ibis budget Alicante

Good location whether you are going to the city or the airport, free parking is great. Room was clean & had everything required for a short visit along with helpful staff & a good selection for breakfast.

The Budget hotel was great value as usual, but the restaurant at the adjacent Ibis was understaffed and tables were not even set out. Food was not presented well; School dinner-ish and no table service. The one member of staff (at the bar) taking orders also had to deal with bar orders. Because the tables were grouped together there was not enough seating for diners. One at our table had to separate the tables for social distancing - there was no member of staff who showed any interest. Completed orders were shouted for from the bar area. Contrast this with Barcelona the night before. Why so different?

Good lord where do you start on this one. This was an enforced stay due to a missed flight for a family of 3 and I will go from start to finish. Taxi journey from airport is about €10 until the driver pushes a magic button that flashes up €15 which subsequently disappears. Once outside the taxi we had to wait for the maximum security stockade gate to roll back as we entered the carpark and then the lobby. Lobby was well decorated in a cool contemporary feel with what looked like the cast of the "Hills have Eyes" populating the lobby. Having been given the key cards for the rooms we asceneded the elevator to Floor 2 where next door rooms 212 and 214 were ours. Upon entering the rooms its became clear the only way to not see or notice the stains on the carpet was to become registered blind!! The TV had this amazing habit of switching on and off like the 80s thriller Poltergeist. This was funny to start until it happened at 3am!! The walls are officially made of balsa wood and paper mache! The windows are pvc but with optional air gaps and the air conditioning is akin to being breathed on by asthmatic pensioner with an ice cube in their mouth, cooling but smelling of wee! The initial noise we experienced and sadly had to explain was the amorous embraces of the couple across the hall ( I say couple but to be fair the noise was more like that of multiple partners giving their best efforts to please if you know what I mean ) I explained this to my daughter as possibly being tv noise of wildlife programmes in Spanish and not sure she believed me. The noise of the hotel as a whole was ridiculous and every step in the corridors could be heard even after midnight and thankfully they dissipated when the delivery lorries next door arrived to bring in laundry. What a relief to not hear people's conversations and footsteps to the low hum of diesel engines and metal wracks being unloaded by what sounded like Spanish Pirates. A sleepless night was followed by a sumptuous €5 a head breakfast with tongs provided for lifting croissants, pain au chocolate and toast that were at face height and directly in front of other breathing customers. Yay Covid. Checkout was swift.....as we are good runners and once we got out of the stockade we raced to the airport 4hrs early rather than stay in Wormwood Scrubs. Please please please stay elsewhere unless you want to explain live porn noises and love the low hum of diesel engines. As a side note once home we had to get 2 tubes of cream for insect bites that we never had in 3 weeks I'm Spain and only got on the last night in the IBIS. This hotel is not central, its near nothing, it has nothing, offers nothing and sadly cost €190 for what amounted to a homeless shelter. Sad that a chain hotel can offer so little. PS my skin is still crawling after the stay.

The hotel was amazing, but its location was far away from everything.. Downtown, transportation, markets, everything actually And the bus station, is on Google map 8 minutes away.. however, there is no way that anyone can go to the station because of the highway

The hotel is spot on especially for what you pay. I had a good night’s sleep on a relatively comfortable bed, no complaints there. For approximately £30 a night, who can complain? Outside of the hotel there are some quite nice views, depending on which way you’re facing. There was a smell of sewage outside which wasn’t very pleasant, but luckily, you couldn’t smell it from indoors.