The 15th Boutique Hotel

"We just stayed at the Boutiqye 15 hotel this weekend. Things started out well enough but soon worsened. Positives- the hotel seems to have been refurbished fairly recently. - the staff at thevrestaurant are kind and courteous Negatives- at midnight, number of drunk guests wandering through the corridors - at 1AM, a staff member who called himself Abdel (or Abdoul), burst into our room whilst my wife and I were sleeping with one of said drink tourists accompanying him. - Abdel seemed to think it was hilarious the sight of myself and my wife running to the door in our underwear to stop them from entering as during this entire episode he was opening smiling and laughing in my face - clearly this drunken guest had forgotten their room number and stated that they needed yo access our room to the front desk. Very clearly, Abdel either didn’t check the hotel’s register or had received no training on how to use it - on top of the absolutely disgraceful nature of this intrusion, the unwarranted and uncalled for breaking into our room was performed whilst ignoring a do not disturb sign on the door and, more importantly, without knocking or any form of notification - we checked out immediately"

"The hotel is nice, with friendly staff and good food. Rooms are minimalist, clean and tidy, and our ensuite (501) was quite compact with a sliding door, and hand basin outside, so in the room. As others have noted the view from the balcony is nothing to write home about (see photo). Our shower door leaked badly in to the room, but this was vastly improved following a responsive maintenance visit. The TV had BBC News. The location is good, around 5 minutes walk from the seafront via a retail street, with a good choice of bars and restaurants. Weather was low 20's and mainly sunny for us. The pool is attractive, but very small - particularly as half of it is very shallow for the steps in. It's really for show and cooling off, not swimming. I imagine it would be difficult to get a space in peak season. Note the pool got afternoon sun in early October. We walked the coastal path in both directions - 14kmto Tossa one day and 11km to Blanes the next. Paths are undulating with steps and slopes (so wouldn't be suitable for mobility impaired) but very attractive. The bus back is 2 euro 60 per person single. We travelled with Easyjet to Barcelona and would caution others about the transfers. They tell you "you might have to wait up to an hour" and that the estimated journey time is "1 hour 40" but for us we had to wait nearly 2 hours before we departed (we got to the transfer desk at 2015, were told the earliest transfer was 2150, and it didn't actually leave until just before 2210). The journey time was also well over 2 hours in each direction. Also note the bus drops you in resort on a main road opposite a square which is 3-4 minutes walk to the hotel. When we were dropped (at gone midnight in the dark and rain) the driver couldn't even point us in the right direction! Overall a good minibreak, but if we were to return would use Jet2 in to (closer) Girona."

"Lovely accommodation, friendly staff and an all round good holiday.The rooms were cleaned and towels changed daily. Food was very good with so much choice. We ate breakfast and dinner. Swimming pool and sun deck were clean and tidy. Bar area was a nice relaxing space."