Hotel Bahía Calpe by Pierre & Vacances

Location: The hotel is consistently praised for its ideal location, particularly being 'right on the waterfront,' making it convenient for exploring the surrounding area. This was repeatedly highlighted as a major advantage.

My wife and I showed up in Calpe during their patron saints festival. The second we entered the lobby we were greeted with smiling faces. when we got to our room the air conditioning wasn't working, within minutes their maintenance man temporarily fixed it. He came in the next day (while we were out) and completey solved the issue. The front desk girl Francesca, was amazing, not only did she facilitate the ac problem, but let us know about the festivities happening during our stay. Our Spanish is very limited to a south Florida mix, and communication was a bit difficult (pure Spanish vs Spanglish!) all of the employees there were very patient and kind.out of the 2 weeks and 3 different beach towns this hotel is amazing and I cannot stress enough about Francesca who made our first step into Spain the most memerobile and amazing trip! The rooms were great the views were amazing and the roof top bar was fantastic. when we visit Spain again this establishment will be our first stop!! Thank all of you guys for looking after us!!

Pros: - Location. The hotel is located right in front of the beach.  - The biggest plus and almost the only one was the animator, which has done his best to entertain us. He has organaised the minidisko especially for us (there were not much children in the hotel). All the quizzes and bingos were funny due to his charisma. So all the stars only for this.  - Cleaning was ok as usual.  Cons: - Towels are changed every 3 days. If you want get fresh towels, you need to pay 7€/day/person. This is just terrible. We don't usually require them to be changed more often, but it would be nice, if even the floor towel would be changed, because it becomes quite wet and dirty after the whole family showers and some sand from the beach lands there. - The kitchen is very poor. Technically there were some salads, fish, meet, pizza and some desserts. However, there assortment is far away from the 4 stars hotel. - The service in the restaurant was unacceptable slow. Few times we have got our drinks first when we were eating dessert. And that happened in the beginning of the dinner wjen there were not so much guests. Only after start of the season (apparently 2nd week of summer) more stuff was present. We have tried to give a feedback, but got just a standart message "we have many guests (what a surprise in summer), please come earlier (we cannot come before the opening of the restaurant...)". - The dishes and glasses in restaurant were dirty almost all the time. Every day we had to leave plates and cups to the side. The coffee machines were impossibly slow, what has generated queues all the time. Every automate gave a different volume of the coffee/water, ofter the same volume for the espresso and the long coffee and all guests were struggling with them, what has generated even more queues.  - Juices on breakfast were of a very poor quality and additionally machines often gave just a dirty water. Probably no one has paid enough attention to refill the machines. Same with salt on the tables. One day all of then were just empty. Additionally there were flying flies near the juices.  - Almost nobody in the restaurant speaks any other language than Spanish. City: Very quiet city. A couple of beautiful places. There are just a couple of souvenir shops, but very many bars and restaurants.  Good beach for children, where you have to walk 50m to be able to swim. No sunbeds are available. All the people are using beach chairs, which cost 20-40€ in the shop. It would be good service and very sustainable from the hotel, if it would offer hiring of the chars. Now people are buying them and throwing away athere the stay. There is just one car rental office in the city and prices are clearly higher than in Alicante, but cars are new and good. We could rent a car at the airport for the whole vacation and it would be cheaper, but the parking at the hotel costs 15€/day, which is quite expensive for such a small town. In some big cities the parking in city center has