Crisol Monasterio de San Miguel

Great area of Spain. Resort was only 10-15 minutes away from Jerez airport and a cheap taxi ride. A number of decent resturants and dozens of small tapas bars. English is not very widely spoken. Go armed with some basic spanish phrases. Never had a bad meal out. Could give you a very lengthy list of what we ate and where but have the fun of discovering things for your selves. Apart from trips to the beach, sherry or brandy tours, or day trips to cadiz, you can also look around the bull ring for free in the mornings. On arrival we were upgraded to a room with a balcony over looking a small tree filled court yard. No good if you wanted to sunbath (but you can do that round the pool or on the roof) but vey private. On the roof to climb the tower and look at the veiw over to Cadiz. Free hotel bus to and from the beach although this is only run during the summer (so stopped the week we arrived!). The staff at reception were very helpful. You can buy tickets for them for the boat to Cadiz and for various Sherry tours (we did the Osborne one). They also recomended us some very good resturants and tapas bars. The only draw back to this hotel were the staff in the cafeteria and the breakfast room who where painfully slow at service. The hotel guests were a mixture of Spanish, English and German buiness people and holiday makers. Variety of ages but no families with children.