Pleasant hotel, with a nice room. It's hardly in the centre of town though, and when we got back to the hotel after a day enjoying the sights, we were too tired to go out to a bar or restaurant back in the town centre so we ate in the hotel. It was a pretty unusual experience!
For a start we were the only people in the restaurant. The menu was okay, and the waitress was friendly enough. She brought us out a couple of appetisers which we didn't happen to feel like eating. When she took them back to the kitchen we heard a massive argument break out between at least three voices. A different waiter came out and asked if there was something wrong with the appetisers. By this stage we were pretty bemused with everything and it got stranger when the waiter and waitress started alternating their visits - most of them pointless (pouring an extra centimetre of water into our glasses for example).
It felt like they'd realised that we were their only customers for the night and they were competing for the tip. That interspersed with the regular very audible arguments in the kitchen took the shine off what would otherwise have been a perfectly reasonable meal!
Although the location isn't perfect, we never had to wait more than 3 or 4 minutes for a taxi and the fare to the town centre was only about 5 euros or less, so that wasn't too much of a hassle. We liked the building too.
- San Antonio El Real Hotel
