Hotel has a very smart appearance with guests from all over. Very fresh and very clean - always a cleaner abount!
You arrive and have to go up to steps or slope to the front doors. It's a non smoking hotel apart from outside and in the Habana Bar.
Hotel seems to have everything! laundry area, showers for leaving day, luggage room.

Open reception area with maps & papers on sale, money exchange, most staff spoke english (one actually British)internet and playstations, thompson desk, Animation information board, tables and chairs. toasties, drinks machines for late night hunger pangs.
Access to the main bar where evening entertainment held.
Thompsons entertain until 9pm ( never saw any of this to coment), then animations kids disco till 10pm then various acts - man with snakes, chinese acrobats, spanish acrobats magicians.Entertainment was varied, although some not to our taste.
Bar did get busy in the evening with poeple getting there very early, Happy hour was 5pm-6pm. There's an outside seated area.
Through the bar you get to the restaurant.
Food was outstanding, breakfast choice of cold meats, cheese, rolls, toast, boiled eggs, beans, sausage, bacon, tomatoes, fried egg, fruit,toasties, pancakes, sweet breads and jams, omelettes, cava, fruit juice, cereals, coffee, tea etc.....
Dinner lots of choice but recommend looking round all the food areas first. salad bar, soups, rolls, hot food all being restocked all the time, various puddings, fruit, icecream, cheese & biscuits, hot griddle freshly looked steaks or burgers etc, aswell as kids buffet.
Best time to go for breakfast we found was before 9.15am and dinner was after 7.15pm if you didn't want it too busy.
On a Monday it's their speciality nights, chinese one week, Spanish the next. Gala night on Sat was very nice. You have to pay for drinks in the evening.

Stayed in a family room on 2nd floor of the newer part overlooking the less crowded pool (the one with the bar in the middle of it) and sea (room 281)we had sun during the day but not in the evening-
Double bed in one room with fitted wardrobes and safety deposit box and patio doors to balcony with table and chairs and washing line/airer.
Main room with wardrobe, desk & tv with 3 british channels, 2 or 3 single bed (real beds not put-me-up type)window and bathroom - shower/bath, double sink, bidet and loo and hairdryer.
The maid made the the beds every day, not sure how often the linen was changed-probably 3 times in 2 weeks, but the room was cleaned everyday!

Thompsons have their own kids clubs down stairs next to indoor pool. Kids liked them but times were a bit awkward for us as in 2 different age groups.

Animation Team were fantastic! My daughter was on the dancefloor doing their dances every night!
Various events during the day for adults and kids clubs for kids (4-12yrs)of all nationalities in their cabin and evening club downstairs 10pm -11.30pm.

There's a park, crazy golf, roller skates, bike hire and zoo at the front of the hotel.

Pools-the main one was busy from very early on even though it said towels weren't to be put on beds.
There's a freeform pool and a square pool (where they play volley ball etc)and a kids pool. A stage for daytime entertaimnet and pool bar, lots of beds.
The other pool was less crowded earlier on but the beds are very close together as in the other pool area but on this side there is room to move them and spread out. Pool bar in the middle and baby pool. Steps down to the indoor pool. Towels were put down but not until 9am around this side-same time other pool side would have been full.

There's a lounge area, snack bar, pool tables and card tables aswell as access to the front through the snack bar.

There is a supermarket outside which was very reasonable and a few bars like the Tavern, Mamas and Papas and Pepe's. 10 mins to the left (along the sea front) and your in Pineda and 15 mins to the right your in Calella.

I thought this hotel was very good. Food was nice,lots of choices. Hotel was very clean, rooms were cleaned,sheets and towels changed each day.Staff were very polite, Entertainment not the worst but the animacion team were great. I would most definately return to this hotel.

We have been back to the hotel lots of times and even took my daughters friend, we flew from Gatwick and came in at Heathrow. How easy it was as well at

Glad we went and done it all independley.

Points/tips

It is a very busy and noisy hotel.

Ideal for our 5 year old we only used hotel run kids club,if you can, get a high floor room in the new block overlooking Callela.Food was ample and plenty but it never seemed hot enough.Like many we were on a budget so the drinks in the hotel we had to watch what we were spending but a good tip is use the happy hour buy a bottle of wine and take with you when you go in dinner.On the whole the hotel is very clean and staff were good.My daughter loved the pools and enjoyed the best staff in the hotel the annamation team they work so hard but always smile and are very quick in remembering your names. With the money we saved by not going with the main travel company who use this hotel we are going back on the 18th of Sep.

Welll.. What can we say it's just the best hotel around!!
It was another year of golden taurus park.. But thiis year it was 2007!!.. Once again it was just as good even better!
The cleanliness is briilant there maiids work really hard and do briilant jobs...your beds are always clean and so are your rooms..

Now for the food..it's pretty good a lot better than other hotels they do different themed nights twice a week && there is a great selection for everyone!!
The hotels location is okay there is two towns pineda && callea walkiing distance..
Hotel staff are mostly lovely.. They all speak pretty good english.!!

Now for entertainments team.. Espically animation these people made our holidayy the best ever..
There is activites all day long for all ages to do... We got on really well we most of the reps espically barbara >>> ana >>> kelli thank you to them...

We love barbara becasue she is liike a mate to us and she is just lovely ..we miss herr but we are keepiing in touch
We love ana because shes soo funny.. And lovely ..she a legend.

We love kelli because shes just kelli and amazing && brillant.... All these reps were amazing to us and kelli waves everyone off which is lovely but sad!!

Barbara came to wave us off becasue we was propa close to her.. It was very nice of her to turn upp.. And we will miss herr a lot...

Anyways if you have children this is the place to go so go and book it now!!...worst bit of this holidayy is going home when we all cried are eyes out.. And even barbara was crying ..it's a great hotel your love it....

We have already booked for next year and we can't waiit to see everyone again going to be great once again
Quick go book now.....!!!!

well we have just returned from the hotel on sept 1st after having 2 weeks at the hotel.

The hotel is still tops for cleanliness, and our room were done everyday with fresh towels as well.

The food was a little disapionting, but there was still alot of choice, and spanish and chinese night on mondays.

The location is 10 mins walk from pineda town centre and callela, which can be walked along the prom, or if your lazy take the noddy train.

The staff: The hotel animation team were great fantastic as always, Barbara she is in the mini club with the crazy Ana, her laugh is just so funny, she is so crazy and fun to be around.
Peter is our only male animation and he loves telling his jokes, and just keeps every entertained.
Maike, is really good at her job, and speaks many lanuages, she is another crazy one to be around and without her and the most best ever entertainer, it would never be the same, the pair of them are just great, and we will miss them all very much.
The reception staff are fantasic and all of them speak good English, The bar staff are also very friendly and speak abit english.

The entertainment was very good this year with a comedian, and 2 tribute bands, chinese arobats, and the daytime entertainment is great plenty to do.

The thomsons entertainers kooky cat and our Skyla, made a great team together, they were really good and it would be great to keep them there for next year.

I did not rate the thomsons reception staff very good, especially the one with brown hair quite big, ( no names) she was quite rude at times,
I booked my 3 trips with the hotel reception and saved 50 euro's for each trip, so take note.

we are going back to the hotel twice next year but never again with thomsons.

well done to Skyla and Kooky cat, you were the best thomsons staff ever,
hope to see you all next year.

Well let me be the first to review the Taurus for 2007.What can i say but not much has changed since our first and last visit in 2005. Infact so little has changed there was even the same Chinese show on the Monday night with the same act and they did the exact same show as 2 years previous.

One thing you will notice that's changed though if you haven't beeen for a while is the olympic swimming pool has been replaced by a smaller Kidney shaped one similar to the other side of the hotel.

There is also a smaller pool at the end and a very shallow one for the kiddies.You won't find this by looking at the hotels website as they haven't updated their site but if you check out the Thomson site it's on there,that's how I found out before we left.

Before we left and some time ago i emailed the hotel through their website asking for rooms no higher than the 2nd floor as this is what we was on in 2005 and found this high enough for us.

I also requested the, what was olympic side. Well got there and yes we had that side but found ourselves on the 6th floor right over the back at the end away from the reception.

Asked to move but they said no because we had 2 rooms.So the moral of the story is if you email them and request a certain room etc etc then don't expect to get it.

The entertainment has improved a little bit by that I mean I noticed slightly more outside shows put on but they were pretty much the same as I said as 2005 ie a magic show and a comedy show.

This still starts at 10pm after the annoying kids songs that are the same every night. There is still a happy hour at 5pm before the restaurant opens. Something this time that I never noticed before was the hotel was overrun from Friday night for the weeekend by the Spanish and it got very busy.

The restaurant got very busy and there was hardly any tables around while they were there.

On the food side it is still good but i didn't enjoy it as much as 2005.There seemed to be alot of lamb or beef in a sauce type food.

I'm very fussy so didn't like that so found myself eating chips more wherer in 2005 I maybe had them only once. The pancakes are still there in the morning so enjoy them.

I suppose that's about it what more can I say as not much has changed.

I would like to add though that on Thomson's site and at the hotel they say that they are the only people that offer the taurus for the Brit's. That's simply not true as I booked everything myself DIY alot cheaper than they wanted, as I did in 2005.

If you want to know where to book the hotel then drop me a email/PM and I'll happily pass the info on:)

We have just returned after spending 10 days in the Taurus Park. The public areas of the hotel are spotless as they are constantly being cleaned. The rooms are also cleaned to a high standard, beds and towels are changed regularly.

Food was adequate but nothing special, although, the pancakes were really delicious in the morning. Most of the waiters/waitresses were friendly, but on three occassions they forgot to bring the drinks we had ordered with our meal, very annoying when you have to keep asking.

Reception staff were very friendly and really appreciated you communicating with them in Spanish.

Entertainment team were fantastic with the children and really looked after them. The evening entertainment was the same thing everynight...boring after a while.

We enjoyed our holiday but I would only recommend this hotel to people who have children as the hotel is full of them running mad everywhere and shouting at the top of their voices.

This is definitely worth a visit if you have children.
The hotel teams kept the children entertained all day an all night. I think we are going to book again for next year soon!!

The reps are very friendly and helpful, especially the children's reps and the hotel team are also friendly and helpful.

We did not really venture outside the hotel much, because the kids were certainly not bored and did not want to, they were too busy having fun. Kelli's team are amazing, and so are the thomson gang!

The food is really nice and plenty of choice.

The hotel location was ok, not much around really, but the local noddy train that stops right outside the hotel, will take you where you want to go!!

The entertainment was brilliant for the kids!

Hotel staff nice and rooms spotless!!

Would not hesitate to go again, but not in September!! We got a little wet for a couple of days.

We have just returned from a 2 week holiday at the hotel Golden Taurus Park, and where shall I begin.

This is the first year that we have come along with our 13 year old daughter on her own, without her brother who is now 18 and no longer wishes to join us on the family holiday.

We were of course a bit worried about this because it would have been a long holiday if she had not met anyone, but we need not have worried, the very first day of arriving she met numerous friends of various ages and nationalities, which was great. For the first week of the holiday we did not see her all week, except for dinner and to get changed for the evening, I,m sure that people must have thought we came with no children.

The entertainment during the day and the evening is absolutely superb, first class, there is something on all of the time for all ages both in and out of the water. The thomson reps, Hannah and Jo, were fantastic and always had time to speak to you, full of energy.
Kelli, is fantastic, she bounces around more than tigger, makes you tired just watching her, I dont know what she lives on but I wish she would share it, it is so obvious that they all enjoy their job. The shows the reps put in are amazing and have to be seen.

The food is more that adequate and always several choices.
The bar, some of the drinks we thought were a bit pricy, but other things more than make up for this.

We went to Barcelona on our own by train and was only 6 euros return and took about 1 hour at the most and is very easy to do as the train station is approx 10 minute walk away.

I would recommend this holiday to everyone, it is great. We are already booking for next year as are some of the people we met whilst there.

Hannah if your reading this or get the chance to see this PLAY UP POMPEY!!!

Looking forward to seeing you all next year