I decided to read up on this hotel and looking at the overall scores I booked the holiday for Oct 2011. I have to say for a budget All inc holiday, this has to be one of the best holidays i've ever had. I've stayed in some all inc 5* hotels in the past and this place beats them on value etc.

I really don't understand how people can give this place a bad review. All you need to do is look at the fab reviews that people have wrote and see it for yourself.

The hotel rooms are clean and tidy are modern. I have to admit they are small, however since we spent most of our time out and about we never noticed this to be a problem. A must for me is the air con, which we enjoyed when it was hot and best of all it was free! I'd ask to be checked in at the back of the hotel as there is a childrens park next to some of the rooms. I'd done this when booking and we had been placed on the 4th floor at the back of the hotel, which was perfect.

The food was the best part. Most of the reviews did not really mention what the hotel had to offer on food. The food was varied per sitting and this included fish, chops, steak, pork, local dishes, salads, pizza, chips, rice etc. Better still they had a calvery each evening, which included yorkshire puds. You could also grab a bottle of wine to add with your meal.

The bar was great and all the local drinks were included. They evan had a small range of cocktails to choose from as well as tea and coffee. However the tea and coffee is not a patch on home. If your on holiday to escape the kids, try the roof top bar where they are banned. Bliss!

The entertainment was not my cup of tea, however some of it was worth watching and for what one dosn't like another will love.

Overall we were very impressed and we'd defo go back again!

was a bit worried when we arrived as only us three got off the bus at the hotel,but soon realised that the rest of the bus was missing out.the food,staff and entertainment at this place are second to non.lots of variety at all meal times and all very good quality,staff/bar staff very friendly and the entertainment,well worth going just for this alone.a bit away from the beach but a nice walk,and the front of salou is beautiful.walked it back from portaventura park loads of times,had to stop off at a great spanish bar(caminitoes)near hotel though to replenish fluids.would definately go back to villa marina

I am well into double figures staying in this hotel and again I am booked to go anothe twice next year the hotel is spottlessly clean,with great food and an excellent staff with a wondefull work ethic wher nothing is to much of a problem for them,allied to this the entertainment staff entertained from early morning to midnight with 5 star quality shows,they were all brilliant but my particular favorite was dan who with another of the entertainers did the blues brothers,the manager Lindsey and assistant manager Ivanio cant do enough to make your stay enjoyable,and as the song goes it is the hotel where everybody knows your name.

What a dump. The first room stank of smoke, which was no mean feat when it is a non-smoking hotel. The sink was in the same the room as the beds and the bath was the length of two pieces of hand luggage.

The second room looked out onto a rooftop, which had a broken chair on it and was littered with paper drinks cups. Some broken planters with dying plants in them formed a barrier to the end of the rooftop and the one story drop. And it is just as well as on the second night some guests got onto the rooftop, just outside our window and started urinating against our bedroom wall. They then climbed back through an unlocked window back into the corridor. It will only be a matter of time before some drunken guest, and drinking is all there is to do there, falls off the roof.

The ‘sun terrace’ was manned by a barman for 10 minutes in every 30, so either get plenty of plastic glasses worth or make it last. A line of sun cream defined the maximum fill level of the Jacuzzis. But the worst issue were the flies. I can only image what we must have looked like constantly swinging papers, books and arms at various parts of our anatomy in a vain attempt to stop the flies crawling all over us. And you are only allowed to sunbath after 9am. I’ll explain the logic behind this later.

The bar stank of stagnant water, and yes mosquitoes bit guests. In fact I think they were the only things there that ate well.

The food was at best tepid but was always cold by the time we sat down an example being that one morning the hash browns were cold in the middle at 8am and we were the first people in the restaurant. One day we had sausages as an option for every meal. They may not have been the same sausages but they were all cooked to exactly the same colour. You can make up your own mind. The only talent the cooks (the term chefs is unfair to those who do care about basic food hygiene) had was to be able to re-use last nights food on the next day’s lunch buffet by giving it another name and slapping some sauce on it. The daily entertainment in the restaurant was hide and search. It was our goal to find: a clean table, a teaspoon and a pepper pot.

The entertainment (not the same as entertaining) was so loud that we could participate in every ‘Working Man’s Club’ activity from our room, doing exceptionally well in every quiz. Definitely not designed by Mensa. The compares, as there were two, just droned on in celebration of their own voices trying in vain desperation to involve the audience in their desperately uninteresting lives and humour whilst playing on their computer randomly playing sound bites over the top of what each other were saying.

You are only allowed 2 drinks at a time from the bar where the glasses are slightly larger than test tubes. You won’t get any ice in your drinks until it has melted to size that will fit in the glass. This won’t be a problem if you didn’t have to queue in a long line, often 15 people long, to get your allotted drinks, often half full.

This hotel is designed to maximise profit by cramming as many people into the hotel as possible. The goal is to get as drunk as possible on a night, the entertainment finishing at 12.30am and the unsupervised screaming kids running up and down the corridors slamming doors finishing about 3.30am and then get up and have a full English breakfast. The hotel doesn't allow to sunbath when the sun is out because they don't believe anyone will be awake enough until 9am. The goal then is to start drinking for the night so when you do eat anything you’re never quite sure if it the alcohol or the food that is making you throw up. And because you are so drunk the waiting doesn’t seem too long at the bar and you don’t object to all clapping with your hands above your head for the ‘star attraction’ that is already 5minutes late on stage. One of the night’s entertainments was Karaoke. This isn’t the hotel providing entertainment it is the guests.

So if you want to spend your time getting drunk, leave your children to run riot and do whatever they like, run a real risk of contracting food poisoning, listen to dated, egotistical inept BTEC drama dropouts shouting into a microphone and sun bath only when the hotel allows you to. The Villa Marina Club is the place for you. Oh yeah, it’s nowhere near the marina or the beach.

A great place to film a Shameless holiday special where you won’t have to pay actors to be extras.