NH Ciudad de Almeria is a very nice hotel, well located in the city. The room I stayed was not the usual design of NH hotels in Spain, but I liked it; very comfortable bed, quiet room, although you are in front of the train station. The only minus of the room was the tv set, still a old style, non flat type, but all the rest was very nice. Excellent buffet breakfast in NH style (say you will have breakfast at check-in, you’ll save money).
The problem was at restaurant. My colleague and I decided to have dinner at the hotel: and it was not a good choice. Apparently, there was just a waitress, to attend the bar, the room service and restaurant service; that resulted in extremely long waits (a meal of 2 dishes took 1h50mins!!), warm food arrived semi-cold and, best of the best: we ordered a glass of wine. The waitress arrived with an open bottle. Filled the glass of my colleague, and halved my glass. Then, came back with another bottle, and filled my glass: one glass, two different bottles! That was totally unacceptable, and we rejected the wine, that was obviously oxidized. She came back with a new bottle, and eventually we had a good wine. I believe a restaurant of 4 stars hotel, at 9pm, must provide a better service to his customers, keeping an acceptable level of resources available, and never fall into disrepute on basics as it happened with the wine.
- Nh Hotels Almeria
