Hotel Los Angeles

We were in room 103. The windows are just above the street level, so they can't be left open at night. There was no air conditioning, so the room was a bit warm during our stay in mid-July. Otherwise, the room were spacious and clean with comfortable beds. The breakfast was ok.

The "family" room for three is like a tiny, hot prison cell; which was unfair as we had committed no crime. Moving around in it was a constant, painful, Tetris-like process. I have stayed in many awful hotel rooms as a professional travel writer (three books with Lonely Planet Journeys; hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles) including an un-air-conditioned shipping container in a place called Threeways in the middle of the Northern Territory desert, and this was easily one of the worst, by quite a margin. Out of curiosity I asked at another nearby hotel - the Hotel Santillana, which is three-star as opposed to Los Angeles (undeserved) two - and enquired about the price of a room for three on the Sunday night - literally half the price quoted to me by the Los Angeles for the same night! So in addition to being extremely uncomfortable, we were being extremely ripped-off. Do not stay there, under any circumstances.

Accommodation right next to a park and a children's playground in a quieter part of Santillana. Clean rooms, comfortable beds and friendly staff, but the breakfast consists of processed foods, therefore low quality...