Нормальный отель среднего класса Average middle class hotel

Trip-August 14.2017-August 22.2017.
They flew from Moscow with Azur Air. We flew normally, Boeing. The hotel is located in Catalonia, in the town of Salou. In fact, it's probably not even a city. And apparently a former fishing village. All buildings are either hotels or apartments in general, all houses in the village (or town) are modern. Checked in without problems, Russian-speaking staff at the reception. Room 230 on the 2nd floor of the window to the street (not the courtyard). The room is small-bed. chair, table with mirror, built-in wardrobe. TV in the room. as it turned out later, 6 Russian programs (53.55, 56... ). Refrigerator for a fee (6 euros per day and a queue for it, as the guide said). The hotel consists of two L-shaped buildings of 5-6 floors. Elevator. Inside the yard, 2 adult pools and 2 children's. I really didn't like the pools. Firstly, for such 2 buildings, these are too small pools,
and they also have a strange mode of operation - at 7 pm they are fenced with a cloth mesh and in the morning they open (remove the mesh) only at 10-00. And since there are many foreigners in the hotel who are very fond of swimming pools, if you come a little later than the moment of opening, then you will have to sit on a high chair at best - everything is busy. The next day, upon arrival, we were met by the Hotel Guide-Eduard, as usual, excursions, questions about the hotel. The guide is normal, is at the hotel almost from 9-00 to 17-00 with breaks. Answers questions, solves problems (we had no problems).

Food-Food is excellent-no complaints. Well, if only I noticed when they start washing dishes during a meal, then the plates are not always washed clean (just like in an advertisement about dishwashing detergent in a washing machine). In the morning - champagne (optional), no haste and crush, everything always lies, if not, they immediately bring it or cook it. Constantly fruits - watermelons, melons, peaches, nectarines,
plums (yellow and blue), apples and pears of course. In general, variety. Yogurts and more. Meat - mostly normally cooked, several types. True, I drew attention to the fact that pork is sometimes very tough, either the cook is in a hurry, or it just doesn’t fry, perhaps pork is rarely cooked in Spain. French fries, rice (regular and with seafood), pasta. About drinks. Well, since drinks are only paid for lunch and dinner, you can either buy them right there at the counter for 1.5 euros (drinking water), or just pour water in the room and bring a bottle of water with you. We used to buy a 5 liter container in the market (0.8-0.95 euros) and simply put 0.5 from it into a bottle and take it with us for lunch or dinner (0.5 liter bottle in the hotel machine costs 1.5 euros ). Ice cream all the time. In general, you will not die of hunger, as they say. Excellent, kudos to the kitchen. After eating, your table-paper tablecloth is immediately cleaned and the dishes are taken away,
new appliances are installed.
Now about whether you can take something from the table with you? Lie down on the beach. nibble on a peach. taken in the dining room, or something. Well, according to the rules of the hotel of course it is impossible. BUT, if you don’t take out food in impudent plates, but simply quietly put a couple of peaches in your purse, for example, no one will tell you anything. Of course, it is desirable to do this discreetly, so that the employees of the canteen do not see. Moreover, according to my observations, everyone does this, and our compatriots, and the Germans, and the French and Spaniards, who come to the sea for the weekend. This is not considered shameful. Just. As they say, you need to know the measure and do it carefully.

And yet, basically we noticed that the people who live in the hotel take as much as they eat (mostly). Not like in Turkey, our tourists collect a full table, eat 1/3 and leave the rest on the tables bitten. True, there is a fly in the ointment in this barrel of honey.
I made sure that our tourists (mostly) behave normally in the dining room, which cannot be said about gentlemen foreigners, especially blacks (apparently from France). Here after them there is a lot of dirt on the tables and under them. Comments are superfluous. Very noisy Germans clamor, wave their hands. This is what I didn't like.
Surroundings-The hotel is located, as it were, on the outskirts of the town. Not far from it - as I called it - the Promenade, the main street along which we walked on, then to the right) You can turn at the first intersection, walk to Spara, and then go to the Promenade, you can turn onto the Promenade (the second intersection. then to the right). The beach is very large - several kilometers. The sea is not deep. Basically, people either lie on the sand, using mats that can be bought at any store, as well as portable (let's call them that) sun loungers of various types. You can also rent a sunbed, you can for a day. You can, as they said, even by the hour. Sunbed under a canopy - 10 euros - one, 15 euros for two,
sunbed + umbrella - 5 + 5 euros. Also not far from the hotel there are two more small beaches.
There are two small parks nearby - one for children with a couple of attractions, the other is just a small (very small) park for walking. Just as close. how to go to the central beach there is a municipal park, several attractions, a fountain.
Excursions - since we were only 8 days, we took 2 excursions: 1-Barcelona Gaudi premium + fountains - 110 euros (per person). since we were in Barcelona on the day of the attack (the bus left that place about 10 minutes before the attack), the tour came out blurry. the police removed us from the park and we didn’t get to the fountains at all. and even returned 4 hours to the hotel. ,

to the Sagrada Familia, there is an excursion, then we went to Park Gü ell (with a visit to its paid, closed part), but from the park, as I said, the police squeezed us out unobtrusively, and this ended our excursion.
2-Monserrat. The 2nd excursion was to the Benedictine monastery famous for its black Madonna. What were we promised? Visiting the monastery, the famous statue of the Black Madonna, Tasting local liqueurs and buying them if desired. Degustation of cheeses and jamon, If desired, lift by funicular to the observation deck (paid when buying an excursion or on the spot. ).
What really. The tour guide, which took us around the monastery, first explained to us at machine-gun speed for 30-40 minutes what is where, what and how we should do, where to go and where not to go. I will not retell the whole tour-in general, tasting-shop,
come in, the lady seller pours 4 liquors in turn into a small plastic cup, try it. All. Cheese is a row of cheese merchants. you just walk through it and try (if you wish and buy if you like it) the cheese is all. Funicular. The station itself is a small room, there is a queue. They sell tickets and immediately launch the funicular, which runs for 12 minutes. It is not necessary to stand in a general queue if you have a ticket (we ourselves found this out by experience). All. We really liked the hotel. like Spain itself. Of course next time I want to go somewhere else.