Объективно Objectively

Good day everyone!
I want to share my trip to Spain on the Costa Brava, the Pineda Palace Hotel **** in the town of Pineda de Mar. Somehow I used to be somewhat skeptical about hotel reviews on the Internet, i. There were reasons for that, but not this time. For this hotel and the town as a whole, all the reviews read were completely true. I will be objective without exaggerating.
Positive points: the hotel is quiet, the main visitors are Germans, French, British, Spaniards and Russians (there were few of the latter, or maybe we got into such a race), the hotel is located on the first line from the sea, the train and pastime places for citizens and tourists - all a stone's throw. Several spoken languages ​ ​ that are in use are Spanish, German (more than half of the town's population lives in Pineda), and of course English. On the roof of the hotel there is a swimming pool (adult and "paddling pool" for the little ones) and a bar. Almost the entire set for swimming can be purchased 10 meters from the hotel (masks, fins, snorkels, boards, circles, mattresses, goggles, swimwear, etc. ). At the reception there is always a Russian-speaking hotel employee who can give quite intelligible answers (an ardent fan of FC Barcelona). The work is well done with the attached guides and the organization of excursions. I also liked the work of the animators, both with children and in adult-children's teams. There is no noise from discos at all. there are none. I would like to note that it is better to buy a bonus card at the reception for service at the restaurant upon arrival, it will be much cheaper than buying drinks at the bar at lunch and dinner, especially since a lot of alcohol (wine and beer) on the card is at a zero price, not to mention already about soft drinks such as Coca-Cola Sprite or Fanta.

Exciting moments: at the entrance to the hotel, the “air conditioner” did not work in our room and the balcony door did not close with a latch (it’s also a lock) (I fixed the door with a knife and a toothbrush in 10 minutes, and the called master (who came h / h day) brought everything to normal working position). The restaurant's cuisine is extremely specific, there is very little "edible" for our taste and stomach, although the citizens of the united Europe "crack" all this with obvious pleasure. There are practically no places in the town where one could wander around and see local sights - a purely residential area, with a monotonous cafe and shop strip along the coast. My son and I rented bicycles and we traveled almost the entire town in search of interesting places, but alas, there were none. The beach, in principle, is not bad, but the constant wind from the sea abundantly brought all kinds of garbage to the coastline. For room upgrade (ie sea view or city view) 25 Euros, they also try to charge 25-40 Euros for TV remote control.
Thus, who wants a quiet "vegetable" holiday, then Pineda Palace (4 stars) is what you are looking for, but at the same time you will need to think about your variety of food (but not in the cafes of the town, because the food offered there is made from semi-finished products or from heated "freeze", and of extremely dubious quality. After visiting one of them (after that we stopped the experiments), we had to announce a toilet day in our family. This hotel does not correspond to its declared 4-star status. But in principle, it is quite suitable for quiet rest at night in between excursions and beach holidays.