We booked a room here based on the photos on the hotel website and I think we probably got the worst room in the hotel. They were perfectly friendly, but the room had about 2 feet on each side of the bed and 1 small desk chair. There wasn't even a place for us to open both suitcases. (I think that someone else had previously rejected the room because there was a whited out signature next to the room on the sheet, and when I asked at the front desk about changing rooms, I was told they were all full). The bigger issue was the enormous amount of noise from the street. We tried going to bed around 11pm (because we were getting up at 7am to get in line for the Alhambra) and the noise made it impossible to sleep. My husband ended up sitting in the bathroom to read until the bars closed because I was managing to at least doze a little. And the bars didn't close until 2am at which point there was clean up noise for another 30 minutes and then the scooters started going past around 6am. We chose not to stay for the 2nd night of our reservation, and thankfully they allowed us to cancel it without penalty. Also, breakfast doesn't start until 830am, so if you are getting up early for the Alhambra, you don't get food.

lovely hotel, nice clean and pretty room, very helpful staff. surprisingly rasonable rates. Highly reccomended

Deceiving from the outside, but once you're in, a real gem. A charming small hotel very worthy of its rating. Nicely decorated rooms. Very clean and well located. We were ready to stay more nights, if we could. The staff was incredibly helpful and spoke good English. They helped us arrange a 5:45 a.m. taxi to the airport and offered to give us breakfast to go.

Positives:
Great location: easy walking distance of the city centre and numerous bars, restaurants and shops. Having read some comments about safety issues (and previously having been mugged in Barcelona), we always felt safe walking around this area. You can easily get a bus up to the the other areas (or walk if you have the energy).

The room was reasonably sized (we had a superior room on the first floor). It was very clean and tidy and had a good shower.

Very good breakfast in the basement.

Neither good nor bad:
Staff were always polite, if sometimes a liitle detached. In the breakfast room they tended to be more cheerful.

Quite a lot of street noise, but no more than you would expect in a city centre in Spain. Take ear-plugs if this is a problem.

Negatives:
The main negative: the beds! We found them really hard and after a long day's walking they did not offer a good night's sleep.
A real shame when so much effort has obviosly been put into other aspects of the hotel.

The towels were occasionally a bit tatty.