Paul S
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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.