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Cordoba: Hotel Albucasis

Calle Buen Pastor 11 , Phone: 34.957.478.625, fax 34.957.478.625
www.hotelalbucasis.com

Reviewed by: doru from Canada, review #253

When: April 2002

An acquired taste; we did not acquire. The problem is that the location is so good, but the hotel is not. {2 star}

In Córdoba we stayed at Hotel Albucasis (€72/night, continental breakfast extra), on Buen Pastor. I have three good things to say about the hotel: Location, Location, and Location.

And I have three complaints about this hotel recommended by Karen Brown and just about any travel guide. (I suspect none of them stayed there. Or maybe they had some very special rooms.) Complaint number 1 is the complete indifference of the front desk to your presence. The lady at the desk went on chatting indefinitely with a friend or neighbour, while I was waiting to ask a couple of questions before heading for the first time into town. I finally received a map but she could not find the schedule of the Cordoba-Sevilla buses, which I found in exactly the same pile of papers later, when there was nobody at the desk (which happened quite a bit). Second, the wall insulation or the lack of it. In two nights there we became very intimately acquainted with the bath and toilet habits of all our neighbours, whether the flashing of toilets or showering or taking a bath, one could hear everything. These included when neighbours turned in their beds, when they turned on or off the lights, coughed, name it! Which brings me to the third objection: you either had to take your shower or bath before 9 p.m. or there was no hot, even warmish, water.

There must be in Cordoba better places to stay at reasonable price. Next time, we will surely look for another choice.

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