Hotel Spa Cap de Creus

Hotel Spa Cap de Creus puts you on the seafront in Port de la Selva, with the harbour, beaches and the Cap de Creus natural park setting the pace outside. This is a useful base if your ideal evening involves a shower, a proper meal and somewhere to sit with the day’s salt finally washed off. Nothing too complicated. Just sea air, a restaurant nearby and a spa when your shoulders have had enough of carrying kit around.

The hotel’s website is available in English, French, Spanish and Catalan, so you can get the main information in English or French before you arrive. Inside, the practical side is covered by air conditioning, free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, a lift, luggage storage and a 24-hour reception. Children of all ages are welcome, and family rooms are available.

You are in Port de la Selva, on the Costa Brava, at Carrer de l'Illa in the town’s harbour area. The hotel has direct access to the beach, with sun loungers and parasols available for a few unhurried hours by the water. Platja de la Ribera is about 400 feet away, while Platja El Pas and Platja de les Violetes are both around 0.4 miles away. Cala Tamariua is about 0.5 miles away, and Platja de L'Erola is roughly 0.6 miles on foot.

The location also works for a day away from the coast. Llançà railway station is about 5 miles by road, and the Watercolour Museum in Llançà is around 5 miles away. Salvador Dalí’s House is about 9 miles by road, while the Dalí Museum in Figueres, Cadaqués and Girona are practical outings from the hotel. Girona-Costa Brava Airport is about 49 miles by road; Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport is about 47 miles.

The room choice matters here because the layouts serve different kinds of stay. A sea-view double is the natural pick for two people who want the coast to do some of the evening entertainment, while the balcony version adds an outdoor spot for the first coffee of the day. The quadruple room gives a family or small group more room to sleep under one roof, with a double bed and single beds rather than a sofa-bed arrangement.

All rooms have air conditioning, a safe and a hairdryer, which is the useful trio when the day has involved heat, salt and a fair amount of equipment to put away. Some rooms add a bath, while the kitchen-equipped double room has a refrigerator, coffee machine, kettle and cleaning products. That gives you a little more control over drinks and small provisions between meals. Daily housekeeping is included, and non-smoking rooms are available.

For families, children are welcome and cots can be requested for younger children, subject to the selected room option. There are no extra beds. Check the sleeping arrangement carefully before booking if more than two adults are travelling; the room card below gives the precise capacity and bed configuration for each category.

Two restaurants give you a choice between Mediterranean cooking and something more informal. Restaurant Monterrey serves lunch and dinner on a terrace overlooking the port and surrounding area, with fresh fish and seafood at the centre of the menu. Paella, fideuà, arròs negre and lobster rice are the sort of dishes that make sense in this part of the coast, particularly when you have worked up a proper appetite outdoors.

La Timba is the pizzeria-restaurant, serving lunch and dinner indoors. Expect homemade pizzas, pasta, salads, burgers and tapas rather than a formal parade of courses. Its restaurant setting also appeared in the hotel information for harbour views. Lunch service runs from 12:30 to 16:00 and dinner from 19:30 to 23:00 at both restaurants.

Breakfast is continental and included with your stay. A minibar and tea and coffee-making facilities are available in the rooms, useful when an early start makes a full sit-down breakfast feel like an administrative error.

The spa is the obvious answer when your legs have had enough of walking and your back has opinions about the last boat trip. It includes a jacuzzi, sauna and a marine-water shower, with massage, facial treatments, body wraps and other beauty treatments available. The spa and jacuzzi have an additional charge, so you can decide whether the post-dive recovery plan needs bubbles or simply a chair and a cold drink.

The beachfront position keeps the simplest option close: take a lounger, find some shade under a parasol and let the day become less urgent. Snorkelling, windsurfing, horse riding, fishing and hiking are also available activities, with some arranged at an additional charge. Cycling and hiking fit the setting particularly well, while excursions can include monastery visits and discovering coves.

For a cultural change of scene, Salvador Dalí’s House is around 9 miles away by road, and the Watercolour Museum in Llançà is about 5 miles away. The nearby landscape also includes Sant Onofre and the Megalithic Park of Roses. In other words, a non-diving companion has several ways to spend the day without turning the hotel into an entertainment factory.

Check-in runs from 15:00 to midnight, and check-out is from 08:00 to 11:00. You need to bring photo identification and a credit card at arrival, and the hotel asks you to share your expected arrival time in advance. Cash is accepted. The front desk operates around the clock, with luggage storage available if your travel times do not line up neatly with the room.

Private parking is available nearby, and a parking garage is listed among the facilities. The hotel also has a lift, free Wi-Fi throughout, a shared lounge and packed lunches. Laundry and ironing services are available for an additional charge, which can be handy when a few days of sea air have defeated your wardrobe.

The hotel is about 5 miles by road from Llançà railway station. From Girona-Costa Brava Airport, allow around 49 miles by road; from Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport, the road distance is about 47 miles. The road into Port de la Selva is part of the geography here, so a transfer or hire car needs arranging around your arrival rather than improvised at the last minute.