| | Rosellas, Alcudia, Mallorca, 07410, Spain
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Overall Community Rating: |   9.1 (based on 4 user reviews) |
 Condesa de la Bahia: Brilliant by Emma Checkley |
| Posted 09 September 2007 about a visit in August 2007 | Overall rating: 9.7 |
Before we went to the Condesa de la Bahia we had read many bad reviews. When we got to the hotel we were happy. It was a lovely hotel. The breakfast was lovely. Everything you want – mushroom, potato hash, beans, ENGLISH sausage, good bacon, black pudding, fried bread, eggs (omelette, boiled and fried) tomatoes, a cheese and ham selection, cereal, drinks, fruit, croissants, cakes biscuits and it goes on!
I was worried about the evening meals because the reviews were bad but it was great. 4 or 5 different meats/fish a night with pasta, chips, roast pots, potatoes and veg. they did very good quality meat like steak and shoulder of lamb. There was chicken fillets in sauce. Chicken nuggets occasionally for fussy kids! And burgers etc. All very hot. Lots of salad items and fresh tuna and mackerel. Lovely puddings too. I couldn’t of asked for better food.
The one thing we didn’t like about the hotel was the fact that the staff didn’t become your friends very quickly. Because the hotel is SO big there is not that personal touch. This was our fault with booking such a large hotel. We usually like a bit of banter with the bar staff and receptionists but this didn’t happen here. They were all so professional.
The location being on the beach was great. We started using a beach hut style café for drinks in the day but soon learnt it was cheaper to upgrade to all – inclusive for the 2nd week cuz the beach is so close to the hotel we went to the pool bar to get drinks! We have never been the sort to use the pool, but I must say it was so busy in the day we wouldn’t have found a bed unless we went down really early anyway. If you are young girls/lads looking for a hotel then you must know that the area around the hotel is very quiet with only a few small family bars close by. But a 5 minute taxi ride to Bellvue is 3 – 5 euros (depending on taxi company) and there is lots of bars, discos and entertainment there. Cheers at Bellvue is for families until 12ish then the doors shut and it becomes a disco.
We didn’t feel that the staff were strict enough about the towel on the sun loungers rule! We went downstairs one morning to see that all the beds were taken and it was only 7.30! the sun wasn’t out yet! But guess what – hey were all German! The foreign visitors at the hotel were all pleasant apart from the German!
But apart from the little moan above I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and so did everyone else! I was very sad to come home and now have the holiday blues!
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| Condesa de la Bahia: BRILLIANT by Jacqui Spence |
| Posted 06 August 2004 about a visit in June 2004 | Overall rating: 8.5 |
We have just spent 2 weeks at this hotel and came back yesterday 05/08/04 and it was great, its the first time my 8 year old daughter has got upset about leaving a hotel and coming home. The best thing about this hotel is the location - perfect for families and beach lovers. The food was a bit hit & miss but not because it was bad but they were catering for British, German and Spanish families but beware the free coffee tea and fruit juice machines you can use at breakfast cannot be used at evening dinner, you need to order your drinks off the waitress. Staff can be a bit brisque at times but they do have a schedule to keep to.
There was a good mix of English Spanish and German families. The entertainment reflected this. We had seen some of the contracted in entertainment before at the lagomonte 2 years ago.
The hotel rooms are small and not much storage, but it was adequate and not a problem to us, we didn't go there to be in the room all day. The bathrooms do need updating and to be better ventilated.
Because the hotel is next to the beach alot of sand does get into the rooms via beach towells etc ... but the marvellous domestics do their best to get rid of it each day.
Overall the hotel is clean the staff are helpfull (especially Sybelle), rooms adequate - our room (275) had a brilliant view accross to the port of alcudia. Food was standard fare. Entertainment was good. My daughter loved the Thompson kids club and the hotel daytime activities. We would definately go back again.
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| Condesa de la Bahia: Disappointed by Martin Waite |
| Posted 07 July 2004 | Overall rating: 8.0 |
This was the second time the family stayed at the Condesa. We wanted to return to the hotel mainly because of its location to the beach, the kids club and the local bars and restaurants.
With respect to each of the above we weren’t let down, our balcony view was fantastic, we were directly above the poolside restaurant on the 3rd floor, and so had a great view of my son playing by the children’s pool and a great view of the beach.
We were unable to view the night time entertainment as a tree blocked our line of site to the tabled area (which wasn’t any loss as every night I thought we were part of the Eurovision song contest) the entertainment wasn’t what I had remembered back 5 years ago, there seemed to be more of a British bias then and that meant a better entertainment package. In 2004 the hotel entertainers (from Sweden) all had to address the nationalities in there own language which is why I likened the night to Eurovision. They were however very friendly and tried their best.
The room was as expected small and cramped but we new this before booking. The maid service was first class and even cleaned up after our 7 year old which wasn’t expected but made us very grateful. You’ll need to take many coat hangers with you as we had a total of 6 and as you’re expected to wear trousers to dinner your likely to need them.
The TV was a joke. In this day and age of 500 channels plus all we had were CNN and BBC News. No kids channel and no other entertainment channel although the majority of the guests were British (we are from Wales) the stations were all German and Spanish (why Spanish I don’t know) at least with the kids channels available if you wanted to go back to your room for a sleep the children could keep themselves occupied
If like us you have a plug in mosquito killer plus a radio you’ll find it hard to reach a power point so if possible get yourself I cheap extension lead from Ikea before you depart the UK. Bathroom was OK although the shower in the bath was old and broken.
Bar service was as you would expect from the Spanish, they seem to forget that tourism is their bread and butter so a friendly smile and polite service is what’s expected but rarely given (the language barrier isn’t the problem just look at the Greeks, Portuguese, Turkish very friendly people)
The worst part of our holiday was the restaurant. We encountered many a guest unhappy with the menu
Breakfast was the best for me although you only got a good breakfast every other day as the (you can only take hot dog sausage for so long) eggs were scrambled one day and horrible or fried the next and excellent, I spent most of the time with honey on toast.
And forget the cereals, when you pay thousands of pounds for a holiday you don’t expect to get the cheapest breakfast cereals on the planet (with warm milk) my son (who’s not a good eater anyway) wouldn’t eat anything other than marmite toast and we supplied the marmite.
Evening meal I have mixed emotions regarding the evening, ALL of the food was cooked very well, again its just the selection, if your like our family the last thing you want to happen is have a stomach bug while away so because of that thinking we were unable to sample most of the rice, fish, paella type meals available every night which left very little else, The cooked meats didn’t look that appetizing either and there is only so many under cooked chips you can force down. Again the children’s choice was VERY poor THOMSON should know children’s eating habits by now and should have addressed this issue as it was a problem 5 years ago as is today. Suffice to say we ate out most days, what I cannot understand is how small local bars and restaurants can serve great food at a great price but the MAR group of hotels finds this a real problem. And it wasn’t just the British eating out most nationalities were unhappy.
The kids club My son gave the club 5 out of ten, he isn’t one to want to site and draw in an air-conditioned room for two hours so maybe this wasn’t for him. He did enjoy the company of other children and found the Thomson reps really friendly. He did bring back pirate hats and loads of drawings so he must have had some fun, although the 3 video games machines in the hotel lobby area was a bigger pull and drain on our resources, and if you want to keep in touch via email you can make use of the computers in the lobby for a few euros
Over all the holiday was great, the reason it was great was because we new what to expect, we wanted a room overlooking the beach and pool and we got it, we wanted a good base so we could tour Majorca by car and we got it the beach was FANTASTIC as expected and my son and I spent many hours playing on the best beach around. The Thomson reps in the hotel were the best we have come across they put on the best welcome party we have seen and deserve more support from the hotel Mar group. The reps commented that the Spanish tourist board has really got to pick its socks up if it wants to keep us all going back year in year out, there are many holiday destinations offering better service than Majorca these days and at a cheaper price. Majorca hasn’t changed the way it does things for many years and even loyal visitors like us will not return until the island learns a few tricks from its competitors
Regards
The Waite Family
South Wales
UK
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| Condesa de la Bahia: Happy Families by Mark Stubbington |
| Posted 26 June 2002 | Overall rating: 10.0 |
Just came back home today, (24/06/02) whole family loved it. We have two young boys (18mths + 3 years)
The pool was clean although we hardly used it because the hotel was on the edge of the beach. Restaurant staff were always friendly and helpful with Paco greeting us eveyday and paying perticular attention to our little boys. We loved the restaurant layout and the special buffet for the children. The buffet food types changed every day and never had to eat the same types of the food during our 14 nights. Our room looked out onto the pool, but we had excellant views of the sea.
The sandy beach is very child friendly, with it's gentle slopping seabed which had sand ridges which allowed you to first walk into warm ancle deep water which would slowly deepen to about 4 feet before becoming shallow again, it then did this again before slowly getting deeper. You could walk out about 200 metres without getting out of your depth.
Evening entertainment during our 14 night stay was always differant. With the acts to suit all ages. We found the Hotel had a mixed aged group and handled it extremely well. Plenty for the children to do in the kids play park. We are defernately going their again next year.
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 Condesa de la Bahia: kids meals |
| 23 Apr 2008 by Beth Wodznska |
hi there
i have two sons one who will eat anything and everything and one who is a fussy eater what is on the menu for the fussy eaters???
As he loves pizza and chicken nuggets etc
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