Lunch at Amaika

We grumble a little about the food at this hotel but most other things are fine. H Top Hotels have 13 hotels in Costa Brava and they allow guests to freely visit the others in the group. There have courtesy buses constantly traveling between hotels and other places of interest. You do have to book the day before if you want lunch at a different hotel and can only book 2 days in advance but it is free to dine there. If you have a drink at the bar your all inclusive card doesn’t work so you will have to pay. This is a shame as that would put the icing on the cake for this chain. Monday we booked in at the Amaika hotel in Calella further down the coast from Pineda de Mar where we are staying. There are 6 4 star hotels in this area so we have booked 3 others for lunch to try so we can compare them for other travelers.

The Amaika is a smaller hotel and not right on the beach front so the views wouldn’t be so good from the rooms. The pool is quite small and on the ground floor near reception which seemed unusual to us and not much seating or lounging area around it. What the hotel lacked in position was certainly made up for by the food which was excellent. On arrival in the dinning room we were shown to a table and served drinks at our table rather than queuing at the restaurant bar as we do in ours. The girls had Cokes and Claire and I both asked for red wine. To our surprise the cokes were in bottles and we shared a bottle of red rather than the draught Coke and carafe in ours. They had a very good choice of fish, meats and vegetables along with the normal salads, soups, pastas and sweets. They even had a chocolate mousse which we all enjoyed and Claire said it was just like her favorite school sweet. As there were no seats left on the bus for this trip I had to drive so Claire found herself polishing off the rest of the bottle on her own. This is why she had a little sleep upon our return to our room.

W had a little look along the beach at Calella and then headed back to our beach. It was very rough and windy but it didn’t stop the girls having fun. It was quite dangerous as it was so easy to loose your footing with the strong backwash and we nearly lost the girls a couple of times.

The entertainment at the hotel was a little more unusual than the first two nights starting with two guys dressed as Knights in a very realistic sword fight. We were showered with sparks several times and the girls ran out of the room for cover. Some children were literally hiding under the tables but everyone had astonished looks on their faces. It’s a shame I was so busy watching to think of getting the camera out. Likewise when they got four unsuspecting show off guys out of the audience to compete for a girl by dancing, stripping and seeing who could kiss the most girls from the audience in one minute. Of course, I won!