Talaia Plaza EcoResort

Very nice view to the sea. We had a Duplex to ny home, very functional and small. The shower was good. The table and chairs inside was missing, as I told this to the receptionist I didn‘t even heared an apology. Amts everywhere, even coming from the socket

It’s a real shame to write this as the location of this resort is lovely (if extremely hilly) and the beach is ok. There are much nicer beaches on the costa brava. The hotel is just all over the place and every day is different. We unfortunately booked half board and the food was terrible. The continental breakfast was ok, noting you could not have bought at the supermarket and eaten on your own terrace (yoghurt, fruit, cereal, toast etc) but anything cooked was an absolute mess. Every egg I ordered all holiday (fried, poached, scrambled) was raw and cold and no matter how hard the lovely wait staff tried to get the chefs to do this properly, it never happened. The evening meal was the same, very pared down menu for all 11 nights we were there, the food was so bad it was laughable and everything tasted of the lighting fluid used to light the wood burning BBQ (not very environmentally friendly, but then I am not sure what is identifiably environmentally friendly, I couldn’t find one thing). Everything was so heavy and covered in oil, the food seemed so outdated, no lovely fresh, light cooking with the considerable local ingredients. The deserts were ridiculous, the home made ice cream came as slip and tasted awful and the lemon posset for some unknown reason repeatedly came topped with the mornings cereals (coco pops and special K). Every family we spoke to who had eaten there were really unhappy, especially those on half board. We are out a lot which doubled the price of our meals but we just couldn’t face the food which is really saying something as we are pretty easy to please with food. For some reason, right at the end of our stay we could not come down for breakfast when we wanted as they had imposed a booking system which we were not privy to until it had already booked up. The restaurant staff are absolutely lovely and trying their best (working way longer hours than they should) but the reception staff were not great. Our room was only cleaned twice in 11 days and I had to hassle them multiple times to get that done. The cabins are TINY and as a family of four, we really struggled with space. This break cost us 4k for the accommodation and you can get SO much more and better for that. It felt like we were roughing it and camping, when we had paid 4 times what we paid on the Costa brava last year for a nice hotel. I would avoid unless you want a very basic, camping style break (and if so, don’t go half board and don’t pay as much as we did, you’ll be really disappointed).