Villa Romana

i went to the vil la romana for 9 nights 23 of june till 2nd of july i was travelling with my 9 year old son i really liked this place and thought salou was nice aswell the hotel bedrooms were clean and not to small the food was good but the restaurant got busy and with lots of people moving around there is an accident waiting to happen the pool is lovely the only down side was when i arrived i had to spend the first night in the belverder as the vil la romana was full this annoyed me as i had booked i january but i am not the type to shout on our return the following day they thanked me upgraded me to full board gave me a free safe for the week and free parking for the car which was generous of them my son loved it here and we are returning in october

ian bradley, birmingham
Family with Children 11 and Under

i had the best time ever there it was amazing i would deffintley go back :)

megan, england
Family with teenagers 12+

I have to say this is a hotel to be recomended - not only are the facilities superb, the staff are second to none and nothing is a problem. Having stayed in Salou on 9 occasions and heading back for our 10th visit this July, the Vil.la Romana is by far the best place we have stayed. We have used three other accommodations, one of which was also a hotel of the same rating, but found it not to be so comfortable for a family and more suitable to older couples perhaps without any children - not so family friendly. The other accommodations were of a self catering nature and were happy with those but having stayed at the Vila.La Romana 3 times already and looking forward to our 4th, by far it was the most enjoyable holiday of all. Location cannot be faulted and the restaurant staff in particular cannot do enough for you to welcome you. I would highly recommend it to either couples or families alike and my extended family are now returning with us for their second visit this summer so they also feel it is a holiday worth repeating.

Mrs C O'Gorman, Waterford Ireland
Family with Children 11 and Under

This hotel is very clean, the quality of food was reasonably fine (chips for breakfast !!!) Location of the hotel is handy for the theme park and the Salou town centre.

Andrew Shepherd, Heysham, Lancashire
Family with Children 11 and Under

this hotel is very clean friendly, food good. i and my wife were there in may 2006again in sept 2006 also may 2007 as this is a very good hotel we hope to go again next year 5*****

MR F GREEN, NORFOLK UK
Mature Couple (36+)

great hotel really enjoyed our stay, alpharooms just so easy to use. thank you for everything

colette o hare, ireland
Family with Children 11 and Under

Prior to going to Salou, I had read the reviews concerning Vil.la Romana. And I admiy I was a little nervous because I had always gone through a travel agent before. But thankfully the efficiency of Alpha rooms and everything else just fell into place perfectly. We arrived at the hotel myself, husband and two sons 13 and 10. And WOW, we were very pleasantly surprised!!! The positioning of the hotel is perfectly situated and only walking distance to Port Aventura (the theme park) we had three wonderful days there, the hotel was definitely 4 stars just like it boasts. The food was lovely. The room was just what we needed - cleaned every day. Toiletries supplied, a balcony, tv. A little bit small for a family but so what you only use it for sleeping in!! The hotel has a disco in the evening which was entertaining just to watch others enjoying themselves. But we strolled into Salou most evenings to enjoy a drink in the pubs, visit the Thistle and Rose!! Really nice couple who own it. Dont hesitate to book through Alpha rooms - booking this hotel, you will have a lovely holiday guaranteed!

veronica edwards, wrexham
Family with teenagers 12+

The rooms were very basic and if the kids were older they would have been too small. The rooms were adequate .....but the food and other facilites were great! Our kids aged 8, our daughter, and 11, our son, just loved the place.....with the fantastic friendly staff and the facilities of the indoor pool with jacuzzi and sauna and the outdoor pool with the the island and all the beautiful palm trees they had the time of their lives. The activities laid on were excellent with an interested and enthuastic staff and the evening entertainment was professional and attention grabbing....so much so that we had to leave the beach area every night to be home by 9.3o,,,,,not a bad complaint. we met lots of lovely dutch people and middle england and scottish and welsh people and we all had the same to say about the hotel... We`ll be back. Points of Note; There are no blocks on the computers available in the computer room so all is available to your children. A great place for all your family to visit but things are finished by midnight for those of us that are used to staying up a bit later and maybe singing a song or two as would be in line with our culture and having a bit of a craic ya know!

ann mason, ireland
Family with Children 11 and Under

This Hotel is excellent. All the staff are friendly and the rooms cleaned every day and new towels daily.The food was varied and hot and always plenty. This is the second year we have stayed here and we will be going back again.

Graham Fearnley, Warrington
Family with Children 11 and Under

When we arrived in Salou it was raining & the airport looked bleak, but when we rolled up in the taxi to Vil.la Romana were very pleasantly surprised as it looked like an "oasis in the desert" - very attractive in outside appearance compared to the surrounding hotels & lovely warm terracotta coloured buildings. The approach to the hotel is lovely with a small roundabout & monoblock driveway with a bright welcoming reception area, which is vast, clean & tidy with plenty of seating (previous reviews of the reception area quoted tatty old leather sofas which have now been replaced with nice comfy, modern red sofas). The reception desk had plenty of hotel & local information available in several languages & staff always available & very helpful with good spoken English.We got a morning call from reception at excacly the time we specified every day which was great.

The hotel corridors are very bright, clean & attractively decorated (lovely tiled floors), rooms have a sophisticated card swipe entry (which also works the electricity in the room)& are very clean, modern & spacious with nice blue & yellow colour scheme. We asked for a triple room & had 2 enormous (comfy)single beds together & a double sofa bed which was folded out & made up. The bathroom was lovely with complimentary toiletries, plenty clean soft towls, marble effect fittings, huge mirror & plenty room for the 3 of us to be in there all at once! Unfortunately the shower head fixture was broken so we had to hold it by hand. Large mirrored wardrobes (containing a safe)provide adequate storage space + a dresser & chair with TV (lots of channels including sky news & CNN)Balcony was small with a view across to PortAventura from the front, with plastic furniture which was OK on this occasion as we didn't really make use of it, but if staying for 2 weeks in Summer, could be better. Make sure you get a 3rd - 5th floor room for a "glass" fronted balcony otherwise it's solid concrete, would also advise a room on the opposite side from above the bar as this will be quite noisy late in the evening & you WILL hear it in your room. Air conditioning was effective & surprisingly quiet which allowed a comfortable sleep. Sometimes quite noisy late at night along corridors outside room, but this is to be expected in a busy hotel of this size.

Maids did not start their room cleaning rounds until after breakfast (11am)so you weren't rudely awakened from you bed if you didn't need to be.

Barbara Fitzpatrick , Stirling, Scotland
Family with Children 11 and Under

Stayed at this hotel for 8 days, overall I don’t have many complaints, good location to beach and theme park, very clean with a maid service everyday and clean towels if required, the pool area was always cleaned after the days events before the staff set up for the evenings entertainment.
Most of the staff were friendly but did find the reception staff a bit off and always had long queues. The rooms were nicely decorated and a good size with extremely good and quite air conditioning, with nice size bathrooms and, which brings me on to my first complaint the showers!! If you wanted a shower between the hours of 6pm-8pm (which most people do) then you would need to expect a cold one, we complained a few times only to be told that we were turning the tap the wrong way, I never once had a hot shower and neither did my family who were staying on other floors within the hotel.
The only other moan I have (and this may just be my taste) is the food I have no complains about the breakfast as there was plenty to choose from and the freshly made omelettes were great, it was the evening meals that I found hard to stomach most of the meat was pork or veal only the odd occasion we had chicken but everything was either in a stew or a thick salty sauce which I tried a few times but it all ended up tasting the same. The vegetable were fairly varied but the pots weren’t, just sliced with either bacon one day or leeks the next.
In the end the smell from the restaurant was enough to make my stomach turn over and we ate out for the rest of the holiday.
The restaurant is very big therefore gets very busy, you have to battle through the crowds just to get back to your seat with your meal.
I have stayed in a 4 star hotel in Majorca last year and the standard of the food there was excellent I use to look forward to going for dinner and never wanted to eat out we also were allocated the same table for the duration of our stay which was a nice touch.
So if your not to fussed about food and don’t mind cold showers then this hotel is worth a visit.

Mrs L j Cureton-Burgess, Essex England
Mature Couple (36+)

I am a family man who had never been to mainland Spain until the family holiday.
The rooms were well appointed, with a nice bath room.
the hotel was lovely, the staff were fantastic, they made a great fuss of my childen.
There is a good kids club and the pools are great.
The food was fantastic with a great choice at every meal.
You can usually judge a holiday on how well the children ike it and enjoy themselves. My son (5yrs) has not stopped sking if we can go back to Saluo to stay at the Villa Romana.
I would have no problem recommending the hotel, and have already done so to many of m friends and family

D Hart, Blackpool
Family with Children 11 and Under

My wife and I have recently returned from a 1o day stay in the villa romana and we can honestly stay that the hotel and its facilities were certainly worth the reviews that have been written by previous guests. As described by Alpha rooms, and also in tour operators brochures the villa romana is about 800m from the entrance to Port Aventura Theme park. It is a slight uphill walk on the way there but at least its downhill when you are feeling tired!!! The hotel is also about 800m from the beach and is well located for all bars/restaurants/shops but not that close that you hear drunkards returning home. In fact the only noise we heard after 23.30 was the theme park nightly firework display. The hotel rooms are well presented and kept spotlessly clean by the maids. There is a large balcony and also a clothes airer which is great for drying your towels/swimwear. No towels hanging over the balcony! Whilst the room was plenty big enough for the two of us I would suggest that it may be a squeeze sharing with teenage children. If you want a pool view ask for even numbered rooms i.e 3202/3204 etc. The hotel caters for all nationalties and there were large groups from the UK as well as France and Germany. The pool area is a good size and kept in a clean condition. There are about 250/300 sun loungers which you cannot go on until 9am and another good thing is that the lifeguard will not allow people to put towels on loungers and then disappear for the day. At about 10.30 he will go around the pool and remove towels from loungers where there appears to be nobody around. Now to the food. We were on an half board basis and the food was excellent. It was buffet stlye for breakfast and evening meals but there were also chefs available to cook fresh pancakes and omlettes in the morning and steaks/fish/pasta etc in the evenings. There was a wide and varied choice everyday and the quality was very good. Evening entertainment was provided and was typical of holiday hotel entertainment. The hotel also had a games room inc table tennis/pool etc. There is a large luggage area for your first/last days and shower rooms with towels provided. The reception staff were very friendly and helpful and could speak many languages. All in all an excellent time and a hotel we would have no hesitation in recommending.

Steve wightman, Telford/England
Mature Couple (36+)

excellent hotel, attentive staff, superb resort.

David Luckett, Portsmouth / England
Mature Couple (36+)

When arrived we were told the booking was cancelled, which was down to the hotel, phoned alpha rooms and they sorted out the H10 Saluris Palace next door which was much better then the Villa Romana (stayed there last year).

Dean McNeill, Great yarmouth, England
Family with teenagers 12+

On arrival at 10am we had to wait for a room until later as it was not ready which was a bit of a pain as we had travelled through the night and not had any sleep. We went back to reception which was clean and bright and has large comfy sofas at the given time and the room still wasnt ready (after 2pm) and we could see reception checking spanish guests into their rooms so perhaps a bit of favouritsm there. The room was clean and slighlty larger than others we have had in spain although clothes space is limited (take extra hangers). The beds were very comfortable and the childs sofa bed was excellent. The meals all buffet style were excellent and we were never short of something to eat, every night a salad selection different meats and vegetables a carvery joint and stir fry although the kids choice was limited (nothing like pizzas or speciality for them). Breakfast has the best selection we have had in a hotel for a long time. Fresh omelettes and eggs fruits and cereals and hot and cold buffet items. The pool is excellent indoor and outdoor enough sunbeds for everyone and towels can be hired for 10 euro deposit each. The entertainment was better than the usual standard. The restaurant staff and bar staff were helpful and friendly. We would definately recommend this hotel and will stay there again.

Tracey Allport, Retford England
Family with Children 11 and Under

it was brilliant. everbody was so nice and friendly i really felt comfortable.
it has also a great location as the hotel is not far from the beach and the town centre.
the food was enjoyable every day.
the pool was very clean and safe.
the rooms were always clean and tidy.
i will be back this summer 100%
the hotel itself should get a star rating of 5*.

Vivien, Derry/Ireland
Young Couple (18-35)

Hotel certainly merits its 4 star rating. Rooms very spacious with fresh towels daily (if req'd) rooms tied daily, always very clean, and linen changed twice weekly. Cleanliness of reception areas etc also could not be faulted.
Wide variety of food available daily from the buffet stations (salads, several hot foods etc) as well as the facility to have food prepared as you waited. Meats, fish etc cooked by the chef as you watched!!!
Hotel is central for all main amenities with good bus and rail links to all surrounding attractions. i.e. Barcalona, Tarragona, La Pineda etc.
Port Aventura well worth a visit for kids of all ages!!!!
Would recommend anyone staying at this particular hotel.
Gold star to alpharooms too for the very simple but efficient method of booking accomodation. I don't think I will use high street travel agents again.

Ian McLean, Wishaw/Scotland
Mature Couple (36+)

This hotel is in an excellent position, ten minutes walk to the beach and 10 minutes walk to Port Aventura theme park. The hotel is also very close to the train station where you can get a train to Barcelona which takes 1hr 20mins.
The hotel is very clean with helpful staff and good facilities. It has a nice bar area with comfortable seating, internet access and a small games room. We did not use the outdoor pool as we was there in April, but we did use the indoor pool, where there is also a steam room, sauna and gym.
The dining for the hotel is buffet style with a good choice of food for everyone. There is also chefs cooking omlettes etc for breakfast and fresh fish and meat on request for dinner.
I would highly recommend this hotel and will be going back soon.

Rob, Kent/England
Family with Children 11 and Under

We really enjoyed our stay here. The staff are friendly and helpful. On arrival we had plates of food and drinks waiting for us in our room. The rooms were very clean and attended to every day. The dining facilities were good and, apart from my 6 year old, we found it difficult to choose our selection from the menu. The 'in house' entertainment was enjoyable but not for more than 1 or 2 evenings. The hotel is in a good location, only a short walk to Port adventura or the beach. Loungers at the pool were easy to come by (the outdoor pool was not for the fainthearted) and the indoor pool surrounds were very slippy, and the sauna/steam room not available. I would recommend this hotel.

Rhona Duncan, Dundeee/Scotland
Family with Children 11 and Under

reception facilities exellent
room facilities exellent
dining facilities exellent
bar facillities execellent
very good service from all staff
who are friendly and courteous at all times
all age groups are catered for
from families to singles and mature couples
facilities are readily available for disabled persons
there are two swimming pools /
outdoor "with a lifeguard" on standby
and an indoor heated pool jaccuzi and sauna with a fitness room and keep fit programme
it is very near beach /shops all within walking distance
and a theme park near by
I really enjoyed my stay
I plan to visit and stay in "VILLA ROMANA" again
it is really 4* Hotel

G M Gribbin, Belfast/ Northern Ireland
Group of Mature Friends/Couples

we had a wonderful time, and would definately come again. Food and service was lovely.Evening entertainment was excellent and we throughly enjoyed our stay.

catling, england
Family with Children 11 and Under

Hotel location is great if you are going to Port Aventura as it is only up the road (900m). Otherwise a long way from the beach. But the beach is packed anyway so maybe worth not going to Salou for the beach. Instead take you car to Cambrils or even to Tarragona which is lovely.

The food was very good with a good choice and something for all ages. The hotel itself was clean but the main antrance hall is full of sofa's which really ned a clean and make it look shabby. We found it a bit strange that they only clean the rooms every other day which is not standard.
The staff were ok and fairly friendy.

Watch out if taking a car as you will end up having to park underneath the hotel at 35 euros a week as the other spaces outside ar all taken by other tourists going to Aventura.

We are non-smokers and we found the indoor entertainment a bit of a nightmare with the level of smokers around and this spoiled a lot of this element for us.

Although clean and friendly I would not go again as, although this is supposd to be a 4 star hotel, I would rate it as 3/4 star.

Peter, Norwich / England
Family with Children 11 and Under