Augusta Club

The Hotel Augusta Club is a 3 star hotel so bear that in mind when booking with regards to what you pay as Tui and the hotel consider it to be 4 star which it most certainly is not. A nice lobby and reception area does not make a great hotel. Firstly, I must say the staff are wonderful, mostly friendly with the odd exception (hello Mr show cooking chef) and are clearly worked very hard. We upgraded to a double room just because two single beds pushed together can be annoying so it was nice to have a double bed ;). The room was very small with only one power socket in the room and one in the bathroom. The furniture consisted of one chair, one small table and one bedside table. The built in wardrobe was fine and housed the safe which you must pay thirty euro's ten of which is a deposit and returned at the end of your stay. The lights can only be operated from one side of the bed and it is hard to get around the bed without knocking into the wall mounted television. No tea or coffee making facilities in the room and no fridge either. The bathroom is dated but everything works and it has a bidet. A small point, the toilet paper is good quality and you never feel like you're going to run out. The balcony is small and as the hotel is about a mile from the beach it doesn't offer any views to speak of. The cleaners are fantastic and kept the room very clean and tidy and the bed was made beautifully everyday. The restaurant is a big minus point as it is clearly not big enough for the size of the hotel. Breakfast is served between 8 and 10 and offers a reasonable choice with a passable fried breakfast. Plenty of fruit, cereals and cakes are available as well. Dinner is served between 7:30 and 9:30 and is not a pleasant experience. It is so busy you can't just wander in and sit down you have to queue and wait for a table to become available. The overall feel is like a rushed meal in a packed cafeteria and it's a relief when dinner is over and you can go and get a drink and relax in the bar. The spa will cost you ten euro's to use so we didn't bother as the local beaches are fantastic. Lloret town is a bit of a dump but well equipped with many shops and bars and offers great transport links from the bus station which is a five minute walk from the hotel. Lloret is a party town and by night didn't feel very safe, we saw people openly doing drugs on the beach and everyday you could hear police sirens. The main beach at Lloret will be packed so it's worth getting a bus or walking the few kilometres to the next beaches which are beautiful and well worth a visit. It's worth noting that if you travel by coach to the hotel you will be dropped about 100 metres from the hotel and have to make your own way. And also the wifi is free and covers the whole hotel.

Having made the decision to stay at this wonderful four star resort with a spa, based solely on the pictures and it’s facilities I feel the urge to write this honest review. On arrival we had to wait three hours to check in to our room with a balcony, such is life and we did have the chance to leave our luggage in the locked luggage room, only trouble being, when we to fetch it nobody knew where the key was and maybe it was unlocked! Luckily it wasn’t and eventually another guest arrived with the key so we can retrieve our bags. The room, we’ll that was impressive, I could barely walk past the bed without walking into the wall mounted tv and the balcony gave us a lovely view of a corrugated tin wall that’s in my pictures. The safe in the room could have been the best safe in the world but they wanted four euros’s a day to have the key, first hotel I’ve ever stayed in that wanted that but hey ho. The spa, indoor pool and Gym. Part of the appeal for this hotel was the indoor pool an spa, at least if the outdoor on is busy you can have a swim, only trouble is, despite being part of the facilities and not mentioned anywhere in the literature, you can’t use it, well unless you want to pay 10 euros a day to get in it and then pay, as you’d expect, for any treatments on top. The gym, had a few exercise bikes, some even worked, a cross trainer, two running machines and a worn out dumb bell bench with a few bells. If you really wanted you could go to yoga on the beach in the mornings, again it’s in the facilities and features and supposedly only ten minutes walk away, but again that’s extra and with the wonderful beach front, that’s a cross between Blackpool and Benidorm only with more neon lights, rammed to capacity I can’t fit the life of me see where you’d manage to be. On the plus side the bar staff and good fella’s and it’s cheap to have a drink in there, even if you are like sardines in the outside seating/pool area. All in all it isn’t the best place and just because you’ve put four stars at the end of the old sign on the roof and tidied up the lobby it doesn’t mean it really is, could be two if you felt generous and squinted at the bad bits. Not recommended if you want peace quiet and a wellness centre as advertised and don’t think your holiday company will help you at all while your there because we never saw the rep and they didn’t bother getting back to us via there 24/7 helpline until we got back to England three days later.