Salou has everything any other Spanish costa town has: the icecream parlours, the trail of souvenir shops, the crowded beaches, the expensive beach chairs, the tourist bars and snack bars with picture menu’s outside their doors. So if that is what you are looking for, you can find it here – but also in a lot of other places.
Salou also has got a bit of a reputation for its nightlife: Here in Belgium we had a docu-soap called ‘Hot kisses from Salou’, documenting the nightlife of tourists in Salou. In the Netherlands they had a soap called ‘Proppers’, following the people that try to lure customers to bars and disco’s in Salou. The soap was fiction, but even I was approached by a ‘propper’ when I visited (I was 15, my parents were not amused :D)

I didn’t enjoy Salou very much, perhaps as I was getting to old for the family costa vacations and still to young to venture in to the nightlife. The theme park was by far the highlight of the trip, that is definitely worth a visit.