Hotel Molí de l'Escala

Sehr schönes Boutique Hotel. Ein Haus mit Seele, wo die Leidenschaft des Inhabers für Perfektion ganz neu dimensioniert wird. Tolles Konzept: klein, aber fein ist dort in jeder Hinsicht perfektioniert. Exzellentes Essen. Super Service. Sehr tierfreundlich. Gerne wieder und mit Sicherheit etwas länger um die Gegend zu erkunden. Für uns ein Geheimtipp.

Estuvimos varios días alojados como base para visitar la región, excelente elección ya que es un establecimiento muy cuidado y donde todo son atenciones a los clientes. Habitación perfecta con cama muy buena y amplio baño donde no falta nada, tranquilidad absoluta Desayuno muy completo y atención del personal perfecta. Además se complementa con un muy buen restaurante para disfrutar de una cena perfecta. Vale la pena visitar y disfrutar tanto del hotel como del restaurante

Un gran descubrimiento. Un lugar de categoría a un precio súper razonable !

A beautiful place. Was well looked after by the staff. Breakfast was amazing. Only 10 mins walk to the beach.

This is a very nice hotel in an old beautifully refurbished flour mill. It's located just outside of L'Escala but very much within walking distance from the town center or beaches. It also sits on local walking and biking trails so you can start them from your doorstep. We booked a superior double but ended up in a junior suite. This particular junior suite is not in the main building but in a separate building adjacent to the outside dining and lunch area. We stayed there in the offseason so there was no outside eating but I can imagine that in summer the terrace causes a lot of noise when you are in your room and people are eating and chatting right next to you. The room is fitted for disabled people with a ramp, a large open shower but also a toilet without any separation from the rest of the room. The mattress is on the hard side and wifi is not super but it does the job. There's also a safe, a fridge and a sofa. I don't know the high season prices but the low season prices are actually on the low side so for us this was a bit of a steal. To top things off: there is also a high end restaurant for fine dining on site.

Moli de l’Escala promotes itself as a “hotel gastronomic” which implies, to me, that the culinary experience is above average. I found this to be very far from my experience. The hotel breakfast was well below acceptable levels. The first day (a Monday, which perhaps explains the following) featured no fresh fruit at all, but an assortment of canned fruit. The second day had only one plate with fresh fruit and again mostly canned fruit options. Every day, the orange juice was from a carton. The pastries were somewhat dry, possibly a day or two old. Cold cuts were also dry, although the cheese selection was acceptable. No hot food was offered to us, and only the third day I was asked if I wanted something from the kitchen (such as eggs) which up until that point I didn’t even know it was available (I am a native Spanish speaker, so it wasn’t a matter of not understanding – it simply wasn’t offered). Breakfast goes from 10AM through noon, which is a terrible span as it cuts the morning and interferes with lunch. It should start at 8:30 or 9:00 at the latest. Worse, it is offered only outside which during a 90-degree sunny morning is most unpleasant because most of the tables are in the sun. I asked to move from an already-set table in the sun to another, not set, that was in the shade. The waitress told me I wasn’t allowed (?). I spoke with the manager and promptly was moved, with apologies, to the empty table, which suggests that some of the staff isn’t properly trained or has an “I can’t be bothered” attitude. Was it that much work to move a couple of plates? Still curious about dinner, I made a reservation for one of the nights. My appetizer was fried anchovies “Roman style” which had a pretty oily and soggy batter. The main dish, which was for two, consisted on a pot with a boiled lobster (that had virtually no meat and, because of being boiled, a rubbery, tough texture); snails (again, not very tasty and boiled), and meatballs (?) with a sauce that didn’t taste very good, perhaps because of the clashing mixture of ingredients. The dish was described as an old recipe of “poor folk” and it certainly tasted that way. I am all for “interesting” dishes that are also “delicious” but interesting for its own sake without regards for taste is not the way to go. The dining room is attractive, however, and the night staff seemed considerably more professional. Still, for the price and quality, the restaurant and the whole experience left much to be desired. The hotel room was large and comfortable, but the location is very inconvenient. While the building itself is charming, it is adjacent to a main artery and a roundabout across the street from industrial/commercial spaces and far from the beach, so the location is not conducive to the beach experience that is the core of a Costa Brava vacation. Will definitely not return.