Ohtels Belvedere

“Not the best and not the worst”

Someone has given a review just recently and rated it 1 star! I would agree with alot of these comments but I find this hotel a pretty standard 3* hotel. The restaurant opens on an evening at 7pm (very late if you've got young kids imo), The food was basic....and I mean basic, but there was enough… more

Someone has given a review just recently and rated it 1 star! I would agree with alot of these comments but I find this hotel a pretty standard 3* hotel. The restaurant opens on an evening at 7pm (very late if you've got young kids imo), The food was basic....and I mean basic, but there was enough choice you wouldn't starve...and it was luke warm at best. The juice in the morning would always run out or run extremely low and staff didn't seem to want to replenish it. My main bugbear of the restaurant was the butter/margarine....it changed location every day so you had to hunt for it....why not keep it in one place?! The hotel is generally kept clean, cannot fault our cleaners at all, we had some mishaps with 2 young children and they were great. The rooms are small but again pretty standard and if you're organised you'll be fine, we had 2 kids, cot, buggy and 3 cases and we were fine. AC was off but it's standard this time of year. The entertainment for kids which was non-existent throughout the day and then on an evening didn't start till 9:15pm, which in my opinion is far too late for kids entertainment, this meant due to the age of our children they missed out all week. Due to the weather we didn't spend any time in the pool, but the sun loungers looked like they needed updating as they looked worn out. We also before arriving (as we do at every hotel) we put in a request for a quiet room due to having 2 toddlers, I know these cannot be guaranteed however, we ended up above the entertainment bar....so from the hours of 9:15pm and 11pm you're not sleeping (well I wasn't) On the plus side this hotel is only 15 mins walking distance to port adventura theme park and only 10 mins walk to the beach, so great location. Please note in my review we did come at the very end of October and towards the end of the season so things may be different at other times of the year.

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“Mixed bag”

We have recently stayed in this hotel and it was very much 50/50 in regards to how we found it. Positives - breakfast is fantastic, has a good selection of stations where eggs, omelettes and pancakes were all made fresh alongside a huge buffet of cereals, meats, cakes and hot foods. The buffet wa… more

We have recently stayed in this hotel and it was very much 50/50 in regards to how we found it. Positives - breakfast is fantastic, has a good selection of stations where eggs, omelettes and pancakes were all made fresh alongside a huge buffet of cereals, meats, cakes and hot foods. The buffet was that varied there were often tables around us loading up backpacks for picnics even though this wasn't allowed. One family got a fresh loaf of bread and made a sandwich from it to take out whilst also clearing out pastries, cakes, fruit etc I have never seen people be so brazen and take so much food. - the horror tunnel was brilliant - good location for walking into salou - pools were good and the rules in place were reasonable and likely help at times when it is busy. - the rooms as a base are okay - bar prices are reasonable Negatives - rooms were boiling as no air con which made them very uncomfortable, reasons for this varied from they were closing soon and Mediterranean customers were cold so they turned it off. We did manage to get a fan from the hotel but we were originally told the hotel didn't have them. Lots of inconsistencies around information relating to this and we were also told that as we are British and use to temperatures of below 10 degrees we felt the heat easier than others!! I asked for the manager to attend our room to feel the heat if the room but was told they wouldn't do that. - lunch and dinner buffet repetitive, there was always the same fresh pizza and fresh pasta. There was paella or risotto everyday. A grill which was veal everyday or fish which often was raw and not cooked long enough. The buffets were missing some cheese and cold cuts as this would have broken it up a bit. With the buffet others may have different views as people like different things. - the room floor wasn't being cleaned properly so often dirty, sheets were not changed on the bed for a week and the cleaner kept leaving the balcony door open. This is something to be mindful of if you have valuables in the room. - kids disco lacked effort compared to other hotels we've stayed. A screen was put up with figures dancing for the kids to copy. It isn't very interactive. My view is you get what you pay for and what we didn't like may not bother others as everyone wants and expects different things for their money.

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“Average”

Just returned from a trip to the Hotel Belvedere, The location of the hotel is brilliant, less than a mile walk from Portavenura, even closer to the resort centre and beach. The reception was decorated for Halloween and looked great. Hotel was clean but not overly welcoming. We arrived at 12 … more

Just returned from a trip to the Hotel Belvedere, The location of the hotel is brilliant, less than a mile walk from Portavenura, even closer to the resort centre and beach. The reception was decorated for Halloween and looked great. Hotel was clean but not overly welcoming. We arrived at 12 noon to be told the room wouldn’t be ready until 2pm, so 2 hours sat around waiting in the lounge, we were given a drinks token each for while we waited. Checkout is 10am. Reception staff were efficient without being friendly, and some of the restaurant staff were just rude and ignorant however, the bar staff and Maitre’d were the exception and were good. Rooms were quite small with very limited storage space, so literally lived out of a suitcase. The bathroom door was a sliding door with quite a large gap between the door and the wall, so while using the toilet you were visible through the gap, so no real privacy. The rooms were cleaned and towels changed daily so no complaints there. Due to the weather we didn’t use the pool but it looked a decent size/clean and plenty of loungers. Food was average at best, not a great choice/repetitive and the chicken certainly didn’t look appealing to the point we actually ate out a few times.

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