Great rooms, amazing service and awesome location...this is the best place I've stayed in Spain.
Plus, is great value for money as the room rates are very cheap for what you get at the hotel.

After fifteen years of not visiting western part of Europe, my impression of Europe is still remain as an expensive place to visit especially for the food and accomodation. That was right after my graduation and we have to stay in dormitary and catch the night train to save accomodation cost. After Morocco, we proceed to Spain and I kept telling my friend who has not really visited Europe before (other than Greece) do not expect too much on the accomodation.

Granada is our first stop in Europe and Spain. We took a taxi from train station to Hostal Rodri. The taxi fare is reasonable. It cost about 7 Euro. The taxi driver is very friendly even though we cannot really understand Spanish language. Jose (who is also one of the owner of the hotel) is on duty when we arrived. He is very friendly too. When Jose knew it is the first time we visit Granada, he gave us all the good tips by drawing the note and direction nicely on the map with different colours. There are a number of restaurants (with different price range), shopping street, sites and directions he drew on the map. It is so detailed and good until at one point we think he is proabably an author of travel guide book. We are very impressed with Jose.

The lobby is very neat. When we entered the room, it is even nicer. It is really very clean. We enjoy the feeling to walk on the floor without shoe because it is so smooth. The bathroom is unbeliavable clean, bright and comfortable. The bed and mattress is thick and soft. There is a big LCD TV with popular TV channel like CNN. Nice table lamp has been set up at each side of the bed. There is a balcony too. In addition of all these, there is a nice art painting hanging on the wall and elegant curtain at the drop down glasses of the balcony. With the affordable room rate (39 Euro including tax), it totally changed our mind set of Europe as an expensive destination.

Granada old town is not too big. Hostal Rodri is conveniently located in the central and near to all main site (including Alhambra - there is public transport to go there but we decided to walk from Hostal Rodri). Hostal Rodri is also near to the shopping street and numerous good restaurants.

We like Granada a lot as well as Hostal Rodri and Jose the owner. I and my friend has told each other we have to re-visit Granada. It is really one of the nicest place we have ever visited..

Note 1:
The restaurant tips given by Jose are good. We tried Los Diamantes II (tapas) at Navas Street. It is good and full of local people. We tried Restaurant La Bodega De Antonio at Jardines Street, it is good and cheap with big serving. The chocolate con churros of Churreria Cafeteria Alhambra at Pl. Bib-Rambla (a square behind the Cathedral) is a good place to try the churros (A popular spanish snack look like long and thick doughnut and normally dipped with chocolate).

Note 2:
I plan to post more information and photo about Granada and Hostal Rodri in near future. If you are interested, here is my travel blog - www.chonghui.net

We stayed in Spain for 15 days and our favorite is Hostal Rodri which offered the most value for money in terms of quality of room, cleanliness, location and service!

Unforgettable experience

We spent 4 nights at Hostal Rodri and it was one of our best finds in Andalucia. Rooms were spotless, nicely decorated, good bathrooms with accessories (ie shampoo) provided. The management were very helpful and on arrival gave us a map of Granada and marked up all the highlights and restaurants. Not only was the accommodation great value, but breakfast next door was outstanding value for E6 per person!