Name: Casa Rural Altzibar-Berri
Address: Goiburu, 33, 20130 Urnieta, Spain, Urnieta, Urnieta, Urnieta, 20130, Spain
Rating: 9

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The hostel offers very comfortable rooms and delicious breakfast. It's located in the beautiful countryside outside Urnieta, so you'll need a taxi to go to town. The owner is really kind and helpful. I'd stay here again.

Excellent

We stayed at Altzibar Berri for two nights to visit Donostia/San Sebastián and its surroundings. The house and our room were very clean. The decoration is simple and functional, do not expect any fancy furniture and items. The house is located in a hill near the town of Urnieta. Getting there can be complicated if you don't use a GPS. To move around you need a car since there is nothing in walking distance. There is a kitchen that can be used by guests if they need.

Eli, the woman that runs the house, was very friendly and welcoming. She suggested us to take the train in Urnieta to go to San Sebastián. It was a great advice. The train departs every 20-30 minutes, takes about 13 minutes to get there, and costs around 1.50€ per journey. That way you don't have to deal with the traffic and parking in San Sebastián. However, the last train from San Sebastián to Urnieta departs before 11pm, so keep that in mind if you stay for dinner in the city.

The breakfast was not included. The price was 6€ and consisted in orange juice, coffee, pastries, fruits, and "embutido" (chorizo, cured ham, cheese). Really worth it in our opinion to start the day with energy. 

There is a restaurant continuing the road uphill called Besabi Jatetxea. We recommend it if you want to have dinner like a local for a very reasonable price. 

We recommend the place if you want to stay away from the buzz of the city but be quite close at the same time. We really enjoyed our stay and would come back again.

Excellent option near San Sebastian

This place is a member of the "Casa Rurales" of Spain. It is listed as being about 12 km outside of San Sebastian near the village of Urnieta. It is a very difficult 12 km to negotiate and once in the area  very difficult  to find.Maps and diagrams are provided but the complexity of the roads plus the  poor highway signage in the area make finding it really hard.

Once there one finds a white hotel type building shown on the website. The lobby is dark with old upholstered furniture and a little nook off to one side for the breakfast room. The rooms are adequately large but very sparsly furnished. There was a table for one piece of luggage but nothing else in  the way of a luggage rack ( not an uncommon occurence in Spain). There was an amoire or free standing closet for clothes and a couple of straight back chairs. Of course there was a bed and two night stands. The bathroom had a walk-in shower of the type  you buy intact and install. The manager provided a round bar of soap about the size of a quarter for 3 days use.OTW, there were 4 packets of shower gel for the two of us. 

There was a somewhat meager breakfast that supposedly included in the price of the room (55 euro) which I did not discover until I got home. ( One reason is that the email received was written in broken English and the print was about 9 px, i.e. abut 1/16th inch high.
Breakfast consisted of the usual assorment of breads, some yougurt and unappealing fruit. Most outstanding was the coffee which was absolutely horrible. I don't see how anyone could screw up coffe like that.

None the less the location, although very isolated, was in the country, somewhat, and the surroundings were attractive. Right below the hotel property was a barnyard with sheep, goats,chickens,ducks and turkeys.At times I heard a donkey braying.

Now in spite of its isolation, it is only abut 5 km to the Urnieta trainstop and it was possible to get  into San Sebastian in about 13 minutes(Buy your ticket at the little tobbacco shop right there at the train stop.) The problem is that the last train returns  about 10 PM so if you go into town for dinner it is difficult to get home. There is taxi service in Urnieta but I did not have to use it.
As one would expect eating out in this area is difficult. Restuarants are sparse. There is a  restuarant at the bottom of the hill the Casa is on(not walkable) and we had a delicious meal of lamb chops(local), a salad with green, not iceburg, two steamed piementos and French fries. It was surprisingly good.

All in all this is an isolated place, hard to get to and does not offer much in the way of amenities except there was WiFi. The lady who runs the place is very sincere, speaks  broken English(she is still learning) but has a lot to learn, imo, about the hotel business and what would bring travellers back or get good reviews. 

I am sorry I stayed there ( why is another story) and cannot recommend this place to anyone .

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