Hotel Faranda Pathos Gijón, Ascend Hotel Collection

Hotel with an excellent location, next to San Lorenzo beach and the city center. Clean rooms, decent breakfast, but... Surprise! Be careful with the air conditioning if you're traveling in the middle of summer.
Supposedly, the air conditioning had been out of order for days, and guests hadn't been notified (obviously) to avoid canceling during a heat wave. According to the person at reception, "they'd had this problem for days, and that's why they'd removed the air conditioning from the various search engines, since it was going to be a while..." They didn't remove it, apologize, or offer any kind of compensation, and surprisingly, it was working again on Sunday, albeit slightly.
Breakdown or cost-saving strategy?

Well situated. Nice staff. The general condition is not very good. Poor breakfast

Went to Gijon for a friend's wedding in the off season. I can see how the place would be popular in the summer season, but not much going on otherwise. The hotel is in a prime location though - right next to the beach and downtown. We booked through a website called hotel club - for convenience as my friend had used it. The desription was nothing like reality - they clearly said there was an indoor swimming pool. Wasn't expecting much, but the description is clearly for another hotel, as this is a small old hotel with locals in the coffee shop in the front. The rooms are pretty pokey and some of the walls are a bit paper thin, but they've made a precent decent crack at fixing it up to make it look a bit more modern by adding some pop art prints and theming each room with a famous person. Probably quite good value for the location and the standard.