Hotel Comillas

Average hotel which sometimes can meet your needs perfectly. In my case, I didn't even plan to stay in Comillas. However, my feet started bleeding after the fourth day of trail running. I needed some respite altogether with some others from our group. So we stopped in Comillas for a couple of days. I was happy the rooms were equipped with baths instead of shower cabins. That enabled me to partially heel the wounds, put on some tapes and darn tough with 1 size oversize boots and continue the running later to Pendueles. However the hotel other than its price did not really stun. Everything was average. The breakfast, too.

The hotel is well located close to Sobrellano Palace and there is good free parking. All the rooms are on the ground floor and our room was dark and gloomy with grey walls and no pictures. For privacy we had to keep the shutters closed and the room felt very claustrophobic. Not a place to linger! It was a warm night and the a/c was only set as a heater with a minimum temperature of 24 degrees so we had to keep the window open. Not a place to stay next time.

We stayed at this hotel for 2 days and enjoyed it very much. The town is very pretty. The rooms are clean and comfortable, the breakfast was delicious with plenty of options including fresh fruit. Best of all are the sraff who were all genuinely kind and helpful. Reception, waiters and even the cleaners greeted us as we went past and the friendly culture seemed to pervade the hotel as all the other customers said "Buenas Dias" on passing!

We stayed for one night while walking the Camino Norte. This a modern hotel. The room was good, if a somewhat low key decor. Breakfast was good. For us, this was good, in a modern city hotel way, but lacked the wow factor.

The hotel we were supposed to stay in accidentally overbooked, so they sent us to this place for 1 night. This hotel charged the 1st hotel 215 Euros for a room that was basic, to say the least. It was small, ugly, poorly furnished with random items, and on the ground floor w/ no view and hearing range of drunken singing into the night. The rest of the hotel was quite unimpressive - not sure how got a 4-star classification. There were no parking spaces when we returned from having dinner, and the person at the front desk shrugged and told us to park in the street. Also, Comillas has very little to recommend it.

Hotel had friendly and helpful reception staff. Strangely the coffee shop and reception were one counter, which made for not brilliant service. Rooms were ok, but old fashioned could have done with a modern update. The breakfast was delicious and choice excellent but the room was devoid of character. There were no charming areas to sit and have a coffee. A functional hotel.