Estival ElDorado Resort

The accommodation boasts excellent facilities, prime beachfront location, friendly and professional staff, high cleanliness standards, and varied, delicious breakfast options. However, the indoor pool requires turnstile entry.

This hotel deserves to be upgraded to a five star! I have never been to a hotel where the buffet food is so good. The variety is amazing and you are offered the best quality cooked menu. Apart from this the snack bars are fabulous! My daughter and I used to go have breakfast, I would generally have fruit, a yoghurt and perhaps some cheeses. Jo would have the cooked breakfast which included a variety of sausage, cooked tomato, beans, fried, scrambled or omelette for eggs. Around one we’d walk to the beach cafe which again offered a variety of well cooked foods. I loved the seasoned half chicken with some salad where as jo would have the homemade burgers and chips. One day I had salmon and an avocado salad. It was delicious. There are a few beautiful beach areas to to enjoy. They were just putting up the umbrellas when we were there so this is going to look lovely once the season opens. A variety of waterspouts available at a cost next to the beach bar. The bedrooms are spotless spacious and modern. The shower cubicles are huge and there is both a rain shower and a hand held shower. Entertainment was good, a variety of different acts. Staff were top notch we loved them all and there are countless members of staff to name ! All incredibly hard working and would bend over backwards to help you. The grounds if the hotels were breathtaking with olive trees and wisteria arches to name a few. We were out of season but I can only imagine how beautiful these would be in bloom. Pool areas again a variety with free Bali beds!! Yes free Bali beds if you wanted one and are lucky enough to get one. The indoor pool is lovely but you need to wear a swimming cap. €3 available at the reception. Great gym and also different classes eg spinning if you’re that way inclined Everything spotless and they cleverly cordon off the areas so there’s no reserving beds at 7 o clock Situated on the far end of cambrils you can take a leisurely stroll into this beautiful town. It’s about a half hour gentle walk. But not taxing and all in the flat. You can get a bus into salou if you fancy a change of scenery and the bus stop is located at the furthest end of the harbour. It’s €2.50 for a bus ride or you can buy a pass for €10.50 from the Bus Plana shop across the road from the bus stop. Added little extras are things like just tapping your room key at the dinner hall , none of this looking for your name on a register. Obviously the way try cordon off the pool do there’s no reserving beds which is my pet hate as it leads to annoyance! Ok there are one or two things that could be better. Firstly there should be welcome trays of drinks on arrival. When you’ve been travelling you are usually so thirsty and thus would add to your welcome. Secondly saddly the shower, shampoo dispenser in the bathroom hardly allow you to get any product out. They would be much better with the upside down squeeze out bottles or addressing the ones they have as they were a waste of time. Thir

Visited with my husband and two young children. First impressions were good, we were significantly delayed and arrived late a night. The reception staff gave us food and helped us to our room. Room was spotless and cleaned everyday. We had a junior suite which was spacious for 4 people. Some parts of the room need some TLC but it didn’t impact us at all. Food was OK. The main restaurant had plenty of variety, however we personally found the food choices were the same every night. We never noticed any themed nights which was a shame. The food was also poorly labelled, we found this hard to navigate with my daughter’s food allergy. Snack Bar over by the Splash Pool/Park was good. As you’d expect, a small selection of fast food and fresh food. Entertainment was good and there was a mini disco for the children every night too. Cambrils is a minimum 20/25 minute walk away and there is nothing else around so bare that in mind if you’re looking for a bit of atmosphere. This isn’t a negative but one thing we found this hotel caters for a lot of Spanish families. The main restaurant doesn’t open until 7.30 and entertainment doesn’t start until 10pm. We were OK with this despite having a baby and 4yo but definitely something to be aware of if you’re thinking of coming here with little ones who eat early! Negatives: We did find that some staff were not very friendly and quite hostile at times - service with a smile and some manners really cost nothing. The “walkway” (if you can call it that) between the Main Pool and the splash park is absolutely atrocious and needs fixing ASAP! On our first day, we thought we’d walked out onto the street but it was the connecting walkway to the Splash Pool/Park. The steps to walk across this area are incredibly dangerous and there is no pram/wheelchair access which we found incredible difficult having a buggie!! This area needs updating ASAP as it’s an accident waiting to happen! We ended up walking from the main hotel via the beach front but you shouldn’t need to do this if the walkway was safe enough. As a whole, we had a good holiday and I think with some improvements this hotel has a lot of potential but honestly, there are better places to visit. Jet2 should not advertise this as a “luxe collection hotel.