Hotel Catedral Almería

Location very good. Room 24, large with a great balcony & view of the Cathedral Plaza. Breakfast was a bit hit and miss some mornings. Only one member of staff on for the first hour covering the restaurant, bar area and outdoor tables. Disappointed that the rooftop terraza/pool area was not open after 7.00pm. It would have great to have that facility available to enjoy a bottle of wine, read a book or watch the sun go down. There is no resident's lounge area available. There are only twenty rooms and there is a lot of emphasis on using the restaurant and bar for weddings, meetings, confirmation and celebratory parties, etc. Our room was just above the reception area and the noise and loss of facilities over many hours and days during our stay of eleven nights was quite significant. Children's entertainers hosted groups of children for hours in the Plaza right below our room and of course the facilities of the restaurant and bar were both out of bounds on a number occasions over the length of our stay The outdoor bar in front of the hotel was closed often without any apparent rationale especially when big functions were going on. I had one complaint when I queried why the price of the same drinks that I purchased in the Hotel's bar on consecutive nights differed by £3. I didn't get a reasonable explanation and didn't drink in the hotel after that. Overall we enjoyed our stay at the Hotel but 5 nights would have been more than enough to cover ALL the delights of Almeria.