Holiday Club Caribia

Poor
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : We (family of 2+2) have stayed at Scandic Eden Nokia Spa hotel last 3 Eater holidays. This year we decided to try another hotel - Holiday Club Turun Caribia which is more than 50% more expensive so the expectations were higher. I will compare those two hotels as rivals: + location very near to city center of Turku and beside to Super park (kids inside playground) + nice K-market just 200m from the Hotel opened 7:00-22:00 + very good breakfast with a big selection of everything also for gluten free / vegan people + dedicated swimming pool (16.7m long) for swimmers and aqua aerobic + large jacuzzi for more people and space for swimming for kids + outdoor swimming pool with a warm water (in Nokia is much colder water outside) + 2x quite long slide with tubes that you sit on + we have had quite big family room
  : - you have to pay for everything here: 14 Eur/day for parking, 2 Eur per stay for bathrobe, you have to pay for phone call to reception for booking/rebooking, information!- Our room does not have a window...for that price! Yes, it was written that with Superpark view, but they did not mentioned there that there will be no real window to outside world, and you have to check weather on internet as you cannot see outside if you need a raincoat or not... Price for that kind of room is too big without real window, it should be at least 1/3 cheaper.- very cheap and hard toilet paper- old bathroom with the cheapest shower hose/head where the flow of the water was super weak- no heater/radiator element where you can dry your wet clothes. Come on, this is a Spa hotel, so they should anticipate this situation that family of 4 have a lot of wet bath clothes...right?- very weak / not functioning Wi-Fi (our room was on very edge of the hotel - n.244) so I have to purchase 4G SIM card from Finnish mobile operator.- a very long distance from the room to outside world with the dog, it will be better to have a room much closer to the entrance- ALL POOLS HAVE THE SAME DEPTH = 130cm, so there is no possibility for smaller kids (6-12 years old) to learn how to swim safely, or just stand there and relax, or for example throwing/catching the ball. (I do not count the pools for babies) --> so main 2 pools, swimming pol, outside pool, all have the same depth- distance from the sauna to outside cold/cool small pool is too far (ca 100m), where first you have to cross whole inside pool area with 1 level down, and then another 30m to the pool. (in Nokia there is small cold pool from the sauna just 15 steps! far away).- as a hotel guest once you enter the pool area, you have to walk across the pools, via the showers back to the changing rooms...crazy...you cannot enter the changing room first.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : Room, bathroom value for money
  : Check in took some time as there were only one staff member to take care of the reception and lobby

Fair
Traveller Type: Business Traveler
  : No refrigerator in the room, no any possibilities to make a cup of tea or coffee. Nobody cleaned the room in 2 days.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : The pool area is good.
  : Room is very small for the price.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Breakfast was full of options, really liked it. The timing was suitable. It was really good to see food options for little ones, so happy about it. The indoor activities were good enough to relax and enjoy the weekend.
  : Pool opening time and breakfast time were overlapping. I would like to first get into the pool in the morning before 10:00, and then get the breakfast. Somehow the pool opening time is 10:00 onward.