ALEGRIA MARINER 4 *

A super hotel in Lloret de Mar. Stayed here for a week and would easily return in the future. There is a spacious reception/ communal sitting area. Off from this is the pool area, with 20+ sun loungers, seats and parasols complete with it's own drinks/snack bar. The pool area is clean, spacious and cleared/cleaned everyday. The accommodation flies are all accessed by two lifts. The rooms are a good size (for a couple) with a generous-sized bed, wardrobe, table& chair and an en suite shower room and WC. The rooms are air-conditioned (works!) and a small balcony accessed via a sliding door. The balcony has two chairs and a table. The rooms are cleaned daily and towels, bedding and tissue replaced as required. The housekeeping staff are very friendly and attend the rooms with a minimum of fuss. Below the main reception floor is the dining room. We were bed and breakfast. The dining area is easily capable of seating guests. The selection of food was excellent: if you can't find what you want to eat here you must be hard to please. Overall, an excellent hotel with a 4-star rating that easily delivers a 5-star experience.

This was my second time staying at the Place Mariner by Alegria and it’s great to see that they’ve improved the hotel even more over the winter period. The staff continue to be excellent- competent, friendly and efficient. I stayed in a sea view room and it’s was really fantastic to chill looking out down to the beach and the sea. In the late afternoon and early evening you can see the many cruise ships sail by from Barcelona heading to the French Riviera. The Place Mariner is adults only and the clientele is from all over Europe and that’s fantastic- you don’t have to worry about sun bed hogs running down at the crack of dawn to reserve a bed. There’s none of that nonsense at The Place Mariner. The rooms are spacious and the bathrooms have a big shower and nice toiletries. The breakfast is excellent with an extensive continental selection and cooked Spanish & Catalan favourites along with the usual Eggs and Spanish Bacon. The hotel bar by the pool is very fairly priced and the staff are very friendly too. The pool is lovely- is really deep at one end and if you get in it early enough you can do lengths. My only criticism is that the sunbeds are cheap plastic and pretty flimsy- if you are a medium build man or heavier the chances are you’ll struggle to lay on them. On the plus side there are nice seats by the pool and it can be funny to watch men die of embarrassment when they sit on the beds and they sink in or go down on one side. This is the hotels only downfall.