Pension Restaurante Isidro — Restaurant in Almonte

This hostel is top-class in terms of its cleanliness. The room was small but quite well-equipped and the bathroom even had a little bathtub. Staff are helpful and efficient, though I did not test their ability to speak English.||There is free and fast WIFI and a large bar/restaurant downstairs for meals. ||||Lots of free parking is available around the hostel but note that in El Rocio there is no tarmac, you will be driving on sand in all parts of the village. Due to this there are no road-markings either, it´s kind of a free for all, and you must compete with horses and carriages as well as other drivers. Personally I had no problems with this but if you are from the UK and used to driving on the other side, plus are driving a hire car, it could be a little stressful. You have to drive through the whole village to reach the hostel, which is on the far side from the main road.||||In the winter this might be a great place to stay. Ditto if you are a heavy sleeper. I would not repeat a visit in the summer. The room was extremely hot and stuffy, so much so that I resorted to trying to waft cooler air in from the corridor using the door. The other areas of the hostel were fine but the aircon is controlled centrally so if your room is the hottest place in the hostel there´s not much you can do about it. Opening the windows is a no-no due to the mosquitoes.||||The other problem in my case was the noise. I asked for a quiet room when booking since I had to get up very early but either such a thing doesn´t exist or they didn´t bother. My room was above the bar terrace and on the road side of the hotel. I imagine rooms on the other side might have been better. Sound-proofing is poor hence the noise from the bar downstairs constantly echoes up the stairwell to the first floor, where the bedrooms are. I could hear individual conversations in the bar plus all the noise from the street.||||Since it was summer there was lots of activity until late. If you are visting El Rocio and planning to be out and about yourself until the early hours of the morning then this may not be a problem. If you want to try to go to bed and sleep before midnight it will be very difficult, in the summer at least. ||||To sum up: a very clean and good value hostel but one of the noisiest I have ever stayed in, at least until the bar shut, and much too hot in my particular room (3). Had my car been bigger I would undoubtedly have left and gone to sleep in it somewhere that was...

This hostel is top-class in terms of its cleanliness. The room was small but quite well-equipped and the bathroom even had a little bathtub. Staff are helpful and efficient, though I did not test their ability to speak English.||There is free and fast WIFI and a large bar/restaurant downstairs for meals. ||||Lots of free parking is available around the hostel but note that in El Rocio there is no tarmac, you will be driving on sand in all parts of the village. Due to this there are no road-markings either, it´s kind of a free for all, and you must compete with horses and carriages as well as other drivers. Personally I had no problems with this but if you are from the UK and used to driving on the other side, plus are driving a hire car, it could be a little stressful. You have to drive through the whole village to reach the hostel, which is on the far side from the main road.||||In the winter this might be a great place to stay. Ditto if you are a heavy sleeper. I would not repeat a visit in the summer. The room was extremely hot and stuffy, so much so that I resorted to trying to waft cooler air in from the corridor using the door. The other areas of the hostel were fine but the aircon is controlled centrally so if your room is the hottest place in the hostel there´s not much you can do about it. Opening the windows is a no-no due to the mosquitoes.||||The other problem in my case was the noise. I asked for a quiet room when booking since I had to get up very early but either such a thing doesn´t exist or they didn´t bother. My room was above the bar terrace and on the road side of the hotel. I imagine rooms on the other side might have been better. Sound-proofing is poor hence the noise from the bar downstairs constantly echoes up the stairwell to the first floor, where the bedrooms are. I could hear individual conversations in the bar plus all the noise from the street.||||Since it was summer there was lots of activity until late. If you are visting El Rocio and planning to be out and about yourself until the early hours of the morning then this may not be a problem. If you want to try to go to bed and sleep before midnight it will be very difficult, in the summer at least. ||||To sum up: a very clean and good value hostel but one of the noisiest I have ever stayed in, at least until the bar shut, and much too hot in my particular room (3). Had my car been bigger I would undoubtedly have left and gone to sleep in it somewhere that was...

Typically spanish restaurat (I did not sleep in the pension) with good steaks for a decent price (30€/2 people/drinks and steak with fries). Breakfast ist typical with tostada and canned sausage (quite good) - no sweet breakfast. Prices still very good. Expect a typical experience, not a goutmet wow. But the people are nice and proud. El rocio is...