WELL WHAT A SHOCK READING THE REVIEWS OF SANTANDER!!!! I WAS THINKING OF OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH THEM IN UK BUT NO CHANCE AFTER READING REVIEWS!...

We have been with Santander since moving to Spain 5 years ago. No problems, no charges despite going overdrawn a couple of times. Sending money to the UK fast and efficient. Lloyds rips us off with bad rate AND charges. Would reccommend my branch in Baena without hesitation....

they took over ge money,left no contact number,no details so that we could pay our loan off,its been very,very,very annoying,not the bank for me EVER....

I thought that now Alliance & Leicester was part of Santander I would be able to draw funds from a Santander ATM at no charge. Hohoho....

I have opened an account with Santander on 2007 and I had the account, I had my daily transactions with it\'s debit mastercard, after that I requested for issuance of a Platinum Visa Card and they told me as I am a non-resident, I must have a security margin with amount of 5000 EUR, I let them to deduct my account with this amount but after 1 month they decided to close my account! When I asked why you want to do this, they told me this is an internal reason and we don\'t have to provide a reason! They told me that we will send your money free to any account you provide, after I sent my Italian account details, they sent the amount to this account but there were a 25 EUR fee that was taken from my full amount!!! Don\'t go near them!! I suggest la Caixa bank as it is an ideal bank!...

THE LINK BETWEEN THE ABBEY NAT AND THE BANCO SANTANDER IS A LIE .JUST TRY TO TRANSER FROM ONE TO THE OTHER. FORGET IT! ...

I opened an account with Banco SANTANDER about EIGHT years ago through my Bank (RBS)in order to save over my working years for a retirement place in Spain. I opened the account with £300 and then RBS pulled out of the deal with Banco Santander within weeks. I had no means of getting at my money or adding to that deposited. Earlier this month, and after 8 years, I received an account statement from them. With no transactions in or out for 8 years, this bank has screwed me 3+ euros a month \"maintainance\" charges. My initial investment after 8 years with this outfit are worth a third of what I put in, about 120 euros. Phone calls to this non English speaking business are costly and fruitless. The worst BANK on the planet, avoid at all costs. ...

I opened my account with Santander at Haymarket in London and they organised the account to be opened in Fuengirola. All worked out fine till they introduced the requirement to have a Spanish mobile to receive a text message to allow you to transfer funds out of your account. As I had no Sp mobile I was asked to send in certfied copies of passport to effect a transaction. Eventually they dropped the text to a spanish mobile requirment. The Scottish guy manning the International desk in Fuengirola was thrown in at the deep end with no Spanish language and he was an absolute star, but he left. I have funds in a sterling account which I want converted back to Euros. I had to send a handwritten instruction to the branch which they say they didnt receive. They have since asked for it to be resent and acknowledged receipt. But the funds have still not been transferred causing massive financial difficulty. I understand all Spanish banks are bad but this is the pits. I would never recommed anyone to go near them....

I have held an account with Banco Santander in Salamanca since 2005. In 2007 for reasons of convenience I decided to move this account to their branch in Calahonda. I called at the branch in March 2007 where I was advised to transfer 100 euros from Salamanca to Calahonda to open the account, which I did. Since that date I have been trying without success to close the Salamanca account and tranfer the money. How do you get this shower to respond to communications??? PS Have you tried to take advantage of the link between Abbey and Santander? Don\'t bother!...

I am a Santander shareholder, In the PR mag sent out , there was an offer to open a bank account, with a free Lewis Hamilton baseball hat. I applied and after sending two lots of I.D. 2 months ago I still havent had my application approved, and worst still, I have not received my free baseball hat ! What an absolute totally incompetent shower. The few grand I had has gone elsewhere....

This is not a review, but a srtong complaint. I have two accounts in your Velez Malaga branch in southern Spain and have been trying since 3rd December 2007 to get the funds in this account transferred to an account i the UK. I telephoned and wrote on two occasions to an English employee at the bank who has since moved on, but nothing happened. I subsequenlty contacted Veronica Adoni at your Strand ofice and filled in the apprpriate forms to confirm the transfer. She later telephoned me to contact the Director in Velez and he would arrange everything, this was 10 days ago and still nothing. On top of this one of the accounts should have been placed in a deposit account in May 2007at 2.5%, but instead I have had bank charges deducted. I am getting desperate, keeping my money like this is tantamount to theft. If I get no response I will be forced to contact the banking Ombudsman(or whoever is the appropriate Person). ...