and cleaning apartment every day. We can only say a big Thank You for making our stay so nice experience 😊
Location great too, on the edge of town but very close to centre. Quiet apartments, quiet location and the only we could hear at night or early morning it was ocean waves. Relaxing, pleasant and comfortable accommodation for very reasonable price, surely worth of  recommendation.

Very good 

I arrived from the ferry  after 22.00. They had told me the property was 1km from the port but it was more like 5km. Although the property was not expensive, the 8 euro I had to pay for the taxi added considerably to the cost for the night, and likewise when I left in the morning. When I got to the apartment, the street door was locked (I had been told it would be open), and if it wasn't for the kind taxi driver ringing some other residents' bells, and talking in Spanish (which I can't), I don't know how I  would have got in. Then the apartment was freezing cold, and I stayed cold all night in bed. Then was woken very early by traffic on the main road outside. The apartment was clean, but the kitchen has no kettle, toaster or microwave. Altogether an unpleasant experience, not to be recommended.

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