Apartamentos Cala d'Or Playa

Just returned from a week in October, the last week of their season. Here’s some good and bad opinions on the hotel - Good - great location, 5/10 minute walk to mostly everything! Loads of shops close by for the essentials. This part of Mallorca is beautiful! Beaches/coves are stunning. The hotel pool is small (not sure you’d get much space in peak season) and there is no deep end…perfect for me, a non swimmer, as the water never went higher than chest height. Kids enjoyed the slides, they are on the smaller side but still enjoyable. Clean and decently modern apartment. Kitchen has everything you would need for easy meals. Toaster, small hob, microwave, fridge & all the utensils. Washing up liquid & cloths all supplied. We stayed in a ‘superior’ apartment & the balcony was great! Huge! We had an outside table & chairs for 4, 2 sunbeds and a drying rack. Loved it. The air con works throughout the apartment and worked well. Cleaners come every other day to make beds and change towels. The upside of visiting the last week of the season is it’s so quiet! No rush for sunbeds, they were available all day. We had lunch by the pool which was nice and reasonably priced, 4 meals 6 drinks €58. Bad - Arrived at 3am to a miserable man on reception, no pleasantries whatsoever. Really off putting for that to be your first impression of the hotel, especially at such an ungodly hour after a day of travelling with kids. The shower pressure is non existent, feels like someone slowly pouring water from a watering can on you. No vanity area to get ready, I like to take my time and relax when getting ready to go out so really missed somewhere to sit and look in the mirror. There was a mirror hanging in the bedroom but no plug near for dryer/straighteners & it’s too high up the wall to use a dining chair to sit and use it. I guess they mean for you to get ready in the bathroom but it’s just not enjoyable once someone’s had a shower - too humid. Pool freezing, I understand it’s late October so we were asking for it really but it does take your breath away. Also no floaty signs around the pool, this wasn’t enforced during our stay but I wonder if it is during busy months? Be aware they do not allow the floaties that have the netting to sit in…we were asked not to use this due to kids getting tangled. Poolside very slippy, saw a few people bodyslam the tiles. I told our kids to walk slowly & they didn’t fall…but for smaller kids who get easily excited I can see this being a problem. My husband found the beds too firm but I thought it was comfortable enough, I was cold during the night & the sheet wasn’t enough, I got down a blanket from the wardrobe but it smelt really musty so didn’t use it. We found the 4 medium towels provided just weren’t enough for 4 of us after showering (myself and my daughter need 2 each - body & hair) so we resorted to using our beach towels which wasn’t ideal. You can tell this is the last week of the season, the sunbeds are pretty