- Gran Canaria Holidays
- Amadores
- Gloria Palace Amadores Thalasso and Hotel

This great beach hotel, built in 2003, is very nicely located in the tourist centre of Amadores, it is approximately 1 km from the local sandy beach and its crystal clear waters. The local promenade is a great place where guests will find a variety of leisure possibilities. Convenient public transport links are very close to the hotel. Numerous boutiques and shops, restaurants and a wide range of bars can be found in the surroundings. This is a lively place to spend active holidays by the sea.
Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages, body treatments and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, which include 2 outdoor swimming pools, an outdoor tennis court and a sauna. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting (surcharge) and an arcade/games room.
Due to the surrounding area and the number of steps around the hotel, it may not be suitable for those with mobility difficulties.
We've just spent a week at this hotel. Opting to book the premium room with private pool. So glad we done that. The rooms are spacious and the pool gets the sun from midday which suited us as the pool area on block 4 is just too busy, cluttered and dirty. I'm an early riser and at 7am I'd go up to lay on beds and read. Some folk must put their towels out at midnight to get "their spot". I felt that cleanliness around the pool could be better. There's loads of broken parasols stacked to one side. There's cigarette butt's on the floor that have been here all week. The beds could do with a good scrub down. There's several cracked and chipped floor tiles - surely they can be tidied up? The infinity pool is nice. However as the safety glass doesnt get cleaned, it does spoil your views. Food - we've found the food varied and plentiful and always found something to eat. One minor niggle being the egg ladies that worked midweek. Omelette lady made the thinnest omelette known to man. Cooked in 2 mins. And fried egg lady - you have to see it to believe it. I struggle to describe the state that those eggs were in after she'd cooked them. I joked with one guy during the week as his looked like a sheet of fiberglass!!!
Evening entertainment, or what we heard, or saw of it was below average. We spent several nights off site, or just glazed by our pool to avoid the evening entertainment.
One other thing, the lift to take yoy down to the promenade. Please give that a clean, the glass and metal sides and doors are manky!
I'm glad we stayed here, and really enjoyed the room we had. Just could have been a bit better, especially around the pool.
My wife and I have stayed in this hotel on 4 separate occasions and we do love the hotel. The views from the pool areas and the room sizes and balconies are amazing however we do feel a few things let the hotel down . We stayed here in June for a week and returned in August for another week on both occasions we were staying in block 4 , which we had requested as it has amazing views out to sea and private balcony . The rooms themselves have been refurbished to a good standard and are extremely spacious and comfortable. Bathrooms are spacious and modern. Some balconies have sunbeds others only table and chairs depending on room allocation. The rooms were cleaned daily and towels etc were changed as you would expect. Throughout our stay only 2 lifts were working out of the 3 in block 4 so it was a nightmare getting from floor to floor on multiple occasions. Especially with the hotel being as busy. We had requested a specific room we had stayed in previously but the hotel were unable to accommodate this . The pool areas are our favourite thing about this hotel , top pool being our favourite as it a bit quieter but still busy at peak times obviously. The snack bar food and drinks were excellent although we did wait quite a while on occasions to be served. The bar for the pool drinks was really busy at times also it may be a suggestion to provide a separate service area for the coffee drinkers as on multiple occasions the service was extremely slow because of the 1 bar staff making fancy coffee’s for people. Creating long delays for others. We stayed all inclusive and found a good selection of food in the restaurant however on occasions it was really slow to top up any choices that were running low or empty. The staff in the restaurant were excellent and worked very hard . The big letdown in the hotel is the nightime entertainment. We have been here a few times now and we do think it’s needing modernising. Also it’s stops around 10-10:30pm and speaking to other guests feel like a bit more could be done to modernise and keep it going a bit later. The hotel location is good but wouldn’t advise anyone with mobility issues and it’s extremely hilly in the surrounding areas. As with all all inclusive hotels you do do feel the need to eat out a couple of times throughout your holiday just to mix things up a bit and they’re are some great restaurants around the resort. We did have another good holiday here and will return however a few small improvements in this hotel could make it even better.
Beautiful hotel, top marks for cleanliness, good food and location to puerto rico and Amadores beaches, 10 minutes walk to both. Pool on top is beautiful. It's an infinity pool, great view.
Ok let’s get the negative stuff out of the way first. Booking in took way too long and you have to fill in all of your own details on an iPad Lifts are a nightmare Pointless wrist band as you have to take your key card to the bars with you ? Pool bar service was way to long it’s like the staff just tinker around and are oblivious to people waiting Usual holiday makers being selfish about loungers leaving towels on premium spots the going out all day the hotel should stop this Entertainment was poor and ended very quickly
What’s good Rooms very clean and spacious with great views Food was brilliant all week
Didn’t wow me so we won’t be booking next year
We went here as a family. Myself and 2 daughters (15 and 12) and my dad and step mom.
First impressions were wow! The infinity pool views were incredible over the sea. The hotel is built into the cliff.
The rooms were extremely spacious with tasteful decor. Balconies were huge with actual sun loungers.
However this is where it stops.
We had bugs in our kettle and cups. We were told it was normal but it would be resolved. It wasn’t resolved so we chose not to use those facilities.
The cleaning process seems to be limited to making the bed. The room was never swept, body wash, tea, milk was never replenished. Towels were given clean but didn’t take the dirty ones so at one point we had 12 towels in the room!
One day our whole corridor didn’t get cleaned so we had to complain and then it was quickly cleaned with duvets removed and not put back on.
Our ‘welcome drinks’ arrived on day 5 out of 7!
The entertainment on an evening is dire. It’s very 1980’s. Karaoke, flamenco, magic shows, numerous caberet singers all limited to ABBA, Elvis.
The worse thing is you have no choice but to go there. There is a pool bar outside which appeared open but you still have to listen to the entertainment. There’s another quieter bar which has comfy sofas for cards, talking but it wasn’t open on an evening.
Two amazing rooftop bars with views of the stars and sea were available with huge sofa beds. One was in pitch black and one wasn’t open. A mellow DJ / music and a bar in these areas would have been a fantastic addition.
The food was fine, I enjoyed it. But it always felt like a market. Little things like a nominated table and nominated waiter you kept all week would make it feel more special.
There is a lovely terrace with amazing sunset views which we enjoyed.
We never had a problem getting sunbeds which is a positive.
Last little whines, please clean the infinity pool windows. They’re so dirty you can’t see the sea.
I know most all inclusive hotels are going like this but we had the top all inclusive package which to me should mean everything included. I asked for a strawberry daiquiri on the first day to be told that’s not included.
Water also needs to be more readily available. They have taps around the bar with lukewarm water and an ice bucket. When you ask for a big bottle of water you simply can’t get it. They’re in your room and provided at lunch / dinner but that’s it. At other hotels there’s been fridges stocked with water and you help yourself whenever.
It’s such a shame as this hotel has all the potential there it just doesn’t fulfill it.
