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After driving the 80minutes or so from Santander, one reaches Ojedo and Potes; both lovely towns with plenty to see and do. Afternoon check in so a pleasant day was spent exploring the local countryside and it’s (even in the rain) spectacular views. The area is very popular with motorcyclists and the hotel seems to specialise in, or certainly cater for, the clique. We checked in and found our spacious en suite room to be everything we could have wanted. The toiletry fairies could have been a little more generous but we were well enough stocked. The bar was lovely and at times lively. The enormous breakfast room doubles as a function suite and there was a different one for each of the three nights of our stay. The attached restaurant was friendly and very efficient especially as they shared the kitchen between themselves and the aforementioned functions. Food. Good, service excellent, wine ditto. Breakfast: Generally very good. Plenty of good solid grub but a couple of items of positive criticism. The chafing dish for keeping eggs and bacon piping hot is a great deal more successful if filled with hot water and perhaps having its burners lit. Otherwise it’s a scramble (sorry) every time fresh HOT eggs are added to go with the definitely cold bacon. The very picturesque (some say romantic) samovar providing hot water for making tea should be retired to the oddities and curios shelf and a more reliable, constant source of boiling water adopted. The on site pool is lovely. I only left on the arrival of a group of mothers and their little treasures. I can’t blame the hotel for this….. All this aside. We had a fabulous stay with some wonderful staff in a lovely hotel. I’d go again.

The hotel is in a stunning location, but is otherwsie a solid 3 star in a bit of time warp, with no other reason to stay there other than the proximity to the cable car and mountain. Easy to find, nice 1/2 hour drive from Potes , with decent sized car park. Full of large empty lounges , huge bulky furntiture , and wooden floors - reminded me of the hotel from The Shining .... Bar and restaurant staff are few and far betwen, long waits for post walk drinks (you have to ring a buzzer which is then ignored) and breakfast you have to book times so its over run on that time when everyone arrives. Evenings preferred to drive to Potes for great food and liveliness, hotel was very quiet Good to book early cable car as right across the road, and 14km walk back down ends at hotel garden - and thats about the only reson to stay there. Passed many other nicer hostals / small hotels on way from Potes which I woud stay in next time Overall, very underwhelming hotel