Hotel Rallye Granada: Depressing.
Hotel Rallye looks great on paper. Satellite tv, free wifi, private parking and huge, chic looking rooms. Close to the city centre. And all this for a mere 50 euros!
Hotel Rallye probably used to be a good hotel, especially for business peope. The entrance is still very chic ad there are ladies in white aprons polishing the marble floors: nice! And the rooms are huge and modern, in classy browns and creams.
It’s in the details that Rallye is not that great: for starters, there is no wifi in the rooms. For us that’s a major Thing. The location is awful if you’re not on business, in a rundown neighbourhood, on a busy street, and quite a lengthy walk to the city centre. The satellite tv, as mostly is the case in Spain, consists of three German channels and CNN. I always feel a bit cheated: why not something, anything, watchable in English? National Geographic? Discovery? BBC World? Watching CSI in German always feels so wrong somehow….
Also, in the hallway on the uper floor there was some sort of modern art-thing attached to the ceiling, but covered in soot and cobwebs. Maybe the nice adies in the white aprons should have a look up here?
Around the corner is the private parking. You have to fight your way through traffic and densely double parked cars to get there and then the Rallye garage is so impossibly tiny I nearly couldn’t squeeze my small car in (a Peugeot 206). Let alone get it out, which was even worse, because the giant doors open to the inside and there’s no room to manoever.
All in all, Rallye made me a bit sad. It had that feel of a horse on its last legs. Not a great horse, no thorough bred, nor even a hunter, but more of a well intentioned fat pony.
My advise? Don’t go to Hotel Rallye. Frankly, even for 50 euros, it’s just too depressing. But if you must, park somewhere else!
