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The NYT Gets All Cinematic at Hotel Astoria7 in San Sebastián

Where: Sagrada Familia 1 , San Sebastián , Spain, 20010

If you were in New York at all over the weekend, you would have noticed the throngs of European tourists enjoying our thoroughly American holiday that is Black Friday—we mean Thanksgiving. To return the favor and send American tourists back their way, The New York Times profiles a European hotel—Hotel Astoria 7 in San Sebastián, Spain—in its latest Check In, Check Out review.

The first thing we learn from the Gray Lady is that while San Sebastián “may best be known for stars of the gastronomic variety,” it is also a cinematic center, and the Astoria7 is happy to indulge in this theme. A handwritten sign above the reception desk even reads, “Which star will stay with you tonight?” (If we answer, will room service send them up?)

Highlights: The hotel is just one block from the main bus terminal and close to central bars and shops. The Times enjoyed a double standard room with “a dash of 1950s-style Modernist panache” (mock-Danish midcentury modern furniture and fabric accents that “recalled the set of Mad Men. The cafeteria downstairs does “an excellent Spanish-style buffet breakfast (toast with tomato, hams of various incarnations, yogurts, fresh fruits, eggs on request)”— free with the room—while room service was cheap (16 euros) and “arrived in 14 minutes, hot and perfectly prepared.”

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