KAKTUS Hotel Volga

Nice but parking is extremely difficult if you drive. Good restaurants and night life on Main Street. Hotel needs an update

We spent 2 romantic nights here near the end of Summer. We could not fault any part of our stay. The Staff were all very friendly, and offered us a complementary Cava while we chilled, waiting for our room to be ready (we were early). We travelled via Barcelona on the coastal Rodalies (R1) railway line, and the Volga Hotel could not have been closer. We used the hotel pool and the beach during the day and free beach beds (because of staying at the Volga) just added to our break. We ate & drank at beach bars and the town restaurants, and loved everywhere we went.

Hotel Volga is a lovely and very friendly hotel to stay in. Very friendly and efficient staff; the receptionists, bar staff, entertainments young woman and chambermaids are all absolutely brilliant. The hotel is spotlessly clean. Beach bar is amazing - beautiful and chilled music. The local town is a little underwhelming but the wider area including trips to gerona and Barcelona as well as the many other seaside towns very nearby via a great train service mean it’s a good location. Thank you Hotel Volga staff - esp the main bar man and the entertainments young woman.

Very pleasant stay. Hotel and room very clean. Staff very friendly. Food plentiful and chefs more than willing to cook dishes the way you want. Small pool but as everybody clears off to the beach hardly anybody uses it. Returnable 10 Euro deposit on beach towels.Terrace has the sun all day. Resort is very Catalunyian. Loads of shops 2 mins away but not much to do at night, except buy stuff. A few restaurants but no concessions in any shape or form to pub culture. Depending on your viewpoint English is hardly heard. And strangely a distinct lack of music. Hotel Volga lays on varied entertainment almost every night and some of it is very good. Female vocalist was excellent as was Flamenco night. Woman lead was outstanding. Say hello to Jose, who will serve you your drinks at night - top man. Calella is perfectly placed for 1 hour train trip to Barcelona. BEWARE: everything in Barcelona needs to be prebooked at least a day before! Girona is a must; very classy, 1 hour - a mini Florence. The train line is literally on your doorstep and is the obstacle between all the coastal towns and the their beaches. Didn't bother us as we saw it as a plus for moving around. Beach is huge but there is a charge for loungers (about 7 Euros a day). From airport, take free bus to train-station 5 mins. Train to hotel took 2 hours/ 2 changes, 5 Euros each. Taxi cost is 120 Euro. Great, relaxing holiday.

Well, first the good: hotel has its own stretch at the beach with umbrellas and towels, the location is pretty central and the bathroom of the remodeled rooms is quite nice. The breakfast buffet is extensive, but a zoo, so you'll need patience. Now why I would never go there again: it is basically a low quality resort hotel with absolutely no reason for having 4 stars. The beds are super uncomfortable, hard (you can feel the metal springs in the mattress), cheap beige wool blankets like in cheap motels in the US and cheap pillows without feathers or any comfort. Staff is not friendly and instead of trying to help just tries to get rid of you as fast as they can. We got a room with 2 single beds pushed together to a double bed (still with single blankets!) and when asking if we can change the room, we got told two days in a row to come back the next day with no interest in changing the situation. Staff even told us it would be too much effort to clean our old room on top of the other one and therefore this is not possible. Same with the guy at the beach - half the chairs were deserted and not in use anymore and we were told that we can't use any of them because the guests might come back and in any ways he doesn't have towels anymore as they are all in the laundry. Not very pleasant. We might just not be the typical resort customer that accepts being treated as cattle for free food, but even though the hotel is not necessarily the worst I would not go back there.

Hotel staff are very nice and the hotel is clean enough. However I have never had a worst breakfast anywhere, would highly advise not going half board, we didn't dare try the dinner as the breakfast was revolting. There was not one edible piece of hot food it was either dry, drowned in garlic or stale. The bread or toast was not fresh, the cereal was stale.

Hotel Volga in Calella, Spain, was excellent, great room, very clean, good selection for breakfast and great service from all the staff. Would recommend this hotel to all, we had an excellent stay.