Good room, great view over the old town. Checked in straight off the bus as the room was ready at 11am. Helpful friendly staff. Will definately stay again

The Hotel itself is very Italian. It' s not what you would call a very modern hotel, but it was nice. The breakfeast in the morning time was ham, cheese, tea and coffee. The Hotel is close to the cento storico which is the main area. I advise people looking to go to Alghero to rent a car before they go, because it can be difficult to get around. I will say one thing negitive about the Hotel, on our last day there was some building work going on in the Hotel. I rang down and asked them at reception what was going on. They laughed and told me the hotel (in part) was under renovation and hung up. It was 8am. I dont think he was trying to be rude, but i was really mad. There was nothing done about it. Finally I have to say the place and hotel are truly the Italain experience.

We visited Sardinia back in June but stayed on the Costa Smeralda side. Travelling back to the airport, we arrived at the town of Alghero with 3 hours to kill. As we drove in and passed the beach I thought how lovely it looked. Then there was the marina and then the old town. I couldnt believe how everything was within walking distance: beach, promenade, marina, the old town with all its history. So we returned to stay in Alghero on 17/18 August. The town lived upto my expectations for a weekend break. We wanted to be in the centre of things and the Hotel Catalunya was perfectly placed, clean and comfortable and reasonably priced. The view from room 709 (yes the same room as the 'boshan' review) was spectacular. As a hotel guest we were able to use the 'Holiday Club' private beach 15 minutes walk which was a great bonus. A great town to visit for a weekend break.

Stayed at this hotel for a 3 day w/e break in August 2007. The room was pretty large but quite basic, the double bed described was actually 2 singles pushed together. The mattress' were quite firm but comfortable. Didn't like the rather hard pillows though. The bathroom is quite large and well equipped (shower over bath though). My main gripe about the room however is the totally inexplicable lack of shower curtain / screen. Why ? It just results in the bathroom floor becoming totally flooded and you treading water through the rest of the room. Infuriating. The location of the hotel is probably its strongest point. Its literally 2 mins walk to the old town (the nicest part of Alghero) and about 10 mins walk from the beach. The hotel is situated across the street from a nice family oriented park which plenty of benches and swings etc for the kids. (and yes, you are just round the corner from the city jail which we had a great view of from our 8th floor room !!). Overall, I 'd say not brilliant, but not dreadful either. Really just very average. The Breakfast buffett was a little poor too. Plenty for this hotel to improve on would be the message of the day.