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miss gordon from aberdeen travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
direct holidays
on a couples holiday.
There were 4 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2007 |
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| said: Arrived at this hotel at 11am and got told our rooms were not ready till 1.30 but they had a luggage room, well it's more like a dumping yard!! with smelly old beds lying around, so anyway went to have a look around and was very dissapointed it was filthy the loos beside the pool had no toilet roll or soap and there was human mess smeared inside the toilet roll holder!!! we then went in to the bar area were there was a unfreindly bar man who did'nt take you on but stared at you and the bar was also disgusting
When we got to our room wich was in block 2 the room was very basic and dingy we soon came to discover that this hotel is mainly owned by locals and some rooms are for tour operators. there are little cockroaches everywhere, as for cleaning you have to do it yourself aswell as change your bed and buy toilet roll because the cleaner just leaves the sheets and towells on the side for you to do wich is a complete joke who goes on holiday to do these things?
The pool area was only open for the first few days we were there after that you had to use the pool at internacional 2 across the road thats also where the reception is as there is'nt one at the catalunya 92 or as stated in the brochure catalonia gardens apts. So all i can say is that you really should avoid staying here it did'nt have a nice holiday feeling about it and we were so glad to get home!!
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Roseanne Mulholland from Belfast travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
Direct Holidays
on a friends holiday.
There were 3 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2006 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness |  | | Location |  | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: I stayed at this hotel with my sister and our friend for 2 weeks. After reading some of the bad reviews about this hotel we were so afraid!!
We arrived at the hotel around 11.00am and were given our room at 1.30pm. We didn't mind at all and waited in the bar area.
We were shown our room which was situated on the 7th floor (the lift only went to the 6th and there were a short flight of stairs to a steel door) Our room was massive it had a bedroom with 2 single beds, bathroom, large living area and kitchen. Our terrace was the main focus of our room is was so huge! We had a view of our pool the nearby forest and Fuerteventura!! The views were amazing!
Our room was cleaned twice a week, the beds were changed and clean towels were also left twice a week. The maid was lovely and always left our room clean and fresh.
The food in the hotel was also lovely we only ever really had lunch there and ended up eating out at night time, the prices of food is reasonable as well as the drink.
Hotel staff here are brilliant sometimes we couldnt get the steel door opened and even though they were so busy they came the whole way up to the 7th floor and helped us. They always had smiles on their faces which is want you want to see.
The entertainment was not so good at night time, but families enjoyed it we went to the nearby clubs and bars anyway which is what you will end up doing. The entertainment at the pool is OK though the music gets you in the mood for a sing a long! ! lol
Overall please do not listen to the bad reviews on this hotel they are all lies!!! Believe me!! I couldnt believe it when i got there, me and my friends kept saying to ourselves those reviews were a bunch of s*it!
I am hoping to return to Catalonia next year as i enjoyed it so much!! And you will too. After all it is a basic room and so cheap to get there!
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ella and rob from belfast travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
direct holidays
on a family holiday.
There were 4 adults and 1 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: When we arrived the hotel staff did everything in their power to accomodate us,we found them to be very friendly and pleasant to be around.
The room was basic but clean and the pool and bar area was spotless,the prices were reasonable and the food was not too bad, but make sure the waiter brings it to you immediately the buzzer sounds or it will be cold as this happened to us on more than one occasion.
One thing though,if you are not Southern Irish,then the tricolours fluttering in the breeze might offend.
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hopkins from chesterfield travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
aspro
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 3 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: When we arrived the room was'nt ready we had to wait 5 hours.
When we got our room we were very disapointed one of the beds was broken with a very small piece of foam for a mattress,the smoke alarm had been taped up and painted over,the shower hook was broken off we had no kettle or toaster so basically we cooked on two cooker rings all week.
We were also concerned about the patio door not locking cos there had been a few breakins in this block.We complained to the rep a few times but nothing got resloved.This block is above a nightclub that is open until 5am so is not suited to families.
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julie purvis from durham travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
aspro
on a family holiday.
There were more than 6 adults and more than 6 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: My family booked this holiday 1 year ago there was 18 members of our family 4 apartments were booked. Before we went I went onto the internet for reviews these were not good upon that I e-mailed Aspro and was advised that rival companys have acsess to the net, this reassured me, another family member asked our travel agent and was told that they had no complaints about these apartments.
On our arrival at the reseption the staff were so rude. We were given our rooms, I was in a totally different block to the others, the room was filthy, the single bed still had dirty tissues in the bed, the curtains were falling down.
The dinning room table that was supposed to fit five was a garden table(WOOD)this was a mess with a dirty table cloth.
It was supposed to be self catering the cooker was rusty with no shelving. I went straight to reception the girl on the desk did not understand me whilst I was there other members of my family came to complain also other guests.
It was totaly a mess. We had our welcome meeting and the poor rep was past herself as everyone was up in arms. She has resigned while we were there.
IF you are booked in these apartments don't go you will regret this.
It was a total nightmare.
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Berni from Belfast travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
Aspro
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Catalonia Gardens, I had read really bad reports but was pleasantly surprised on arrival. Not great but clean enough for a base.
Clean towels every 2 days and cleaned twice a week. No air conditioning, had to hire fans at a cost which were inefficient- very little air came out.
Food in restaurant cheap and cheerful. Location very central for shops, bars, restaurants etc but could be noisy at night esp for families with kids, but in block 1 facing bar and pool we found it ok.
Had no dealings with staff except in bar, who needed to be a bit more pleasant to customers.
Entertainment was repetitive and quite rude while children were present eg men getting bras + pants off girls in audience and flashing their private parts, my daughter is only 7 and witnessed this. It was also geared towards English customers so we felt inferior and were booed on occasions when entering competitions. To any Irish holiday makers I would say if you want to be in the minority and watch this type of vulgarity with your kids then this is the place for you, if not give it a wide berth.
We would visit Salou again but stay somewhere we felt welcome and treated equally.
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Veronica from Luton travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
alpharooms
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 3 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: These were the worst apartments I have ever stayed at. We were in block 1 which overlooked a very busy road where cars hooted their horns all night and a German nightclub that was very loud and went on till 6am every morning.
We had no linen or towel change the whole week, saw no maid till the morning we were leaving when they knocked the door bang on 10am and ordered us out. The toilet was smelly all week and the hot water ran out all the time.
Reception staff very rude.
Entertainment was ok.
Pool was lovely which had a lifeguard at all times.
If you are due to stay here then I would seriously reconsider.
Salou itself nice place, good places to eat were Sinatra's, Hollywood's and Texas grill. Champions great at night for kids as have clown nearly every night to amuse kids.
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DAVE AND AVI from EDINBURGH travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
MY TRAVEL
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 06 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Heard so many bad things about this place I tried to cancel. I was pleasantly surprised by the rooms which were clean. clean linen and towels twice a week.
Friendly staff, pool cleaned by attendant regularly, large balcony which catches the sun all day if you are in building. Two overlooking the kids pool, there
Is also a big adult pool which is the deepest in Salou, very central to the main street, not the cheapest place in the world for the booze at around 3 euros a pint. Supermarket is cheap with 1 lt bottle vodka £10. Beware this hotel has been robbed a few times it looks like an inside job I know at least 3 people who were robbed even the safes were robbed.
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Sonya from Bedford travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
First Choice
on a friends holiday.
There were 4 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 06 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: We arrived in Salou at 10.30am were driven to an office to check in and were told we could not get the key to our rooms until 4 o'clock and there was 100 euro dep, for each room!!!,
We had two rooms both of which smelt disgusting we found food on our balcony and our bathroom was covered in dirt and mould, our friends found their balcony covered in broken glass the smell in their room was disgusting and their 'furniture' had definately seen better days!
Many groups changed hotels but we decided to stay as we are a young group that was only going to use the rooms as a base, if we had children with us we would have been the first out, general untidiness about whole place- also having pitch black corridoors is not a good idea, staff not overly friendly but ok.
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Don from Glasgow travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
aspro
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 1 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 06 2005 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Heard a few mixed reviews about these appartments but I like to make my own mind up, and I'm glad I did.
I thought the appartments where spotless and well maintained the staff where very helpfull and pleasant. The rooms where very basic but we where hardly in there was so much to do elsewhere and if you what a quiet night in in front of the tv, you can hire one at a cost.
The pool was also spotless with it's own lifegaurd. The pool opened at 10 so you where almost guaranteed a bed. (no throwing the towels down at 6am.)
Cant say anymore about it. GREAT!
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kathryn from newcastle u lyme travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
aspro
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 10 2004 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: The apartments now are called catalonia gardens,we heard so many bad reviews on this apartment before we went. We went and it was nothing like what people said about it,the rooms are basic nothing special,but we were very pleased with them because everything was clean and the room itself was like your own house room. Staff were very friendly apart from some of the spanish can be a little bit pushy at times. Has for cleaniness,the room was clean enofe for us,i suppose it depends which room you are chosen to go in. There was no dirty places and nothing to feel dissapointed about either. The only thing is, in this particular apartments you get the noise from the hotel right by it so it dosen't really keep you up,but i wouldn't go here if you wanted some peace and quite. Although the city itself isn't a noisy place but probably is in summer time. There were a slight breakages in the room but nothing mager to put you off it. We were put on a nice height up of the balcony,the balcony was nice and big so one room had two sliding doors and the main room had their own sliding doors,which is good because if one person isn't keen on having the door open the other can. Some things are included such as a kettle etc. It is probably the luck of the draw,we went and enjoyed it.
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Amy from Manchester travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
Airtours
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2004 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: The catalunya park apartments are lovely, set on a road with plenty of shops and restaurants. The pool is great with a shallow one for the kids. Beware of the man who is in charge of opening the pool as he thinks he owns the place, he opened the pool 45 mins late and people got so bored that they jumped over the gates to reserve their beds and he came out shouting at them and threw the towels back at them all. The two entertainers are excellent especially when they are doing the poolside entertainment in the afternoon, they enrol everyone into dancing!!!!!
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Lisa from Brighton travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
MyTrave;
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2004 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: The Catalonia Gardens are not that bad. You must remember that the apartments are only a 2 key so you can not expect the Ritz!! But, when we arrived at the apartments our room was not even ready (we arrived at 11am travelling since 2am!)!
The staff gave us our key and when we went to our room, it had not even been cleaned since the last guests left! so we then had to wait 2 hours for the cleaners to get round to our apartment and clean it.
The rooms are basic but big, there is no TV, air conditioning you have to pay a rent charge if you want them. The pool is nice and big. At night it can be very noisy when you want to go to sleep, all you hear is loud music and holiday makers making a racket when on their way home.
It really depends on what block your in really, we stayed in the reception block at the front (opposite International 2).
The location is great though. The beach, restaurants and nightlife is close by. Me and my partner went for 1 week and had a great time in Salou, we didn't mind the
Catalonia that much as we didn't expect it to be great for the price. I would definately go back to Salou but would not stay here again.
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Louise from Essex travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
Air Tours
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2004 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: This hotel was very well kept and clean throughout the time we stayed there. Catered for all ages with English pool side entertainment for the children. It states in the brochure that part of the hotel in above a club, this is true and may disturbe the sleep of younger children however we were not affected.
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dawn from scotland travelled to Catalunya Apartments with
aspro
on a 18-30s holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2003 |
rated the Catalunya Apartments as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: For our first holiday abroad, it was ok but the fact that the self catering section was a bit of a problem especially when the kids had to eat breakfast out of a cup which we found very humorous indeed! There was no kettle and very few self catering amenities there.
The kids loved the pool although we weren’t there too often as we went out and about more sight seeing.
Staff were not helpful or friendly and laughed at me when I asked if there was a zoo nearby.
The music in the complex was repetitive and we didn’t go to the night shows as bingo is not our thing!
I wouldn’t recommend this place but it's ok as a base, as long as you can entertain yourselves!
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