We stayed at the Hotel Olympic, we went for just a week[ 14th- 21st ]. We found the rooms very clean, clean towels every day.

Our room was swept and mopped, beds made and bins emptied daily couldn't fault the cleanliness at all.

The food is all buffet style but also enjoyalbe, at times you did need to warm some of the food up in the microwaves.

Fantastic selection of salads,pasta's and rice dishes and wow some of the cakes where to die for.Location typical tourist shop's around but as you walk into the centre you can find some very nice, more stylish shops.

It is close to the beach which is nice for the beach lovers.Found all of the staff very helpful and also pleasent with it.

There was entertainment most evenings,but I did feel that there could have done a little more for the children. Cheap last minute booking, was dissapointed with the noise level on a evening.

Lots of young groups booked in,and lots of noise most of the night from them, very thin walls so you could hear a pin drop in the room next door. But despite the noise did manage 5 hours sleep a night after first two nights with only 2.

Met some really nice people , so over all turned out not too bad for a last minute cheap booking. Not a place that we would return too, I need at least 7 hours sleep a night, haha.

Stayed at the Olympic early April. Hotel was over-run by foreign students aged 15-17yrs. Walls are paper thin, and you hear everything when the students return at 5am from the clubs..........

Couldn't fault the food during our visit, plenty of choice.

Staff a little dry until you get to know them. Security a joke, practically non existent apart from the man with the weird hair walking around with a radio walkie talkie....

If you fancy a trip to Calella, stay at the sister hotel the Amika, it's four star and it shows.

This was the first holiday I have ever been on where I have just wanted to go home from the word go.

I have been going to Spain every year since I was a child and this is BY FAR the worst hotel I have ever stayed at.

The hotel is absolutely disgusting, there is nothing good I can say at all. The staff just could not be bothered with you at all, the bar staff were all miserable and spoke to you as if it were a real task.

The rooms are horrible, dirty and had cockroaches in many. The air conditioning does not work. The bathroom floor was stinking as was the toilet which actually had a sticker on to say it has been cleaned thoroughly! joke! The double bed I was promised was two single beds pushed together so you moved an inch and the bed slid half way across the floor, never mind though because Sleep is near impossible anyway! We could hear everything in the adjacent rooms. From singing at 3 in the morning to them going to the toilet. The bathrooms are joined with a cupboard, all that separates you is slats!! You can actually see into next doors bathroom which i DID NOT FEEL AT EASE WITH!!

The poolside bar and snacks etc etc is all rubbish because it all seemed to be shut. The snacks served in the restaurant are the left overs from lunch and dinner. The food is always cold and to be fair I lived on chips for the whole time because that's all I could recognise!!!! Even when you ask the so called chefs serving the food what it is even THEY don't seem to know!!!!! As an example, the night we arrived there were frankfurters. The next morning for breakfast there were frankfurters cut in half (obviously left overs!) then at lunch there was frankfurters (worried at this point!) then dinner was pasta with sliced frankfurters in it!!!!!! I kid you not! So you can see how chips seemed a good option!

The entertainment was lame.

DO NOT TAKE KIDS HERE!!! the balcony is falling apart, cracked glass, rust, broken panels etc etc. The food does not cater for kids with such pleasures as liver, over cooked veal, half boiled eggs with a dollop of sauce on the top and thats all that we could work out what it actually was! everything is greasy and looks worse than my dogs food and worse its freezing. Oh but there is a microwave if you want to queue for half an hour to warm it up!

So to sum up, while we were waiting to go home outside the hotel we were telling people arriving to get back on the coach!!.........DO NOT GO THERE!!!

Had a 3 day break holidaying alone for the first time and thought this would be ideal when booking. However read reviews with horror...most worrying was safety and bad food reviews.

On arrival had low expectations but still positive attitude to make the most of my break.

The food was not brilliant but not bad and as I am vegetarian I have had worse with less choice than I had here.

The hotel is spotlessly clean-no probs at all here.

My room, however, was tiny approx 5ft by28ft(including bathroom)one tiny single bed, corridor shaped room!! Bed and pillow were hard(and I mean hard)

Staff were the most sour faced, rude bunch I have ever come across - but there were a few exceptions-a few lovely ones. They really do not like the British-and attitude bordered on rudeness. How this is allowed I do not know

it is almost impossible to get a good nights sleep here due to inconsiderate people(of all nationalities including British)shouting banging and singing in corridor at any time (2am 4am 7.30am)

This is definitely what you would call a rough hotel, but if you have a positive attitude, low expectations and make the most of what you have you can have a good holiday but 3 days was long enough for me. Although I did enjoy my break (did a lot of sightseeing,walked for miles and saw beautiful Barcelona..wow!) I came home exhausted.
but, I must say for an all inclusive holiday it was good value for money.

The staff were, in the main, very helpful. They were obviously under a great deal of pressure but remained fairly calm. The housekeepers were very efficient and there were no problems with cleanliness. The swimming pools are large and very well maintained.

The main problem with this hotel is a lack of hard-line security. Night time security staff have no idea regarding the control of drunks!Our night time diary would read:

Arrived Sunday night- drunken domestic in corridor at 2am. Continued by banging of doors and throwing of furniture until 4 am.

Monday night- much of the same, with drunken singing in the corridors.

Tuesday night- A drunk Scotsman singing "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" at 3 am followed by a "girl* (the people in the next room thought it was a boy) screaming "Alison, where are you?" and banging on doors at 4.45am. At this point i went into the corridor and confronted her, only to be told "I'm on holiday", my response was "So are we and we want to sleep". At this point a "Security Guard" arrived and led her away with a "There- there" attitude.

I'd have called the local police! 15 minutes later she started again. The next morning there was blood in the corridor and the Policia Locale were evident in reception.
Wednesday night- we paid for a hotel in Barcelona and had a really good night's sleep!

Thursday night- some singing and slamming of doors at 3 am.

Sadly, this is a very good hotel for the money, but because of the all- inclusive price they encourage people who cannot contain the urge to to drink and then get out of control.

Most of the people we met were on benefits and only in Spain to get a tan and alcohol poisoning- I hope they are suffering for the latter. We enjoyed getting away for the culture.

Calella is nicely based for Blanes and for Barcelona and the transport system is both cheap and efficient. We will return to Catalunya- but not to a rubbish hotel!

Let me first start by saying don't ever visit this hotel.
The food in the hotel was appauling, it only catered for the Germans and Spanish.

The english was not catered for at all. I thought this was disgiusting, as me and my family had to go out every night and eat elsewhere. Therefore we ended up spending more than we had originally planned.

The location of this hotel was out of the way from the bars and the nightlife, we were told that the hotel was right in the centre of calella more like right up the top.

Very dangerous if you are walking home alone.

The staff were very rude to the English and could not smile for love or money. I tried my best not to talk to them as I didn't want to feel like I wasn't welcome in the hotel.

The entertainment was very little and again only catered for the German and the Spanish.


I would never visit this hotel again, if you are foreign then go ahead and book. But the English please stay away.

You will end up going home early from your holiday if you visit this hotel.

Read several reports before we went but don't understand what some people expect, I have had 16 All Inclusive holidays in the last 4 years and would not disrespect this 1 at all.

Weather was in the 80,s {last week September 05}

Food was ok always something there and I'm fussy

Bar staff were ok all week no complaints at all never waited more than 5 mins to be served.

Yes plastic glasses wee for round the pool {optional} but we agree with them fully as sorry to say British couple smashed 2 glasses by the pool and just walked off {now that's ignorant}

Hotel was clean and rooms cleaned everyday

3 pools to choose from 1 with a pool bar

Cocktails carry a 2 euro surcharge for A/I guests

Resort itself was bustling and it was end of season
we used the Amika also decor was superb meals were just the same

Anyone thinking of going here I would ignore reports and go see for yourself as you won't be disappointed. We only paid 209 each and it was worth every penny

The cleanliness of the hotel itself was excellent.

The food however was dreadful it was always cold no matter what time of day you ate and was tottaly unsutiable for children(mine been 5 and 3).

The hotel staff on a whole were ok considering the amount of hours they all worked the cleaners in paticular were very friendly. The entertainment was absolutly rubbish if you were Spanish and knew all the Spanish songs to line dance to then fine if not its easier to go elsewhere.

I would never go to this hotel again even if it was offered to me free.

THE ORIGINAL HOLIDAY FROM HELL!!!


We were promised a hotel catering for families, we ended up in a death trap for small children.

On inspection of the room we found the balcony windows were flimsy, rotting, single glased and been reglazed recently (potentially lethal for a toddler). the glass on the balcony was cracked and the railings were rusted.I confronted the manager over this, his attitude was 'tough s**t', when asked to be moved or a refund we were refused.

Another family told us that they had to wrap the cot in towels to protect their baby daughter from the pertruding nails in it!

The food was disgusting, more than often cold, fortunately they kindly provide a microwave for you to warm it up!!!. All crockery was either dirty or chipped (i've thrown better away). It came as no surprise that I ended up with food poisoning on the third day resulting in me looking at the inside of a toilet bowl for the next three days.

Sleep is more or less impossible, due to the noisy corridors and paper thin walls. We even heard the neighbour vomitting at 2am and passing solids at 9am.

The 'entertainment' caters only for the German over 60's. Queues at the bar were usually about 25 deep with an awkard, miserable barman at the end of it.

If you've already booked, my sincere condolencies to you. Avoid at all costs, a disgrace to the hotel industry. Should be bulldosed preferably with the hotel manager in it.

This was our second stay at the Olympic having been there in July and enjoyed ourselves immensely and endevoured to return and so did, however things had changed enormously in 6 weeks as I shall explain.

Previously we had a room with a lovely view of the gardens but this time a sub-standard room facing the pool. Secondly the hotel was packed to capacity and without appearing snobbish with a shower of ruffians, the weather was atrocious and we found ourselves in a tropical storm, a consequence of this being that everyone stayed in the hotel and the noise really did my head in, couldnt sleep a wink.

However please take time to read my earlier review dated July 05. The weather combined with other factors can ruin a persons holiday without the hotel or the resort ever being at fault. When the sun shines its lovely no matter where you are.

However the hotels standards didn't slip, the food in the restaurant was still excellent and the drinks still flowed, I still found this to be a good hotel that could benefit from renovation, then it would get the credit it deserves.