Aparthotel Almonsa Platja

Service Quality: Staff are generally friendly, helpful, and efficient during check-in. The key code system eliminates the need for physical keys, and some guests noted multilingual support (English, French, Spanish) at reception.

*The Pros* This was probably the nicest room we've ever stayed in for a budget hotel. We were in a two bedroom apartment and it was very modern and clean with lots of space. We were impressed with a full four seater table and chairs on the large balcony in addition to the four seater dining table. Plenty of room in the kitchen area as well, a decent sized shower, comfy beds, spare bed linen/blankets/quilts, and a large smart TV in the seating area (so you can log into your Netflix or other services if you like). Check-in was smooth and the staff were very friendly and helpful. The rooms also use a key code, so no physical keys or key cards needed (meaning nothing to hand back when it comes to check-out time as well) The location of the hotel is fantastic. Step outside the door and there's the recycling bins a couple of hundred meters away on either side the road for you to put your rubbish in and then the beaches are a five minute walk away. There's also a small shop opposite the hotel entrance for your basics, or the proper supermarkets (Spa and Michaelangelo chains) a short walk away in the town for your meat/veg/dairy/bread etc. Only used the pool once but nice and deep and no shortage of loungers *The Cons* Unfortunately it could often get noisy overnight and in the mornings, probably from other guests coming back drunk and then slamming doors shut, yelling in the stairwells or putting music on loud. This is largely to be expected as it is a budget hotel in Salou after all, and it's really just down to pot luck if you have an considerate guest staying near to your room or someone who 'can't handle their ale'. We spoke to reception about it on one occasion and in fairness to the hotel they gave a number we could call to speak to security if any guests are making a stupid amount of noise after 3am (i.e. having a loud party) and they'll go and tell them to quieten it down. My advice would be to just take some earplugs with you if you're not a very heavy sleeper to take the edge of any noise, and don't go expecting complete silence like you're in a monastery. I would say it may have been noisier as the week we were there was St Jorge's Day and also Barca won the Copa del Rey, so probably more merriment than usual. I would also recommend that you don't pay for an airport coach transfer to the hotel if you're flying into Reus, simply because you won't actually get one! The roads are too narrow to get a coach down so you will be dropped off at another hotel (the 'Salou Park II') and have to make your own way to the Rentalmar. It's about a ten minute walk which you probably don't want to be doing while lugging your heavy suitcases along and trying to see on Google Maps where to go, and the drop-off/pick-up point is up a hill. Reus airport is only about a fifteen minute drive away, so take a taxi to get dropped off at the hotel entrance which would likely be cheaper than the coach transfer (and considerably quicker) anyway. *The Neighbour

The smell in the apartment was sickening and disgusting,I mean really really bad,they sent a guy with some spray which sorted it for about an hour,it stunk out the whole apartment.We had a two bed apartment and the second room was attached to the elevator shaft which made a heavy machine noise all night long,this room was unsleepable.They don't care about noise rules there,we had people beside us playing very loud music through paper thin walls until 3 or 4 in the morning.Im back three days now and no word back from them about a 300 euro deposit which I've heard we will be very lucky to get back.AVOID,AVOID,AVOID