Breakfast, not as much choice as in some hotels but adequate, hot food usually only luke warm.
Reception, can't say we got a warm welcome. Fairly helpful though when we asked for information later.
Room, good size, kept very clean, on 1st floor overlooking the plaza. Not enough storage space, had to partly live out of suitcases. From previous reviews, I knew there would be noise from the plaza, so we set our expectations based on that, and we were only really disturbed by it on a few odd occasions. We were still surprised though by the high level of noise of people, musicians with varying skills, cars, lorries, and how constant it was.
Pool area, disappointing. Very small, sometimes couldn't get a sunbed as very few to go around. 2 Bali beds, waste of space, hardly used, take up an area where 6 more sun beds could go. Pool ok to cool off in. Surprised to see a group of pigeons in the morning having a leisurely bath on the side of the pool.
Laundry service, used this once, impressed with the very reasonable price and quick service, items returned next day laundered and very neatly pressed.
Resort: lots of restaurants, some better than others. We especially recommend Goa Town (Indian), Bella Roma, and Scarletta. We also had 2 good meals in MarBella which has a terrace overlooking the sea but is a bit more expensive. It also has a nice cocktail bar inside, although in line with ALL the bars we sat in, getting served with drinks took an absolute age, as did getting and then paying the bill afterwards. This became very annoying. We also found it was advisable to book our favourite restaurants the night before as they got full very quickly. Apparently we didn't visit at the busiest time, but there still seemed to be hoards of people milling around all the time.
Beach: disappointing, grey, looked like shingle. There looked to be nicer beaches elsewhere, however we found out shortly before going that raw sewage is pumped into the sea here as they do not have a treatment works, so it didn't matter after that what the beach was like as we would not be going on it or in the sea.
Excursions: we unfortunately didn't get to Ronda for various reasons but we did visit Granada and the Alhambra with Play Nerja behind the church. The day included a walking tour of Granada which turned out to be 2 hours going up and down around the largely deserted Arab quarter and then the equally deserted gypsy quarter (where they do not pick up their dogs' dirt). Had we known, we would have preferred to just have free time as the cathedral and other attractions were nearby and would have been considerably more pleasing to walk around. We also took the local bus to Frigiliana, and this was well worth visiting, very pretty. Top tip is to get to the bus stop early to return to Nerja, as there was standing room only for us and a number of others, and some people didn't manage to get on the bus at all. We also took the land train and visited the Caves.
Summary: a bit busy for us, lacking the nice walks, beaches, charm and warm welcome of, say, a Greek island, but I suppose it depends what you're looking for. Would we return? Very unlikely.