Advantages: Sunny, cheap, plenty to do and lovely country Disadvantages: Railways and Yobs
This is the second time I have been to the CostaDorada region, the first time was 10 years ago by coach - what a journey- never again I told myself, 36 hours of hell - but now you can fly.
Right which hotel -Hotel Cambrils Princess. I had seen this hotel the last time I went and thought what a lovely hotel it looked but it must be very expensive - it is 4 Stars. I knew that Thompsons used it so I looked in their brochure and found it - only wanted a week to recharge the batteries - right lets add it up £ 10 each so we can sit together - another £ 10 each for a meal on the plane - ah ! the coach is free but it stops at every hotel in Salou before it gets to us. Hmmm ! The total cost in the brochure was £ 936 for a week for 2 people but hang on ! .......if I book on the web I get £ 100 discount - £ 836 for 1 week - halfboard. Ah well I ...
Advantages: Award Winning Beaches, plenty of attractions. Disadvantages: None that I have found.
, just a few hiccups especialy with roundabouts but we made it and headed off down the road to historic Tarragona and its port then on to La Pineda. One thing worth mentioning is that they have no road tax it is all done with toll gates the price of which was 2.80 Euro's, so have some change at the ready.
La Pineda is situated on the CostaDorada not far from Salou but the distance makes all the difference, it was getting to the end of the season and so things were slowing down and it was not the hectic tourist resort I expected. The other thing was it was comical to see the locals all wrapped up in thier winter woolies while we wandered around in short sleeves, night time required a cardigan but no more for us.
The apartments we were staying in were right over the beach and that for me made the holiday, the mediteranean was ...
