Castell Blanc Hotel Empuriabrava, Costa Brava

Advantages: Sun Sand Sea and sangria what more can you want
Disadvantages: holiday is never long enough

...Hotel Costa Brava, Tossa De Mar, Situated in the Spanish/ Catalonia region on the Costa Brava The three star Costa Brava hotel in Tossa de Mar is situated approximately 200 metres from the beach and 150 metres from the resort centre. Barcelona is only 48 miles away and easily accessible from the nearby train service, which runs approx every 20 minutes. Tossa itself is full of many small shop, bars, café's and restaurants, there is also a land train service, which runs about every 20 minutes, for a couple of Euros' it will take you all around resort, or jump of at its many stops, there is a large weekly market, for all your bargains and holiday trinkets. A very nice beach is close to, clean, well looked after and plenty of facilities including water sports, and snack bars, all of which is across the main road... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful beach, small town which hasn't been overdeveloped and still retains it's fishing village charm
Disadvantages: Only one road into resort which gets extremely busy during high season, town centre can be noisy late at night in high season

...L'Estartit started out as a small fishing village, located on the Costa Brava in the Gerona region of Catalunya. Today it is a great resort for the tourist, offering a wide range of accomodation, bars, restaurants and a wonderful beach, without ruining the atmosphere of a small seaside town. The town is located at the foot of a small mountain, known as the Rocamaura, and this gives the town a great deal of natural beauty from wherever in town you happen to be. The side of the mountain is covered in trees, with a rock peak: and there are villas located on it. You can walk up and have a stroll around the inhabited part of the mountain either by a huge flight of steps, or via a couple of roads just off the Santa Ana street, or by the road near Castell Montgri campsite. It's a good walk for a morning stroll if you're feeling energetic... Read review

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...The Costa Brava,unlike many coast resort areas,got its name "rugged coast" for a very good reason.It consists of a long series of rocky bays and cliffs broken by sandy beaches.Many of them are extremely picturesque.The little villages and fishing ports which most of them contain are as colourful as anyone could wish.The flat stretches of the bay of Playa de Pals are the only breaks in this otherwise endlessly rocky coastline. The Costa Brava consists mainly of towns and villages large and small,sometimes just containing two or three hotels and sometimes vast in extent.It was the Spanishness of the Costa Brava resorts that made them tremendously popular with thousand of British visitors who first began flocking there in the early 1950s. RESORTS WORTH EXPLORING: ************************ *Blanes:Blanes is the Costa Brava most... Read review

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