Blaumar

My wife and I stayed here for 10 nights in October 2015 along with a group of 9 other golfing couples. All of us are of a certain greying age!
The hotel was excellent. Its positive features include its position across the road from the excellent Salou beach. You walk out the door, across the road and onto the promenade. The hotel Blaumar is situated at the quiet end of Salou away from the frankly tacky northern end that is awash with souvenir shops and Irish bars. Salou itself is a fine resort during the off-​season. We are of an age that thinks it would be a nightmare during the high season, full of screaming kids and drunken louts. We are of the greying retirement brigade.
The hotel was spotlessly clean, from the lobby, to the pool area to the dining room and particularly the bedrooms. The showers in the bathrooms are to die for. Big walk-​in shower trays with overhead power spray. I am definitely having one installed at home.
The air conditioning worked brilliantly and left the bedroom almost too cold to enter into on even the hottest of the nights. The room safe was secure if a little expensive at € 50 for the stay.
We were on a half-​board deal. There were two main problems with the food in the Blaumar Hotel. There was far too much of it and the variety was too great. We are only human and made of flesh & blood. How are you expected not to overeat?
I put on so much weight during those ten days that Ryanair almost asked me to pay an overweight charge on the trip home. Come on Blaumar, get it together and teach us some discipline.
The building is not without its faults. The locks on the sliding patio doors in the bedroom would not work and the extractor fan in our bathroom did not function. However a quick mention at the front desk was all that was needed to have the faults rectified inside an hour. Well done Blaumar!
The beds were a little too hard for my liking but that is a bit too picky.
The free wifi was available everywhere throughout the hotel. However at peak times it was a bit dodgy due to the number of users. Four in the morning saw the network easily available and fast. Perhaps its time for the hotel to increase its bandwidth.
The hotel is situated on the main bus route from Cambrils to Tarragona, € 15 for a T10 ticket gives a couple commuting rights for two days at least. The train station is a short walk away and about € 15 is the cost of a single ticket into Barcelona.
I have no hesitation in recommending this hotel and have every intention of staying here again.