We had a bad experience at the Casa del Aljarife in Granada, a hotel highly rated in several guidebooks including Frommer's. <BR><BR>The overall atmosphere at the hotel could be described as tense. We noticed the other guests feeling the same way. <BR><BR>We were promised an air conditioned room and instead were forced to stay in a non-a/c room for 3 nights. Not that big of a deal, but it was extremely hot, and we paid the same rate as the other guests who had the a/c. At night it was extremely noisy as we had to keep the windows open, as well as the doors. There was no lock on the room for any privacy. <BR><BR>Furthermore, our room was next to a public living room, and we had to go through the hall to our bathroom. Overall our stay was not worth the $80 per night, relatively high for Granada. Finally we had to drag all of our bags up the hill to the inn, over rutted streets, and with sketchy people all over. <BR><BR>Avoid this hotel if you prefer a relaxing stay - there are a lot of better and cheaper hotels available in Granada!! <BR>

We stayed at a dirt cheap sleazy place right across the street from the Alhambra. I don't recall the name Location great, price great. It had a rather large room and balcony overlooking a green pool, so it was pretty quiet. Since what I saw of the rest of Granada was just as seedy if not more, I am glad we only stayed there, but also glad we only spent one day in Granada. See the Alhambra and get out of there.

Keith,<BR>Couldn't agree with you more.<BR><BR>Add to your list the aging Washington Irving on the Alhambra hill-hasn't had a facelife in decades.<BR><BR>And most anything in the moorish Albaicin; a huge pain to reach, even by cab, and to drag your luggage up the very steep, slippery steps to these "charming B&B's", re-converted "carmenes"; marginal neighborhood, scruffy, really watch your belongings and your person at night. This laid back area, despite its recent opening of supposed little hotels of charm, is way not ready yet for prime time. Need to clean it up first, IMHO.

make that "facelift". W.I. is one gloomy place-several letters missing from their wobbly hotel sign on the side of hotel, and they've never bothered to fix it.

Poor Keith. You seemed to have bad hotel experiences all over Europe! You wrote about a bad one in Carcassone too. Did you have any good hotel experiences?

Yes, actually most of our experiences with hotels were good. I did post some positive experiences as well!! <BR><BR>I put up the two negative reviews so anyone going to those places could avoid what we had to go through!