A Class Act On The Costa Brava

Advantages: Beautiful Villa, Scenic Location
Disadvantages: A little too isolated?

...) and £1,400 in the mid season (June, September) with cheaper rates available in early spring and late autumn. The owners also offer a sailing package with a yacht included in the weekly rate, as well as a Maid/Chef and Chauffeur service, the details of which are also available on the website. http://www.costa-brava-villa.com The nearest airport is at Girona, located approximately 35km away, but El Mirador is also accessible from the airport at Barcelona. A hire car is essential, and all the usual hire car companies are represented at both airports....

snowbunni 23.11.2006 · Read review
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L'Estartit, Costa Brava

Advantages: Wonderful beach, small town which hasn't been overdeveloped and still retains it's fishing village charm
Disadvantages: Only one road into resort which gets extremely busy during high season, town centre can be noisy late at night in high season

...L'Estartit started out as a small fishing village, located on the Costa Brava in the Gerona region of Catalunya. Today it is a great resort for the tourist, offering a wide range of accomodation, bars, restaurants and a wonderful beach, without ruining the atmosphere of a small seaside town. The town is located at the foot of a small mountain, known as the Rocamaura, and this gives the town a great deal of natural beauty from wherever in town you happen to be. The side of the mountain is covered in trees, with a rock peak: and there are villas located on it. You can walk up and have a stroll around the inhabited part of the mountain either by a huge flight of steps, or via a couple of roads just off the Santa Ana street, or by the road near Castell Montgri campsite. It's a good walk for a morning stroll if you're feeling energetic...

sally.jenkins 03.04.2006 · Read review
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Costa Brava

Advantages: Not too crowded, good accommodation, good weather, Spanish culture
Disadvantages: Barcelona's traffic, lack of genuine sandy beaches

...for the lack of genuine sandy beaches, I came across only 1, at Aigua Blava. Still, there was alot to do in and around the area. I spent a day taking in Barcelona, which is somewhere you must go to, and another day in the nearby town of Girona, famous for bull fights, although there was plenty to do otherwise, and there was an incredible range of ice cream flavours. Staying on the coasts, the resorts of Llafranc and Calella de Palafrugell were good to look around in the evening, and both had excellent Mini-Golf courses, if that matters, which it does to me. One thing lacking from the Costa Brava was good restaurants, bud my advice for that is to go inland. Personally, the best restaurants i've been to were in the Algarve. Spain is also alot cheaper than France, but more expensive than Portugal (for an in depth opinion on the Algarve, see my...

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Review of Tamariu, Costa Brava

EXPLORE the wonders of the COSTA BRAVA

Advantages: See Opinion
Disadvantages: See opinion

...The Costa Brava,unlike many coast resort areas,got its name "rugged coast" for a very good reason.It consists of a long series of rocky bays and cliffs broken by sandy beaches.Many of them are extremely picturesque.The little villages and fishing ports which most of them contain are as colourful as anyone could wish.The flat stretches of the bay of Playa de Pals are the only breaks in this otherwise endlessly rocky coastline. The Costa Brava consists mainly of towns and villages large and small,sometimes just containing two or three hotels and sometimes vast in extent.It was the Spanishness of the Costa Brava resorts that made them tremendously popular with thousand of British visitors who first began flocking there in the early 1950s. RESORTS WORTH EXPLORING: ************************ *Blanes:Blanes is the Costa Brava most...

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Review of Costa Brava in General

Costa Brava costs less

Advantages: Cheap and cheerfull, with loadsa sunshine
Disadvantages: nothing springs to mind

...Well what can i say, its so good i'm already booked and waiting to go back again soon. I found the Costa Brava a very friendly and welcoming place to visit. I stayed at Calella, but along the coast line you will find, Tossa del mar,Llorett de mar,Malgrat de Mar,Santa Sussanah and Pineda, all these towns are within a few minutes train ride away, they are even linked by a small land train service, which only costs a couple of Euro's for the return tickets, this way also enables you to take an extensive tour of the towns and discover what each has on offer. There is an outside market every day in the towns, your Hotel etc will happily supply you with the information on which market, day and town.These markets are full of all the usual knock of versions of top named brand goods, for example Doulcie and Gabbana belts for 10 euro's, come...

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Costa Brava, The Hotel in the Sun,, that Shines

Advantages: Sun Sand Sea and sangria what more can you want
Disadvantages: holiday is never long enough

...Hotel Costa Brava, Tossa De Mar, Situated in the Spanish/ Catalonia region on the Costa Brava The three star Costa Brava hotel in Tossa de Mar is situated approximately 200 metres from the beach and 150 metres from the resort centre. Barcelona is only 48 miles away and easily accessible from the nearby train service, which runs approx every 20 minutes. Tossa itself is full of many small shop, bars, café's and restaurants, there is also a land train service, which runs about every 20 minutes, for a couple of Euros' it will take you all around resort, or jump of at its many stops, there is a large weekly market, for all your bargains and holiday trinkets. A very nice beach is close to, clean, well looked after and plenty of facilities including water sports, and snack bars, all of which is across the main road, but...

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Tamariu- a hidden treasure of the Costa Brava

Advantages: Quiet and tranquil, breathtaking scenery, not too commercialised.
Disadvantages: none

...Step back about 30 years and my parents headed off with my brother and sister to a small village in the North of Spain- Calella de Palafrugell. When they arrived tired after a long and strainous train journey, and hot and sticky from the midday sun it was siesta time and they had to sit in a cafe ordering drinks whilst waiting for the estate agent to open to first of all change their money and secondly get the key to their apartment. Instantly they fell in love with this town and continued to come here every year until 1990. At this point they decided that there were just a few too many British tourists coming to this place, but this did not end their travels to spain. Instead they chose to take their annual holiday in a slightly smaller village- Tamariu. Both Calella and Tamariu, along with Llafranc are three fishing villages...

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Benalmadena the Costa del Sol

Advantages: Friendly town with lots to do, a lovely holiday.
Disadvantages: If you steer clear of the 'English Bars' there are none

...divine and the food e tastes equally good. Be sure to have a 'proper' paella from one of these restaurants - washed down with a jug of sangria it is a must for any holiday to Spain. I can honestly say that in all of our holidays in Benalmadena I never had fish and chips, an 'English cupps'. pie and mash etc etc once - we ate compleetly Spanish food - very good it was too. Benalmadena Costa also has its own casino, night club and golf course. Benalmadena enjoys an average of 320 days of sun each year with an average temperature of 21°C. Of the 28 beaches the town offer most are are sandy, some shingle, some man-made, but they are all clean. The promenade is one of the smartest of the Costa del Sol with fantastic views out across the Mediterranean. A holiday at Benalmadena is not just a holiday lazing on the beach or spent in...

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Review of Costa del Sol (Spain)

  A taste of Spain

Advantages: Nice weather, pretty cheap
Disadvantages: Almost like being home because of a large Norwegian community

...A short summary My wife Nikki and I went on a trip to Albir right north of Benidorm in Spain in the period August 27th to September 5th 2004. We went together with our friends Olav and Allis and their two kids. During our stay we got a chance to drive around a little bit, visit the theme park Terra Mittica, the water park Aqualandia, drink some good Spanish red wine etc. I hope that this short trip report can be of some use to others that are going to the same destination. Get in touch if you have any questions or comments :-) Please check my homepage http://gardkarlsen.com if you want to see more pictures from the trip. Prelude When I was young I remember that we had some family friends that were going on vacation to Spain. At that time it seemed so exotic at least compared to our road trips around Norway. Well, over the years...

gard 10.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Costa Blanca (Spain)

COSTA del CRANE

Advantages: Sunshine
Disadvantages: Feels like England

...When I was offered a week of Spain I jumped at the chance! Club La Costa was offering a week at California Beach, near Finguerola for only 29 pounds plus airfare to Malaga. We knew that it was early in the season but figured we would take the chance and beat the crowds. Club La Costa is a large development about 30 mins from Malaga airport. You can take a Tiny Train between the Two main parts of the resort: Marina del Sol and California Beach (or as we learned, smile sweetly at any of the porters and they will drive you there!). In this part of Spain it is low season until June 1. So the restaurants and bars at the resort closed promptly at midnight - not at all like the Spain I had heard of where you eat late. Eventhough you have the main pool to yourself, this is for a VERY good reason... it is NOT HEATED. There is...

Reynarda 25.04.2005 (31.07.2005) · Read review
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