The hotel is located in the town of Calafell, about 50 km from Barcelona, the town is quiet, without parties and discos, a lot of pensioners and families with children. Nightlife lovers are better off in Salou or Lloret de Mar. I must say right away that the main advantage of the hotel is its location on the first line, within a minute's reach from the sea.
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The hotel is located in the town of Calafell, about 50 km from Barcelona, the town is quiet, without parties and discos, a lot of pensioners and families with children. Nightlife lovers are better off in Salou or Lloret de Mar.
I must say right away that the main advantage of the hotel is its location on the first line, within a minute's reach from the sea. We did not choose the hotel for a long time, we went on a burning tour - but since we did not plan to sit in the hotel for a long time, we did not pay much attention to this.
Our balcony overlooked the railway, but this did not interfere in any way, even though it was about 200m away and the trains go every 15 minutes, there is practically no noise, but there is no sun in the room for almost the whole day. On June 22, summer officially begins in Spain, and it will be very noticeable. The second plus is that the balcony does not overlook the embankment, along which in the evening the traffic is like in the center of a big city, quiet and calm. The rooms are cleaned almost every day (we were not cleaned only once).
I did not watch the change of towels on purpose, it seems that they changed only once in a week. There is no hair dryer in the room, Wi-Fi too, whether there is in the lobby - I did not check. You can’t take towels from your room to the beach, so it’s better to take something with you for these purposes (save on a sunbed at the same time). Across the road (at 20m) there is a mini market, you can buy water and something to eat if you suddenly want to. Speaking of food at the hotel - quite decent. Breakfast is more monotonous, dinner is more cheerful. There are always fruits (watermelon, melon, pineapples, apples, oranges), ice cream - I don’t remember, there are pastries, but only a couple of types. There are always 2-3 types of meat to choose from, fish, sometimes there were shrimp, once they cooked fried octopuses (tentacles). That is, you definitely won’t stay hungry, but the choice is more modest than in Turkey or Egypt. The biggest minus is to find a place, because there were only 2 or 3 waiters in the whole room, so they take a long time to clean the tables.
Breakfast at the hotel from 8 to 10, dinner from 20 to 22, so come either at the opening or 30-45 minutes before closing (but you can already adjust this locally). If you are going to go on an excursion for the whole day, order a “picnic” at the reception in advance (until 18-00) the next day (the hotel guide will tell you in detail about this). Nastya works at the reception, so you shouldn't have any big problems with communication. We went on the HB system (breakfast and dinner) and we had enough. If you suddenly get hungry - there are a lot of places on the embankment where you can drink coffee and have a snack. Personally, I liked the Chinese institution - also a buffet system - you take a plate and eat until you fall : ) That is, no matter how much you eat, the price is the same - 9.90 per adult, drinks are considered separately.
The beach is very wide and clean, sandy. The sea is also clean, the bottom is very flat, also sandy. The sea is still a bit cool, but after a few minutes you get used to it and everything is in order.
On excursions: The first thing you need to do is to find a local travel agency in Calafell and take all the maps, train schedules for all cities in the area (this is Calafell itself, Barcelona, Tarragona). Exit the hotel to the embankment, turn right (if you are facing the sea) and go to the monument to the fisherman and the next street to the right leads to the travel agency - this is a large building with a glass showcase).
To Barcelona. Montserrat and Taragona can be easily reached on your own by train.
Barcelona - I think you will need at least two days. Round trip by train costs about 10 euros per adult. A tourist bus runs around Barcelona on several routes, a ticket for one day costs 26 euros, while you ride it, you can get off near the place you are interested in, take a walk there, take the next bus stop and go further, changing from route to route .
It seems that you can buy a ticket for an electric train and this bus together in Calafell, and all this pleasure will cost 27 euros (that is, 10 euros cheaper).
We walked, I can describe my routes separately, if someone needs it. But the city itself is very beautiful, and to go there, who has not been - it's like "Our Father".
We went to Montserrat on our own, since the tour from the tour operator had already been sold, the next one was after our departure. But in principle, nothing complicated - you get by train to the Barcelona Sants station, go upstairs and along the street. Tarragona to Plaza de Españ a (Playa Espana), at the entrance to the square go around it counterclockwise and near the pedestrian crossing (I don’t remember the second or third in a row) you see an elevator with the inscription Montserrat. Go down and get to the station. There you buy a round-trip ticket + lifts and funicular (included in the price and audio-visual mini-tour).
You need the R5 train, just in case, check if the train goes to Montserrat. Get on the train, and go to the Montserrat Monastery station, get off there, go to the exit and immediately transfer to the tram (green), which will take you up the mountain. They also go downstairs, you can take the schedule of trains to Montserrat and back immediately at the Plaza de Españ a at the box office. All this pleasure will cost you about 38 euros per person (10 - travel from Calafell to Barcelona and back + 27.5 - a full ticket that you buy on Plaza de Españ a). With our operator, the cost of such a ticket was 45 euros, so it remains for a bite to eat.
By the way, you can combine two pleasures in one day - return from Montserrat to Plaza de Españ a and stay there for the singing fountain show (starts at approximately 21-30, and the last train to Calafell leaves at 22-59, but you will need to get to Sants station 30 -35 minutes, plus find out which platform your train comes from. It is advisable not to be late, as a taxi from Barcelona will cost you 200-300 euros.
You can also get to Tarragona on your own, this is the first Roman settlement in the Iberian Peninsula, there are the remains of an amphitheater, other ruins - the ticket price is 7.60 euros per person round trip by train. There is one caveat - there is no direct train from Calafell to Tarragona, you need to get to the final St. Vincent and from there already take a ticket and go to Tarragona, and back in the same way. Since St. Vincent is a large interchange station, when boarding, check if the train you want to take goes there.
In Spanish, "Before Tarragona? (Calafell, etc. ) sounds" Ba and Tarragona? (Calafell, etc. ) "By the way, the railway cannot boast of punctual schedules, so don't let that scare or surprise you.
A shopping excursion to Andorra is more for an excursion, despite the duty-free trade, there are no cheap things there, but if someone is looking for branded things, there are a lot of them, but I don’t understand the prices for them. Drinking is cheaper even than in duty-free, but from Andorra you can bring only 1.5 liters of spirits or 4 liters of wine to Spain (but not both). But the excursion itself costs about 35 euros per person, so consider for yourself.
We didn’t go to Aventura Park, the hotel guide sells only entrance tickets (so as not to stand in line at the entrance), but you need to go there on your own, and no one has canceled the queues for the rides themselves.
I must say right away that the main advantage of the hotel is its location on the first line, within a minute's reach from the sea. We did not choose the hotel for a long time, we went on a burning tour - but since we did not plan to sit in the hotel for a long time, we did not pay much attention to this.
Our balcony overlooked the railway, but this did not interfere in any way, even though it was about 200m away and the trains go every 15 minutes, there is practically no noise, but there is no sun in the room for almost the whole day. On June 22, summer officially begins in Spain, and it will be very noticeable. The second plus is that the balcony does not overlook the embankment, along which in the evening the traffic is like in the center of a big city, quiet and calm. The rooms are cleaned almost every day (we were not cleaned only once).
I did not watch the change of towels on purpose, it seems that they changed only once in a week. There is no hair dryer in the room, Wi-Fi too, whether there is in the lobby - I did not check. You can’t take towels from your room to the beach, so it’s better to take something with you for these purposes (save on a sunbed at the same time). Across the road (at 20m) there is a mini market, you can buy water and something to eat if you suddenly want to. Speaking of food at the hotel - quite decent. Breakfast is more monotonous, dinner is more cheerful. There are always fruits (watermelon, melon, pineapples, apples, oranges), ice cream - I don’t remember, there are pastries, but only a couple of types. There are always 2-3 types of meat to choose from, fish, sometimes there were shrimp, once they cooked fried octopuses (tentacles). That is, you definitely won’t stay hungry, but the choice is more modest than in Turkey or Egypt. The biggest minus is to find a place, because there were only 2 or 3 waiters in the whole room, so they take a long time to clean the tables.
Breakfast at the hotel from 8 to 10, dinner from 20 to 22, so come either at the opening or 30-45 minutes before closing (but you can already adjust this locally). If you are going to go on an excursion for the whole day, order a “picnic” at the reception in advance (until 18-00) the next day (the hotel guide will tell you in detail about this). Nastya works at the reception, so you shouldn't have any big problems with communication. We went on the HB system (breakfast and dinner) and we had enough. If you suddenly get hungry - there are a lot of places on the embankment where you can drink coffee and have a snack. Personally, I liked the Chinese institution - also a buffet system - you take a plate and eat until you fall : ) That is, no matter how much you eat, the price is the same - 9.90 per adult, drinks are considered separately.
The beach is very wide and clean, sandy. The sea is also clean, the bottom is very flat, also sandy. The sea is still a bit cool, but after a few minutes you get used to it and everything is in order.
On excursions: The first thing you need to do is to find a local travel agency in Calafell and take all the maps, train schedules for all cities in the area (this is Calafell itself, Barcelona, Tarragona). Exit the hotel to the embankment, turn right (if you are facing the sea) and go to the monument to the fisherman and the next street to the right leads to the travel agency - this is a large building with a glass showcase).
To Barcelona. Montserrat and Taragona can be easily reached on your own by train.
Barcelona - I think you will need at least two days. Round trip by train costs about 10 euros per adult. A tourist bus runs around Barcelona on several routes, a ticket for one day costs 26 euros, while you ride it, you can get off near the place you are interested in, take a walk there, take the next bus stop and go further, changing from route to route .
It seems that you can buy a ticket for an electric train and this bus together in Calafell, and all this pleasure will cost 27 euros (that is, 10 euros cheaper).
We walked, I can describe my routes separately, if someone needs it. But the city itself is very beautiful, and to go there, who has not been - it's like "Our Father".
We went to Montserrat on our own, since the tour from the tour operator had already been sold, the next one was after our departure. But in principle, nothing complicated - you get by train to the Barcelona Sants station, go upstairs and along the street. Tarragona to Plaza de Españ a (Playa Espana), at the entrance to the square go around it counterclockwise and near the pedestrian crossing (I don’t remember the second or third in a row) you see an elevator with the inscription Montserrat. Go down and get to the station. There you buy a round-trip ticket + lifts and funicular (included in the price and audio-visual mini-tour).
You need the R5 train, just in case, check if the train goes to Montserrat. Get on the train, and go to the Montserrat Monastery station, get off there, go to the exit and immediately transfer to the tram (green), which will take you up the mountain. They also go downstairs, you can take the schedule of trains to Montserrat and back immediately at the Plaza de Españ a at the box office. All this pleasure will cost you about 38 euros per person (10 - travel from Calafell to Barcelona and back + 27.5 - a full ticket that you buy on Plaza de Españ a). With our operator, the cost of such a ticket was 45 euros, so it remains for a bite to eat.
By the way, you can combine two pleasures in one day - return from Montserrat to Plaza de Españ a and stay there for the singing fountain show (starts at approximately 21-30, and the last train to Calafell leaves at 22-59, but you will need to get to Sants station 30 -35 minutes, plus find out which platform your train comes from. It is advisable not to be late, as a taxi from Barcelona will cost you 200-300 euros.
You can also get to Tarragona on your own, this is the first Roman settlement in the Iberian Peninsula, there are the remains of an amphitheater, other ruins - the ticket price is 7.60 euros per person round trip by train. There is one caveat - there is no direct train from Calafell to Tarragona, you need to get to the final St. Vincent and from there already take a ticket and go to Tarragona, and back in the same way. Since St. Vincent is a large interchange station, when boarding, check if the train you want to take goes there.
In Spanish, "Before Tarragona? (Calafell, etc. ) sounds" Ba and Tarragona? (Calafell, etc. ) "By the way, the railway cannot boast of punctual schedules, so don't let that scare or surprise you.
A shopping excursion to Andorra is more for an excursion, despite the duty-free trade, there are no cheap things there, but if someone is looking for branded things, there are a lot of them, but I don’t understand the prices for them. Drinking is cheaper even than in duty-free, but from Andorra you can bring only 1.5 liters of spirits or 4 liters of wine to Spain (but not both). But the excursion itself costs about 35 euros per person, so consider for yourself.
We didn’t go to Aventura Park, the hotel guide sells only entrance tickets (so as not to stand in line at the entrance), but you need to go there on your own, and no one has canceled the queues for the rides themselves.
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