The hotel itself is very nice, and the location is excellent—strategically located just outside the city wall, making it convenient to access the historic area and nearby transportation. The facilities and overall environment were pleasant.
However, I could not give full marks because of the service we experienced during checkout.
We needed to get to the train station with two carry-on bags and two large suitcases, and I was traveling with my 70-year-old mother. I asked the front desk if they could help call a taxi for us. Surprisingly, the request was refused. I find it unacceptable that such a basic request could not be accommodated.
It was also lightly drizzling at the time. Instead of offering assistance, the front office staff who did our check-out told us that we could simply walk across the street to the taxi stand and get a taxi ourselves. Doing so with multiple pieces of luggage and an elderly parent in the light rain is clearly not reasonable.
What made the experience even more disappointing was that after giving this response, she did not offer any further help and simply ignored us.
By the time I walked to the taxi stand, there was no taxi available. It’s also worth noting that Paseo de la Victoria is a large multi-lane avenue, not a small street that can be crossed easily.
In the end, I had to leave my 70-year-old mother waiting in the hotel lobby while I went across to the taxi stand myself. When a taxi finally arrived, I asked the driver to come back to the hotel entrance to pick us up. We were also rushing to catch our train, so the whole situation became unnecessarily stressful. Thankfully we still managed to make it on time, but this could easily have been avoided if the front desk had simply helped call a taxi.
I have been traveling to Europe multiple times every year since the early 2000s and have stayed in well over a hundred hotels across the continent. In all those years, this is the first time a simple request to call a taxi was so bluntly rejected by a hotel front desk. For a property that presents itself as a five-star hotel, this level of indifference to a basic guest request—especially when an elderly guest is involved—is simply unacceptable and left a very poor final impression of what was otherwise a pleasant stay.
Based on this experience, I would be very cautious about choosing to stay at other Eurostars properties in the future.
Really nice hotel. Staff were friendly and incredibly helpful.
The only issue I had was that the pool was only available to hotel guests on Friday and Saturday until 5pm but no informed us of this. The pool also only had a couple of sun beds and it was a bit uncomfortable to lounge round the pool.
Hermoso Hotel céntrico en pleno Casco Antiguo, perfecta ubicación, pienso que es la mejor opción para comenzar tu visita a los puntos de mayor interés.
Las Habitaciones super cómodas. El servicio del personal magnifico especialmente el área de Recepción, felicidades por la tremenda atención ofrecida
El Desayuno delicioso pero pudiera ser mas variado ya que me pareció sencillo y el único inconveniente son el precio de las habitaciones que si las sentí muy altas
Fuera de eso pudiera resumir mi estadía como perfecta
Writing second hand on behalf of brother and his wife whom I gifted this. The hotel stay was in celebration of her 40th birthday. I emailed the hotel prior to their stay to arrange a cake, they responded promptly and were able to organise a birthday cake for 15.50€. I was a little disappointed they proved two slices and not an actual small cake, nevertheless I appreciate the ease of communication with the hotel. Location was good by all accounts.