Hotel Hippocampus

Breakfast on the roof top - allow time to enjoy a served breakfast (versus the usual rushed glutinous hotel buffet). This was special - sitting in the crisp morning air served by a waiter in crisp white shirt ...overlooking centuries old buildings!

Some at front desk were friendly others a bit haughty - this may be a cultural thing or they are just exhausted with tourists and it’s hard to keep smiling when your own life is quite hard (as it often is here).

Beautiful and stylish decor throughout. We had lots of space as well as two bathrooms. Comfortable memory pillows. Interesting objects and arfefacts throughout the building. Great terrace where we really enjoyed our breakfasts. Excellent range of food on the menu, stunning views and the best waiter ever. Nice touch with welcome drinks on arrival. Excellent location.

The rooms felt really luxurious when we first arrived but but there were a few things that we discovered during our stay. Our rooms were dark which meant we had to have lights on even during the morning. There were two TVs but the service was slow/ unreliable and of the vast amount of channels, the only ones suitable for us were news channels! (we came on holiday to get away from the news!). Finally, we found the rooms a little noisy at night. Being on the first floor we could hear people in reception as well as noise from bars below through the windows.

Stylish modern comfortable rooms, we had 2.

TVs didn't have any signal so couldn't use them, wires and boxes hanging out from behind. Air con in one room was insufficient. Lots of little niggles like loose toilet roll holder, loose electric sockets, loose tiling in shower. Very noisy neighbourhood.