Hotel Esplai

We arrived at this hotel at 3am. Our party of 6 children,(8,12,13,15,15 and 16)and 6 adults. Everything seemed fine until we found out our room was 6 flights up the stairs and the lifts were broken so we had to drag 12 suitcases up the stairs. The next morning while we were... more

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My family went on holiday to this hotel in august 2008 and all I would say is that don't believe what you read in the reviews. There was 7 in our party altogether which included 3 kids aged 5,9 and 11 and we all had a fantastic holiday. Like most people we met there we had... more

We read about this hotel after we had booked, and like others thought it can't be that bad, well it wasn't as bad as the reviews....... it was worse! how anyone can leave a 9/10 rating beggars belief, this hotel wasn't as clean as made out to be, the noise was horrendous,... more

booked this holiday knowing it was a cheap budget holiday read the reviews and was shocked to learn it was classed as the hotel from hell, nasty staff, horrible food, noisy with 18-30s and lots of germans. Well let me tell you that it was fantastic and we will be going... more

PLEASE DON'T GO TO THIS HOTEL if you are disabled as there is only steps to get into the hotel from the street, the pool area and if you are in the bar at night you have to go down 3 flights of steps to get to the toilet or go up to your room. The meals was pork and fish... more

Very clean and tidy holel, never a spec of dirt or anything untidy. The staff were always about incase of any problems, however some of them didn't speak English but you eventualy managed to get them to understand. A couple of the staff seemed to be a bit ignorant and... more

On the positive side the Esplai is a clean hotel and the food is ok. Calella is an ok resort with plenty of bars and places to eat and the beach is nice. Whilst i would not put anyone off coming to Calella i would not recommend this hotel simply because it is basically a... more

Have you read all the negative comments regarding the Esplai? THEY ARE SPOT ON. This is a dutch/german holiday youth club or something like that and i would say that they take up 98% of the hotel. Many teletext companies seem to be selling this to UK customers as a family... more

Globespan have just advised us 14 days before we where due to fly out to this hotel that it was no longer suitable for families. If we wanted to change hotels it would be at our expense. They have been aware of this problem but waited until the last minute to tell us... more

We booked this holiday via teletext through a company called Fleetway Travel who were extremely good in the arrangments and information they provided prior to leaving - with the exception of mentioning that this is an 18-30 type of German holiday. Like the others who stayed... more