Day 8 - To Grenada
May 11, 2007
Today is up for another exciting adventure. We are off to the city of Granada. Get out of bed and barely make it almost as only 4 hours of sleep tonight.
On Route to Granada we stop at Gibraltor, to see the rock of Gibraltor. It is a British Colony so we have to pass through immigration to get to, get your passport out, please.
At Gibraltor we notice the main road goes across the airport runway. As at the red light a big plane goes by, quite amazing. The Rock is what you see in those commercials for Prudential, its an amazing sight and celebrity of its own.
We take this tour in these vans up the rock to the top./ I get to explore these caves for awhile and its quite amazing. It is called St. Micheals Cave , talk to Mike about the reason for the name.
the run way
Outside this place is infested by all these small apes. The apes like to steal bags and food, so you must be careful here/ One ape I saw grabbed a ladies bag and ran to the top of a building with it and ate all the food in it.
At the top of the rock it an amazing view of the city. You can see across the channel into Morocco, quite amazing.
We make it down the rock back into town for lunch. Today for lunch we make it to Pizza Hut for a pizza buffet, just because it was cheap.
Back onto our travel towards Granada. Its good journey to the city with one stop on the way to get some shopping and snacks.
Finally arriving into the city it is a university town, big time party place. The hotel we arrive it is quite nice and a big wedding is going on here.
Tonight we go out on the town again, walk past this nice water fountain then to a pub for drinks. Main beer I was having here was San Maguel which was quite decent.
After the pub we make it to this amazing night club again and its packed to the rim. Drinks were like 13 euros each here but overall a good time./ We laughed and cried and drank the night away.
Leaving here was around 430am we walk back and the city was bumper to bumper traffic at this time. Almost impossible to get a taxi so we walked back. Weaving around on the road we somehow make it back to the room.
I go back to my room and crash for 2 hours as the rest of group goes for city tour in the morning. The party group keeps drinking the rest of the morning away.
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the run way
look at Morocco
apes!!
apes
planet of the apes
St. Micheals Cave
pub time
great club
Great Place to Stay in Granada
We stayed here in Granada as part of our Contiki tour. It was one of the best hotels we stayed at on the whole tour. IT was a really nice look from the front and a big pool and lobby was amazing.
There was this big stairway inside that went really high up. I had a nice view of a back alley way as that is where the single rooms were.All rooms have a spacious balcony with tables and chairs so you can sit outside and chill out . The pool is a decent size and there are lounge chairs etc.
The location is good as it is a short walk from the supermarket and main shopping areaI digress.. the food was a disappointment. The breakfast buffet did not have very much choice for healthy eaters which we all are. Too many cakes/pastries and white bread and not enough fruit. Dinner was cooked in far too much olive oil and was pretty bland every day.
On one night the hotel had several wedding reception/holy communion guests who had booked the dining hall.Rather than section off the party guests from hotel guests .They seated us all in the same room which was very unprofessional. We were also able to see the standard of food that these people were served. Their food looked fantastic whilst our food was swimming in oil ,bland not resented well at all. It was also lukewarm/cold . We had to send it back !!!!
Overall I would recommend this hotel to Travbuddies. Hope you enjoy your stay
There was this big stairway inside that went really high up. I had a nice view of a back alley way as that is where the single rooms were.All rooms have a spacious balcony with tables and chairs so you can sit outside and chill out . The pool is a decent size and there are lounge chairs etc.
The location is good as it is a short walk from the supermarket and main shopping areaI digress.. the food was a disappointment. The breakfast buffet did not have very much choice for healthy eaters which we all are. Too many cakes/pastries and white bread and not enough fruit. Dinner was cooked in far too much olive oil and was pretty bland every day.
On one night the hotel had several wedding reception/holy communion guests who had booked the dining hall.Rather than section off the party guests from hotel guests .They seated us all in the same room which was very unprofessional. We were also able to see the standard of food that these people were served. Their food looked fantastic whilst our food was swimming in oil ,bland not resented well at all. It was also lukewarm/cold . We had to send it back !!!!
Overall I would recommend this hotel to Travbuddies. Hope you enjoy your stay
