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Reviews of Hostal San Blas

2.5 out of 5
Hostal San Blas
Calle Atocha, 117, Madrid, Madrid

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 43 out of 245 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 114 out of 245 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 60 out of 245 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 19 out of 245 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 9 out of 245 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

7.6/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

william

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The place was great and the service was great
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Stephen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I had a good view of the junkies in the lane and as I was on the first floor and they were right outside didn't feel safe looking out the window or opening it for air. Small room for the price.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Decio, Bayamon

Travelled with family
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A very economical hotel/hostal in the heart of Madrid, within walking distance of most of the main sites of the city.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Elisabeth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Bad wifi
So bad wifi, it was impossible to finish reservation from my room. I was forced to redo all in the hall of the hotel!! Frustrating
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Anders

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Rending

Liked: Staff & service
Reasonable budget stay, good location, convenient for everything.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Rending

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Katherine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, near
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Paul

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Quiet, clean and the basics.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Marcelo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place good location
Best Location
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable room. Helpful staff. Great location near Atocha train station, Prado Museum, Botanical Garden and reasonably walkable to Plaza Mayor and other central sights.
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Hector L

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and Staff
Great location and staff. Room was cleaned and recently renovated.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021

8/10 Good

Silvia, Bracknell

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We were looking or a basic accommodation before flying back home from Madrid. The receptionists were super helpful and made the basic hotel experience very straight forward.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

Mr Owen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean, simple, safe. Very Well located. Walls are thin and you can hear your neighbors but there was no partying or loud music. Definitely would stay again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020

6/10 Okay

Heather

Travelled with family
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Shower was clogged, we report it but was never fix. The heater didn’t work and the cold was unbearable. Overall bad experience. Didn’t like it at all.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Small, adequate room in city center
The hostel room was small but clean with a TV and restroom. The hostal is conveniently located, just a 10-minute walk to the Atocha train station. The street numbers were confusing...it is further up the street than you would expect, next to a tasty Middle Eastern restaurant. Booking through Hotels.com made the price reasonable for the location.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Train station
We chose it because of its location right next to the train station. It was a fine accommodation for that - not super comfortable but clean enough. Lots of noise from the other rooms and street. My friend and I arrived at different times, which really confused the woman at the desk and made my friend come down and verify that we knew each other, even though I booked the reservation.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Property has exellent location. Everything is around: shoping, transportation, walking, tourist attraction, subway. But very noisy, even at night. Some unplesent smell. Room is vey small, not enough sope, towels.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Esta cerca del Prado y de la GranVia. Al lado del Retiro, que mas se puede pedir?
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
The room was quite small but was fine for a single night stay. There were some sugar ants in the cabinetry that had come out to check out the wastepaper basket. The staff was helpful and printed an email for me, but their
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Cant believe we paid $220for this hostel style place. Way over priced due to championship game in madrid. We felt ripped off.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Deborah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Heater not working
Heater is not working properly, not ideal for stay in winter times.
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2017

4/10 Poor

Paul

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A dangerous situation
This second stay was quite different from the first stay. Second floor rooms do not have internet and the lounge where it is available is outside and subject to rain: No place to shelter. My big concern is the elevator does not work and there is only one small stairway. All rooms have bars on the windows so one could not exit from the windows in the case of fire, much like the fire in India where dozens perished because the boys could not get out the windows to safety.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Close to the train station and paseo del prado. Small but comfortable room
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hostal San Blas is a nice, secure place to stay.
My stay at Hostal San Blas was good. The reception was very helpful and courteous. Location was great, price was right and I plan to return in the fall.

2/10 Terrible

JENNIFER

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Budget Hotel
This Hostal is very close to the main train station of Madrid Atocha. I wouldn't recommend anyone staying in this hotel. There is an alley outside our room and the trashman were picking up the trash so early in the morning that you could hear the noise in the bedroom. There were also some teenagers doing drugs outside the building. There is NO working elevator here. There is also NO breakfast. There is wifi but the signal is poor. The receptionist is nice. Check-in time is 1:00pm. As for location, this is very close to the Hop-On Hop-Off bus stop which is outside McDonald same bus stop as the regular bus stop. If I were to go back to Madrid, I wouldn't want to stay here again. The bed is very uncomfortable.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
safe and clean
good for the price, safe area

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Moira, Reno

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Good location but very bare bones. Could use updating.

8/10 Good

Evan, Montreal

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Close to the train station, only complaint was the wifi did not work in the room, we had to go downstairs to the courtyard to use it.

8/10 Good

Yara, Tunis

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Very acceptable for short stay in Madrid. Nice staff and very clean.

8/10 Good

Gloria, malaga

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
quick stop over
Quick stop over on route home. Very adequate, clean and comfortable and very reasonable price.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

location - price
for a location ( 5 blocks from reina sofia & close enough to prado ) , price and shower,thats better than some hotels it is place to sleep. that is all.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Price for location
Great location for the price. Clean and comfortable.

8/10 Good

pedro, mexico

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Small rooms in great location
The hotel is located in central Madrid. Th e room was clean but with a tiny shower. everything else was fine friendly staff a good value for the price paid

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

6/10 Okay

Charles

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Just around the corner from the Prado.
This place was very close to the Prado, the Atocha Metro station and Atocha train station, amongst other attractions. The staff was very friendly, and I felt the place was safe. I stayed on the first floor, right around the corner from the reception desk, and the room was clean. The temperature was pretty comfortable, but I stayed there in late May/early June and I didn't need to use air conditioning or heating. The small television in the room didn't work, but I didn't really care. The only issue I had with this place was that it was a little bit loud from outside noise, but overall not a huge issue. It was about what I expected for the price I paid.

6/10 Okay

macutefan, hk

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
nice and economical hostel
Good facilities next to atocha the major railway and metro station, i found this hostel great value for money while other hostels more expensive but less comfortable

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Convenient location
This is a Hostal not a hotel. So even though not very cheap, it has minimal facilities. Our room had attached private bathroom, but rooms were small and had no heat. Even in end March, Madrid was quite cold and the room could have been more comfortable with some central heat. It is a decent enough place (and cheaper than the hotels in madrid) to stay 2-3 nights even with family and young children. Staff are very helpful. The biggest plus for this hostal is its location. Very near to the Madrid Atocha Renfe station and metro station and close to attractions such as Prado museum, Retiro park, and Caixa forum. Has few restaurants very close by.

6/10 Okay

Kevin, New Haven, CT

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
One night in Madrid
I stayed in this hostal because it was cheap and very close to the Atocha train station. I was given a room next to the lobby area and could hear any sound that came from there, which included doors slamming and children running around in the lobby at around 11:00 PM. I eventually took a sleeping pill in order to get to sleep. The room smelled of cigarette smoke, but it was generally clean. There were hairs in shower, but the bathroom seemed clean otherwise. The bed was clean but felt like a marble slab.

10/10 Excellent

emmapollina, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable bed, clean room, modern clean bathroom. Hotel very conveniently situated, in good area, close to Metro.

10/10 Excellent

Anna, Manchester, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good location for Sofia museum
Good value for a money paid. Good location near Atocha station (150 metres to Reina Sofia Museum). Room was OK and you get toilet and shower. Quiet and safe in the evening. Also good restaurants near by.

8/10 Good

Pepe, Florida

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxation Mode.
Was a very nice expirience as the hotel was close to all the important things i needed, buses, trains, parks, important sights i was interested to visit, nice malls near by, good and inexpensive places to dine, entire area full of activities.

10/10 Excellent

Regina, Melbourne, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant hotel.
I arrived late, 1am and there was a cheerful, friendly, helpful staff member on duty ready to assist. The hotel was absolutely spotless and I felt safe and secure there. I would definitely stay there again.

10/10 Excellent

Jesús Manuel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Germán

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023