Hotel Brismar

The hotel has the best possible location. The staff in the hotel are nice but the rooms are dated. Make sure you get a room with sea view. The restaurant has good food but the staff are terrible. Unfriendly, bad attitude and lack of customer appreciation.

This hotel has all the potential to be amazing, but it needs some serious money thrown at it to bring it up to modern standards. We had a sea view room (room 201) overlooking the port and the view was the only positive aspect of the room. The room and hotel itself was like staying at your Grandmother's house. The decor, furniture and general smell was horrendous. Uncomfortable bed, very tired and dated wallpaper, bathroom suite, and bed linen. The hotel is situated next door to Tim's bar which is the liveliest bar around. It closes at 1am every night, but allows the punters to stay seated until 3/3:30am. As the hotel is so old, it doesn't have double glazing or any sound proofing, and so for two nights in a row we had zero sleep due to the intense noise coming from Tim's. The hotel provides ear plugs but it is far from sufficient. The staff also don't seem to know what they're doing. We were given mixed information on availability of wifi on the hotel verranda and across the road at their sea side seating. The check in ladies were slightly strange as one wanted to keep hold of our passports for 24 hours with no explanation, and the other was rude and abrupt. The in-room facilities were poor. One complementary bottle of water, 1 set of ear plugs, no fridge, and air con that wouldn't allow you to set the temperature than 24c. We checked out early, forfeiting any refund purely because we couldn't stand the lack of sleep. Don't make the same mistake, book elsewhere!

The view and convenience to the port was amazing.