Ca'n Picafort, Stil Clumba Mar Hotel Review

Overall Rating

Close enough to the beach without being too close, a 2 minute walk. All inclusive drinks were good. Hotel was clean.

The food was poor, always cold even if you were the first people up to the buffet. The food on offer was very repetitive and you could almost predict what there was gonna be especially the puddings which was always: fake cream "fluff" cake and fruit salad. The foods didn't go together so you would end up getting things like mussels with mashed potatoes and squid rings and new potatoes. The quality of the kids food was low (nasty chicken nuggets and fish shapes). The bread rolls were nice and fresh on the first day, ok on the next day and then stale on the third and then you were safe to eat the rolls again after the 3 day cycle.
The staff were really miserable and rude. They would always finish their own private conversation before serving you and then go back to their business. The more elderly customers seemed to be better treated however but this seemed to be because they were tipping quite highly.
The maids were very noisy with their turbo charged vacuums in the morning crashing against your paper thin doors and walls as early as 7-8am
Lounge lights go off at midnight (as well as balcony lights) which means you have to finish your drinks in the reception.
The rooms are very basic with horrible mattresses and not much room. They don't even have a hairdryer in them (12 euros a week) and a tv is another 30 euros a week.

To start off the holiday I just have to say the coach trip from the airport was a nightmare. We were led to believe it'd be 90 mins at the most but some 3 hours later we finally got to our hotel at 11pm.
Last orders are called at 11.50pm but they switched off the coffee machine before and didn't serve me. Was this due to me asking for one the night before?
The drains in the bathroom would really smell bad somedays but not every day.
There was a strange dress code in the dinner room at night which meant men couldn't wear shorts (or anything other than full length trousers), vests or hats/caps even though it was just a buffet. However in the same room for breakfast it was ok to wear shorts and vests. On my last breakfast i tested the rule by wearing a cap for breakfast and was made to remove it strangely enough and as punishment or coincidence I was put on the table next to the plate cleaning station. There were no rules for what women could wear in there though and it was ok for a woman to wear just a bikini.
We asked at the reception about how much the key for the safety deposit box was and instead of an answer we got the receipt written out for us. 22.50 euros to which we only got 5 euros back which was tight.
The thomson rep that did our greeting was only interested in one thing, selling us the pirates trip which just happened to be the mot expensive trip too. After our nightmare coach trip to start with we really didn't fancy doing a trip but we were made to feel that we couldn't leave without putting our names to something as she said she'd be back. We somehow sneaked off and then she never said another word to us.
But to leave on a high note..... the bacon in the mornings was really nice and the pilot was brill on the flight home.