Lloret de mar

Advantages: Beautiful place, appeals to all ages
Disadvantages: Very few

...Our family visited the resort of Lloret de mar in the Costa Brava a few years ago now and I would totally recomend it to anyone. We visited in the month of May as we like it a little cooler, a little quieter but also still with a variety of things to do. During this month the average temperature is around 70 degrees C but whilst we were there it was a little hotter than this. Getting there: We flew from East Midlands airport to the main airport of Costa Brava which is Gerona. Most airports fly here so it shouldn't be a problem getting here from other parts of the country. The flying time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes and once landing there the transfere to Lloret de mar takes about 45 minutes. I think this is ideal if you are travelling as a family as we did as you can be in resort pretty quickly Accomodation: We...

khw123 17.10.2003 · Read review
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Bolero Apartments, Lloret de Mar.

Advantages: Cheap, great for young people and famies
Disadvantages: Access problems

...supermarket attached to the apartments. The only thing which we had a slight problem with was the huge hill the apartments are situated on. To get to the resort centre and Lloret beach, you have to walk down the hill, although it\'s not too far, it is a killer to get back up! For the less mobile and disabled, this could be a problem. There is the smaller Fenals beach nearby but this involves a large number of steps to go down to so is not really practical either. The only reason I have rated these apartments as satisfactory is because of the access issues some people may have, apart from that, they make a great base for families and young people and are inexpensive. All in all, we enjoyed our stay here and we would definitely go back!...

ibizavic 15.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Bolero Park Apartments Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava

Very Good Value For Money Lloret De Mar

Advantages: Big pool,Good Drink,nice hotel,pleasant staff,excellent value for money
Disadvantages: Awful Food

...We stayed here for 6 nights in Febuary of this year (2008) and found it to be very good value for money, and the weather was surprisingly good which was an added bonus. It was a last minute cheap gettaway I had already booked the flights with Ryanair and not decided where we were going to stay exactly, and then we decided to try lloret. We chose The Royal Beach because it was very resonably priced (£208 for 6 nights all - inclusive for two people) and it had fairly good reviews. One mistake I did make though was I had booked the hotel and flights seperate and didn't bother with transfers we just got a taxi from Girona airport to resort, this was easy enough to do but cost 50 euros each way. I found out when we got home I could have booked a transfer both ways for about £25 so could have saved quite a bit of money there...

johnny040676 29.04.2008 (05.05.2008) · Read review
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Review of Hotel Top Royal Beach, Lloret de Mar

Caribe Hotel - Lloret - cheap but cheerful

Advantages: Cheap, friendy staff, well located
Disadvantages: Bit noisy, bathroom bit cramped

...the old town at night to enjoy more traditional restaurants and bars and avoid the ticket touts. Man they're like vermin! After being stopped 3 times in the space of 30 seconds we devised a route through the back streets just so we could get to a late night supermarket on that side! The old town of Lloret is quiet pretty though, with narrow streets and plenty of shops. There are some nice Cliffside walks too. You can have both a romantic holiday or a clubbing holiday in lloret de mar - just try and position your hotel well (north-east/central lloret old town, quiet - south-west/Fennals area (another beach at Fennals) for more larger holiday complex and modern town/clubs at central-west part of town). Hope this helps! Need a new keyboard now :) We went 11-18th June 2006....

mrrossi 19.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Caribe Hotel Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava

Coastline Holiday Resort

Advantages: Plenty to see and do. Lots of nighlife. Some good walks. Nice clean beach. Good selection of restaurants.
Disadvantages: Can get a little noisy. Beach can become over-crowded. Too many street sellers that wont take no for an answer.

...Our first family holiday was to Lloret De Mar in May this year. In total six of us went. Myself, my fiance and his four children. The children are aged 18, 17, 12 and 11. You can see that we needed a holiday that could cater for all of us and as we all have different interests we decided when booking the holiday that it should really be a central location, so that there was something for everyone. ***************WHERE IS LLORET***************** Lloret de Mar is situated in Costa Brava. It is a coastline resort and it takes about an hour by coach from Girona airport. We flew from Manchester airport and the flight took two hours. Lloret De Mar is one hour ahead of GMT. *********WHATS ON OFFER IN LLORET********** We found Lloret De Mar to be a busy but pleasant resort. We were lucky though, because we were coming home as...

purebitch 03.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Lloret De Mar, Costa Brava

Sadly going downhill year after year...

Advantages: Large choice of nightclubs/bars, massive amount of shops, and a nice beach front
Disadvantages: Very pushy sales/marketing, and now popular to 18 - 30s groups

...I've been to Lloret twice in my life. Once back in April 2003 where I had the time of my life and most recently in July 2007, which was the complete opposite for several reasons... The whole place now seems to have been marketed to many 18 - 30s groups who are definitely out for two things only, drinks and sex. Lots of trouble could be seen being caused by them and the police seemed very stressed out over these situations and didn't seem able to cope. For instance this happened in one nightclub called Bumpers in which me and my best friend were having a good time in, lots of decent people there already, friendly staff, nice music and reasonably decent priced drinks. Suddenly when we were on the dance floor, a whole bunch of rowdy 18 - 30s groups just piled in at once and changed the atmosphere to zero. It was very noticeable to see...

hughesmonger 30.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lloret De Mar, Costa Brava

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...

dreamscancometrue 05.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Costa Brava Hotel Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava

Against my expectations - a great holiday!

Advantages: Great nightlife, many young people from other countries, loved the beach & the sea
Disadvantages: Beach can be overcrowded, obtrusive sales people

...Lloret de Mar is a town with 36.000 inhabitants, located in the region of Catalonia at the Costa Brava, about 80 km away from Barcelona. I just came back from Lloret de Mar last week. I went there with around 20 people from my former class (we just finished school this year) and we really enjoyed our stay a lot. I was surprised to see a lot of families there, as Lloret is known to be a party location for young people all over the world. Hotel We stayed at the Hotel Sunrise, which is located up a hill at the north of Lloret. We had booked all inclusive, which I would definitely recommend to anybody, you get alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for free all day from 11 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock in the evening and you can also get snacks from 12 until 2 o'clock. Without all inclusive your vacation will...

SarahJennifer 21.07.2008 (27.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of Lloret De Mar, Costa Brava

Tossa de Mar.. Beautiful Area, Cat Litter Beach!

Advantages: Picturesque, Hot!
Disadvantages: Quiet!

...selection of small tasty meals (sandwiches, chip butties etc) for a reasonable price (about 2.50 euros ish). Parking is quite difficult in this resort, so if you?re hiring a car for your holiday you can expect to have to walk a fair distance from your parking spot to where you?re staying generally, especially if you?re looking for free parking. There is a bus station that has buses going to Barcelona (18 euros each, return) and neighbouring Lloret De Mar (like a sunny Blackpool if I?m honest, and plenty of dodgy fake designer stuff which I wouldn?t touch with a bargepole haha). I didn?t take note of any more routes but wherever you go, expect to be going through winding high up roads that can be quite unnerving (especially in the dark) ? if you?re driving it?s definitely safer to be driving slowly and surely so as to be safe on those roads...

Claire_DC 10.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tossa De Mar, Costa Brava

A Class Act On The Costa Brava

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

...The Villa is certainly aptly named. Perched on a hillside high above the historic fishing port of Palamos, El Mirador (which translates as 'the Lookout' in Spanish) commands spectacular, panoramic vistas along the coastline and across the fringes of the beautiful Costa Brava. We had driven southwards from Girona, towards Palamos, then Calonge. At this point, the crumpled, supplied directions from the owner were tugged out, and we had pressed on. El Mirador, it seemed, was up there on the hill, at the very edge of Calonge. The road wound its way through a fairly modern development, a slightly confused melange of poorly signposted streets, each street lined with new, look-a-like villas, and each villa as attractively bland and featureless as the next. Finally, we passed an older house near the top, with a rocky front garden peopled...

snowbunni 23.11.2006 · Read review
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