spain driving and hotel info needed

Following up to "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk> wrote:

> All hotels in Spain tend to
>> be clean,
>
>This is most definately not my experience.
>
>On the Costas maybe, but elsewhere you get hotels that
>are as awful as anywhere else in Europe.

I havent been to the costas much at all, but found cheap places clean.
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Following up to "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk> wrote:

>But you cannot extroplate that up to
>"all hotels in Spain are clean".

it will never be "all"
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
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>If you were going to spend a lot of time in those cities, a car would be
>more of a hindrance.

yes, when i am in those three places its just parked up and forgotten
about. Or any town really once you are there, i always walk once in
town.
I'm assuming they are just start points on a tour of the "campo", if
they are not and they are the three points if interest, then car isnt
that good.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
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>> we stay at a dirt cheap place in Cordoba, but theres no dirt, only
>> cheap :-) Older spanish women seem very keen on cleaning, maybe young
>> too for all i know.
>
>We had a problem with the place we overnighted in in Cordoba, but the
>room was certainly spotless. Problem was that all they had available was
>at the very top of the building- and it was boiling hot. The rooms lower
>down would have been better protected from the heat/sun.

ours was an old patio style building, naturally cool but with a tiny
aircon unit.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
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>(I no longer drive though, so my perspective on this is purely from the
>PT point of view.)

i think you have it about right (looks surprised :-)) Cities - train,
campo - car.
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Following up to d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor
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>> ours was an old patio style building, naturally cool but with a tiny
>> aircon unit.
>
>That's what the rest of the building was- just that they had no rooms
>available there. It might have been the same building you stayed in!

Ah! They said they had rented the old water cistern on the roof to a
gringo! :-)
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