Stayed for a week and loved it, especially the food. If you like fresh food, fruit and salads you will love it here. The choice was excellent every day with some daily extra special displays, such as lobster, crab and king prawns as well as other seafood one night, tons of different cheeses another night, and unbelievable mounds of different fruits another. Yet another night was Dessert night, all with lots of great food for starters and mains. The all inclusive wines were good quality and they even have Cava available at breakfast time!
Rooms good and clean, although the air conditioning was not working in the bedroom.
Pools clean and fun, we tended to use the smaller pool which has a very deep end.
Right on the beach, staff were brilliant, what can I say?
Entertainment was not the best I've seen but they tried hard and we enjoyed all of it.
I would recommend the Pirates Adventure show in Magaluf which was great, but if you can afford it get seats on the Quarter Deck as our seats upstairs were awful so I had to stand at the back to watch. Also food at the show is rubbish but the show is superb.
All in all a great holiday.

The hotel and the staff you cannot fault. All superb. Go all inclusive. Weather in May/June 2008 was abismal and this hotel doesn't really hold a lot in store for kids when it's raining. Go in summer and there'll be less blood sucking mozzies. If you go when it's raining, you'll be applying anthisan for a year.

If you're thinking of going AI, go to an Iberostar, and this place it the beez kneez

Me, my husband and 9 year old just returned from a 10 night stay and it was absolutely brilliant!

We arrived at 9.30pm (we had a missing case as flew with Monarch on way out via a Thomas Cook booking and have since been told they lose at least 1 case on every flight so beware if you fly with them!!!!). On arrival we were immediatley given wrist bands (all inclusive) so we could go and have some dinner before the restaurant closed. They looked after our remaining case for us (a lot better than Monarch did!) and then after eating we filled out forms and got our key etc.

The room was very nice, lovely swan shapes made from towels in the bathroom!

My husband got up at 7.30 every morning to put our towels out, I have seen other reviews here complaining about this practise but I don't know why because if you stay at a mainly british hotel you have the same problem, only at this hotel you didn't have to lie next to a lager lout. The hotel had many nationalities staying, mostly german, but quite a few British people as well and our child met loads of english children to play with and also foreign kids, just because they didn't speak the same language it didn't stop them playing in the pool together. If you want to stay with just English people then don't go to this hotel, however this was not a problem to us and in fact I think we had a better holiday for it.

The main pool was quite shallow and great for children, if you want to swim there is a deeper one also.

The food was fantastic with so much to choose from you couldn't eat everything. The main restaurant opened at breakfast, lunch and dinner. At lunch there was also the pool bar (which we favoured for lunch) and at dinner there was a barbecue every night except for a Saturday - as well as the main restaurant.

All staff were brilliant, very friendly people. The bar staff gave kids free drinks even if they were not AI. The entertainment staff were excellent, putting on a show most nights and there were also outside shows. All shows were of a high quality, look out for the sketch shows, very funny!!

In my opinion, don't take any notice of the reviews moaning about one thing or another, we all like different things. If you want a relaxing holiday, then this hotel will be for you. They also offer a full programme of day and night time entertainment but don't ram it down your throats! For us brits who have a fascination with Bingo, they do this every afternoon by the pool at 4pm.

We will definitely be returning next year, I can't see the point in trying somewhere else and maybe regretting it when this place was so good. My husband has usually had enough after 1 week but on our last night he said he wished we were there for 2 weeks, and that went for me and our daughter.

The only downside was Thomas Cook and the missing case (which did eventually turn up). Their attitude was not good but I won't dwell on that, just try to book with an alternative agent or direct with the hotel which is what we will do for next year.

Do not go here if you're after some kind of Brit only holidaycamp drinkfest. Others in Alcudia would no doubt suit you better.

If you seriously do not like a great variation of food, which caters for just about everyones tastes - then go self-catering. I'm amazed that anyone could not find a decent meal to suit even the most fussiest unadventurous palate, we always feel spoilt for choice. Everyone is different and obviously have different expectations but we have stayed here 3 times now at different seasonal times and are about to return for our 4th visit. Fortunately for us we do not recognise some of the reviews especially in regard to the staff catering more for one nationality than any other. This is most definitely not our experience, as we have received nothing but polite and helpful responses from the staff from the moment we arrive throughout the duration of our stay. We even had a bottle of wine left in our room on arrival (as did our daughter and her partner when they joined us for the second week). When the gentleman on reception knew we had family arriving for the 2nd week he went out of his way to make sure they had a room as close to ours (next door as it turned out).

The nice thing about this hotel is the good mix of nationalities and how they are all equally catered for although I do understand one of the comments about the list of languages the entertainment team have to trawl through each time in order to do this! But at least they do make every attempt to make sure everyone understands.

Hire the beach towels (small returnable deposit) to save packing your own. Look forward to a great, clean hotel in well-maintained grounds, good choice of food, right on the wonderful safe sandy beach and plenty of nightime entertainment across the road in Alcudia. 2 swimming pools - larger one for families and a quieter pool nearby.

Beware of any trips that advertise a 'short health presentation'. If the price makes it look almost too good to be true - it will likely be because it is!

Recommend trips to go on: The coach trip through the winding mountainous roads of Sa Calobra (look it up on youtube or think: "Italian Job") which includes a train ride through the mountains and a boat trip. Lots of bus services to various locations on the island if you like to get out and about without hiring a car and driving. Boat trip to Formentor. Relax on beach at destination - take a picnic NOT a shopping trip.

Can hardly wait for next weekend to come round for visit no. 4. Tried others in between our stays at this particular resort and hotel but this has definitely been the best (for us). I hope that anyone else who decides to go to Iberostar Ciudad Blanca enjoys it as much as we do - sorry for those who have not shared the same experience!

Negative: If you can book a private taxi transfer from the airport to the hotel - go for it rather than the shuttle / coachservice, which takes twice as long. Everyone else gets dropped off before your stop.