“Hotel lovely, location view great but a long way from restaurants,”
We had 4 days at Cristina in September 2008. The hotel was helpful, clean, spacious room, great food in restaurant. View over St Aubin bay was superb (if it hadn't rained the whole time) Whilst this is definitely not a criticism, at 40, we reduced the average guest age to about half! It was a little like Bournemouth and although we found people to chat to, it would have been much better for us if we'd been in St Aubin itself, which is a lovely little town/village with lots of choices of eateries. The walk from the hotel to St Aubin was about a mile or so, which was a long way given the pouring rain, and we resorted to the bus. We tried St Helier on Sunday night for a meal - it was completely closed and useless. Also, it felt a bit seedy, so we got on the bus all the way back to St Aubin for another night at our preferred restaurant. The best place we found to eat was a pub lunch in a beach front pub at the start of the 5 mile coast road at St Oen. This was good quality, good value and a great menu - crab claws, moules and all the other usual restaurant items, served well and with very friendly service. Also, it had a real pub feel. Don't mistake it for the rather tacky 'diner' for the surfers halfway along the coast road.