Hotel Palacio Marqués de Arizón

This is an exceptional hotel and although it is not the most beautiful from the outside it really surprises when you walk through the fronf door. It is a beautiful old building which has been lovingly returned to use. Our room was off the amazing inner courtyard and at the rear of thd building overlooking the small swimming pool. The room was very spacious with lovely high ceilings and the bathroom was a really good size with an overbath shower. Thankfully the bath was easy to get in to not being terribly high! The recptionist who welcomed us was very helpful and friendly and provided us with an excellent map of the city and explained how to get to the old town and also the beach. Both very accessible on foot from the hotel. We had an excellent night's sleep in a very comfortable big bed and had a very good quality buffet breakfast in the morning before we left. The hotel has a decent area for parking in front of it which is free which was a bonus. There are lots of places to eat very close by.

I really couldn't fault the hotel and the only thing I didn't like was that we were only there for one night as it would be a lovely base from which to explore the surrounding area.

Charming with loads of interesting features

Ample private parking. Attractive building well restored with contemporary touches. Excellent buffet breakfast.

Badly organised arrival system. Obviously the private parking area has a barrier but has no working intercom. When arriving it should be possible to contact the reception to be let in and then receive the code at check-in for later use. We had to park outside on the pavement of a packed one way street with much hooting from locals, walk two minutes to reception, wait another five for our turn, explain and get the code, walk back and reverse up the one way street (more hooting) and then enter the parking area for check-in. Not a relaxed arrival after a long day. Unnecessary.

Location

Very hard bed. Tiles were missing off floor in shower Soap shampoo etc had come unstuck from the wall. Sheet was either bobbly or had dust on it from the ceiling No English news channel on tv No lights outside the door to the room we had to use the torch on phone to see the Lock Breakfast was not good. the fried eggs all dried up looked as though they had been there for hours!