Hotel City Express Covadonga

our last night in northern Spain and a quick look at Oviedo. The room rate was very good and for the price was fine. However breakfast was a shambles, we were not allowed into the breakfast room till after two large parties had been catered for. After which there was little left and apparently after asking was told that was all. The receptionists when we arrived the previous night however was excellent.

This is a budget hotel but is clean and secure. The location is very good. It's easy to get to from the station if you exit on the bottom level. Otherwise, like me, you'll walk around a bit and chat to the locals to find your way. It feels like a safe hotel and there are lots of places nearby to eat. Perfectly located for nightlife and for sightseeing. Staff were fine. Not extra-chummy but there was no need for that. My room had only an internal window but was great value for the price.

I stayed here with my boyfriend for a weekend trip. The room was small but spotless. The staff were all really nice and helpfull. It's a really nice location for a hotel; it's close to the train and bus station and right in the city center. My only complaint is that we could hear EVERYTHING going on in the hallway as if it were happening in our room. Other than that it was a great stay and a reasonably priced hotel.

I stayed in the hotel with my boyfriend for a quick weekend. The room was very small but it was clean and we had no problems with it. We stayed in a room without views to the main street so it was quiet. The staff was lovely and the hotel is in a very centric location so it made sightseeing easy. If you're in Oviedo on a road trip you may want to choose a hotel with access to parking. I wouldn't recommend the hotel for a long stay but I would definitely recommend it for a weekend stay.

Hotel was easy to find, quite in the centre of Oviedo, so we could visit whole city by walking from the hotel. Breakfast with standard, but enough for us. Hotel is a middle class but reasonable value for money and we liked it. Rooms could be a bit bigger specially when you have 2 suitcases....

Very good value for the money. Right in the centre of the city, the hotel is clean, the rooms are not too small and the furniture is pretty well kept. Good and very clean bathroom. Staff just okay. Would definitely repeat, cannot find better for this price!

It’s difficult to know where to begin the list of what’s wrong with this hotel, but it should probably start with the manageress that seems to be in charge. She may be a perfectly nice person under normal circumstances, but she should not be running a hotel. It was important to me that I be able the charge my stay to my American Express card, so I asked before checking to be sure it was accepted there, and she affirmed that it was. You know what’s coming… upon checking out and settling accounts, my card was ultimately not accepted. I was able to hear some of her conversation with the Ibercaja rep (the company they use to facilitate credit card charges) – my Spanish is not good enough to understand everything, but I did hear the phrase “no contratada” more than once from the rep, which I take to mean the hotel was not, in fact, set up to take AmEx, and this was confirmed by a Spanish business-owner friend. The upshot: whether intentionally or out of ignorance, she lied, and neither possibility speaks well of her. In the end, I was forced to go to an ATM to withdraw cash to pay the bill – with my luggage held hostage, naturally. ||||Oh, if that were the only issue… Expecting any of the advertised amenities to actually be provided seems to be too much for these people. The first minibar/fridge in the room did not work, and it took three attempts to switch it out for one that did. I then had to leave for the day before connecting to wi-fi from the room, and returned late that night to discover – surprise! – that it did not. My room appeared to be out of range of the wi-fi system, so I asked to change rooms the next day (7 days with no wi-fi in the room would have been a real hardship), at which point the manageress literally screamed at me, saying I can’t change rooms every day – even though this was the first and only room change. Thank god the new room did have wi-fi (and the fridge even worked)… I hate to think of what sort of abuse I might have been subjected to had I dared to complain again. They also have an irritating habit of disappearing from the reception desk and leaving the front door locked, so one is unable to enter or – more importantly and annoyingly – leave until someone deigns to reappear. At the time, this was about the cheapest hotel in Oviedo. Do think twice as to whether all the trouble is worth saving a few euros.||||My biggest regret is that my Spanish is not good enough to insist on lodging a complaint in the libro de reclamaciones over the credit card thing. I’m told the conversation shifts immediately once that happens.

I stayed there for 2 days, and they weren't the best ones. The receptionists had no charisma at all, nor patience. The rooms are pretty small and kind of ugly - besides that, it works ok. ||The good part is that it is a cheap hotel and very well situated in the city. You need 5min walking to be on the city center with everything to do.