We stayed at the Pearle Beach Hotel on a Half Board basis for two weeks. Our Standard Room – very different from what you see in the official hotel photos – was broadly ok, though the minibar fridge was so noisy that we had it disconnected and, worse still, the room had an intercommunicating door! However, the major problem is that, unlike all other room types, which are located around the swimming pool and the garden areas, standard rooms are in a separate building at the back of the hotel. They face either the noisy coastal road or, like ours, a small road which is incessantly used by all sorts of service vehicles – e.g., rubbish collection, waste water collection, food deliveries, taxis, coaches, staff transport, etc. – and this makes it very hard to sleep after 5:30am. For the first four days we pleaded in vain for a change of room but detected no willingness to help as every time we were reminded that we had booked a standard room. Our insistence was then met with the explanation that only other standard rooms were available but the ‘reassurance’ that “if a better room becomes available, we will let you know” gave their true intentions away. This was very disappointing since, immediately after booking – about three full weeks before our arrival – we contacted the hotel to specifically ask that our room be away from road noise. If Standard Rooms cannot provide quiet, it would have been appropriate for the hotel to say it then. This spoiled it for us.