Hotel Villa del Mar

The location is very central, 2 min from the central bus station and 5 min from the beach and pedestrian shopping area. You can rent a car and change money right across the road (don't use the Engar car, though! had big trouble with them), there are plenty of restaurants and night clubs. Hotel offers bike rental. Wifi is quite good and the owner and his wife are very friendly.

There were several issues that made my stay rather unpleasant though it might not bother other travelers. 1. Noise. It is very, VERY noisy area at night, ear plugs do not really help as neighboring night club puts the music super loudly until 3-4 am, last night of my stay my bed was literally trembling. More over, through my room a water pump was passing that made quite a noise the whole day starting at 6-7 am, so no afternoon nap and once I fell asleep at 3-4 when night club was getting quite, the security guy would turn up the pump at 6 to water the flowers! so I got my "wake-up call" from him. Needless to say, three sleepless nights made my vacations quite a nervous experience and I wasn't happy. 2. Breakfast is announced as continental and it is VERY continental. You get three toasts and small piece of butter and a bit of (delicious though) jam that are not enough to cover even two toasts, so you can eat the third one plain or leave it :D together with that you get Nescafe coffee which was painful. The owner was nice enough to make a coffee on the stove for me but, seriously, Nescafe?! You can get additional stuff for breakfast for money but not every day. 3. Furniture was shabby and the room did not have a closet so you just put your stuff on the open rack. Overall, I'd say it's an ok place if you like to party all night, don't care about good breakfast and can sleep after partying no matter the pump noise. If you are an older person who works a lot and wants to have comfortable rest after working hard the whole year, there are plenty other options for the same price in quieter neighborhoods.