AC Hotel Iberia Las Palmas

Comfortable and average, upgraded suites are nice for the extra room and balcony. Quality is sunstandard for marriotts in the USA, but acceptable for european beach type hotel (although you’re nowhere near the beach). If you have to be in Los Palmos for business, this is a great option with lots of places to eat within a very short walking distance. The outside promenade mall is about 4 blocks away, and there are even more restaurants in the surrounding streets.

Mergers and acquisitions shouldn’t surprise anyone. This hotel used be the Tryp Iberia, which evidently was picked up by AC Hoteles of Spain, which was evidently picked up by Marriott.
This is a very good hotel. It’s location is odd, though. It’s in a great location in that it is on the seafront divided highway of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It’s weird in that Las Palmas has 2 downtown districts. The city is mostly linear, hemmed in by the foothills. One downtown is near Parque Santa Catalina, the city’s best beach, and the port. The other downtown, and probably the one more oriented to business, is in the Triana-​Vegueta district, where this hotel is located. So, it’s a trade-​off between free parking (which was here when it was a Tryp hotel within the Sol Melia chain) and a schlep to get to the Parque Santa Catalina/​port district, and the nearby city beach, or stay at the really cool higher-​priced cylindrical high-​rise AC Gran Canaria and scramble/​pay for parking. Never having stayed at the original AC Gran Canaria, I’ll continue with this review for the Tryp (now AC) Iberia.
This hotel is fairly modern. The rooms are tastefully furnished, comfortable, and feature well-​appointed bathrooms with all the right creature comforts. The reception area and lobby are spacious. There, the front desk and front door personnel are friendly, informal, and eager to attend to your concerns and questions, of which there ought to be few. At the most, all you’ll need to get from them are restaurant recommendations and numbers of bus routes to the «other» downtown, so you can go to the beach. The other thing is that, with Sol Melias, the buffet breakfast is generally not included. That may have changed. Either they overlooked getting the room number or it was a weekend and they were feeling generous, the buffets didn’t show up on the tab. At any rate, the breakfast buffet was also good. Actually, it was very good.
Again, Gran Canaria of the Canary Island archipelago is not where you go to discover Spain. It’s where you go after you’ve seen key mainland locations in Spain. The other thing is that the driveway into this hotel property is off the seafront highway where the traffic moves quickly, so both turning into the hotel and pulling out of the hotel require that one be alert.