Hostal Los Girasoles, Granada

Granada

Advantages: Beautiful city, good transport links.
Disadvantages: Not much English spoken by locals

To get to Granada in Andalucia, the cheapest thing to do is score a cheap flight off the internet to traditional loud-mouthed Brit destination, Malaga ;-) and then hop on a cheap as cheap can be coach down to Granada for just eight euros. To do this, simply get on the number 19 bus at Malaga airport, which will take you to the bus station, then ask at the ticket office for Granada. Very easy. Once in Granada, a number of options are open to you. Sta travel (evil swines) will tell you there are no hostels in Granada, and will sell you one for Madrid (thanks guys). Run a mile, and when you get to Granada, just hop in a taxi and say "una hostal, por favor". They will cost around fifteen euros per night and are sufficient for your needs. You'll need to eat once there, so the first thing I recommend is wandering over to the plaza ...

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Review of Granada (Spain)

Granada on a Budget

Advantages: Picturesque and Cheap
Disadvantages: Road Works

Granada ! where is that I hear you ask. Well go onto Ryan Air website and now book a return ticket direct !. One of the most brilliant jewels of universal architecture is the Alhambra, a series of palaces and gardens built under the Nazari Dynasty in the 14th C. This huge compound of buildings - including the Generalife - summer palace, with its fountains and gardens - stands at the foot of Spain's highest mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, and overlooks the city below and the fertile plain of Granada. The Sacromonte hill, used to be home to a large Gypsy community and their influence can still be seen in all areas of Granada. Be careful of pick pockets. The shops certainly have the feel of gypsy influence. We travelled via Ryan Air that now do flights direct to this hidden wonder, the flights were £74 each and the flying ...

Porky2005 17.10.2006 · Read full review
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Hostal Lami???? Where Is That

Advantages: Decent Cheap accomidation, Rooms are good enough for what we need, Nice View From The Window, Cheap
Disadvantages: No Taxi Drivers have any idea where it actually is, The description of The rooms when we booked.

As I'm sure some of you will be aware, I was in Barcelona for a long weekend to celebrate my 21st birthday, well one of the most important things, after booking your flights is finding a place to stay. And as one of the guys we were going with is at Uni, we needed to find something reasonable but cheap for the 4 nights we would be staying there. Well that's where the Hostal Lami comes in. Not exactly a Hostel more of a cheap hotel a bit like our Travel Lodge. Booking & Pricing *************** Obviously when we decided to go to Barcelona a couple of months ago we needed a decent place to stay so by chance having bought the flights through Opodo.co.uk there was a small advert for a hotel at just €38. That works out at roughly £25 a night, which when you consider hotels right in the centre were about €138 a night that ...

Andy.mack 08.10.2003 (16.01.2004) · Read full review
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