Pensión Aia in San Sebastian

Super welcoming and helpful!
The room was clean and quiet.
The kitchen was equipped for breakfast, and you could leave your belongings at check-out.
I highly recommend it! 🙃

What a wonderful surprise. It exceeded all expectations. We were uncertain about staying in a “shared bathroom” situation but in this case there were more than enough bathrooms to take care of the guests. Very quiet. Well-equipped kitchen and common area. Loved the owners who are there every day. Super helpful suggestions upon check-in. They even helped me fill out a lost item request with the bus transport company. All in all a FIRST CLASS operation. Highly recommended. Great location in a safe, cool neighborhood.

Our stay was extremely comfortable. A great room, with a nice terrace/balcony. We felt welcome from the moment we checked-in, where the owner and his wife immediately gave us information about San-Sebastian. Unfortunately we made a mistake of booking 3 nights, instead of 4. The owner immediately started calling other guest houses around town and in 5 minutes she organised us a stay, with discount, just a 5 min walk away, all while she made sure we could wait inside Pension Aia and be comfortable until the other guest house/hotel was ready to welcome us. This is a type of service that is unique and shows Pension Aia goes out of their way to give their guest the best possible experience they could possibly get. We will definitely book again with pension Aia when coming back to San Sebastián!

Great find
Great place near to the beach and lots of great food. Really welcoming people and use of kitchen for morning coffee etc. room was small but very comfortable and extremely well soundproofed from the busy street.

Good place to stay. The host was very helpful and gave us good local knowledge. The room and shared kitchen area were very user friendly and clean.

Great location, very spacious, and absolutely perfect for beach days and shopping trips.

If there were an Olympic gold medal for cleanliness, it would be awarded to Pension Aia. In addition to being spotless, it is an inviting, well-designed space with a welcoming common kitchen. The kitchen has a toaster, a microwave, a fridge, plates, bowls, silverware --- everything a traveler needs. The hosts are lovely and helpful. The location is convenient: it's in Gros, right across the bridge from the old town. Details to be aware of: some rooms don't have a window (the cozy design of the room more than makes up for it, though), and most of the double beds are a couple of inches narrower than the U.S. queen size mattress --- very comfortable, fits two people, but just a tad smaller than you might be used to. And if you have booked a room with a shared bathroom and you're not sure what that means, do not fret: there is a shower in each room. The toilets are indeed shared, but there are plenty of them (4 or 5), each one looks like a private bathroom with a door, they are spotlessly clean, they are in the hall, and you don't hear them. A really comfortable experience overall.

I had a wonderful stay here! Everything was very clean and the location was ideal, just a few steps away from the beach. I highly recommend Pension Aia!

This was a great, centrally located, and affordable accommodation for the expensive town of San Sebastian. My spouse and I are in our late 30s and haven't stayed in a hostel since our early 20s, so we were a bit leery, but we booked the option with a private bathroom and crossed our fingers. Paulo checked in with us the day of our reservation, as we were driving from Zaragoza, and helpfully sent us detailed instructions and links to nearby parking garages. When we arrived around 1am, much later than expected and totally worn out, we couldn't quite figure out how to get into our room. Paulo responded right away via text to help us get in. We were relieved to find that our room was spotlessly clean and comfortable, with an excellent AC. FYI there's no affiliated parking lot, so you pay one of the underground lots for overnight parking, but Paulo recommended the closest places. A pension is like a hostel, and it's laid out as such. You enter a building, take a tiny elevator upstairs, put in the keycode, and enter the pension. To one side are about a dozen bedrooms with a few shared bathrooms, with a nice shared kitchen in the center. To the other side, behind a door, are a couple of bedrooms with private bathrooms, which is what we chose. We only stayed one night so can't speak to noise and didn't get a chance to meet other guests. However, we did get to speak to Paulo's wife - whose name I'm so sorry to say I didn't write down and therefore forgot - who kindly recommended a breakfast place nearby and chatted with us about Basque sites and history. We would happily stay here again!