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This hotel selection is quite independent : and listing with iHi is not open to all independent hotels - far from it.
Unlike most directories, hotels cannot just pay to be listed or featured with Independent-hotels.info. iHi  lists only independent small hotels - and in the case of Spain - some hotels from small chains that respect the individuality of each hotel. To be listed, all hotels must meet a range of quality, location and price criteria, good quality good value hotels for independent travellers.  
For Spain, iHi lists come hotels belonging to small  independent chains, for the simple reason that in quite a few Spanish towns, there are no completely independent hotels meeting the iHi criteria; and rather than offer travellers no hotels at all in these towns, iHi considers it to be more useful to list the small hotels that come nearest to meeting criteria, even if it is the chain or grouping that is independent, not the hotel itself.

The iHi criteria:
In addition to size - the principal criterion for selection - iHi has four other criteria.

• Location: iHi has sought out wherever possible hotels in attractive locations, away from noisy main roads. There are country hotels and town hotels, most of the latter in side streets or on roads with little night-time traffic. Though a word of warning here; Spanish towns and cities are, almost by definition, noisy places on warm evenings. At the end of day, when work is over, Spain lives outdoors - and in cities, that means in the street, where the noise of voices continues to echo off the walls until - sometimes - the small hours.
• Character: most of the small hotels in the iHi independent hotel directory are in period buildings, converted farms or haciendas, old  inns, or classic town houses. A few modern hotels are included, when these are the best or only options available for a given location or area.
• Welcome: iHi editors have read through thousands of hotel reviews, to include only hotels where many travellers have reported friendly, helpful and welcoming staff.
• Value: iHi has selected hotels offering good value for money. Good value hotels are not necessarily cheap hotels; they are hotels whose prices are competitive or low compared to other hotels of similar standing in the same area. iHi includes a number of "hostales" as well as hotels.  

To be listed on iHi , a hotel must rank well on at least three of the four above criteria.
What is classed as a "small" hotel can depend on perceptions, and on the local hotel market. Most hotels in this guide have less than 50 rooms, many of them far less; but in some urban and suburban locations, hotels may be bigger, when very few or even no hotels match the iHI criteria.

To book rooms, you will be directed either to a booking portal offering the best rates avaialble, or in some cases directly to the hotel's own website. While most hotels now use booking portals, some do not - but this is not a reason to be excluded from the iHi directory if quality criteria are met.

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