Emperatriz I

Perfect location, friendly and helpful staff.

Stayed four nights in early September 2023 during the week of celebrations for Salamanca's Patronal Feast Day. The strengths: Location, Location, Location. Just around the corner from the Plaza Mayor; a good sized room for Spain; very clean; comfortable beds; working Air Conditioner for cooling; interior room so very quiet despite late night partying outside; very good cleaning each day; twenty-four hour front desk so building felt secure; affordable price. Could Have Been Better: Bathoom was maybe the smallest we have seen in Spain; no space for anything; high walled bathtub required caution entering and exiting, no light switch in the bathroom; even with lower temperature water, bathroom steamed up extremely quickly. Breakfast; Hotel offers a desayuno buffet for six euro eighty but it lacked anything fresh (i.e. no fresh fruit, eggs etc.) coffee was awful, of the burned tires variety; frustrating because we could see the potential, the dining space was cheerful and clean and there could have been a good deal more with a bit of imagination. Tip: If you stay here, remember you are in Salamanca, in our opinion one of the Culinary Capitals of Spain. Give the hotel breakfast a go so you can see if they improved it since our experience, but don't keep eating there if they haven't. Just a few hundred meters away is Caledonia Coffee, where you can get an outstanding breakfast for admittedly more than six euros eights, but with such well prepared fare and delivered with such friendly service that you will start your whole day off on a better foot.