Hotel Ele Santa Bárbara

“Great base for visiting Seville”

We booked two rooms in this lovely and all four of us were very happy with the facilities. My husband and myself had room 208 while our son and his girlfriend were next to us in 206, Both rooms were clean and comfortable with excellent shower rooms, plenty of storage space for our belongings. The s… more

We booked two rooms in this lovely and all four of us were very happy with the facilities. My husband and myself had room 208 while our son and his girlfriend were next to us in 206, Both rooms were clean and comfortable with excellent shower rooms, plenty of storage space for our belongings. The staff were extremely helpful and friendly, we used the free car park that we were told about and there were plenty of good places to eat in the locality. There is a bus stop not far from the hotel and bus takes you into the main station, less than seven euros for four adults! Breakfast was only five euros and well worth paying for, lovely coffee machine too. We would highly recommend you stay here if visiting Seville, you can easily walk to a pretty big shopping mall that is not far away if you run out of anything.

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“Great place to stay”

We really liked staying here. The rooms were great - comfortable, plenty of plug-ins and mirrors, and space for luggage. It was a good location near some local city centers, dining, and walks to enjoy the city. It's quaint and lovely. A great place to stay.

“Very nice!”

We booked one night here because we wanted to visit seville. It is a very nice and original hotel. Clean and very big rooms. There is a bus (bus station at 5 min from the hotel) which takes you in 15 min in Seville - the bus stop in Seville very close to the main attractions. The staff is very help… more

We booked one night here because we wanted to visit seville. It is a very nice and original hotel. Clean and very big rooms. There is a bus (bus station at 5 min from the hotel) which takes you in 15 min in Seville - the bus stop in Seville very close to the main attractions. The staff is very helpful - after checkout we left our luggage and car at the hotel and returned to pick them up at 7pm without any extra charges. Breakfast is basic, but fresh and tasty, Very good coffee. The city is very nice as well.

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“Nice enough hotel for short stay”

We, like many others I suspect, got lost finding this hotel because we followed our SatNav. We were miles away from where we should have been as there is another address very similar. Ask the hotel for directions or use a map. We were unable to park in the car park underneath the hotel when we arr… more

We, like many others I suspect, got lost finding this hotel because we followed our SatNav. We were miles away from where we should have been as there is another address very similar. Ask the hotel for directions or use a map. We were unable to park in the car park underneath the hotel when we arrived because of the height of our vehicle but we found it easy enough to park on the road around the corner about 50 yards away. The hotel has a very pleasant appearance especially as it has sofas on all levels for you to sit and enjoy a book or a drink in the enclosed covered inner courtyard area, where there is plenty of light coming in. The rooms were of reasonable size and the beds were comfortable with the en-suite bathroom having an over the bath shower in some rooms and shower cubicles in others. The bathrooms needed a high level clean as there was some mold but daily cleaning could not be faulted. We were given a double room with a window out onto the road at the side which seemed fairly quiet until 6.30 a.m. when the cars started driving past over the cobbles. The night before we opened the window to allow some air in and were suffocated by the smoke that entered the room from the local chimneys so we had to close them again. The room was then very hot as being November the air-con was switched off. So we asked to switch rooms . We were then offered one on the inner part of the building which had a window out onto landing area which would have been ok if it had not been in front of the lift. So it had no light at all coming into the room and presented the problem of having the noise of the lift late at night. So now we looked at another room which had a much lighter aspect onto the inner areas and a bathroom with an outside window for air to come in. Fine. The receptionist could not have been more helpful during this time and we were happy. Happy that is until someone came back to the hotel at 2 a.m. in the morning and had a gay time celebrating with a bottle of champagne in the inner seating area of the hotel, waking up most of the other residents of the hotel. This carried on for some time so we had another wakeful night. The breakfast buffet was pretty good and we cannot praise the poor receptionist enough (Eva we believe - she deserved a medal) as she ran the reception, booking out guests, making sure the breakfast baskets were stocked, clearing tables, washing up and serving the odd local who called in for coffee. Amazing! The local bus was a five minute walk away and took 15 minutes to get to the bus station in Seville where you could basically take a reasonable walk, taxi or another bus to anywhere in Seville town and the outlying areas of the city. So would I stay in this hotel again. Probably not but if you sleep heavily then this hotel has a lot to offer in terms of location and general comfort for the opportunity to visit Seville without the inflated prices of the city. Unlike others, I found the staff brilliant, hard working and always willing to help.

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