Bahia Hotel

Great hotel, near central city. Lovely rooms, shower very good, bed okay (mattress could be better and pillows better quality). Staff helpful and friendly. TV only 1 channel in English. Car elevator to car park.

A perfectly-located hotel for the ferry to the UK. Charming and slightly old-fashioned, it is nevertheless very comfortable and spotlessly clean. If paying for a room with a view, you have a great vista of the bay. There is a cafeteria with snacks (as well as a more formal restaurant). The breakfast is OK. Parking access is via a lift at the side of the hotel - and after pressing the intercom button, you are directed to a specific numbered place. All very convenient.

Great choice for a short break. A little pricey but super rooms, nice views and excellent location. The cafe/ bar was great and well priced. Staff very friendly and efficient. Would highly recommend-especially if you can get a deal

This is a lovely hotel in a fantastic location in central Santander, directly opposite the Cathedral. It has secure underground parking at an additional cost. |The room was lovely and comfortable as well as spacious with air con. |However ! Soon after arrival we went to the restaurant for lunch, we waiter for 7 or 8 minutes while numerous staff passed us by, there were tables available. Eventually after being sat at a table we waited a further 10 minutes and no one brought us a menu or took a drinks order. We left ! This is not typical of a Spanish welcome , |We ended up having room service as we were tired after a long journey there. |I noticed my pillow case was dirty, so got the spare from the wardrobe - also dirty. This was replaced promptly by housekeeping. |After returning to the hotel from a meal out we could not get a glass of wine - bar - cerrado- we thought that was strange in Spain where everything happens late. |In all a lovely hotel to look at, but perhaps better training g in customer service for staff. Bill was @ 600 euros for 2 nights, 1 snack for 2 people a wine . Not our best experience as regular travellers in Spain - what a shame to end on that experience

The Bahia Hotel is in a great central position, located as its name suggests on the seafront. We had to change rooms at check-in, which was handled quickly and professionally. The room was spacious and comfortable with a view of the bay. A lift takes you and your car to the cramped car park. The breakfast (€16,50) was adequate, but if you come later be prepared to find a reduced offer. As usual in these large places, they have ONE working coffee machine for the whole breakfast room, and that of course works at a snail's pace. I tried one day to get a late breakfast here but it was impossible. They employ the world's rudest waiters who simply shout in Spanish and walk away. As there was also no menu of any sort, I could not point to order. A complete disaster. These places rarely fail on hardware, it's nearly always the software. The Cafeteria staff are in urgent need of customer service training and an explanation of where their wages come from.

Great location. There were no parking places for our car. We had to go to public parking which no one helped us locate. The girls at the desk could not help us. There’s very little amenities in the bathroom. No help with the suitcases unless we asked nothing in the room refrigerator also. Cigarette butts all over the lobby floor. Haven’t eaten here yet. I would not recommend this hotel

We recently stayed for 5 days at this hotel, we found it to be a good choice well located for the centre , bus and train station.|We had a room overlooking the Cathedral which was very quiet and comfortable with everything that we needed.|We had the menu of the day one evening in the restaurant which we felt was reasonable value at 28 Euro PP for a three course meal with a bottle of wine and water etc.|We only had breakfast one morning because the buffet offer was so nice with plenty of choice and encouraged me too eat too many pastries ( Greedy ) !|We found all the staff in the hotel reception, cafeteria and restaurant to be professional, helpful and pleasant.|If we visit Santander again we would definitely stay at this hotel again.

Room 625 is haunted. I don't believe in paranormal stuff but what happened there was very difficult to explain.||On the first night I had very bad dreams. I chalked this up to a fairly stressful trip but at 2:43am exact, me and my wife were both woken up with a very loud rapid three knocks on our door.||We went to investigate and found nothing. Here's where the story gets weird though.||I was so angry because I thought it could have been a drunk person or maybe somebody making noise upstairs, however, when we tested the outside door to replicate the sound of the knock on the room's outside door it sounded nothing like what we heard which was loud and you could clearly hear the knuckle of the hand on the second knock between the three knocks.||We realised that that night we had the inner room door closed (it's the door that separates the room's small hall with the bathroom and door entrance). We tested this inside door and it sounded exactly like the knock we heard. This means the knock came from inside our room, which is impossible.||It freaked us out and later we found out that the history of the building had quite a bit of tragedy were six workers had died in it in the late 90's when an earthquake damaged the building completely. I still don't believe in ghosts and stuff like that but ...this was extremely difficult to explain as we both heard it and it came from inside our room. It's tone was definitely from a human hand and wasn't pipes or noise from above or below. It was inside our room.||Very freaky. However, I will say the rest of our stay was pleasant with no bother. Toast was pretty amazing too!