After two weeks of gallivanting around Spain, we decided to chill for a few days before heading off to a week in Barcelona.  Problem was we needed a hotel room soon (like the next day) and weren’t sure where to go that would be easy and low-stress.  Rick Steve’s guidebook said something good about Sitges – that it was the best beach within a day of Barcelona.  Since that was to be our next destination we decided to try there.  Of course, then there’s the laborious google, expedia, booking.com, trip-advisor, etc., back-forth, back-forth…   The stars have to line up.  Right price. Rooms available. Good user comments.  Timeline.  Everything pointed to the Dolce Sitges.  With baited breath we hoped it wouldn’t be anything like the Aquaola waterpark outside Granada, and that it would be more like the five-star resort advertised.

You can tell from the photo taken from my bean-bag chaise at poolside, that it was.

This is the view from our balcony. That’s the town of Sitges in the background, and the Dolce’s golf course in the foreground. Curiously a train runs down the coast about every 15 minutes, but as all people who live by train tracks say, “You get used to it.”

Special mention goes to Restaurant Blau in Vilanova, which is Sitges’ non-touristy sibling. I recommend it highly.

One of the best things about the Dolce Sitges is how many separate, and some private, places there are to plop down and roast in the sun. This is the Avenue of Chaises.

One last thing. I’m not totally sure what this sign means, but it seemed rather alarming.  What ever it was telling me not to do, I tried to avoid doing it.  Since nothing bad happened, I guess I succeeded.