Princesa Parc Hotel

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Me and my best friend went for a skiing holiday in January of this year! The hotel was gorgeous and the staff were so friendly, and the cleaners so efficient!
The rooms were a bit small, but it was ok considering you are hardly ever in the room anyway! Princessa Park is located in just the right spot, with its own private walk way to the gondola.
The reason I have given the hotel a nine is because of the food. It was dire to be honest; we paid to go half board and only ate there once. Its buffet style, with hot and cold selections, but the hot food isn’t warm and the cold food looked rank. That was the only flaw.
The wellness centre was amazing. It was expensive but I didn’t mind paying it. There’s a sun bed which you can go on for I think it was 5 euros for up to twenty minutes. We tried but I had to get off before it had finished.
The massage, 50 euros for 50 minutes, was the best I had ever had and well worth the money.
I didn’t really visit the bars and stuff in the hotel because we made friends with our transfer rep who took us to the El Cau bar (where 70's night etc is) and we just went there everyday.
I don’t know what there is to do for older people, or people that don’t drink, or enjoy beach parties and stuff, but for us (19 years old) the nightlife was good because it was lively but yet quiet enough for you to know everyone.
Prices are good!
For eating out I would recommend surf, but one tip would be to ask for it medium to well done which comes out medium, n when you ask for medium it came out very very rare.
For traditional pub grub go to el cau. I recommend the bangers and mash.
I noticed in a review already on here they say to avoid 70's night. Its good fun, and a great laugh, if you have made friends out there, a few people were just in there touring groups and didn’t look like they were enjoying it as much as others.
Everywhere else dies though on the Friday night, as everyone is in El Cau. The cabaret is cheap and cheerful, it’s cheesy, but some acts are actually quite good for example the blues brothers.
Alcohol - if you drink spirits then don’t ask for a double, they poor you a triple as it is anyway.
Anyway overall for me and my friend the holiday was really good, but for people looking for a cheap relaxing holiday I wouldn’t recommend Princessa Park as the relaxation things are expensive.
For people our age and people who like to drink and join in games and stuff book now!!
Wish I was still there, considering going back by myself for the rest of the season to see my mates etc. everybody’s really friendly! I might see you there!

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This was a skiing holiday for me and my partner. The ski area was great, you can go to the top of the mountain and get another gondola to another resort where you can ski different mountains.
The hotel was not too impressive for a four star, the room was nice, mini bar was expensive. In this hotel are two bars, its amazing how one bar is quite reasonably priced, although the bar in the basement is so overpriced. There are facilities available like the spa, but this is also quite overpriced.
The food in the restaurant is ok, this hotel has a canteen for the prepaid customers (staying in the hotel) and a separate restaurant for the "self-caterers" who come for a meal. Notice in the brochure though, you are shown a picture of the restaurant, as your eating area, which is not true, the restaurant is a bit "plusher" than the canteen. The food varied each day, apart from the starters, that was the same everyday, no variety there. The food is buffet style, help yourself, with a few dishes to choose from, but I was surprised that nothing was labeled, so you had to guess what the food was, then dish it onto your plate, and it can be hard to tell with all the different meats and stuff.
For some strange reason the stair-well in the hotel always seemed to smell like bins - don’t know why!
Our rep was a complete drip, and couldn’t do anything to help us, apart from invite us to pubs to get drunk. When we was collecting our ski passes from him, this seemed to take forever and a day, and he only had to tick us off a list and give them to us.
There are a few things to do at night, depending on what you like, there is a variety, also depending on the hotel entertainment, this hotel was mainly chill out, but there are quite a few bars and restaurants down the road, these get very busy though.
For location I give this hotel 9 and half out of 10, for facilities I give it 7/10 simply because most things are overpriced, but plenty to do if you don’t mind paying it. For cleanliness I give this hotel 9 and half out of 10, the cleaners were cleaning the radiators in the lounge with a tooth brush - very good, although mostly for show, because they don’t do that in your room, but the room is of a high standard other than that.
Would definitely go back to resort again, but would like to try another hotel.

We stayed at the Princesa Parc hotel in January of this year. The hotel is in a good position, near to the main gondola and a few bars and shops.
The hotel itself was really nice. There were 3 bar areas to relax in at night, one of the bars had live music on every night and the band were great!
Our room was basic and was to the side of the building so we did not have the balcony (as shown in the brochure pic of the hotel), so I would request a balcony if I was to go again. Our room was cleaned every day. The beds were really comfortable.
Breakfast was fine and dinner was as expected from a busy hotel. Some nights miles better than others but always a good selection of fish, meat, veg/ salad etc. There was also a grill area that cooked steak and sausage on request. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The only thing I would say is that the hotel rooms and restaurants are very hot so take short sleeved tops as well as jumpers (I only took long sleeved tops and was so hot that I had to go out and buy T-shirts to wear in the hotel!).
The drinks in our hotel were on par with UK drink prices. Around £2.90 for a pint, so not as cheap as what we expected although in the resort itself there were a number of cheap bars.
The Wellness centre costs 15 euros per person for 2 hours, which is a bit of a disappointment as we booked the hotel so we could chill out for a couple of hours after the slopes, though it was too expensive to do every night (a bit of a con there). But I would definitely recommend a massage!! 30 euros for half an hour but it was the best I have ever had!
Avoid - 70's night, 15 euros to get in, depressing damp building, terrible cabaret act.
Eating Out - we ate out a couple of times in the evening and would recommend El Moli (small Italian does great pizza and even better cocktails opposite the Gondola!) and Cisscos (a tex mex restaurant which was amazing, fresh ingredients, best fajitas I have tasted!). The surf bar was also good and we had lunch there a couple of times - great if you like steaks/ burgers etc. and again, situated at the bottom of the gondola.
So all in all a great holiday and I think we landed very lucky with the hotel, I would recommend it! Enjoy - I wish I was still there!!!!!