This place had more of a feel of a bed-and-breakfast than a hotel, minus the close attention one gets at the former. Thank goodness our room was on the first floor, so we only had to lug up the bags we'd brought for our 2-week road trip in Spain. There is no parking at the hotel, so we first needed to roll our bags two blocks from the parking spot we'd found on the street. Normally I mock Americans who complain about hotel rooms being too small, but this one was not only small but crowded with unnecessary furniture, pots of fake flowers, floor lamps, etc. There was one chair, but to access our suitcase that was in the cupboard, the person sitting in the chair had to move to the bed. The bed itself was somewhere between a full and a queen and quite soft. Upon our arrival, the floor lamp next to the bed had no bulb in it, and when we informed the front desk attendant on our way out for lunch, she asked us what type of bulb it required! Breakfast was minimal, mostly prepackaged items (we thought maybe this was due to Covid times, but all of the other hotels we visited since then offered fresh meats and cheeses, fruit, fresh oj, etc -- the usual Spanish breakfast spread). We did meet the owner at our final breakfast, a nice, chatty man who pointed out he'd made the scrambled eggs earlier that morning that were reheated in the microwave for us, and he told us that his grandfather had returned from South America with enough money to buy this house, which his grandson then turned into the "hotel." If we ever return to Santander, we'll rent one of the many vacation apartments that surrounded us, complete with balconies, parking lots, and I'm guessing more space.
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