Name: Hostal Canovas
Address: C/Fray Luis de Leon 38, Cuenca, Cuenca, Cuenca, 16001, Spain
Rating: 7

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Mangana Tower

Túneles de Alfonso VIII

Castile-La Mancha Science Museum

Los Tiradores

Hanging Houses of Cuenca

Ars Natura

Museum of Palaeontology of Castilla-La Mancha

Espacio Torner

Fundacion Antonio Perez

Mirador

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The staff member working at the reception kept it open late for us as we arrived later than planned due to a delayed train. She was very welcoming and friendly. The room was very clean and spacious.

Very spacious and clean room overlooking a plaza. Great service.

Lovely building and room, just make sure you take note of the reception's hours (they close for the siesta)/ Habitación limpia y linda, solo hay que prestar atención a las horas de la repeción

I am just going into my fifth and final night here and have loved being in this hotel.  The rooms are spacious and clean, with lovely wooden floors (which squeak a lot as you walk on them -- so I've felt lucky being on a floor with no one walking around above me),  There's an elevator to get you to the upper floors (I am on floor 3, floor 4 if you count the ground level as one floor).  The hotel is in easy walking distance to the main road up into the ancient city, and you can indeed walk up (as I did twice despite an age of almost 70 years old).  When I needed help sorting out a badly made train reservation, the staff bent over backwards to do all they could to help.  No food is offered, but there restaurants of various kinds and levels of service in easy walking distance.  A taxi from the Ave station is about 10 euros, though when I came in virtually no taxis were there.  There's a bus into town, but I didn't get the impression that it came at all near Hostal Canovas.

Great place: great location, lovely big rooms, friendly staff

This is a feedback for Hotels.com: the email about the interrupted check-in in the afternoon came at 20pm in the evening when we had already checked in. Had we known in advance we could have planned not to arrive in the afternoon time when the hostel is closed. Also the indicated timing was wrong the re-opening is at 6pm and not at 5pm. It would be great if this could be updated.

Check-in - Disruption in the afternoon

Found this hotel very easily & parked on a meter near by to unload. Arrived to a very nice lady on reception, English not great but very friendly & helpful. Hotel very quirky with creaking wooden floors & an unusual lay out. Ideal location for the old Town for either the 10 min walk or a bus from across the road. High floor is good as no creaking floors above you, we had a very selfish Spaniard in the next room. He woke us up at 5am on the Sunday morning speaking & shouting very loudly outside our door. This wasn't the hotels fault but did spoil things for us. Bars restaurants & shops all on the door step. So a great find, not the Ritz but ideal for what we needed for the 3 nights to do some sight seeing.

A little Gem!

Aunque empezamos bastante mal, al final termino bien. Dicen que no hay mal que por bien no venga y en este caso fue tal cual. Elegimos este alojamiento basándonos en los comentarios de los viajeros que decidan que las habitaciones eran amplias, modernas y limpias. Hicimos el check-in y nos dirigimos a nuestra habitación. El llegar, justo empezaban a limpiarla. Evidentemente a la limpiadora no le hizo ni pizca de gracia. Queríamos ponernos cómodos para salir a almorzar y empezar a descubrir las ciudad, así que entramos e intentamos hacerlo sin molestar, sin embargo, la habitación era tan pequeña que se hacía bastante complicado. La cama también era pequeña y pegada a la pared. Nada que ver con lo que habíamos leído. Por suerte apareció por allí una responsable del lugar que tomó las determinación de cambiarnos a una habitación que estuviera ya lista. Tras un pequeño periplo por varias opciones, terminamos en la última planta en una habitación que si se correspondía con las descripciones que habíamos leído. Una habitación muy amplia, con cama doble y un baño también correcto, no el diminuto cuchitril que había en la primera habitación (era tan pequeño que el lavabo estaba fuera, en la habitación).
Tal y como habíamos leído, el suelo de madera cruje muchísimo, con lo cual, se agradecía aun más estar en la ultima planta. 
La ubicación es estupenda ya que está a un paso de zona comercial y de restaurantes, a nada a pie de la zona histórica y con un parking al lado que te cobra tarifa fija de 12€/día por hospedarte en el hostal. 
Al final nos salió muy bien pero pudo no ser así, dicho lo cual, tan solo puedo....DESEARTE SUERTE!!
Y por eso, no se si me atrevería a repetir o recomendarlo
It's well located, close to shops and restaurants, as well as to a public parking that provides a fix daily date of 12€ to the hostel's guests.
Old building, partially refurbished, with original cracking wooden floors, which means that, the higher up, the better as you won't have people above. It had 4 floors, with a lift that goes up to the 3rd floor.
With regards to the rooms, depending on the luck if the draw, you'll get a large, refurbished, comfortable one or a tiny, old fashioned, with the tiniest bathroom I think I've ever seen, so tiny the wash basin doesn't fit and it's placed in the bedroom! 
We chose this hostel after reading travelers opinions, which said rooms were spacious, with comfortable bed and the parking option. Once we did the checkin, we went to the designated room and when we're got there, the cleaning lady had just started with it. We wanted to get going so went in to leave our luggage and were shocked to see the tiny room I described before. This made getting changed whilst the lady was trying to make the bed (small and against the wall).
This ended up being our lucky straw. Another lady (someone related to the manager) appeared and when she saw what was going on, decided to move us into a room cleaned and ready for guests. 
After a bit of a run around the hostel, we ended up in the only room on the 4th floor which did meet the description we'd read on travellers comments. Large, with a solarium,  comfortable double bed and proper bathroom. 
In the end all went well but only cause we got lucky so, I can only say....GOOD LUCK!
Not to sure I'd come back or recommend

Hay que tener suerte con la habitación/ fingers crossed

This place is cheap and ina nice location close to the old town.  But the bed is too soft so we have backaches now.  The employees don't speak any language apart from Spanish...but the rooms are air conditioned and most of them have a little lodge. 

Nice location,  horrible bed

We arrived at the train station from Madrid on Saturday.  There was a taxi waiting outside but we did not want to use it. So we were waiting for the bus (almost one hour).  The bus dropped us close to the Hostel. A lady welcomed us at the reception (she did not speak English). We got a room (surprisingly spacious) on the 3rd floor with a balcony. It is true that the floor is squeaky but it was not disturbing. The furniture looked oddish.  After two nights' sleep there,  the soft mattress caused me an unpleasant back pain. (Which was surprising as I am not susceptible to that.) The room was clean. Each morning a cleaning lady came to tidy up the room. However,  if you do not want to be disturbed,  the ''do not disturb'' door hanger is at your disposal. Free wifi was working and its speed was really ok for news reading and for social media (and Ingress). Upon arrival, we received only one key which could be used both for the entrance of the Hostel and our room.  The key came with a card to switch on/off the electricity. The Old Town is witihin walking distance from the Hostel (appr. 10 min) but be prepared as getting there requires moderate climbing. There are small shops (selling snacks,  drinks etc.) and bars around the Hostel. A bit further,  you can find a shopping street with cafeterias and gelaterias. As  I am a vegetarian,  I was particularly happy that we discovered a small place (Doner/Kebab/Pizza place) close to the Hostel where I could eat falafel. 

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