Eix Platja Daurada Hotel & Spa

This was a spur of the moment holiday with our friends to a quiet hotel in Can Picafort Majorca.The hotel was great and the location great but as always there are one or two things that tend to mar a perfect holiday. This hotel had supposedly just opened after being closed for the winter and our holiday was one of the first bookings for the start of the new season.Two days into our holiday and only because the weather turned cold that we decided to stay in the hotel for a night of entertainment and drinks.Well the entertainment was a no go and when we went up to the bar we were told that they had run out of vodka our choice of drink and when we were told they had run out of it after opening just four days into the season we were not pleased. When we spoke to the manager his reply was to say drink something else then or buy Smirnoff Vodka from behind the bar but as we were all inclusive this was a definite no.As we were all small drinkers we would have only had 2 or 3 drinks each which would not have not even cost the hotel a bottle of Vodka but the answers were always no, so we got in touch with our Jet 2 rep but that turned out to be a waste of time because they said it was up to the hotel management to agree to give us the Smirnoff Vodka but that was a definite no! We had become friendly with the barman who even said he would pay for a bottle of vodka from the local Spar shop out of his own pocket, I guess we made an impact on him as well cause he must have felt really bad to go to such lengths to keep us happy. As this happened at the start of our holiday it sort of put a dampener on the rest of our stay.Oh did I forget to mention the cold or Luke warm meals and all meals seemed to be the deconstructed version of what the meal was meant to be e.g spaghetti with meat balls but no sauce or mince.I know we are in a foreign country and the food is different but not so different that it is unrecogniseable.Yes there was some good things on this holiday but at this moment I can’t remember an of them.

I didn’t want to go home. I’ve never slept so good before in my life. The Pina Colada was perfect. Breakfast was under cooked and the drinks machine wasn’t working. However the spa, hotel room and bar was great. Relaxing poolside. Lovely beach.