Mònica Hotel

Location: The hotel is highly praised for its central location, within a short walking distance to the beach, marina, shops, restaurants, and bus station. Cambrils itself is described as charming and ideal for exploration.(based on 1 review)

Reviewed 17 Jun 2025 This was my 8th visit to the Hotel Monica and 3rd visit with my son David following his first visit with me in May 2019. Once again we were warmly greated by the receptionist who remembered us from previous visits. Which is a nice start to our holiday. On my first 5 visits being a solo traveller I had a single room (for details see earlier reviews) but since my son started holiday with me we now share a twin room but without a pool view. This overlooks the rear of properties that are located in the street that runs from the beach. Its not the prittiest of views but our answer to this is that we only use the room to sleep in and store our belongings. We are now familiar with the bar & dinning room staff and during our 2 week stay we soon got to know the any new personel, Santos the bar man deserves a mention on every visit he would greet us with a smile and a laugh. To him I was know as Henry or Mauricio (Maurice). Introduced last year all drinks and any lunchtime meals are charged to your room, this also includes bottles of wine purchased with evening meals and they no longer store them with your room number. Instead you take any left in the bottle to your room. Breakfast was exactly the same as per previous visits with a choice of hot or cold food to suit all tastes and nationalities. Each evening there was always a good variety of prepared food as well as the show cooking food available. Breakfast time for our first week was 7.30am and our 2nd week 8.00am from the 1st of June. We are not use to eating this late so we found that you need to have something to eat at about 2 pm. In some instances we used the hotel bar for ordering food and there was varied range available supplied to order. Other wise there are plenty of small cafe in the resort where you can get a sandwich etc. During our stay we recognised guests who we had meet before and new ones who we had numerous conversations with during there stay. Hence the attraction when I first came to this "Small & Friendly Hotel" . Overal our stay was most enjoyable and already we are considering coming back next year. This year was the hotest and sunniest weather I have experienced in Cambrils. The pool area has undegone some nice changes since last year and the pictures of this area need updating on the Monica web page to do it justice. Two nights during the each week we had entertainment provided in the closed off pool area which was a new addition. The local bus service is excellent and you can get a bus card with 10 trips for less than 10 euros For example using this card I could travel as far as Tarragona for only 61 cents. There are numerous boats offering trips out to sea and we used one that did an hours sail of the coast of Cambrils for 10 euros plus drink, a realy pleasant short trip.

The hotel has a lovely, charming and calming feeling about it. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The reception and bar area is spacious and relaxing. Pool area is beautiful with different areas to sunbathe. Breakfast - plenty of choice. Croissants are yummy! Good choice of breads, fruit, yoghurts, cakes and hot breakfast. You can have a fresh omelette made, eggs, pancakes if you like. Coffee machine makes a nice cup. Two slight criticisms....the toast machines are very slow, which is common in hotels abroad, and the bacon is not like you get in England! Which is to be expected and it is not a problem as there are so many other choices. There were a lot of different nationalities in the hotel, we were in the minority, which we liked! The Rooms - Bottles of water left on the first day which I thought was a nice touch. We booked a garden room which overlooks the pool, they are very modern and stylish. Bathrooms have walk in spacious shower. Balcony good size, air-conditioning is excellent and gets cool straight away. Mbaye leads the team at breakfast and is great, friendly and funny! and very efficient. Santos works like superman 🦸‍♂️ in the bar! All the staff made our stay special and we are planning to return soon. We loved it ❤️ Thank you