Beth S.
Yelp
Debating whether or not to give 2 or 3 . I gave 3 for the manager. He really tried to make things better! Also not sure whether to say we were here on business or vacation. I was there on vacation, but my husband was there on business. Because he was there on business, his company had 15 rooms reserved in the hotel!
Overall, the hotel is beautiful! Nicely decorated, marble everywhere, velvet sofas and chairs everywhere, great views from everywhere.
We were there for four (4) nights (Monday through Friday). We had a few problems. One, I really appreciate it when a hotel has a magnified mirror in the room. If you wear glasses it's impossible to do your makeup with your glasses on, and without your glasses you can't see in order to be able to do your makeup. So, I was very happy to see that the room had a magnified mirror in the bathroom. However, it was loose, so it just hung down and faced the floor. So, I had to try to hold it up with one hand and do my makeup one handed. I went by the desk at night and asked the young lady behind the desk if she could send someone to fix it. The next morning, as I was going out I went by the desk and again asked that they please have someone come fix it. That evening as I returned I went by the desk and asked if it had been fixed. The man at the desk called maintenance and asked if it had been fixed and they said it had been. I go up to the room to get ready for the night, and it had not been. I went down and asked for a manager and he came and immediately had someone come and fix it. That is just a small problem! It wouldn't affect anyone else who isn't blind, like me, without their glasses.
What was a much bigger problem was the food/service. On Tuesday 8 of us went to the restaurant, Aire de Mar Bistro. We ordered appetizers, croquettes and the hamon Iberia with bread. We also ordered pizza, a chicken ceasar salad, steak, grilled octopus, the scallops, the Hake fish, a burger and more! Lots of drinks too. The service was horrible! There was only one other table in the restaurant and they had their own waitress. Our waitress had us waiting SO LONG for our food! We arrived at 1:45pm and had ordered by 2. It was 2:45 before our food started to arrive. Everything started arriving at the same time. The croquettes came out COLD! Everyone's food came out at different times. And every single dish was COLD! I could tell as soon as I saw my food that it was cold and had been sitting somewhere for a long time. At this point we had been eating out 3 meals a day for 10 days and this was one of the more expensive meals we had ordered. My cold Hake and clams were €38. We did not tell the waitress as everyone had work to do and had been waiting for so long that it didn't matter. We couldn't wait for her to reheat it or remake it. But it was inexcusable. Clearly she had left it sitting for at least 15-30 minutes. Our bill was about €460.
The last issue I had was with the breakfast buffet. We had just come from another hotel in Fira area of Barcelona and this one did not compare to the other. It was basically the same but no omelette bar, no avocado, and the eggs were from a mix. Sometimes they were really runny.
It was too cold for us to use the pool, but it should be heated- especially since it's SO SMALL.
So, after discussing it as a company, they will not be staying at the Eurostar again. It's supposed to be a GL 5 Star rated hotel. I guess our expectations were pretty high.
Again, the manager was super nice! Very helpful, and really tried to make everything right! But, even as we were leaving he saw one of his employees go to get our bags, get the wrong ones, and pass us to take them and put them in a taxi. The employee should have confirmed that they were our bags. He read the ticket wrong.
So, the manager was very apologetic, but saw firsthand how his employees are a little careless.
It is a great location. We walked to a lot of places. Restaurants, museums, the beach, bars and clubs, tourist attractions, etc.