Very good hotel in great location with helpful staff
We stayed in this hotel from 9th – 13th October 2007 and to put it plainly, we would like to return there. The hotel is ideally situated in an small street (Calle Navas) with hardly any traffic and many small terraces. For a good glass of beer and delicious tapas try number 14. The hotel has a cafeteria, but the food is not great. The bus stop from and to the airport is within 400 or 500 meters. Many objects of interest and many shops are within walking distance. Near the hotel there is a parking at about 12 euro’s a day. There is internet at 1,50 euro for half an hour. In the TV-room you will find coffee and tea for free. Staff is very helpful.
We had a large twin room (nr. 225) with a rather large bathroom with a small bath tub. The room is very good soundproofed so that you can hardly hear anything from outside. The beds are broad with solid box-spring mattresses. The room and the bathroom are perfectly cleaned (on arrival there is a smell of bleach in the bathroom and the toilet seat was disinfected). There is a table, a mini-bar, a clock-radio and a TV with, apart from the Spanish channels, has only two German ones and BBC (no CNN or Eurosport).
Breakfast is good and plentiful but not special (no fresh jam/marmalade, fresh yoghurt or buttermilk), but for those who love English breakfast there are scrambled eggs and ham too.
Apart from Alhambra, which is really great, walk along the Darro and visit Paseo de los Tristes, where there are several terraces and where you have a nice view on the Alhambra, especially in the early evening when the sun is going down. Albaicin is worth a visit too.