Palas Pineda

Nice resort. Lots of activites for everyone. Close to beach and shopping. Ver safe area. We stayed here before going to Port Aventura.

Stayed here in April quick 4 day getaway . Start with the positives . Lovely clean area . Fantastic beaches , Hotel. Really clean , excellent bedrooms. Nice bathroom couldn't have wished for more .lucky enough to get a sea view ,pool view,entertainment area view on my balcony, which was a bonus. There was no sunbed dash in the morning . Every day after breakfast we went for a walk a long sea front come back got towels went to pool. Picked a sunbed up easily, no stupid 8am sunbed dash . Was able to store bags in luggage & use shower room on checkout day so we could continue to enjoy the hotel . Drinks with evening meal a nice touch & went down well . Bottomless Beer,Wine,Soft drinks . 😃 Negatives - Downside to that is the daytime activity programme. Whoever does the sound check on the microphones must be deaf because the volume levels are excruciating throughout the day especially when you pop to your room late afternoon to relax & get ready for dinner, etc . The reception staff can speak English but the bar & kitchen staff can only speak French or Spanish so practice your language skills before you go you will need them . To top it all off, I don't know if it was a French holiday week, but the hotel was definitely 95% full of arrogant French. Won't let you pass with a dinner plate or press a button on the coffee machine without invading your personal space ,never come across a race of people with such ignorant behaviour in a dining room . The canteen team at breakfast could be a bit smarter . The queue at the coffee machines was permanently at least 6 people deep. On every machine. Lots of hotels now pass out filter coffee pots on arrival at breakfast. This would save people dodging in & out of everyone trying not to have an accident. At the same time, because everyone is waiting forever for a coffee breakfast now lasts at least an hour were usually it's a 30 min breakfast, so the foot traffic would be less if they handed out coffee pots on arrival . People would be in & out the dining room in no time . Dinner was another animal with a massive queue to get in if you go between 19.00-21.00 . We started to go around 9pm as it wasn't the best experience to wait in line for a table . Food like most hotels can be hit & miss but every thing was cooked well . Dissapointed I never got a pealla dish on the menu for the whole time I was there . Overall experience on this hotel was very good ,

This is my 7th visit to Palas Pineda since 2019. It always provides great value and simple but clean accommodation. Staff every time have been polite, rooms have always been clean and there is great wifi , many plug sockets, mini fridge and comfortable bedding. This hotel offers above average value for money. Oh my latest visit I noticed a few disappointing changes. Firstly they no longer offer kettles to rent for €10 returnable deposit (not good enough for a four star hotel) - Irish and English guests expect this facility as a very basic requirement. Secondly, at breakfast buffet they used to provide paper cups for guests who wish to have a coffee and cigarette outside, this facility has been replaced by an angry Spanish woman running after guests taking cups outside - this is a silly and unnecessary way to annoy paying customers. Please allow your guests to enjoy basic facilities, if the only outdoor area in the restaurant is marked "no smoking", then don't have a tantrum when guests bring their cup of coffee outside to another area. I will return but I will bring my kettle.

Lovely place to stay near the beach! Lots of family activities and entertainment. The facilities seemed great.

My worst experience in a hotel ever....I stay with my wife for a week and we ruined our vocations by choosing this hotel...4 stars hotel???no way...we couldnt sleep because the walls was no soundproof we could take part in conversations of next rooms residents...the beds was very uncomfortable..2 smaller than single beds bri g them together and make them one...horrible...the decoration of the room is from 80s the fernitures very old...the food was nothing special every day almost the same and some of them was from previous days..

Safe in room unusable, no lock. Refrigerator in room not working and dirty. Lounge chairs around pool unavailable unless you come early and reserve your spot. Very crowed. Late eating times in restaurant. No english channels on TV. Long waiting at front desk for check in, only one person was available.

Very disappointed. This is definitely not a 4 star hotel. We stayed in the apar**ent. Soon as we entered the apar**ent we noticed massive stains on the couch god knows what it was. My misses had to wipe the floors as they were dusty. The fridge was full of rust. I have personally never known a 4 star hotel let alone apar**ent that doesnt provide a kettle. The rooms were very dated & bed not comfortable. There was a leak in the bathroom ceiling. Buffet options were very limited & the same stuff every day. We ended up eating out most meals even though we paid full board. Kids entertainment was ok if you were lucky enough to find a spot that wasnt fogged out with cigarette smoke. This hotel stay wasnt cheap but i wanted to treat my family , unfortunately I didnt get my moneys worth. The staff were quite accommodating the location was next to nice beach, shops and walking distance to the waterpark but the hotel itself I will not be returning.

Part of why we did not enjoy this holiday was not the hotel’s fault. Pineda is a town that permanently STINKS of sewage. The stench ranges from suspecting the townsfolk of having a secret egg-boiling and peeling fetish to downright medieval. It is also industrial. There is blue sea, but the entire sun-sparkling horizon is taken up with hundreds of factories and cargo ships. Very urban with hotels and apar**ent buildings everywhere. The sea front is lined with the cheapest and tackiest shops possible. No charm to be found anywhere unless cigarette butts and dog poo everywhere is your thing. The hotel: food on the whole ok. It turned out our booking included full board but no drinks as we had thought (except in the restaurant). The more expensive all inclusive option is not worth paying 10€/day/person for (adults and children included) as the only palatable alcohol was the lager. The wine and cocktails were undrinkable. The fruit was never ripe enough to eat so it looked like a good selection but wasn’t. Table service terrible. If you choose to eat at the outside tables, no one will ever give you cutlery or serviettes. Good luck finding spoons or bowls; when they’re gone they’re gone. You can only have a lager if someone serves you but there is not always someone to serve. Glasses often dirty. No trays so you can’t get food and a drink at the same time meaning you constantly have to get up and you will never eat with everyone in your group at the table. Breakfast coffee you have to get yourself. Fruit « juice » is coloured sugared water and disgusting. The room cards constantly stopped working so we’d go to our rooms on the 3rd floor only to have to go down to reception again to get the card fixed. At least once per day per room. The hotel carpark is an extra 15€/day. Too small for cars made after 1970 and so pretty stressful to get in and out. You must be very good at 56-point turns in the dark. Add to that the carpark card that also stops working so you have to go all the way back to reception to the unapologetic staff who shrug and watch you walk another 5 minutes back to your car to re-attempt leaving. The VIP pool area is quite nice if you ignore the fact you’re surrounded by apar**ent blocks, but no one bothers to clean the pool properly so everything is a bit grubby. The main pool area forbids guests to reserve pool loungers but everyone does anyway so if you get to the pool after 11:30am you won’t get a lounger until about 7pm. The Spanish and French go for lunch and long afternoon naps but leave all their belongings on the loungers and the pool staff don’t care. Our two 12 year olds liked the pool games that were organised in the mornings and afternoons. There are pool tables (2€/game) & ping pong tables but having said that, there’s loads more for kids at any camp site we’ve ever been to. The evening entertainment is either in Spanish or French and one show in particular was totally inappropriate for children, with a 50 shades