Eix Platja Daurada

Very nice big pool. Hotel's inner yard almost directly faces the seashore, it's just like 30-50 meters to get to the beach - very cool. Nice spa area with a warm pool and two saunas: Finnish (dry) and Turkish (steamy). It may seem that the hotel is huge, but it never felt too crowded - we always could find a sunbed at the pool and a favourite place in the restaurant during breakfast or dinner. There's a snack bar right near the pool to get something to eat during the day if one is super-lazy to get out to the town ;) Just keep in mind it's not a proper restaurant, so food quality is like 3/5 there. The main restaurant offers a rather standard hotel variance. Breakfast: eggs (in all shapes), bacon, flakes, cheeses, salami, yoghurt, greens, fruits, juice, coffee from a machine. All quite OK. Evening: around 6 sorts of good meat and fish, cooked vegetables, pasta, fried potato, sauces, always clean steamed rice (!), canape, sushi (2/5 :( ), fruits, cheeses. All quite edible and will keep you busy for some 10-12 days. Regular evening entertainment program: quizzes, bingo, magician, gymnasts, dance shows, etc. Quite fair. Rather friendly and helpful staff, but not everyone always speaks English or German (never been a problem though).

Upon check-in we were told that the suite we booked 5 months in advance is taken and that they give us a different one for first 3 nights. It was an apartment with a tiny TV and a seized balcony door which opened with a sound of screeching metal. The room in general looked way below expectations of the booked one, so it caused me additional anger when I was told I have to pay full price for my booking. The only compensation they agreed to offer was a cheapest class car rented for 2 days (worth 120 euros), plus 30 euros for drinks in their bar. That's given the fact that we paid them ~280 euros per night. Laughable. The second (standard suite) was only slightly better if at all. A bit bigger, but no separation from the child's bed. And there was a wardrobe standing in a funny way - literally in the center of the room. If first suite had at least a glass shower half-cabin, the second one simply had a shower hose next to the toilet bowl (sic!). As a result the floor in the whole bathroom/toilet room was constantly wet. Oh, it's worth to mention that bathroom doors in both suites could not be closed from the inside, by design. The matresses on the twin beds always pulled apart leaving a hole in between. Then water started to drop from the ceiling around the conditioner. It for sure happened regularly, since there were visible spots of black mould. Safe offered for an extra price, although on the web page it's marked as an included service. A receptionist agreed to provide the safe free of charge after demonstrating this fact. The safe itself is pretty small - it will not fit in a laptop for example; only cash, documents, phones, and a camera at best. Pool area not as good looking as on the photos: grass around has completely dried. The gym is simply a joke.

Location was the only thing I liked, close by the beach

Everything rest was deeply unsatisfactory. Small and noisy rooms. No air conditioning in the corridors. Highly uncomfortable beds. Furnishing quite amortized.