Let's start with the elephant in the room: We filtered for adults only on hotels.com and booked Occidental Fuengirola. It's not adults only. The clientele is a mix of Brits treating it as their local pub before and after golfing, business trips and some couples/parents with young children/babies. If you can't stand loud groups of men who golf, go elsewhere. Really.
The hotel is alright. Rooms are ok, beds are not very comfortable and soft at the top but very hard underneath the thin soft top layer. TV has a ton of channels. Bathroom is fine and does the job, but could have done with more light around the mirror. Shower has nice pressure. Minibar fridge is tiny.
Service at the reception is pretty good, helpful and efficient.
Overall positives do not make this a 4 star hotel in my book, more like a 3,5/5. Now let's dive in to the negatives:
Breakfast buffet. Oh my god. Hunger games. The desperation in people and selfishness of how people behave when they have to wait to get bread, eggs, bacon, drinks, fruit and other stuff is sickening. The layout of the breakfast restaurant is not ideal, but I've been to plenty hotels with more guests and smaller areas where you don't fear for your limbs when waiting to get food. It might be a cultural thing with boomer generation Brits acting like neanderthals seeing food for the first time, but it got progressively worse during our week at the hotel. Staff did not do anything to make the buffet work in a more orderly fashion. Outta space