Hotel Palacio de Aiete

- My room was clean and spacious. - The floor I was on (3rd) was quiet. - The upscale neighbourhood is calm and pleasant. - Access to public transit is easy, offering multiple bus routes (and inexpensive fares) to reach downtown. - Taxi service is easy to arrange at the front desk and cabs arrivr on time. - The walk to and from the downtown and beaches is a work-out! (That's a good thing. I loved the hill ascents and descents.) - A very good café-bakery is a five-minute walk from the hotel. It opens early (7/7:30 a.m.) A pub is located in the same complex. There's also a small grocery market there, but its hours of operation are limited. - The cleaning staff was courteous and responsive.

A nice hotel in a good location. Parking available. Good breakfast. A good restaurant attached to the hotel. Parking was important for us and I was a bit concerned if we would get a spot but arrived early and had no problem. There seemed to be parking available in the general area even if we had been unable to get the hotel parking. A medium sized hotel with friendly service. It's about 20-40 minutes walk to town depending on where you are going, and downhill. On the way back we found an escalator to get up the hill so ask reception for directions for that. Otherwise there seems to be a very regular no 19 bus to within about 5 minutes of the hotel. The restaurant attached to the hotel was very good. Probably not too expensive given the quality. We ate there both nights and were happy with it. There was also a nice bar/ cafe close by. It was a residential area with a nice park around the corner. We would definitely stay there again.

The hitel was in a quiet location but with excellent bus link into town. There was lots of space for parking and a good choice at breakfast. We aye in the hitel one evening and although there wasn't a huge choice everything was nicely cooked. We had the Mirador room which gave us access onto the roof terrace. This terrace was only open to other people between 11am and 8pm so was ours alone at other times. Definitely worth the little bit extra .

Arrived early due to Bilbao ferry timings, but received a lovely welcome from the Receptionist who checked that our room was ready and allowed us to check in at 11am. The room was fine with a large bed, balcony and clean en suite bathroom. Excellent buffet breakfast including eggs, bacon and Spanish Omelette as well as all the traditional continental breakfast offerings. Pleasant bar offering meals and snacks from the restaurant kitchens. It's approximately a mile downhill walk to the beach, and the walk back is heavy going, but the public transport in San Sebastian is fantastic, the 19 bus leaving every 15 minutes and landing you within 200m of the hotel.

Clean, with air conditioning that worked, firm beds, ( we slept so well!), delightful staff that seemed genuinely interested in helping us. We also liked the location and ate breakfast both days in the local village square. Nice to meet some locals.