The Gran Palas, a 5 star hotel on the Costa Dorada

The core of the town of La Pineda Vila-seca already has its first 5 star hotel. It's the Great Palas Hotel, located a few meters from the beach, especially between the streets of Racó Camí, the Acequia Mayor, Paseo de Pau Casals. This hotel belongs to the group SL Insagra Uno, owned by the family Salas-Graset. It has 102 rooms, all themed and different from an average area of 21 square meters. It also offers various spaces for congresses and conventions and is also a Spa & Wellness.

The hotel is split into two basement floors, ground floor and two upper floors. In the construction materials are the natural stones, tropical wood and glass. Offers 10200 square meters of gardens with natural elements of water and tropical plants and native Mediterranean. Guests can choose between rooms Classic, Junior-Suites Garden, Junior Suites Delta; Mediterranean Suite or Gran Palas Suite-Master, a unique suite with two rooms, the most luxurious amenities and excellent views of the pools and gardens hotel, the beach, the promenade of La Pineda, and Tarragona. Among the services the Gran Palas Hotel include fitness areas, and Wellness Spa with body treatments and beauty, relaxation and music therapy. Includes 5 sensory suites (Rasul, Banya, Tatami, Ayurveda, and Colors), 5 cabins “Acqua Rituals”(Vichy Ritual; Chromohidrojet; Ritual Hydro Gourmet with Cleopatra milk or chocolate nuggets; the Hydro Deluxe Ritual with baths of wine or champagne and the Concerto Ritual Spa wrapped in chocolate, fruit or algae).

As for the convention hall, conference and banqueting facilities has capacity for 1000 people, and can be divided into 11 unique rooms, all with private entrance, coffee break area, access to gardens and equipped with all the necessary infrastructure to perform any particular event or business. As for restoration, the offer is very varied and distributed in the spaces Racco; Moss, who will experiment with a cooking show that puts within reach a variety of dishes; Teppan, based on the type of Japanese cuisine with the same name and with prior reservation; and Brasserie Brass with the best in the area outside the pool. By the time of relaxation and have a drink, the lobby bar offers a superb selection of spirits enlivened with piano music. Other notable services include golf simulator, mini-golf, rooms for activities (yoga, pilates, aerobics, etc.). Library, nursery and children's pool, the indoor pool with Jacuzzi and water jets, and pool outdoor sand beach and tropical timber.

The inauguration of the Grand Hotel Palas was Saturday May 23 at a ceremony chaired by the Mayor of Vila-seca and president of the Diputación de Tarragona, Josep Poblet, and the president of Insagra Uno Indaleci Salas López. At the opening ceremony was also attended by among others, the rector of the University Rovira i Virgili, Francesc X. Grau, president of the Audiencia Provincial, Antonio Carril; the head of the Territorial Innovació, Universits i Empresa de la Generalitat, Àngel Xifré, members of the Municipal Corporation of Vila-seca, the Mayor of Riudoms, Josep M. Cruset and several deputy mayors of the municipalities of Tarragona and Salou, the president of the Hotel Association Salou-Cambrils-La Pineda, M. Eugènia Arbo, the president of the CEPT, Joseph A. Belmonte, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Tarragona, Albert Abelló and deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Reus, Xavier Colom, as well as a large number of managers in the tourism sector of Vila-Seca and the Costa Dorada. © im365

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