Name: Hotel Balanea
Address: Port De Plaisance, Calvi, Calvi, Calvi, 20260, France
Rating: 6

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Calvi Beach

La Pinède

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Bastia Poretta Airport

Hotel Balanea

Calvi

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Everything.  The negative experience started as soon as we arrived at the hotel. Negative Experience 1, The hotel is in the middle of a pedestrian only zone so we had to park a half mile away to unload our luggage which were heavy and at capacity since this was the second leg of a four leg vacation.  The hotel had no one available to help with the luggage.  The only staff on duty when we arrived at 5:00pm was the front desk female receptionist and she said she was not allowed to leave the desk.  We were never told and found out on our own, later during our stay, that there were parking spots close to and right behind the hotel where we could have pulled up and offload the luggage literally 10 feet from the hotel entrance vs the half a mile we had to walk with our luggage when we arrived.  Negative Experience 2, There was a gross smell throughout the hotel that smelled old and musty which was off putting.  Negative Experience 3, There was no Wi-Fi in our hotel for 2 days.  They kept telling us in a very rude and unsympathetic way that because of the storm that blew through right before we arrived, we shouldn’t expect Wi-Fi, but the bar next door to the hotel we visited that first night had Wi-Fi.  Negative Experience 4, The room size was half the size that was advertised.  We booked the Panoramic Deluxe Room, Sea View that was listed at 409 feet.  The actual size of the room turned out to be closer to 250 feet.  The AC in our room was not working.  We had to ask for a fan to be brought up to our room. This was the hottest summer in Europe on record and our room had no working AC.  The light and charging port on my side of the bed was not working.  The phone in the room was not working.  Any request we had, we had to walk downstairs to reception.  The AC, the Light and Charging port, and phone were never fixed and did not work throughout our stay.  Negative Experience 5, The manager was not on duty when we arrived at the hotel and we when brought up all of our issues to her the next morning, her response was arrogant and condescending.  She told us “ What did you expect? You booked a 3 star hotel.”  Never mind that there are global standards all hotel globally must follow.  Hotel Balanea is more of a 1 star hotel and not a 3 star hotel as advertised.  She promised all the issues would be resolved by the time we returned to our room that day.  That was the last and only time we saw or heard from the manager throughout our 5 night stay.  As I have already stated, none of the issues with our room were ever resolved.  The manager never followed up with us to check and see if things were better.  It was obvious she did not care if we had a comfortable stay at her hotel.  Negative Experience 6, Our bedsheets were never changed in the 5 nights we stayed at the hotel.  Housekeeping only remade the bed and never changed the sheets.  It is global standard in hotels that bedsheets gets changed every 3 days.  Negative Experience 7, The shower walls and floor had brown mold looking stains on them.  The bathroom was in dire need of a renovation or, at the very least, a fresh coat of paint.  In summary I would not recommend this hotel.  Stay at your own risk.  There was no customer service to speak of and no warmth from most of the staff at the hotel.  Most of the hotels in Calvi were at capacity which was the only reason we did not check out of the hotel after our first night.  I would actually recommend that Hotel Balanea get out of the hotel business because they are really bad at it.

WORST STAY AT A HOTEL EVER!!!!!!

Je recommande

Good location in the heart of the town centre. The hotel was recently refurbished so it actually looks nicer than what the photos on Hotels.com show you.

Recently refurbished

We stayed here for one night whilst visiting Corsica 

The hotel is just a 5 minute walk from the train station. If you are driving or coming by taxi, you won't be able to drive up to the front door as it's on a pedestrian steet

The hotel is superbly situated. It's right in the heart of the Old Town by the shops, two minutes from the harbour and 5 minutes from the citadelle.  The beach is less than a 10 minute walk away.

The staff greeted us in a friendly manner and showed us up to our room. The room was quite large and brightly decorated and very clean with a view over the back street and up towards the citadelle.  

We were advised of free WiFi but no matter how many vouchers we tried we couldn't connect. When we raised this at reception we were told that it was because we had Samsung phones and they weren't compatible with their WiFi. When 50% of phones sold around the world are Samsung, this just isn't acceptable so needs to be rectified. 

But apart from this inconvenience, the hotel was of a good standard, clean and tidy with helpful staff. But it's main plus point is it's excellent location and reasonable prices.

Great location

This hotel is down a pedestrian street so you will have to carry your bags to it.  The interior is dated but clean.  We had a sea view room which had air conditioning.  The shower was OK but not really good.  Breakfast had a reasonable selection.

There is a bar area with a balcony overlooking the sea off it.

Good Position

Friendly staff, expensive breakfast, expensive bar, good location.

This hotel has a great location if you want a view. The room was like a hostel for back packers rather than a 3 star hotel. The breakfast room was extremely poor being too many chairs and tables like a school room. We had paid for porterage but the hotel could not provide it and the walk with our bags was extremely difficult from the transport which could not get near the hotel due to its position in the streets. There was no restaurant in the hotel so it was necessary to walk along cobbled streets up steep hills to get to a restaurant or down to bars below the hotel which were open till late. The staff were nice but they lacked facilities to make a good stay. I would not recommend it.

Lovely view

After a few days staying with local friends near Ajaccio, we looked for a couple of nights in a more "touristy" scene, with a dog.
Balanea, right on the harbour front in Calvi fitted the bill!
Things didn't start too well; having been told that we could drive up to the hotel to drop our bags before parking in a reserved space in a public car park nearby, the hotel had omitted to mention that access to the hotel became a pedestrian only area after midday! After about 20 minutes failing to get access, we abandoned the car and searched for the hotel on foot. After all that was eventually sorted out, and the car was safe in its allocated space, within view of the hotel, all went well.
The room on the first floor was spacious, minimally furnished in a rather cheap modern style but had a super balcony with great views right overlooking the water. The bed and the bathroom were fine.
There was a "cafeteria" in the hotel for breakfast, but it didn't look too good so we found cafés in the town which were better.
Prices were reasonable, so all-in-all the hotel was fine and exactly fulfilled what we wanted.

Simple, Fairly Basic, Great location

Stayed here 3 awesome nights! Only 5min walk from train station and you walk to Tourist Info Bureau en route!

Upgraded to a great port view gorgeous room upon arrival! Beautiful views of the port and only 10min walk up to Citadelle! Awesome!

Very clean and huge room with mini fridge! Bought some wine and snacks and supermarket 2min next door.

CAN get very noisy until 1:30am being on top of a central town circle but if you shut the huge french doors, sound isn't too bad.

LOVED it here for convenience, pricing, friendly receptionists, and location! Would definitely stay here again!!! :0)

3 nights - Port View - Loved Location, proximity to Train Station and Supermarket

This hotel is well placed for visiting he harbor and walk streets but is difficult to reach as it is not hear parking.

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