Travel- Arrival in Grenada
posted in Travel |After a long day of travel we arrived in Grenada, got our bags and our rental
car. Picking up the car was really easy and while I was a bit concerned that the
“service needed” message came on right away, it was driving fine and the only
staff-person at the Avis counter was gone by the time we were ready to leave the
parking lot.
We followed the highway signs for the Alhambra. Our hotel is actually on the
grounds of the site so we needed to drive up a road that is normally restricted.
Stacy proved her value right away by negotiating with the guard who restricts
access up to this road since we didn’t have whatever documentation he expected
to prove we had reservations.
The Hotel America was great. Initially I wanted to stay at the main hotel on
the Alhambra site- the Parador. However the Parador costs about twice as much so
we had switched to the Hotel America which wasn’t anything fancy, but it had a
nice relaxed cafe and wasn’t as stuffy feeling as the Parador.
After relaxing a bit we joined Lauren, Ken, Olivia, Belle, Norm and Dan (big
crowd!) for a very nice dinner at a Moroccan place in the Arab quarter (I wish I
remembered the name of the place).
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