Balneario de Mondariz

Used the spa . Very atmospheric. Rather confusing as to whether this spa across the road is part of tge hotel or not. Town very pretty. Rated in an international travel magazine as the best in Spain.

The whole experience was really pretty disappointing, and even more so when we found out that the hotel already knows that the problems that happened for us exist, and are trying to either sell the hotel or find funding to do the necessary repairs. At the same time the system and the hotel are still advertising and pricing as a four-star hotel, which is not even close to accurate. This is not ok. I would normally give 1 star for a review, but the staff were kind and hard working people and so I give 2 stars. I understand the hotel has a lot of history and importance to the community, but to advertise as a four-star hotel means that there is a level of attention to detail and quality of service that is commensurate with the price that one pays in order to go to a 4 star hotel. My wife had planned a special day trip to spend the night at the hotel and receive spa services for our ninth wedding anniversary. She clearly communicated this to the staff and to the hotel and actually booked the best suite available at the hotel. It was supposed to be a two-story room with incredible views and high-level accommodations. The pictures on the site are not accurate. (We were greeted at the desk by kind people and I will also be clear that everyone who works there was quite kind and doing the best they could under difficult circumstances.) That being said, after we checked in no one came to help us move our bags from the front desk all the way across the hotel to an elevator, and then up a large spiral staircase to a suite that look to be about 50 years old. The furniture is old and the room has no high-end amenities and it's laid out in a very strange fashion and in fact was so different that we decided it was not something that we wanted and so we asked to be moved to a junior suite. That is where the problems began. The junior suite, smaller and a little bit more accessible, made absolutely no sense in terms of design layout and the bathroom wasn't very well designed. When you enter the the small foyer entrance, if you can call that, it is comprised of an old square dining room table with four chairs and a couch looks to be about 50 years old. There is no artwork on the walls and it looks like something out of a prison or a strange waiting room? The bathroom is a mess. There is a large sunken tub, but it is difficult to get in and out of and quite slippery and no real way of easily doing that. Also the rack that is used to dry towels and bathing suits is in an awkward place in the shower and when I needed to put my head on the wall just to turn around I burnt my hand on the rack. We then went down to what would be called the "spa". To call this a "spa" is an exaggeration in the highest degree. The paint is peeling and the walls have mold and it just looks really old and funky. When I spoke to the front desk about this later they said they knew about it and they were sad because they knew the hotel needs quite a bit of work, but they don't have the r

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