Calella, sports tourist destination

Calella has invested heavily in recent years to change tourism model of the city, severely degraded in the past years. These efforts are beginning to bear fruit as evidenced by the annual celebration of the Costa de Barcelona-Maresme Challenge (Ironman). 

Well, next September 4th will be held on the II Calella's Beach Tennis Tournament, in Xiringuito 1, in front of the municipal pool. 

For those who want to participate, registration worth € 13 and all you have to do is send a mail to info@atcalella.org. And for 8 € more you get a menu and drink! 

The awards are weekends in hotels of the population, dinners in restaurants, water parks tickets and much more! 

We're expecting you!

Tossa de Mar and the Volkswagen Beetle

If you like old cars and to enjoy the best Costa Brava, you are lucky because next month will be held in Tossa de Mar, the XVII VW Aircooled Classic Concentration, organized by Friends of Volkswagen of Catalonia. 

Specifically, it will be 24, 25 and 26 September in the lovely village of Tossa de Mar, where our chain has 3 fantastic hotels. During the three days that will last the concentration, you will be able to see the vintage vehicles parked on the waterfront of Tossa de Mar, and attend the various tests carried out by participants. 

The concentration of Tossa de Mar is the result of a love history that began in 1993, when the owner of Sa Palma restaurant of this village gave to his wife a Volkswagen Beetle. Along with this gift, he made the promise to meet in Tossa de Mar more beetles than she could never imagine. With this intention appealed to the beetle owners through the press and radio: more than 100 fans responded, who were presented to Tossa with their cars. Encouraged by the success, decided to make it an anual appointment, so the concentration of Tossa was grow, to become, today, in Volkswagen largest concentration of the country.

For those who are interested in attending, we leave the link to our website, where you can see prices and offers for dates of the concentration.

"Gegants" and "Capgrossos" in Calella

Tradition "gegantera" in Catalonia goes back to the fourteenth century. From year 1391, specifically, are the first written documents which mention this centuries-old tradition. These documents refer to the Corpus Christi procession of Barcelona, where the giants of the time were Biblical figures such as David, Goliath and "Sant Cristòfol." Little recently, the tradition was spreading to all Països Catalans (Valencia and Mallorca) and appeared "capgrossos" and the female giants and, since the XIX century, the tradition went further Corpus to the festivals and carnivals, and the Giants went from be biblical figures to be kings, queens and nobles. 

After a long crisis during the second phase of the Franco dictatorship, the tradition rebounded strongly from the 1980s. People restored and reproduced the old giants, new ones were constructed, "colles" and associations and meetings were created all around Catalonia. These contemporaries giants are made of fiberglass and other lighter materials than traditional. In 1984, the Agrupació de Colles de Geganters of Catalonia was created, which from next year annually appoints a "Gegantera" City of Catalonia.

Well, this year's Giant World's Fair will be held in Calella, on September 25th and 26th, in occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Colla de Geganters i Grallers de Calella. Furthermore, the fair will coincide with the 30th Fira de Calella i l'Alt Maresme, held annually during these dates, which receives each year more than 60,000 visitors. 

More information at:

Agrupació de Colles de Geganters de Catalunya

Gegant - Wikipedia

III Open 4x4 Volleyball Calella

Next July, 31st is the III Open 4x4 Beachvolley in Calella, organized by AVPC (Beachvolley Calella Association).

For those who whant to participate or just watch, you'll find the information in their website:

www.voleicalella.com

Hotel Aquarium & SPA, second position of the hotels in Lloret de Mar

As all you know, in GHT Hotels are committed to quality and good service. Well, our effort to improvement has been visible on the Internet, specifically in the tourist opinion page TripAdvisor. 


For those who do not know it, TripAdvisor is a page where everyone can say and rate the hotel where you have stayed in during your vacation. Because of the milions users that Internet has, TripAdvisor has built a reliable score system for all the hotels. 


It turns out that our Hotel Aquarium & Spa in Lloret de Mar has risen from 6th to 2nd position of the hotels in Lloret in 2 months, proving once again that our customers leave home very satisfied with our services.

• Aquarium Hotel in Lloret de Mar has 157 reviews

Monthly raffle of satisfaction questionnaire

In GHT Hotels we are always thinking about how to improve our facilities and services and, therefore, we encourage all our customers to fill our satisfaction questionnaire. 

And there's no better way to do it than raffle each month, among all those who have answered the surveys, two days in one of our hotels for two people in half board basis.

Thus, the winners of the previous two months are: 

May: Jorge Durán Martín 

June: Margaret Coupe 

We hope you enjoy your holidays with us ... again!

GHT Hotels with the enviroment: ISO 14001

After successfully acquired ISO 9001 quality management, in GHT Hotels we wanted to go further. 

We are all aware of the environmental problem threatening our planet, and from GHT Hotels wanted to put our grain of sand, as we understand that it is a global problem and, therefore, we all must work together. For this reason, all our hotels, and GHT Hotels as a company as well, have ISO 14001 environmental management certification. These rules ensure a sustainable environmental management by the company, such as waste selection, recycling, energy saving and, above all, awareness and education of staff. 

The benefits of having this certification are many, both the company and our planet, through the consumer, who has de certainty of quality and environmental compliance by the establishment.