Hotel Panorama in L'Estartit

Stayed a week here in June via a Jet2 package holiday. Good position near the sea front and near a choice of shops and food places. Friendly staff who worked hard to make this a pleasant experience. Reasonable sun bed area and adequate pool. Limited food choices for meals and quality not the best. Higher cost than some similar hotels in the town. Our room was a reasonable size with a large TV, 3 beds, balcony and a dated but working full size bath with overhead shower.

Booked as a solo traveller some weeks ago, and the ONLY room left was a single occupancy on the 6th floor. Despite emailing the hotel a number of times in the weeks before my holiday asking for any possible upgrade to a sea/pool view room, there was unfortunately no opportunity to upgrade. I was going in a little blind as there were not any photos or descriptions available for the room I had booked. Arrived at 10:00am, and had to wait until midday for room to become available. When entering the room it was noticeable how small it was, but not really intending to spend much "awake" time in the room I was happy to make do - until I opened the door to the balcony! NO view at all even though on the 6th floor, other than a maze of fire escape stairs coming down from the upper floors, or the solar powered/air conditioning littered rooftop of adjoining buildings. Who is at fault for marketing this accommodation - the hotel, or the travel agency? Room: Good aircon, no English speaking TV channels, no tea/coffee making facilities, had to pay for use of the safe! Wi-Fi was a little sketchy and dropped out whenever moving from room to room. On a positive note, the hotel was exceptionally clean, especially in the Dining Room, where the attentive staff cleared tables and relaid with fresh linen within seconds of the diners moving on. The food however in my opinion was extremely limited/repetitive, unless of course you like pasta and/or chips! Being diabetic it was pretty much salad all week! Along with the salad, which of course you would expect to be cold, all other supposedly hot food was tepid at best. The dinner dress code was non-existent with football shirts, baseball caps, vest tops, and crop tops being the norm. Come on hotel, a few of the ladies clearly made an effort to dress up but they were in the minority! The pool area was pretty good, with no need at all to get up early for the "towel on the sunbed rush", and if there was not a lounger available there was always the fabulous beach a couple of hundred metres from the hotel. Evening entertainment around the pool every evening was not representative of anything Spanish, which was a shame - a man with a synthesiser playing dodgy tunes! As you would expect, the greater majority of guests were either Spanish or French, which is fine, however the English being very lazy and relying on staff being able to speak English, are going to be bitterly disappointed. Would I visit this hotel again - probably not - which is a shame. However being fully booked all summer they clearly do not need to do anything different!