Advantages: Cheap, friendy staff, well located Disadvantages: Bit noisy, bathroom bit cramped
...We were looking for a cheap full board hotel as close as possible to the sea front and everything we came across turned out to have bad reviews - especially regarding the food. We only found a couple of very short comments about Caribe but one mentioned the food being 'reasonable'. We took the plunge anyway, and having now spent a week there we thought we'd better write a more detailed review.
First of all - location. The hotel was allegedly 100 metres from the sea. Bearing this is mind, and my wife having previously stayed at the Excelsior (which she would rate highly by the way, although at the moment there's heavy work going on there) which was on the front line and also described as being 100 metres from the beach, we were somewhat disappointed to find the hotel on the third line back. Still, it must have only been 300 metres...
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Advantages: One of the best examples of Catalan Modernism Disadvantages: Very expensive
...My husband has a job, which more often than not requires him to work on Christmas day and through most of the Christmas period. Whilst this is the perfect reason to turn down all invitations to spend Christmas with family, it's not the greatest way to celebrate the big day with a 14 hour shift. So last Christmas I decided that we'd have our very own Christmas but just a few days before the rest of the world. And so I booked a long weekend in Barcelona.
Our hotel - The Gallery (review already posted many moons ago) was just off the Passeig de Gracia, one of Barcelona's key boulevards where you can find my favourite of the buildings designed by Antonio Gaudi - the almost impossible to pronounce, Casa Batllo. Earlier in the year I had attended a big industry conference in Barcelona and we'd had the conference 'gala' dinner in the Casa...
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Advantages: Usually hot country, cheap to visit Disadvantages: Very poor standards nothing to do, poor food
...In September 2004, my husband and I went on holiday to Barcelo Naiboa Caribe Beach Resort on the south coast of Dominican Republic. The complex wasn't cracking, but it's the company that can make a holiday fun!
THE RESORT
We arrived at the hotel in the dark, after a 5 hour bus journey. The travel company told us it would be 2 ½ hrs. So, by the time we arrived we were pretty fed up. My first impressions of the organisation of the hotel "was chaos". 8 couples got of the rickety bus, to check in and it took the receptionist a further hour to get us all checked in. they'd lost registration details, couldn't find some keys (great security) and someone's luggage had gone missing between the airport and the hotel! Great start.
Next morning we got to look around. It's quite a basic hotel; but that didn't bother us. We both work in hotels...
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I went to the Caribe Hotel in May 2007 whit week. Tour operator was Thomas Cook. We stayed half board.
First impressions were that it was lovely. Very clean entrance and reception and helpful staff. We had 2 rooms next to each other. 2 adults 3... more
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