San Sebastián Travel Forum

I am looking for an hotel (2/3*) in the San Sebastian area on April 20th. before taking a ferry from Santander the next day. I've looked on VT but not found anything suitable.
Anywhere within 20-30 minutes of San Sebastian would be fine.

Recommendations and/or Suggestions greatly appreciated.

As reasonably priced hotel accommodation in Donostia is expensive and hard to find, you might want to try "rural" accommodation, a very good alternative nowadays.
One that is in San Sebastian itself, with 5 doubles available for 49-59 euros a night incl. + 3 euros for breakfast (optional,) is Kapoeder (www.kanpoeder.com); broadband internet in all rooms!
Contact person-Ines Enparantza Agirre
-Tel: 943 310 754 -Moblike: 606 279 464
-E-mail: info@kanpoeder.com

You can find a list of the ones Gizpuzkoa at
http://www.rinconesdelmundo.com/casasrurales/guipuzcoa/guipuzcoa.php

Rural accommodation maybe in an isolated farmhouse or in a village. It can be run like a hotel, per room or some are to rent the whole house or apartment on self-catering basis.
They are very popular, especially in spring/summer and make a good alternative base for exploring the country.

Thank you very much for your reply and for the excellent suggestions and Links.
Greatly appreciated.

You can get a list of accommodations through the tourist office pages.
See my page for adresses: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/6051d/3e32f/

Some links for pensiones in the old part of San Sebastian:(if the church bells beside dont bother you)
http://www.pensionamaiur.com/
http://www.infobide.com/pensionsanjeronimo/portada.html
http://www.pensioneaso.com/ubicacion.htm
http://www.pensionaries.com/


For some other hotels it seems you can also book online through:
http://www.sansebastianreservas.com/hotel.asp?idioma=I&txtClavereg=BF1BYMDB8055&txtcodcte=INTERNET&txtpassword=SI&ColorInt=A&Serie=5+++

Another good page to search hotels: www.bookings.com

Thank you very much for your help, Susana. As well as an overnight stop in April we are hoping to make a longer visit in the late summer so it is good to have so many places to look! Thanks again. Barbara

It may be difficult to find accommodation in late summer: in july and august because of tourism and local fests and holidays, and in middle-late September because of the international film festival:
http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/

Thank you very much for that information about the dates of the Film Festival. Because of other commitment we would not be free to travel til Sept 20th but that will be right in the middle of the Festival. May need to rethink our timetable. October possibly getting a bit late in the year -? Thanks again for the tip.

bnanno - I was sure I had posted a Thankyou here for your recommendation of Kanpoeder. Apologies and belated thanks.
It was excellent and we were delighted with the place and fantastic location - I posted a Tip on my San Sebastian page almost as soon as we arrived home.