Situated just 200 metres from the beach and 500 metres from the centre of Blanes, Hotel ... more
Esplendid is a modern building built around an outdoor swimming pool. The 397 air conditioned guestrooms are decorated in neutral tones, with dark wood furnishings ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Situated just 200 metres from the beach and 500 metres from the centre of Blanes, Hotel ... more
Esplendid is a modern building built around an outdoor swimming pool. The 397 air conditioned guestrooms are decorated in neutral tones, with dark wood furnishings ...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: MENORCA A LOVELY PLACE TO VISIT Disadvantages: HOTEL A LITTLE DISSAPOINTING
Having viewed this site prior to booking our holiday I decided that there's only one way really to find out, and that's to go!! Everyone's tastes and standards are different so read reviews but ultimately what is fantastic for one family may be a disappointment for another.
Hotel;
Very clean however VERY basic bedrooms, ours had a prison type metal bunk bed at the foot of two singles put together, reminisant from a scene of Porridge!!!!
The whole hotel has either tiled or marble floors which was VERY noisy,even a fairy in slippers would have sounded like a herd of buffalo stampeding across the Sarangeti !! Had the rooms had carpets then this would of deadened some of the noise. Unfortunately our room was next to the stairwell so we heard all and sundry coming and going, and to add insult we overlooked the tarmac carpark rather ...
Advantages: Hot hot hot cheap cheap cheap Disadvantages: Touristy
Waht a superb holiday I had here. I went to Spain in April 1987 with my School on a weeks trip to the costa Brava. Its one of my favourite holidays to this date. I dont remember much about the town but I do remember that there were rocks at one end of the beach and a Tower/castle thing on it. Its ony about an hours drive from Barcalona where we had a great day out. Looked around the fort there. Lovely market too where you can buy your sombrero, donkey or castanettes!!!
Did you know that castanettes comes from the Spanish word for Chestnuts??? There is a great aqua park in Blanes for you out there that are more adventurous. You can have a complete spanish holiday with out a go on the kamikaze death slides!!! ...
Advantages: Lovely unspoilt beach, lots to do, champagne sangria! Disadvantages: Noise at night, building sites in the new developments
I have recently come back from Blanes in the Costa Brava. It's quite a commercial town with loads of great shops (avoid the pet shops if you're an animal lover). If you look hard enough, a few streets back from the main beach road, you will find the old town. It's awash with lovely old houses and chapels with glimpses of the wall that surrounds the main church up on the hill.
You have to look hard to find any typical Spanish restaurants but there are a few if you head down to the harbour and look in the backstreets. Not everyone speaks English and the menu can be hard to understand but all the food was wonderfull.
The beach is very clean and long, while the sea is great - very good waves tomess about in. The beach does shelve quite steeply so watch yourself in the sea!
I'd definitely recommend a trip to Barcelona and Figueres to ...
