Let's get the main message first. Hotel Tarik is a decent hotel. In a good location, right on the beach front. Its got a lovely pool, a quiet pool area, good bar, nice restaurant and lovely, friendly staff. What's not to like? I didn't pay for a 5-star hotel and didn't expect one and hence had a lovely stay. There were things that could be improved - we had a very dark room in the inside corner of the hotel (room 221, if you want to avoid), which had a tiny balcony. No worries for us, as we were non-smokers, but if you are, you may want more balcony room. It was a basic room and I wouldn't have wanted to spend more than a weekend in it (due to lack of enough natural light), but it was for a weekend and more than did the job. The restaurant attached is very classy and discount there helped too! We found the bar staff friendly and the drinks priced fine. The only 2 (minor) negatives: The breakfast scrum! - entirely caused by a poor decision to install 2 automatic coffee machines which did every type you can imagine. And take a looong time. Hence queues every morning. What to do? Get your hot food first, but it goes cold while you queue with lots of others? Plus anything with milk in tasted sweet - so it wasn't real milk. Why not just use a filter and jugs?? Go out for breakfast coffee! Also, the perennial problem of hotel safes. Why charge? It makes me mad. Its the hotel's problem if it can't guarantee security - why make me pay for the solution? Would I stay again? Definitely