I only saw some of the reviews about this hotel after I had booked a stay with my wife. Some of the reviews were not very encouraging. We went in October, so perhaps it's different out of main season. We found the hotel to be of a very high standard. Our room was quite large and clean. Dark wood furniture and tiled floors. TV and hairdryer. The public areas were a little small and full of smokers, but the law on smoking in Spain is changing so this should not be a problem in future for non-smokers. We were travelling independently and perhaps we had more personal attention from the waiters than the tour groups.
We aren't great fans of buffet food, but the buffet looked well up to international standards. We ate from the al la carte menu, which was excellent, and a good mix of local and international cuisine.
The hotel is up a steep hill out of Granada, across the road from the Alhambra. It is certainly a prime location if you are visiting the Alhambra. We went to the Alhambra early in the morning and missed the crowds, I would certainly recommend that tactic.
There is a little bus which stops outside the hotel and takes you down to Granada. If you are young and fit you could always walk, but it is steep!
We arrived by car late at night and I was worried about finding the hotel. My best advice is simply to follow signs to the Alhambra, which is well signed on the motorway. The hotel is right opposite the Alhambra car park. The hotel were happy to offer me garaged parking and brought the car round to the front of the hotel when I needed it.
All in all, an excellent stay, my only gripe was the lack of public space, otherwise, oustanding.

Me and my friends stayed at the Alixares Hotel for 3 nights and 2 days. The first thing I noticed was how close the hotel is from the Alahambra and it is only a short walking distance from downtown plaza where all the shops are. Also breakfast is included with the cost of the room, but not lunch and dinner that will cost you extra. The rooms could use a upgrade and the housekeeping was average, but overall the convenience of being directly up the hill from the Alahambra and shops was worth it!! Oh yes beware of parking...... they have it available but, it is not big enough for all of the guests at the hotel. Subsequently, you would have to park in the Alahambra's parking area, which could result in a fee of 14 euros a day!!!!

I stayed here for three nights in October. The hotel is very close to the Alhambra, about a 5 minute stroll to the ticket office. This was great as I had booked to visit the Alhambra twice -- once in the morning (8.30am visit) and once at night (10pm to 11:30pm visit).

While the hotel is close to Alhambra, it is high up above the town. There are regular small buses which take one up and down. However, I walked down and up each day, except for a second excursion down one day when the bus was very welcome! (This trip was to go to the Mirador San Nicolas to get a great view of the Alhambra, which I strongly recommend. My second trip there using the bus was to view the Alhambra at sunset and see it all lit up.)

On the advice of an earlier posting on Trip Advisor I had booked a double room, as it was still a reasonable price. This was good advice. I arrived early and the room was not ready. The reception staff, who were friendly, assured me that the room set aside for me was a good room, and they allowed me to look at another room that was ready as well as the room set aside, and the other room was really small (and I suspect it was a single room). As it was the room I got was fairly compact, but still roomy enough. The room was fairly modern.

Granada was a great experience and the hotel added to that experience. The hotel provided a good buffet dinner for only €11. This included everything (including bread, soup, salads, variety of main dishes, and dessert), except drinks. While the food had a certain canteen level rather than being gourmet, it was still good and great value -- I had it all three nights I was there!

For those who have laptop computers with wireless capabilities, the hotel offers free wifi internet connection in the lobby area. For others there were computers which could be used for a fee to connect to the internet.

All in all I would be happy to stay here again and can highly recommend it.

I have booked this hotel for our honeymoon for 6 nights, after reading the reviews. Sadly, our experience of Hotel Alixares was far from being pleasant.

The travel iron has accidentally scorched the bed cover, and two days later we were told at the reception that there is a problem with our room and we were presented with the cover. We explained that it was an accident but were told that we will have to pay for damages! Where is their insurance policy? We were surprised to find that no bed cover was provided for the remainder of our stay in the room! Upon checkout the bill included the charges for the accident, and a very rude lady receptionist pointed at the cover asking us to "take it with us"! This was a bitter end to our last hours in Spain.

Yet another mistake to come!

When we arrived, we were told that breakfast IS included on all days,although it mentioned room only on the agent’s receipt. The fact that breakfast was included was confirmed again in the middle of our stay as well. Nevertheless, we were asked to pay for the breakfast for 5 nights at the end of the visit!

Other points:
The room was small-to-average size. The view was very good of Alhambra, but it was hard to sleep with the cigarette smoke from the hall. Also there was smoking in public spaces in the hotel, including the main reception.

The hotel does not deserve 4 stars at all, and it is not a new hotel, with many facilities lacking refurbishment, such as the restaurant and the room fixtures.

If you are travelling with children, or are not sure if you yourself can accidentally break a plate or spill something then you should avoid such a hotel that CHARGES FOR ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE IN THE RUDEST MANNER POSSIBLE.