Ibis Hotel Alicante

Ibis are good family friendly /dog friendly hotels. I e we’re disappointed in this visit as we had booked two rooms as a family travelling and one room wasn’t available yet at check in time. I understand it was high season and we took the one room and left all of our luggage. We returned tired at 7pm and the second room still wasn’t cleaned and available to us . This was disappointing.

Ibis & Ibis Budget share a car park that has 3 small tables where you can sit with their [4/10] draught beer, enjoy afternoon sun and order their [6.5/10] pizza. €8 gets you a family-size g t (good gin, poor tonic, no lemon). It's a long walk into town, which suited my waistline. Best not to jog along that road as exhaust fumes hung heavy in the air there. I did try driving in, spent 20 mins looking to buy parking after spotting somewhere that was open to eat on a Sunday, plus 20 mins walking from the car park back to the restaurant. How do people in Alicante park when busineses are actually open? The bathroom in my first room stank so I asked for a room change the first morning. That was granted immediately without asking the reason so they must know which bathrooms need a ceiling-to-floor deep clean. The second room was initially no problem; clean, if somewhat spartan. This one had USB charger points but still no kettle. Bar options are quite limited and with no cooked breakfast option I didn’t comprehend the difference between the 5 and 8 euro breakfasts (duh...3 euros!!) so I just paid 8 thinking that gave me a free run at the buffet. Breakfast was neither particularly good nor bad but the cappuccino was dreadful. It came from a machine using sickly sweet UHT "milk" plus a feeble coffee element for a desperately poor outcome. Perhaps our Costa machines give Brits inflated expectations of automated coffee but there is a scale. Stick with their perfectly good orange juice