Great hotel in a great location

Written: 22 july 2014
Travel time: 27 june — 9 july 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
We stayed at the hotel at the beginning of July 2014. Impressions from the hotel, as well as from the rest itself, were extremely positive (except for some annoying little things, like the weather, which was very cool and a few others, about which later).
The hotel itself is the older brother of Blaucel-I standing across the street, and they are interconnected by an underground passage. At the same time, seniority did not affect anything - the condition of both is simply excellent. We can say that this is one hotel, divided by a street, since you can use the infrastructure of both.
The hotel has 9 floors, but the first 2 are the 0th (registration) and 1st (restaurant). There are two more underground floors: -1 - underground passage and -2 - parking.
Actually, the hotel has almost no territory, so - a small piece on which the pool is located. At the same time, there are two more swimming pools in Blaucel (outdoor and indoor), it turns out that the hotel has three pools.

The hotel is located 100 meters from the city beach, where you can rent a sun lounger (5 €) and an umbrella (also 5 €), and at the hotel for a fee (I don’t remember which one) you can rent a beach towel. But no one bothers with this - if you didn’t bring a towel with you, you can buy it in a nearby shop for € 6, and sunbathe right on the sand, as most people do.
Near the hotel there are several cafes and souvenir shops, and a couple of grocery stores, behind Blaucel there is a children's playground with carousels, slides, etc. , and a little further different slot machines (for children). The hotel has a good kids club.
It takes 10-15 minutes to walk to the city center along the promenade. So much for the bus station.
Different games are held in hotels every day (table tennis, water polo, etc. , the schedule hangs in the lobby), discos are held in the evenings, performances by flamenco dancers and magicians. Even during the day there are different animations by the pools (mostly in English).
Three elevators - two main ones going from -1 to 9th and one more on the left around the corner from 0th to 9th floors.
But once one broke down and it was very sad for several days - as luck would have it, at the most necessary moment, the rest were busy. It’s okay to go down, but to go up... on the fifth as on the seventh, and even after eating...
WiFi Internet catches almost everywhere, the speed is sufficient (not for downloading movies, of course). At the bottom of the lobby, it catches the best, but Skype worked for us with video in the room. Maybe sometimes thought for a while. Internet day - 4 €, 1 hour - in my opinion - 2 €. But there are also promotions - a day for 2 €. There, in the lobby, there are paid stationary computers (I don’t know how much).
Everything in the room is just wonderful - a large area, new furniture, climate control, TV, safe. Plumbing is new. Everything works.
We lived in a corner room on the 5th floor overlooking the sea, well, to the east, respectively - a wonderful location. In the morning the sun wakes up, and you open the curtains - such a magnificent view opens up...

Because the hotel is located on the outskirts of the city, then the movement of cars there is extremely insignificant, the cars did not interfere with us in any way. Slept with an open balcony. The sound of the sea is soothing. The balcony is just big, you can put sun loungers and sunbathe, but there was only a table and chairs, on which it’s also not bad to admire the sea.
There is a safe in the room, which is for money. You can also rent a refrigerator.
Climate control, or simply centralized air conditioning-heating. Here, by the way, is a minus - the system is set to +25 and not a degree less, it turns off. And in hot weather, I would like at least a couple of degrees cooler.
The bathroom has shampoo, shower gel and soap. As well as bath towels and hand towels.
TV - several Russian channels, however, there is no time to watch them.
Our bed, however, was not a double bed, but two singles pushed together. Which moved very briskly on the floor - leaned on the back, and the bed went. Yes, and they parted among themselves... Not very convenient)) Although it is more convenient for the maid to clean up, since it was also clean under them.
Food - buffet and just unreal. Of all the hotels we visited, they fed here just “for slaughter”. Never seen such a selection of food anywhere. Several varieties of meat (grilled and so on) - pork, beef, veal, lamb, various sausages. Very tasty fish, a lot of different seafood. Different types of side dishes, salads. Very tasty pastry! Well, fruits - watermelons, melons, cherries, strawberries, oranges, bananas, etc. etc. Various jellies, soufflé s and something like that. Ice cream. And so it is for breakfast, lunch and dinner. True, coffee and tea are only for breakfast, then for money. A day later, champagne was given for breakfast (as they say - feel like an aristocrat! ). Thematic Friday dinners - Asia (there were rolls, seafood), East, etc.
Food was the main “disadvantage” of the hotel - upon arrival home, I had to go on a diet (there was not enough willpower to refuse at least something).

Registration - the girls are just a miracle, they always help in everything. Two Russian speakers - Natalia and Marina, many thanks to them, as well as to the rest of the Spanish-English speakers (everything can be explained on the fingers). For general questions - such as where and how to get there, where everything is - you can contact both Blaumar and Blaucel.
The rooms were cleaned every day. Towels were changed almost every day, but if you need it every day, you throw them in the bath, then they will definitely change them. The sheets were changed every three or four days.
True, three or two days before the departure, the maid relaxed - nothing changed, the floor was simply swept. Maybe because they didn't leave a tip? Although we had this in almost all hotels and countries. We are not in a complaint, there and so clean.
The waiters in the restaurants are polite, smart, some of them speak Russian. True, it is not always possible to catch them quickly due to the large influx of visitors, although the administration distributes the streams of the afflicted so that everyone does not burst at the same time.
Excursions are the same as those of the "officials", that of street agencies (of which there is nothing from the Russian-speaking ones). And the prices are the same, varying within 5€. There is a feeling of their mutual agreement, even the buses are the same, only the signs are changed from Pegasus to Tez and Natalie... It is much cheaper to travel by yourself, but in some places there is nothing to do without a guide. Or take in Spanish-English speakers in Barcelona.
In general, summing up, I recommend this hotel to everyone, especially families who prefer a quiet comfortable stay. Unless it is suitable for club lovers - there is nothing nearby where you could "break away". But here the whole Blanes is like that.
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