Ola Aparthotel Cecilia

4 readers found this review helpful

dont worry about the reviews written about this hotel, just returned from a very enjoyable week there.You get what you pay for. You can't expect to pay three star price's and get five star.The foods fine, and you can eat in the morning between 8am+1.30pm. so you don't need to get up early.sun beds around the pool always available, so no need to be up at 6 with your towels.The fun team Rhyan,jenny+charlott are great, really friendly. And the hotel staff are also helpful and always ready for a chat, eventhough they are over worked. Always the same staff on morning, noon and night. Lovely beach too just across the road.Also no problem with the shuttle bus, as others have reported.No hesitation in returning here again.

1 reader found this review helpful

very nice room, lovley resort, you get what you pay for,would recomend,

1 reader found this review helpful

never again. needs urgent updating. no electric kettle, no heating,freezing cold in all rooms. so cold all your clothes were damp when you put them on.not even a microwave oven, t.v. has only got sky news or bbc world news. had more channels than that in the 60s.you might as well stay in a tent. the cockrell wakes you up EVERY morning. ola wakey wakey. ola colditz.was booked in to ola isabel, on arrival the isobel was SHUT. we were not imformed about this prior to our departure.if you have chest or heart problems its not the place to go. downhill to get out heart attack hill to get back...if you make it. ola hellll...............

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I was very worried after reading reviews about porto colom but was glad they were all wrong, porto colom is a beautyful place, the beach is tidy and the resturants are all delicious and very reasonably priced, if you want a good night out you can get a taxi into cala d'or although some bars do open untill 6am in portocolom. me and my boyfriend stayed in a studio apartment which was above a spar, we couldnt sleep at night because there was a generator under us that ran all night, although all the other apartments seemed fine we just got short handed. reception are very friendly apartments were clean and no cockroaches i didnt see 1 the whole holiday. weather was beautyful even though we went at the end of may start june. id def go back.

On arrival we were given a key to room across the road. Appauling room, smelt disgusting with overpowering plugins making the smell worse! We asked for a cot which was not in room! We asked to be moved to which we were told by an unpleasant staff member it would be extra 12e per day! We didnt change but to our huge disappointment a female couple were upgraded a couple of days later at no extra charge. I feel the decision was so unfair as we have a two year old girl (priorities!) Nothing in this small place, run down, ants everywhere. Staff disheartened. We travelled to cala dor most days to get away from it. I would not recommend this holiday to anybody. We kept our apt clean with bleach etc. therefore we had no ants but no thanks to ola ! Hated this holiday. The beach that everybody says is nice is okay. Its small with hardly any room on it in the afternoon. Very expensive place. Staff were unpleasant and were doing just what was told of them. They were robots. I will never be here again. The thing that most annoyed me is the female couple geting upgraded to a better room for nothing and yet we have a two year old and when we asked they wanted 12euro a day!! How on earth would they want us to return after this unbalanced decision. Dont ever go its fawlty towers honestly

3 readers found this review helpful

My mother and I stayed in The Ola Cecillia the last week of September. We have a quiet week beach is fantastic food was reat, pool was too cold sea water was far warmer. A brilliant place for a uiet holiday it for chilren. Te beach is 5 minutes away and it is fantastic. The cock crowing at 4.15 am was not nice. We will be back.

4 readers found this review helpful

I stopped at the Ola Cecelia complex with my sister in September 2009.
First inpressions where that the reception is not featured in the brochure, which is seperate from the apartments. It looked shabby until you walk round the back to the pool area. The reception staff were great and dealt with any questions and queries effectively.
The local area is quiet, would not recommend this for young people looking for a lively holiday. very quiet especially at this time of the year. The best going for this place is the beach, which is fantastic.
The pool area is clean but very cold! The room is nice but basic.. almost to basic for self catering! our room smelt a little and had ants in it. Rooms supposed to be cleaned 3 times a week but I had to complain to reception 5 days into our stay as our room hadnt been cleaned yet. Leaving us with no toilet roll, clean towels etc.
There is night time entertainment, but is starts quite late, and is quite poor. You have to find out information about the local towns and it really is what you make it out there.
Overall a nice holiday but not sure i would return at this time of the year again!

4 readers found this review helpful

myself my husband and our 4 year old son stayed for 1 week in ola aparthotel cecilia.On arrival it was very clear it was rock bottom basic.We were escorted to a completely different set of apartments down the road by a completely disinterested female member of staff who watched us struggle with 3 cases,a crying child and various bags up 3 flights of stairs.She then pointed to a room and turned back down and left us there.On entry the room was awful with 3 balconys overlooking a stunning beach but not suitable for us.On finding a hair wrapped around cutlery in the drawer we insisted on being moved.after much humming and hawing we were relocated to the actual hotel cecilia grounds and a very basic but clean apartment.had we not complained we would have beem fobbed off in a rotten room.The pool was lovely and clean and easy to get beds.we ate out every night and the vista sol accross the road was fantastic,really lovely food and nice staff.Not so nice was the arena blanca with rude waitress(german) and when our child was sick 1 of the staff gave my husband water to clean it up himself.When my husband later complained about their attitude he was told he should have paid to clean it up.my son was sick on the ground outside by the beach wall so dont know how you can be charged for cleaning public path.horrible unfriendly and food was only ok.AVOID.beach fab.lovely and quiet.

5 readers found this review helpful

I just came back from a week in porto colom and stayed at the ola cecilia. We checked in at about 2 in the morning, we were handed our keys and the receptionist who spoke little english just pointed out the window as to where our studio was, it was pitch black and would have been nice if we were actually shown but we found it fairly easy.
The air conditioning is set on a 12 hour system and you need a remote control which you have to leave 20 euro deposit for. We hired the remote control and the first day that the cleaners came in to the room the remote control went missing, we searched the whole room but it was no where to be found so we reported it to reception who then spoke to us like naughty children, insinuating we had lost it or not looked properly which was not the case, we did however get a replacement. This location is ideal if you want a very quiet relaxed beach holiday, the beach was great, just a stones throw away down a big set of stairs (which would be quiet hard to climb if you have walking difficulties etc). Crytal clear waters , watch out for the jelly fish though,quite a few children got stung. Water is very shallow so ideal for children to paddle in and play. We did not eat in the hotel, there are 4 or 5 resturants, we found the player arena the best, food was great, friendly couple that work there michael and justina made us very welcome as opposed to el cactus next door where a memebr of staff was quiet rude when we only ordered drinks. There is no nightlife at all in porto colom and the hotel drinks were expensive, 10 euro for 2 bottles of smirnoff ice. Cala d'or is a 15 taxi ride away, 14/17 euros, lots of resturants, the jungle resturant was great! Again not really much in the way of bars so if you want to party this is not the place to go on a boys/girls holiday! Back to the hotel, our flight was at 12 midnight and we had to check out of our room at 12 midday, we asked about booking the room for the rest of the day but could not as they were fully booked, we asked for a courtesy room so we could have a shower later in the day, which we got for half hour, just something to bear in mind when booking your flight times home. Had a very relaxed time and it was nice and chilled but if it hadnt been for the great location of the beach it would have been very boring as at night there is nothing to do, hotel entertainment wasnt much to speak of so we just had a meal and few drinks and went back to our studio.

8 readers found this review helpful

Booked a few weeks before we went, direct with Ola Holidays through Teletext. We wanted a nice quiet, chill out week and that's exactly what we got. No raucous behaviour, and no night-clubs. Fantastic!
The room was as described, with twin beds, a 2 ring stove with banshee sounding like kettle (most amusing). The air conditioning was very effective, and if left turned on came on whenever the balcony door was shut.
Despite the exchange rate, it was very good value. Breakfast 4 Euro @ the hotel, and dinner was 6 Euro (then went up to 8) and just bought it on the day if we fancied it rather than going elsewhere. The few bars/restaurants that there are, without going over the beach to Porto Colom itself (the Polish one there was superb), were all very friendly. Everyone said how quiet it was for the time of year, and prices seem to have come down. A pint of very cold beer ranged from 2.50 to 4 Euro, and wine was 2-3 Euro a glass.
The pool is lovely, but when the hotel gets full it may be too crowded. Going there out of school holiday time certainly seemed a bonus. The beach (2 mins walk away) is vast though and beautiful, with soft sand and clean water. Both the pool and beach have an attentive lifeguard, and the pool is cleaned everyday.
The only problem we had was when the key broke in the room door, but that was fixed without fuss, with a replacement lock within 10 minutes.
There were some ants outside, but didn't find any in the apartment. They only accumulated in any number if a drink was spilt, and word seemed to spread in the ant community!
We went out every evening so can't comment on the entertainment (didn't interest us) but those who stayed in seemed to enjoy it.
Transfers from and to the airport were arranged through resorthoppa.com and they arrived to collect us bang on time.
I'd highly recommend a trip there, if you want a chilled out break with pool and beach.