Mònica Hotel

“A Great Hotel”

Chose this hotel as never been to this area before and what a find, minutes from Beach, Promenade, Shops, Bus stops, restaurants and bars. also a small supermarket opposite for essentials. Chose a Superior room with garden view which was well worth it, Spacious bedroom, plenty of storage, and s… more

Chose this hotel as never been to this area before and what a find, minutes from Beach, Promenade, Shops, Bus stops, restaurants and bars. also a small supermarket opposite for essentials. Chose a Superior room with garden view which was well worth it, Spacious bedroom, plenty of storage, and spotlessly clean, nice balcony and super efficient air conditioning. on arrival we were greeted and made to feel very welcome by a young lad behind reception with good English, we ate every meal outside on the terrace and greeted at restaurant door by Mbaye who always had a smile and always spoke to greet us . Great selection of food for breakfast both hot and cold and food cooked to order every morning . also good selection of breads, cakes and pastries. Evening meal again a good selection of Hot and Cold food and good display of cold meats and cheeses. on a Thursday was seafood night well that was a WOW as we love our fish . another night was BBQ night with Spanish sausages etc etc. The staff in restaurant particulary Fatouma, Delores and Antonio plus others we didnt get names of were always very friendly, smiley and attentive . The Bar area was manned by Santos and another lady were super efficient and again both so friendly, we noted that Santos liked everything ( chairs and sunbeds ) neat and tidy. All in all a great find and good to get away from usual hotel type british style food , food was delicious and different. would recommend this hotel if you have never been and would like something for a change and different.

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“Lovely stay in this family run hotel!!”

My friend & I enjoyed our week at the Monica Hotel very much. Our room was very spacious and spotlessly clean with comfortable beds. Small balcony but lovely view over the pool and pretty garden. We thought the food selection & quality was exceptional for a small hotel - couldn't fault it, spoilt … more

My friend & I enjoyed our week at the Monica Hotel very much. Our room was very spacious and spotlessly clean with comfortable beds. Small balcony but lovely view over the pool and pretty garden. We thought the food selection & quality was exceptional for a small hotel - couldn't fault it, spoilt for choice every time! Great lunch time bar menu too, very good value. Santos was a great character - running the bar from 4pm. All the staff were super and really seemed to appreciate my limited spanish! The hotel location was great, literally 1 minute from the sea front! We were blessed with clear blue skies & sunshine every day and enjoyed strolling along the long promenades & browsing the many shops. We visited Park Sama on the land train, went to the old town of Cambrils & had a day in Tarragona which was well worth seeing. We had a lovely holiday & would thoroughly recommend this hotel.

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“Late summer holiday”

The hotel was spotless, fantastic location close to everything including the beach. We only ate one meal at the Hotel and it was OK but there were so many great restaurants close by. Staff generally were very helpful especially bar staff and cleaners. The pool area was beautiful but the mosquito… more

The hotel was spotless, fantastic location close to everything including the beach. We only ate one meal at the Hotel and it was OK but there were so many great restaurants close by. Staff generally were very helpful especially bar staff and cleaners. The pool area was beautiful but the mosquitoes were vicious and you need spray on all day not just late afternoon onwards. Our room was lovely with everything we needed.

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“Disappointing stay”

This is a 4*plus Spanish hotel, so expectations were high. Unfortunately, we were disappointed, particularly with the restaurant and pool area. The room, the best bit, whilst very plain in terms of decor, was a good size, kept very clean every day by the friendly housekeeping lady, and the bed wa… more

This is a 4*plus Spanish hotel, so expectations were high. Unfortunately, we were disappointed, particularly with the restaurant and pool area. The room, the best bit, whilst very plain in terms of decor, was a good size, kept very clean every day by the friendly housekeeping lady, and the bed was comfortable. The storage was adequate. Towels were thick and mostly new looking, very nice walk in shower, effective air conditioning, plenty of power sockets and a big full sized mirror. We had chosen a superior room with a pool view which, from speaking to other guests, was very lucky, since they said their view was dire. The rather small outside terrace and pool area looks nice with its gorgeous palm trees, but it needs renovation; the terrace tiles are worn; in some places at the pool’s concrete edge, there were black/green areas that looked dirty and slimy, especially when wet. Sun beds were stained. The area surrounding the pool is grass - it was sparse in places and walking back from the pool to the sunbed resulted in feet caked in bits of grass and dirt. Sun beds were always available however. Restaurant: plates for hot food were frequently cold, some of the hot food was luke warm. First breakfast - small round pancakes were cold, the top one put on my plate had a hair on it. I had to ask for teaspoons upon which the staff member took 2 dirty ones off a used plate and took them away to wash and return them to me. Cereal had to be eaten with a serving spoon. Sometimes there were no cereal bowls, sometimes no juice glasses. Breakfast mats are made of woven design and are just wiped over between guests meaning any minute bits of food will be forced between the weaves - not hygienic. It was difficult to find a plate/cup etc. that was not chipped. A good selection of different breads was always available but only paper napkins were put out to hold over the bread while cutting, and these rapidly became torn and ineffective. Not enough tongs were put out, resulting in guests using the same tongs for several different foods. One evening, the only meat offering was thin strips of chicken. Everything else entirely was fish and shellfish. We are not fish eaters. We opted for chicken which was cooked to order. As ours finished cooking, another guest also ordered chicken and the chef picked up raw strips for her and then immediately served our cooked chicken with the same tongs. Restaurant staff were unsmiling and looked pretty miserable all the time - no interaction with guests with the exception of Mbaye who was cheerful (in spite of the very long hours he was there). Public areas inside - nicely done with lots of marble, and kept very clean, but there was no comfortable seating, and the toilet facility was for both men and women i.e. no separate facilities. Entertainment was a singer every few nights. Cambrils is a very nice resort, wide pavements, many benches, many trees, full of restaurants and shops (many clothes and shoe shops). Strangely, at night, it was almost impossible to find anywhere playing music but it does seem to be very residential which may be the reason. The beach is wide and sandy, and shelves gently into the sea, which unfortunately, was full of bits of seaweed. 2 sun beds and a parasol cost E20 - most people sat on the sand. We walked to the old town but there wasn’t much to see there apart from a nice square with a very nice cafe/restaurant, and further in, a church in front of which an elderly lady sat making lace. She kindly allowed me to watch - amazingly complicated work! We went on Jet2’s guided tour to Barcelona - the guide, Angelina, did such a fantastic job of guiding us round and imparting so much information at every point, that we abandoned our thoughts of taking ourselves to Tarragona and booked ourselves on that guided tour as well. We would definitely recommend a guided tour - we saw so many things and learned so much that we wouldn’t have done otherwise. Both trips were very enjoyable. But … would we return … no we wouldn’t.

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