Bahia Blanca♡

Great family holiday for the more mobile

10.0

Just arrived home after 10 nights in 2 adjacent apartments. For us, these apartments were brilliant. Very roomy, full kitchen with large fridge with a freezer box, washing machine, microwave and full size oven. The terrace was large and had a great view out to sea. I think we had 3 room cleans during our time which was fine for an apartment, we just washed the towels ourselves if needed. To stay here you do have to have no mobility issues as it’s on a hill. Our room was on the 5 floor with partial access via the funicular. Many times this was busy and is slow so we walked to the room. From the pool to our terrace was 176 steps so be warned, even from the funicular if you used it there was still 40 steps. Now thats out of the way I would recommend the hotel and we will return. The rooms are great, the pool is a good size and generally there’s plenty of sunbeds, however there’s always families who reserve way more than they need just in case one of the kids wants to sit down for 5 minutes. If you get to the pool by 9.30 you should be ok for a couple of beds. We never ate there but that was our choice rather than anything good or bad. For us the location was perfect, 500m in either direction was Puerto Rico beach or amadores beach with all the restaurants there. Close by is also the europa centre but that is a horrible uphill walk as we found out once and only once! Get a taxi there and stumble back down the slope later. A few bits of info that may help anyone else going, any prices rounded up. Taxi to Mogan mall was €6, Europa centre was €4 Anfi was €8, Puerto Mogan was €18. The expensive one was palmitos park which was €42. We caught the bus back from Palmitos to Puerto Rico which was €14 for 4 of us. There are buses to Palmitos but there’s lots of stops and quite often standing room or no room! It’s worth speaking to the bloke at the europa centre, stews excursions as he runs a coach to Palmitos a couple of times a week, we didn’t use him just because the days he went clashed with other plans we had. Next time I would use him. We ate out in Puerto Rico, amadores and Europa centre, there’s plenty of choice but no recommendations from me as each to their own on food. We never had a bad meal. Only slight grip for us was we had an evening flight with pick up at 6pm but could only have got a late check out until 1pm at €10 euros an hour for each hour after 10am. You can use the facilities for the day but the shower/toilets by the side of the pool is the only place to get changed and these floors get very wet during the day. Not a major deal in the end for us as we spent the last day exploring Puerto Mogan. All in all a good stay.