You need to be at least 16 or 18 years old to be allowed to stay there: Adults-only hotels are in demand. What is it like to take time off in such a hotel? DW reporter Christina Deicke checked it out in Gran Canaria.
There's an uncanny silence: the pool splashes, palm leaves rustle - but that's all. "It's always this quiet here. I like it," says reception trainee Yolanda as she takes me to my room. Yolanda has in the past been put to the test: She used to be a flight attendant. "The children used to run around in the narrow aisles and were loud. That used to stress me out." Now the 25-year-old works for "Atlantic View," an adults-only hotel in Gran Canaria. No more children. The same applies to me for the next few days - me, a mother of two, on holiday in a hotel for adults only!
This type of hotel is becoming more and more popular. The minimum age for guests in this particular one is 16, though in most hotels it is 18. Of 182 hotels of the tourism company Thomas Cook, 41 are now for adults only. The European market leader TUI has 400 adults-only hotels in its range, while in 2014 there were just 65, most of which were in long-haul destinations such as the Caribbean. But now Europe also has a lot of them - and the numbers are increasing.
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