Esglesia de Santa Maria

This was a lovely hotel, amazing grounds to walk around with many lovely features. Great size family room with ample car parking. The above ground car park was free with the underground locked car park paid. The pool was lovely although there were many “petting”couples so I don’t know if it’s where people go for a romantic getaway. The restaurant was nice, but the staff could have been a bit friendlier. Tables need to be booked by 8pm at reception. Robes and flip flops in the rooms were a nice touch as made it easy to wander to the pool and back. Overall a great place to stay. The dog was given his own little welcome pack on arrival!

I stayed here for 3 nights and no complains at all. It's also located at a place that made accessing most places very easy. There's two train stations nearby with major lines, one is a 5mins walk away and another one 9mins. Hence was very practical since I was solo travelling. Also the area was very safe. I left the hotel at like 6am one morning when it was still quite dark because I had booked for an early morning tour, the area was still quite busy with people around and I didn't feel unsafe travelling to the train station in the dark at all. There were also nights I got back to the hotel late and the streets felt very safe and still filled with other travellers, cars, buses etc. I think this is what really matters especially if you're solo travelling. I paid around 20 euros for the spa service one night and that was so worth it, the variety of facilities they have in there makes the experience quite enjoyable. I booked one spa circuit that lasted for 90 mins and there was so much to do that 90 mins went by in no time and I felt quite relaxed afterwords. I also paid for breakfast one day (I didn't book the package with breakfast included but you can always pay on spot). That was around 19 euros but also very worth in. Fresh food, a lot of variety in food and drinks, and a very nice environment. I also had dinner at the hotel's restaurant, I ordered the fish of the day, super flavourful and their sangrias (local wine drink) hit different, quite flavourful and strong. 10/10