We stayed for 5 nights Half board at the Portaventura Hotel at end of July 2023. This was our first foreign holiday since 2019 but our 3rd trip to Salou and Portaventura World. Previously we'd stayed at the Caribe (lovely) and the El Paso (not so good). So good points: Hotel is nice, clean though is looking a little dated, eg corridors/carpets are a bit tatty. Rooms are nice though, we were staying 2 adults and 2 teenagers to a room and it was a little cramped. Excellent short transfer times from Reus airport. Hotel is virtually inside the park so very easy to gain access to Portaventura World, Ferrari land and the Caribe Water park. However, there are some serious negatives about this hotel and the park in general 1 - Queuing - get used to queueing! (and not just in the parks!). You have to book your meal slots for the week. you get about 40mins for breakfast and 1hr 15 for dinner. Breakfast queue wasn't too bad, but the dinner queue was something else. You queue to get in, then the way the buffet is organised means that there is essentially just one queue for the main course, why they don't have 2 or more separate serving counters is beyond me. The first few nights mid week were not too bad, but come the Friday and Saturday nights when presumably lots more guests arrived for the weekend, the queuing was atrocious. It could take 40 minutes just to get your main course. In fact on the Saturday evening (our last night) we had literally just sat down and the waitress delivered us a ”10 minute warning” to finish up as the next sitting was due in! 2 - There's not really a bar as such. We aren't big drinkers so this wasn't an issue in particular but one night we fancied a late drink and we had to go to the Hotel ”cafe”, and queue and choose from a limited selection of drinks, and they were fairly expensive. 3 - Drinks at dinner, it was pretty hit and miss whether a waitress would come and ask if you wanted a drink with dinner. Water is free though from the dispensers so we generally stuck to that. 4 - Drinking water in the hotel - whilst you can probably drink the tap water ok, most people prefer bottled, but it's nearly €4 to buy a litre within the hotel. We took a trip into town and bought some large 5l bottles for a couple of €. There is at least a fridge in the rooms to keep it cold. Salou and the nearest supermarket is about 18 minute walk, though around 25-30minutes to the beach area and the main part of the town. 5 - Rooms - whilst the rooms are pleasant, we had a ground floor room and it would have been nice to have had some sort of patio outside with maybe some chairs (we just had a patio door with a step down to the grass where you could access the pool). However I suppose this could have created additional noise from other guests sitting outside late so maybe that's why they don't. Generally the noise from other rooms wasn't too bad - compared to the El Paso we stayed at previously it was much better, we didn't really hear anyone in the roo
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