Hostal Esteba

Recent Reviews: 71

• User:MargaretPowell

  Trip type:

  Better than Expected, Clean and Well Maintained

  21 Nov 2022

  3 nights. Positives: Location, Parking, Bed, Sleep Quality, Service, WiFi, Restaurant, Cleanliness and Maintenance. This 1* hotel takes pride and care in what they offer. Super clean, very well maintained, the room has no frills but it offers a recently renovated if compact space and tiny bathroom with basic amenities. The hotel has easy access off the motorway and convenient parking. We had 2 dinners which were pretty good and a simple Spanish bar style breakfast and it came fast and was ok. We paid for our 3 nights on arrival and then separately for each cafeteria or restaurant purchase. Further, please note that the photos on line are accurate and if anything our room was better than expected, although we did take the better room rate.Linen and towels were reasonable and the firm bed offered amazing sleep quality. Both heating and cooling supplied. Our room 110 had a balcony and although near the single elevator, we used the adjacent stairs to go up and down to level 1. Negatives: no hairdryer, shower recess was small, shower head a bit floppy and could do with adjustment. No kettle or mini fridge. You could hear noises from adjacent rooms including tv but once people settled for the night it was very quiet.Highly recommend.

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• User:matteobrescia

  Trip type: Solo travel

  Bad experience

  26 Aug 2022

  Stayed here 2 nights before going to a friend wedding.The Building looks nice from outside, especially the garden and the relax area.The Rooms although are old and minimal, but most of all really really noisy. You could hear the room next door toilet flushing and the shower running.Had to put hearplugs in in order to sleep (or trying) as the air-conditioning was so loud, and didn't even cool down the room properly. Last but not least, I booked this hotel via booking.com, where is showed a swimming pool in the pictures, but no swimming pool in this hotel. It s the council swimming pool over the road, and it s 6.50€ entrance.

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• User:estgrans

  Trip type: Family

  Quite good!

  25 Aug 2018

  Lovely place, comfortable rooms, and fare fares, good location and also the staff is kind... the only negative point is there’s only one girl attending the counter and the cafeteria! All at the same time you need to hire another waitress in order to deliver a quick response and excelente service.

• User:lancashireexile

  Trip type: Solo travel

  Basic stopover

  13 Jan 2015

  I stayed twice at the Esteba when visiting family at short notice and my usual similar hotel was unavailable. It's a B and B rather than aspiring to be a full service hotel but it's perfectly reasonable as an economical stopover or short stay with a single room costing 27 euros a night. Of course for that you get a fairly minimalist facility but the bathrooms though small were adequate and the bedrooms though basic and lived in were comfortable enough. The staff were welcoming and helpful and there is a cafeteria style breakfast area which served good basic Catalan breakfast fare; the fresh tortilla I ate one morning was spot-on. There are more formal inside and outside dining areas with interesting local dishes. There is good free parking and a lift. Beware though of the somewhat technical door system that operates later in the evening; it operates via a fingerprint and though it recognised me the first time it didn't the second.Caldes is a spa town famous for its bottled mineral water. It's a couple of miles off the main road from Girona to Barcelona and is pretty quiet. Girona airport is ten minutes drive away and the coast about 30 minutes at its nearest point. It is on the railway line from Girona to Barcelona too.Of course this isn't luxury but it is excellent value and convenient. I wouldn't see it as a holiday destination but for a couple of nights you could do a lot worse and certainly spend a lot more money.

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• User:veryveronicaIV

  Trip type: Solo travel

  I love this place! Such a wonderful, beautiful, friendly hotel.

  13 Jan 2014

  I needed a break from hostels for a little bit, so I booked 3 nights here in the amazingly beautiful Caldes de Malavella. It was one of the best travel experiences of my life. For less than the price of a shared room in a hostel, I stayed in a beautiful en-suite with a double bed. The room even had a balcony overlooking the ancient city. The staff were so friendly and patient with me and my 20 words of Spanish and were always willing to give me advice on what I needed to see in the town, etc. The restaurant has delicious food and had specials such as squid and fresh vegetables cooked in the thermal waters of the city. The location was absolutely perfect - walking distance from the train station (10 euro train ride from Barcelona) and walking distance to the town center. I definitely recommend this place to anyone, and I really hope to return.

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