Hotel Cartago Nova by ALEGRIA in Malgrat de Mar

Good location. Loud at night and incredibly hot the whole time even after leaving the room key in and the AC on all day... miserable and I'm from the Texas coast where I am used to hot and humid weather. This was worse than sitting on my porch in July...the food was unimpressive and I urge you to think twice before booking unless you intend to get incredibly drunk, party at the disco and sleep naked...

Having just spent 6 nights here i certainly wont be returning. We never expect fancy rooms when we book a budget hotel but i do expect to be able to get a good nights sleep. The room was basic and outdated but clean. The beds were very firm and comfortable. The biggest problem here is the noise. The walls are literally paper thin. There was a fella in the next room to us having a conversation on the phone and we could hear every word the person on the other end was saying! We were woken continuosly every night by other guests in their rooms chatting, laughing and shouting. Also right outside our door in the corridor near the lift was a couple of comfy chairs. So not only are we listening to people in their rooms, we have people sitting down right outside our door chatting away till all hours. We didnt get 1 full nights sleep. We included breakfast in our booking, we tried it twice and it wasnt great. We ended up going elsewhere and managed to find a fine breakfast nearby for reasonable money. The day we arrived, was the day that Spain, Portugal & France had an electrical blackout! This didnt bother us at all as we were still able to relax outside, have a few beers etc, however we arrived back at the hotel after dark and had to use the stairs to get up to the 8th floor, thats no problem as we use the stairs a lot anyway. BUT...there was no lighting whatsoever all the way up, 8 flights of stairs in the pitch black. Our phones had no battery left and no way to recharge them so we were in complete darkness. After finding and feeling our way to the room we realised just how dangerous this was! Surely there should be some kind of backup, especially on the stairs! There was a hotel just down the road that had full backup power running, so much so that they even had a disco going! Anyway, that was our experience. We have stayed in plenty of budget hotels and know what to expect usually but on this occasion we were very disappointed.

We lived here for 5 days, on the positive side I will say that it was delicious and cleaned every day, as well as a good location. But this hotel had more cons than pros. First, we did not sleep for 5 days, because there is a disco under the hotel, the music played until 4 in the morning. In addition, there were groups of children who were also restless. The noise isolation here is simply terrible, you can hear everything around you! During breakfast, we were once rudely treated because we did not finish what we took with us. The number does not correspond to the reality in the photo. Everything is old and in need of repair. In general, I do not recommend this hotel.

The location is amazing and that’s about it. The rooms are clean and that’s nice but the rooms have no bed comforters and at night it gets cold. And then you can hear all the noise from the neighbours above, below and next door. And they are not even being loud on purpose. Somehow the hotel thought it would be a great idea to have a disco in the basement that doesn’t let you sleep at night. You walk into the lobby and it’s banging with music up into your room. Very frustrating because I did not get any rest! . The hotel has friendly staff in overall nevertheless they did make a big fuzz when I wanted to fill my water bottle. Found it very snarky it is just water and they are promoting that they are a hotel that contributes to the environment. I have never experienced that in a hotel as a guest they treated me like a thief. Very embarrassing