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Based on 67 reviews
See all**Property Location**.With a stay at Hotel Balneario Sierra Alhamilla in Pechina, you'll be in a provincial park, and 12.1 mi (19.4 km) from Oasys MiniHollywood and 16.4 mi (26.3 km) from Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park. This spa hotel is 16.2 mi (26.1 km) from El Toyo Beach and 11 mi...
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Moto tour Sierra Nevada 2019
What a fantastic place. Stayed here after a long hot day exploring the trails of Almeria. Lovely open courtyard full of moorish style, great rooms with a fab view down towards the coast. Lovely food and beer made the visit even better, well worth a stay....
find another place.
Stayed here on a recent trip to the area. Rooms were so hot had to sleep with the windows open. However, was kept awake all night by barking dog the first night and then there was a festival in the neighborhood the second night that went on till after 2 am. so i had very little sleep at this hotel. The hotel itself is nice, clean and the staff was friendly for the most part. but find somewhere else if you want to actually get some sleep.
Stop over
Sometimes you can't always get a good picture from TripAdvisor. After reading the reviews we were a little unsure of our selection. However we loved the place and can't see why people put negitve comments. If you want a quiet place to relax and enjoy the views this place is for you. If you want the run of the mill hotel it's not for you. We just loved the authentic hotel with charm and character. For peace and quiet and true spanish life give it a go.
Try a little kindness
My oh my. At first sight the spot was adorable. The receptionist only spoke Spanish, acted reserved, but she was quite helpful. You want two beds, one bed, five beds, no beds? No problema. You need a fan? Wanna have the furniture thrown out (sometimes in a poor room layout it can be too much)? No problema. Room and bed were okay. Bathroom was lousy. No shower rod, the shelf hanged down. The packaging of the shower gel was a plastic triangle, which I couldn't open with my fingers (for in one hand the shower, because of the missing rod), so I had to do it with my teeth. I ended up with my mouth filled with shower gel and bubbled in stead of spoke the rest of the day. But great shower power and hot running water. Another lady appeared at the front desk, for whom we somehow not existed. She seemed to be the owner. Next morning, I needed boiled water. I went down to reception. Closed. But, ah. . . who shuffled in the hallway. . . . It was the owner. Now I do speak some basic Spanish, but she didn't understand me. English? Nope. So I signedlanguaged my way to the boiled water, making bubbling water-noises (oh, those bubbles) with my mouth and fingers. I must've been looking like an idiot. She dissappeared, but never came back. In stead I found her in my room, where my boyfriend wanted to take a shower and got completely knocked off his socks by her sudden appearance. She turned on the tap and said snappy: 'El agua es caliente'. Right. So much for my boiled water. Later, in the - empty - restaurant, we wanted to order, but the waitress was in the kitchen. But, ah. . . there was the owner again. Not that she made an effort to help me. She just shouted the waitresses name. Next morning I wanted to have boiled water again. She gave it to me, angrily grumbling. At last I couldn't help myself and said: "you don't really like your guests, do you?" She said she didn't understand. I tried in Spanish. And suddenly she talked back. In German. That she did not understand, why I said that (she must've had a teeny-weeny translator in her head). Oh, I made sure she understood. In my best German. And I told her to read Tripadvisor. And if she does, maybe she will find out how important a little kindness can be. Even if don't like your guests.
Not quite what it could be
I stayed a night en route to Valencia in early September and the place was very quiet. The draw is the location, a sort of remote oasis overlooking the desert valley where Ridley Scott shot scenes from Exodus. All the staff are friendly and helpful, and though the room is a bit tired (no aircon, though a floor fan did the job) the spa hot tub (9 euros) in a solid marble bath compensates. Alas, the habit of playing loud and kitschy musak seems endemic to every Andalucian spa experience and this was no different. But following a hitch with the system the previous evening, the owner took the spa off my bill, a kind and unbidden gesture. Buffet breakfast itself was just about OK, except for the bread mould (eek), and worth taking just to sit on the terrace, but a couple of bars adjacent are good alternatives. The potential of the balneario is great - but it needs more attention to detail.