Hotel Mirador del Estrecho

I booked Hotel Mirador for one night, but due to problems with my car stayed for three. I really enjoyed my time there and was made most welcome by the friendly staff. They all spoke pretty good English and were very helpful with telephone calls and booking taxes to sort my car out. I had lunch there which was home-cooked and very reasonable value. It is quite a popular restaurant and I’m not surprised. I hope to stay there on my return journey in a few weeks.

Called the hotel to check if they had an available room and the person in the reception got angry because he could not speek English. What a great impression.

Nice and clean hotel. Close to the marina (if you want to cross the strait to Tanger). Location is a bit hidden. Has an underground parkingspace! Very helpful if you are travelling by car and want your items to be safe. Nice spacious room with bathtub. Nice waterflow. Clean room and beds.

From the outside the hotel looks tired and in need of updating but the room that we stayed in was very clean, bright and appeared freshly decorated. The room had the biggest balcony I have ever seen in a hotel it was in fact bigger than the room , it offered such wonderful views across the bay to Gibraltar and was a great place to relax and watch the activity in the port . Hotel has a restaurant which serves a wide choice of breakfasts at very reasonable prices . We found it difficult to actually get to the hotel from the main road as it was not well sign posted and we ended up at the restricted entry to the port and had to make an illegal U turn to get onto the right road . But overall a very good stay in this hotel.

Arrived Monday 4th October at 2.20 am very late, to be met by the male receptionist who was really polite and helpful and helped carry our luggage to our room, the only problem was he did'nt speak any English. We found our room spacious, clean and a large balcony, with two chairs and a table but a sun lounger would have been nice. The staff were always smiling and cheerful nothing was too much trouble especially the English speaking young ladies.we used this hotel as a base to go to Gibralta and other places by car and we found it to be a great location. The view is great, lovely sea and beach. The restaurant was a no go for us due to the lateness of the evening meal and we there was no English translation to help us choose anyway. Would we stay again 100% yes. We think " tea making facilities" would be a bonus too.

On entry the hotel has a stale cigarette smell, luckily the rooms are not the same. The reception staff are friendly but speak very little English if required. We had to pay €8.80 for parking in the underground parking as there was none nearby.|The room itself was good, had a great terrace which overlooks the beach and port. We were lucky enough to see a fire work display from the terrace. |We were not impressed to be rudely awoken before 9 am by the cleaning staff knocking loudly on the door - we only stayed overnight so I don’t understand why they didn’t leave us alone until we checked out. |Beds are very uncomfortable with the thinnest of pillows. The children were in a sofa bed and complained how uncomfortable it was - something they have never commented on before. |Breakfast was a standard continental breakfast - a choice of croissant or toast, orange juice, coffee or cola cao. Orange juice was fresh. Anything else is chargeable.|I think this hotel could be so much better than what it is, it has potential but comfort or lack of it lets it down.||

Very good value if you get the right room - not worth a penny if you don't.||It's right next to the motorway and main access road to the port so a continuous stream of trucks at all hours. Adjacent houses seem to have been provided with acoustic screens but not the hotel.||We asked for a room with a sea view but were put in room 201, at the front facing the road with two windows and air conditioning (the kind in the ceiling over the corridor beside the bathroom) that didn't seem to work. Windows open too noisy; windows closed too hot. Didn't get any sleep. (Though these rooms at the front do seem to have baths and bidets.)||Next morning we put our luggage in the car before they relented and promised a room at the back for the next two nights. We got 216, near the lift but no noticeable noise. These rooms seem to just have showers but no bidet and more modern wall-mounted aircon units. Good view of the beach and the Rock (and the port and the oil refinery.....) Dull throbbing noise from the port but didn't stop us sleeping.||I think 201-211 are at the front, 212-223 are at the back, with large terraces.||The hotel is on a hill so there are also "first floor" rooms at the back of the ground floor, but the view probably isn't so good. There's also a sign for room 301 - there must be a secret penthouse suite though most of the top floor is the laundry and the lift doesn't go there.||Yes, it is a little difficult to find. Follow the yellow signs even though you seem to be going round in a circle and down a slip road back onto the motorway: you peel off to the right to get to the hotel.||Over the three days there was just one occasion when I couldn't immediately find a parking place at the front and had to park down the hill at the side. ||Rooms are clean and nicely decorated. No kettles or minibars though.||Staff (apart from one grumpy late-night man) are friendly and helpful.||Breakfast - get a ticket from reception - is just juice, coffee and toast or croissant. But you can get extras such as scrambled eggs for €3.50.||Dinner (probably available at lunchtime too) is exceptional value - €10 for three courses including a glass of wine. And more imaginative than the omelettes or fried fish that most cheap places seem to offer.||We didn't use the adjacent beach - I think to get to it you have to walk down the road past the roundabout and then turn right. ||No idea what attractions Algeciras might have but it's a good base for touring. We spent the first evening at the last night of the Feria in La Linea, next day doing the cultural trip to Tangier from Tarifa, second day in Gibraltar, last morning at the beach in Getares, just south of the town, and managed to get back to Seville airport in only an hour and a half.||If you manage to get a good room it's excellent value compared with any of the other hotels in the vicinity.

nice clean room + bathroom, with working table and nice view. the restaurant is tasty and offers a menu with a very fair price of 12€ for main dish, appetizer, dessert and a few drinks. most of the staff speaks acceptable English and the wifi works fine. this is basically all you can ask for. edit I am removing one star because : wifi is not completely reliable, our double bed is two single beds, there are only minor things happen that bother me, but they do bother me