Calella, Hotel Osiris

Been to hotel Santa Monica few times and going back next year. Love it, especially entertainment. Fantastic hotel. Love arriving there and hate leaving. Hoping to move to Calella area in the near future. Only criticism is that sometimes food not hot enough.

Great service from staff at the Hotel Osiris, pleasant and helpful staff, room are great especially as the holiday was so cheap, very suited to families in my opinion! There are no bad points.

I would recommend the Hotel Osiris in Calella de la Costa for anyone of any age (families), and if you didn't have a great time at this hotel then I would be very surprised, as the food was good. The facilities (Sauna, jacuzzi, roof terrace, the pool, and the bar etc.) were excellent, and we were treated with respect by staff and guests alike.

We have just got back from this holiday from hell. I have got to say the Hotel Osiris is the worst hotel I have stayed in and I have stayed in lots of hotels. This hotel has a rating of 3* and I am puzzled as to how it has got this rating. The rooms are very dated, poorly decorated and very badly maintained.

When arriving at the Osiris at 3am we were greeted by reception staff that was rude and very unhelpful. We got our key and went to our room the lifts were broken and we had to carry our luggage up 5 flights of stairs the lifts were out of order on and off throughout our holiday. There were 2 drunken men asleep on the lobby floor which we had to step over to use the stairs. (No wonder they did not make it to their rooms). When we got into our rooms the lighting was not working we had to go back to the reception to log this as the phone in the room was also out of order. We was told this would be fixed within 48 hours it took us 25 minutes to explain to the receptionist that this is unacceptable we ended up having to share a room with our friends.

It was fixed when we made a scene in reception in the morning. The toilet flusher did not work there was no towels and once we finally got some they had stains on them (blood). The water that came out of the tapes was brown but ran clear after about 15 minutes all of the bed linen was dirty. We dared to eat in the cafeteria as we would call it, the staff was rude they snatched the plates from you before you were finished. The food was the same everyday bland undercooked and poorly presented. We all had stomach upset by the second day and did not eat in there again although we did go to see how poor it was each day. Most of the bar staff were rude.

Calella de la Costa, Hotel Osiris - I've just got back from a week at this hotel. It was a good hotel with lots of entertainment for the kids, but not much for the adults unless your enjoy flamenco dancers and women in nothing much but a g-string. The food wasn't very good but at least you could get something decent from the snack bar. The downside was the kids couldn't take food, i.e., ice cream, from the snack bar and eat it outside. You couldn't relax by the pool and watch the kids because, 1) everyone took all the loungers and 2) kids kept throwing balls around the pool.

Before our arrival at the hotel Osiris I must admit I was more than worried after the reviews I had read. But my girlfriend and I had a fantastic week there.

First Impressions Are superb the reception is more like a 5 star hotel, it is modern and air conditioned so we were both in high spirits. That said the rooms were not up to the same standard, but who goes on holiday to spend all there time in the room? The only problem we had with the room was the loud, crazy Germans next door who kept us up a fair bit; the walls are thin so take ear plugs!!!

The food was decent, after a week you will be a bit fed up of it, but it was always well cooked, and there was salad and fruit aplenty so you never went hungry. Never got up for breakfast so can't really comment on that.

The free bar is always a bonus, the beer tasted a bit watered down but eventually did the job, none of the other guests seemed to be loutish and rowdy from drinking to much, everybody was pleasant and having fun. The bar staff are moody though and occasionally rude especially the Van Nistelrooy look-alike watch out for him.

If you get the opportunity go to Barcelona it is unbelievable. Also take the excursion to the Medieval Castle it is a night you shall not forget a real laugh and a bargain for 10 euros.

The hotel Osiris is a good clean hotel; we had a great time, and would not hesitate to go again. Enjoy...

Where do I start....The Hotel Osiris is certainly an acquired taste. Noisy, grubby and full of lager louts and foul mouthed families, it was a huge relief to come home. 10 nights stretched our patience, 14 nights would have been slow, painful torture.

On arrival we were faced with an unbearably hot and stuffy shoe box of a room (no air con) that smelt faintly like an overused ash tray that had been left to fester. This was after lugging our cases up 4 flights of stairs after finding lifts didn't work.

The following day, after being neither impressed nor dismayed with the food on offer (we hadn't set our sights very high!)we investigated further...good sized pool for families, which is a shame because the roof terrace, just for adults, only had 3 small Jacuzzis, which on sampling, were actually warm, smelled very strongly of chlorine and one didn't quite dare to think what the other strong aroma could be. Add to that sticky green felt flooring throughout, grubby loungers and cigarette ends liberally scattered - idyllic it is not.

Other amenities included an over 18s area inside, which consisted of a gym, very small indoor pool, bowling alley and table tennis. Also 2 saunas and Jacuzzis which were divided in to men and women - no mixed sexes. All of these facilities were ok, but really could have done with updating, especially the pool which was warm and not very well lit, with no window or obvious ventilation, which gave the impression of being in a muggy dungeon - bizarre. Also, although specified as 18+, we never managed to get on the table tennis as was full of kids - constantly!

Meal times were akin to feeding time at the zoo - each man for himself! Breakfast a nightmare, the noise levels alone are enough to perforate an ear drum, but serious damage could be done by the thrashing elbows and fists as hungry guests clamoured to have the last sausage! We soon gave up on breakfast and visited the snack bar mid morning - not much variety but peace and quiet won in the end!

Getting a good nights sleep there is impossible - unless like me you resort to fashioning ear plugs out of make up supplies and leaving the TV on all night. It is a fair comment that a lot of the guests at The Osiris have no consideration for the other guests and are worse than a rowdy bunch of teenagers on their first holiday aboard.

Gringo Joes, down the road, was a great bar and restaurant though, but the owner was right when informing us the locals refer to the Osiris as The Zoo....

One last thing - both I and partner developed an unsightly rash over our entire bodies, which unusually was at its worse first thing in the morning as we woke up. Strangely enough, the rash subsided when we spent the night in Barcelona, and reappeared on arrival back at the Osiris. One dares to think what was crawling in those bed sheets, although looking at some of the other guests, it really is no wonder.

I would never go back there, even if somebody paid me. The highlight of the holiday was as the coach pulled up outside the take us to the airport...

The Hotel Osiris was brilliant, I really enjoyed going there, the food was fantastic and the pool is perfect for people of all ages. The staff were really really kind and helpful.

I had a Very good holiday at Hotel Osiris, brilliant for the price. Would love to go again. Staff were great, especially animation staff. Only down side was noise and not much variey of food-lots of pork.

What is left to be said...Our holiday at the Hotel Osiris in Calella de la Costa, Costa Brava was the best holiday i have ever had, I would reccomend it anyday infact im going to book online now........Espana here we come. Time for us to make our SALIDA excuse me POR FARVOR and as allways GRACIES...............................Ben and Sarah