View from room
If you are only visiting Granada to tour the Alhambra, then you couldn’t be better placed by staying in the Hotel Guadalupe. It’s situated on the hill opposite the Generalife, a view of which we got from our hotel room, across the road from the Alhambra Ticket office – and the regular announcements from 8am onwards about queuing and tickets reminds you of this!
The hotel is clean, comfortable and reasonably priced, but should you wish to explore more than the Alhambra you will need to become very familiar with the wee buses that zip up and down the hill to and from the city, winding through the Albayzin. The 30 and 32 are regular services – every 5 mins – and I would recommend that you buy a card which has a number of trips on it, which can work at 65cents a trip rather than the normal fare of 1€10. You pay extra for the card but then get a refund when you return the card. You buy this from the bus driver, and should you need to, you can top up the card for more journeys. We chose not to have breakfast in the hotel, so it was handy to nip down to the centre to find a nice place to have breakfast.
Hotel Guadalupe ticks the boxes. Be prepared to share the place with bus groups, and for the engine rumble of buses winding their way up the hill past your window to the car parks for the Alhambra. Certainly for a visit to the Alhambra it’s ideally located, but for discovering more of Granada I wished we were more centrally located, although the regular bus service did lessen the hassle.
Slept – 29th and 30th September 2008
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