Isla hotels

Pros: Warm welcome, the host is very friendly and helpful (and speaks English and French). The pool is nice on a rainy day, as is the spa bathtub in the bedroom. Excellent breakfast, the best we had in Spain - everything is homemade and absolutely delicious.

Pros: Location, breakfast and very friendly and cooperative staff. If travelling with kids, a perfect place.

Pros: Very friendly and welcoming, lovely room, excellent facilities and a superb breakfast.

Cons: Sound insulation - it was possible to hear other guests closing doors and using spa baths.

Pros: Beautifully clean. Attractive and well-maintained. Appreciated the use of a private seating area between our two bedrooms, so we could sit and chat in comfort. Good breakfast. Host had provided gluten-free bread and biscuits and lactose-free milk for our allergy sufferers. Right in the centre of town with private parking. Beautiful beaches within easy walking distance.

Cons: Bed slightly small but comfy.

Pros: Great welcome, brilliant breakfast great place.

Pros: Fantastic value for money for a property just a couple of hundred metres from the sea. The small fridge was a bonus.

Cons: The breakfast was quite adequate, but is pure carbo hydrate. A bit of fresh fruit would have been nice. But... for the overall cost - its a bargain.

Pros: location

Cons: Traveler alert, Google maps shows the wrong location !

Pros: Fine, well equipped clean room and almost a continental breakfast. very friendly owner.

Cons: We were the only guests. I cannot think of anything that could be improved.

Pros: Great location walkable to cliff tops or the beach or restaurants, all within 15minutes. Great breakfast too. Lets guests use fridge and kettle at any time. Lots of places to sit out in quiet courtyard or garden.

Cons: No soap holder in shower.

Pros: Very nice B&B, super clean and basic breakfast. To have a car is a must, no many things to do in Isla. Very pleasant stay. Good value for money.

Pros: Julia and I stayed there for 5 nights. The whole period was excellent but in particular: - at the arrival we sat down in a bench in garden and the neighbours/owners offered us part of the bbq they were preparing :) - a few days after check out we come back as we forgot some belongins and they were again and still very friendly with us Bonus comment: the long unique pillow in the bed is genial

Pros: Lovely place, super clean and cozy, close to the ocean and the sights to see around. Good breakfast and a wonderful owner who is very helpful. Easy to reach by car, easy free parking.

Pros: Friendly helpful staff, good location

Pros: Fantastic location, Been coming here for over 20 years

Cons: Nothing

Pros: See above!!

Cons: Excellent stay at the astoy, could not fault the hotel in any way, from booking in to leaving? service was First class, cleanness of rooms! excellent! chambermaids done a fantastic job! spotless!as did all the young waitress and waiters! They were totally professional ! always looking out for customers and ready to serve at all times?a great credit to the astoy! No problems staying again? location! everything,,, made for a wonderful stay! thank you!!

Pros: Location is unquestionably excellent. Secure parking available for a small charge for my motorbike. Immediate area very pleasant to walk around. Staff were very good. Room very modern and well appointed with small balcony with a picture postcard view. Food very good in restaurant and breakfast was superb.

Cons: No air conditioning in room. It was hot and humid when I was there and by opening balcony doors in evening to try and cool down to sleep meant it was a bit noisy till about midnight. Poor signage on my arrival as to where garage parking was and not clear where reception was. Very busy with locals ( to be fair it was Sunday on my arrival and packed )

Pros: Beautiful water views and a relaxed atmosphere. Excellent value for money.

Cons: No air conditioning. The location is also a little out of the way so you may run out of things to do if you were there for more than a couple of days

Pros: The view and location is outstanding. The rooms were nicely appointed and clean.

Cons: The (breakfast) food was not quality and the not food was not hot. It was not replenished and by 10a there was not enough for all people trying to eat. The breakfast staff was unfriendly and nosy. Dinner was expensive compared to other locations in town. We did not eat in the cafe part but it closed early when we tried to get an after dinner drink and until one young waitress insisted, I was denied a bag of ice for my hurt knee. The hotel management needs to create an atmosphere of service for their guest.

Pros: There was a fantastic view of the beach, an underground carpark for our motorbike, all in all a very nice hotel, we will be back.

Cons: No signage for breakfast, so we ate in the café by mistake, then found the breakfast room, with all sorts of goodies laid out.

Pros: Nice surroundings. Friendly and helpful host. Good accomodation.

Cons: There wasn't toilet brush.

Pros: Quiet, great outlook, able to use kitchen to make a meal. Small fridge in our room.

Pros: Owners were really nice and helpful. The rooms were clean and the beds comfortable.

Cons: The light in the little villa is really dim. a better source of light should be available for the evenings as it's a little gloomy otherwise.

Pros: Very friendly staff.

Cons: The rooms were very humid.

Pros: Fabulous location and very helpful and friendly staff

Pros: The menu in the restaurant was excellent, the place is very well organised with swift and friendly service. We would love to come back. The beach next door also was great with some really good waves, great place for swimming with the family. We enjoyed the comfort so much we stayed put for our 4 days and didnt take the car once.

Cons: I really liked the pool, nice terrace and a baby pool too. The grounds were nice. I didnt like thought the fashion paintings on the walls around the pool, i would have painted more traditional colours.

Pros: Amazing location and extremely helpful staff. Food was plentiful, fresh and very good value for money.

Cons: Small room and basic facilities

Pros: Lovely view and comfortable bed. The staff were incredibly friendly and the food in the restaurant was good too. Everyone was extremely helpful and wanted to make our stay good. We didn’t bother with the hotel breakfast but bought coffee and tostadas etc in the hotel cage and ate on the terrace. Plenty of parking and the chill out space was nice for an evening drink. You are not getting a fancy hotel but a lovely, Spanish place to stay with good food and kind people.

Cons: We had a little suite. There was a balcony with a sea view. In the little extra room there was a bed but it would ha e been nice to maybe have a sofa or a table. This is hardly a big problem however and it would be good for a child if you needed that.

Pros: The location, staff and cleanliness food price

Cons: Bath had nasty marks in it - although still functional

Pros: Excellent location. Fabulous food. Great looking pool and sun area. Remote.

Pros: The hotel is situated in quite place and has own territory of enough size. There are some entertainment points: table tennis, gaming machines (suitables for childs) and bouncy castle. Also there are two swimming pools on the territory. Beach is in front of the hotel. So it's very good place for family stay. I would definitely stay here again.

Cons: Bathroom is a little bit small.

Pros: Good breakfast, very near an excellent blue flag beach across the road with lifeguards. Hotel had free parking. There was a nice swimming pool next to a small but decent bar with chill out seating. Nice location for a sun downer. Our room had a balcony overlooking beach and the room had a Jacuzzi bath. The location is very popular with the Spanish and we saw hardly any other nationalities. It was within a short drive to Noja, which also had lovely beaches and many more bars/ restaurants. I think hotel Campomar is a real gem and a great location for a family beach holiday.

Cons: No tea and coffee making facilities. No evening menu del dia. Room a little small but we rarely used it. Very little to complain about really.

Pros: Location close to the beaches and a lot of restaurants close by. The staff understood the noise problem and took action. Modern spacious room with airco, minibar and the bed was okay. The bathroom with the hydromassage shower was really comfortable. Full breakfast with fruits, yoghurt, breads etc. The real fresh juices were missing for a hotel like that you don't expect a machine.

Cons: It's a busy touristic area and we had a noisy room at the streetside. Maybe it was because it was saturday and people going out. Alltough with the window closed the noise was okay. But at 02:00 h the room next to us made some kind of party with several people in the room for a long time :/ I walked down to the reception and the employee handled it very well and took immedeately action

Pros: Perfect location. Clean and central.

Cons: Noise from the fan outside.

Pros: Lovely food in the hotel and minutes from a beautiful beach

Cons: Looking for payment to use spa area

Pros: Free parking, great rooms- large, comfortable and quiet, very lovely staff, good location. The spa is fabulous and 16€ for an hour and a half of luxury. We were in a room that unfortunately had the lift shaft in it! This was working constantly until really late. We asked to be moved for the next nights and they did it no problem. The food looks really special too.

Cons: No lounge to chill out in. Smokers sat on the outside terrace made it uncomfortable for non smokers. It was so overpowering that you couldn't even sit in the inside cafe! The view wasn't great from our room but that didn't bother us.

Pros: The rooms were very nice, and proximity to the beach was a plus. Nice modern building with sea view from some rooms. The breakfast was very good, mix of hot and cold foods and a wide range of things to everyone's taste. Local area was very nice.

Cons: One of our rooms was quite small, and no sea view from the other room we had. Quite noisy in the street outside, kept us up some nights.

Pros: Clean and modern room. Fridge and safe included. Nice view.

Cons: It is not a double bed if you wake between the matresses. Wifi code was not in the room nor handed over and reception number was not in room either so we missed it as we were in bed allready. Shower leaked so the floor flooded.

Pros: Friendly staff and good breakfast

Cons: Bathrooms can use an update.

Pros: Great location, good value for money , great breakfast , I’d certainly come back

Pros: Spa, location ( close to the sea), nice room

Pros: Excellent location, friendly host our second visit to apartmentos de la Hoz. Good safe parking.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The size was good and the kitchen was well equipped. The apartment has lovely views. It is close to small pretty beaches and larger sandy beaches a short drive away.

Cons: We stayed the last week of June on the third floor and found the heat in the apartment very uncomfortable. I wouldnt recommend the top roof rooms during july and August.

Pros: Good location, great view from the apartment. Very big space and good equipped.

Pros: Very close to the beach; Big enough apartment; nice hosts. Beaches everywhere have very nice yellow sand.

Cons: Apartments do not have good sound isolation which can be disturbing in the evening. We travelled with 3 kids and had a different daily schedule from other guests who tended to stay up very late and at times were noisy. Room furniture was outdated.

Pros: Location of the apartment and the view from it. Supermarket and icecream shop underneath the apartments and restaurants nearby.

Pros: Staff were incredibly friendly. Location was superb

Pros: Location is extraordinary

Cons: Rooms need a refurbishment

Pros: Fantastic location and great breakfast included. Loved the little boat that took us across to the beach infront of the hotel every day. The beach itself is beautiful, with lots of lovely rock pools to discover for the children.

Cons: The wifi was unfortunately very weak and we couldn't always access it but other than that, a wonderful holiday!

Pros: I loved the location and the food was great

Cons: I am with a baby and his stroller the access to the pool and the beach is impossible with a stroller I had to carry everything

Pros: The hotel is in an amazing location and is extremely clean. It was lovely and quiet and the reception staff were friendly. A short walk to local bars and restaurants and you can literally step out of the door and onto the sand. Perfect distance from Santander after 27 hours on the ferry.

Cons: The property is very dated and could do with modernisation. I was extremely disappointed with breakfast. Told it was served between 08:30 and 11. Arrived at 09:45 to the staff clearing all tables and helping themselves to the very few bits of food left. They were rude and clearly didn’t want us sitting down to eat. I had to ask for 2 clean plates. There were no pastries, no eggs or bacon left and the juice was warm. Coffee machine wasn’t working. The waiters were devouring the Spanish omelette so my partner and I had bread and jam. Not at all acceptable.

Pros: The location is great and the atmosphere is very friendly and relaxed.

Cons: The hotel is in a perfect location, however is a bit old and needs renovation.

Pros: The location is fantastic and also has spacious car park.

Cons: My second time staying here and certainly my last. This hotel is really overpriced and this is because of its location only. My room was big but not very clean and it also smelled unclean. The rooms need an extensive renovation especially the bathrooms, my bathroom had a serious structural crack starting on one wall, extending across the ceiling and down the full length of the other wall. It's quite obvious that the staff are only interested in acquiring as much money as possible from you while they can, especially in the bar, drinks are expensive and if you get your change returned you'll be lucky. Note of caution, while booking a room on the web site, maybe only 40 percent of the rooms have a sea view and the rest of the rooms have either a view over the carpark or a few trees with no sea view at all, so beware of paying for rooms with a sea view guys ! Five star prices for three star rooms.

Pros: All around excellent value and beautiful location.

Cons: Management of breakfast needs improvement. A long time to wait for eggs and bacon to get refreshed. Coffee machine only dispenses very small qualities. However, I'm bei g harsh. Overall very good.

Pros: Made us think of Faulty Towers

Cons: The views from the hotel

Pros: Fantastic location. Nice food. Lovely terrace.

Cons: Decor a little tired

Pros: Nature, calm and clean place

Pros: Hotel was lovely & the staff were helpful & friendly. The breakfast was a buffet and there was a great selection on offer. Coffee was great and our cups were refilled by a lovely smiling lady.

Cons: Advert said 21Km from Santander. It was actually 48Km if you are catching a ferry!

Pros: Apartment was basic but fine for us, very clean and friendly staff. location was great, lovely little town, nice beach and very friendly people. good to visit around Cantabria and close to Santander to get back to England

Cons: Swimming pool of the hotel was disappointing very small a a bit claustrophobic being underground. great shower but bath a bit on the small side

Pros: Perfect beach side location

Cons: Breakfast was basic

Pros: This was our Third visit to this hotel and it mostly met and exceeded our expectations.

Cons: Dinner in the restaurant let the hotel down. We both had steaks and asked for one to be well done and one medium to well done. When they were presented to the table they so raw that blood ran out when they were cut and totally uncooked 1mm in from the outside. By the time the situation was resolved we eat them but more in desperation than hunger.

Pros: Near beaches just few steps :) helpfully staff , car parking

Cons: All was greatly

Pros: Location, by the beach. It is a little bit noisy but it pays off

Cons: Parking places are small. Difficult to fit a mid size car.

Pros: Great place to stay , right on beach , indoor pool and sauna .

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Location

Cons: In a nutshell, the rooms we had were old and in need of a total makeover. Furniture was bearing on antique ! Kitchen was inadequate with no drainer or cleaning cloths etc. Beds are awful !! If you’re taller than 1.80 your feet will hang out the bed. No soap or shampoo. No rubbish bags sufficient for a 4 day stay. Etc etc Rooms were very noisy and the rooms and general building had an awful smell. Forget about the indoor swimming pool ! It’s over chlorinated so it burns your eyes and incredibly dark and basically miserable ... I could go on ...

Pros: Location is excellent right at the beach

Cons: Don’t expect a beach view. Apartments are hot, no air conditioning or fans and very noisy from other apartments and on the street.

Pros: Everything was very nice

Cons: Stairs

Pros: The location is great, the room was as expected, the staff friendly

Cons: The beds where a bit hard and the evenings and nights where very loud because of the customers and by-passers. The last is of course to be expected in a tourist town.

Pros: Location and the staff were very nice

Cons: The rooms were noisy you could hear everything

Pros: Location

Cons: Rooms could be more modern.

Pros: Little garden and picnic place with bbq to either lay down or have a lunch with beautiful view on the bay with its ebb and flow. It gives a private feeling in a small but touristic area. The walks through the bay are absolutely beautiful!

Cons: Relatively touristic area, while the pictures on booking.com suggest a slightly more private environment.

Pros: The hotel is in a very good location, it was clean and tidy and the staff were marvellous. Many thanks to Carmen and Teresa for all their help. It was like being home from home.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: Everything, this is a typical spanish hotel, staff have limited English but nevertheless are helpful. The beaches are fantastic. Local bars and food are also good.

Cons: Nothing.

Pros: Staff were nice.

Cons: Impossible to sleep: a wedding going on until late, soundproofing non-existent

Pros: It has a good location close to the beach, cafes and restaurants. Some of the staff tried really hard.

Cons: It’s VERY overpriced for what it is. I suppose this just comes down to demand and supply but still.... it is very dated, no bathroom plugs, no WiFi if your room is too far from reception.

Pros: bar just downstairs cleanliness

Cons: old looking too expensive

Pros: Staff is very friendly, location is excellent and the bar downstairs is great for food and beer

Cons: The beds are very uncomfortable.