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Once you find it (you'll need a satnav), the location is conveniently central and the parking is via a lift, which takes a little negotiation but can be done. But the decor as you enter starts to tell the story - old-fashioned and characterless; you know this is a hotel you won't remember. The receptionist is friendly and speaks English; the room is conventionally fitted in that traditional dark Spanish wood which saps the spirits. The pool brightens our evening - it is 1.5m throughout with no shallow area so not brilliant for kids, but good for adults and older children to cool off. The bar area, on the other hand, is unforgivably unwelcoming and no-one in their right mind could enjoy a drink there. But it's breakfast that means we wouldn't stay here again: it takes place in a cavernous, characterless conference room, the rubber pellets of supposedly scrambled egg cooling into industrial rubber, the dried out, fried bacon curling in the heat, the orange juice straight from a 1 euro Don Simon carton, the coffee machine almost certainly not filled with anything connected with coffee, the dish of fruit dirty and filled with ageing specimens. Even the breaks looks cheap. Book on booking.com and it will tell you that breakfast is 8 euros, which it certainly isn't worth; however the actual cost is 14.50 euros, which must make it the most expensive, worst value meal in all of Ubeda. The name Sercotel suggest this must be part of a chain; if it is, i'll be avoiding the entire brand in future. There are plenty of brilliant hotels in the old towns and cities of Spain, so there's no need to start the new day in one like this.