HO By Olivencia Ciudad de Jaen

For some reason, this was the only place in the whole of Jaen city that we could book for our three days there. There was some sort of event going on hence everything else was booked. As a result, we ended up paying much more for a fairly basic room than we would have chosen to. The hotel is very clean and neat. Location is ok if you are only wanting to stay overnight en route to somewhere else, but it is 11 minutes’ drive into the centre ( plus quite pricey parking charges) or a 20 euro taxi each way (crazy price!). Our stay was ‘ok’. If I’d paid half the price, I’d have thought it was fine but three nights cost us £*** in mid November which seemed excessive. Annoyingly, on our second night, we got barely any sleep as whatever ever event had gone on opposite the hotel ( in some sort of sports arena) resulted in non stop shouting and drunken antics beneath our window into the early hours. I had emailed front office at 1am and they said they went to ask people to be quiet, but it continued well beyond 2.30 in the morning which was fairly grim. The hotel offered us free breakfast for our final two nights as a result ( yep - our £*** didn’t include breakfast!!)… Whilst I totally understand that noise outside is hard for them to control, quite a lot of the people making the noise were also staying in the hotel ( we saw them all the next day) … and that should have been something within the hotel’s remit. I wish the hotel could have warned us about this event and maybe given us a room Davi g the other side of the hotel as that would have been protected from all that noise. Would I stay again? Really not sure….Maybe? Maybe not? Only if at half that price to be honest. We visit Jaen at least yearly as our son lives there …. I feel slightly disappointed, I guess!