Murcia
This perfectly located hostel has bright high-ceilinged rooms and nice tilework. The larger dorms are crowded so it's worth the little upgrade to one with…
Must-see hotels in Spain
Huelva
True, it's housed in a soulless block, but this central business-class operation is efficiently run with friendly service, and some rooms have attractive…
Extremadura
Follow the signs to this handsome 12-room family house, where the ground floor dates from 1890. Rooms are bathed in light with terracotta tiles and…
Santillana del Mar
Despite this hotel's old-fashioned air, it’s actually a fairly contemporary creation, built from the burnt-down ruins of a 17th-century coaching inn 100m…
Castellón Province
Extensive sites are shaded by mature mulberry trees. The beach is a minute's walk, and there’s a bar-restaurant, playground, large pool and toilet blocks…
Tarragona
Right on the Rambla Nova near where it ends at a balcony overlooking the sea, this smart, slightly faded hotel offers good-value rooms with large…
Puerto de Mogán
Despite its size, the Cordial Mogán Playa does not mar the low-rise landscape of the town. Echoing the harbour with waterways and bridges, the public…
Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje
With an attractive and welcoming tiled-floor lobby, this is the oldest hotel in Los Cristianos, dating back to 1949. Today it's run by the Labranda group,…
Oviedo
It's certainly not the Ritz, but this little hotel has two big things going for it: dirt-cheap prices and an ultraconvenient location a stone's throw from…
Zaragoza
This large, popular hostel offers the choice of neat, clean, small private rooms or mixed dorms with metal bunks. All share clean bathrooms. The special…
Andalucía
Motel-style El Álamo, on the main road passing through Hornachuelos, sports a faux cortijo (farmhouse) style, with tiled roofs and wagon wheels strewn…
Catalonia
This good-value business-focused hotel is smart and spotless, with helpful multilingual staff and comfortable, desk-equipped rooms in a simple palette of…
Alicante Province
A few steps from the cathedral and tourist office, this weighty 18th-century palace offers a prime location. Staff are friendly and rooms are attractive…
Castilla-La Mancha
Hotel Palaterna is a pleasant, modern hotel overlooking a small square complete with bubbling fountain. Rooms are painted in cool colours with pretty…
Galicia
The nicest accommodation in O Cebreiro is in the main building of Hotel Cebreiro, where there are five wood-beamed, stone-walled rooms (reservations…
Andalucía
The Xauen has a superb location in the centre of town. Communal areas are decorated with large colourful photos on a random range of themes, while the…
Andalucía
Popular with Spanish families, this salmon-pink motel-like lodging stands at the bottom of a hill of cork trees, with trails heading off nearby. It has a…
Madrid
If you want to be close to the nightlife of Huertas, or you can’t tear yourself away from the beautiful Plaza de Santa Ana, then Hotel Miau is your place…
Galicia
The 70-room Méndez Núñez offers bright, spacious quarters with good beds and gleaming bathrooms. With a great old-town location, and parking nearby for €6…
The Catalan Pyrenees
This stone building on the southern edge of town has 15 pleasant rooms, nine with balconies overlooking the rushing river. The three wood-beamed top-floor…
Santa Cruz de la Palma
Pensión la Cubana has quaint whitewashed rooms with wobbly floorboards and creaky doors, but only a few have private bathrooms. There’s a kitchen for…
Hospedería Reina de los Ángeles
Andalucía
An uncharacteristically hulking structure, on the southwestern edge of town, with an institutional vibe left over from its previous life as a student…
Galicia
With a cheerful reception and cheerful decorative touches in the rooms such as tangerine walls or bird murals, the España is a good deal for its prices…
Picos de Europa
This large, efficiently run campground in a riverside chestnut grove also offers simple cabañas sleeping up to four people (who share the toilet block…
Palafrugell & Around
A few steps towards the castle from Begur's Sant Pere church, Hotel Rosa has been family-run since 1970. Bubbly staff and spacious, well-kept rooms in…
Santa Cruz de la Palma
The spacious studio apartments at this 42-room place have mildly dated decor but are well situated and have balconies from where, on a clear day, you may…
Palma de Mallorca
Just off the main drag (bring earplugs, or ask for a quieter rear room), this unfussy spot makes up for smallish rooms and lumpy beds with balconies…
L'Eixample
Within a five-block walk of Passeig de Gràcia and Diagonal, Hostal Muntaner is in a busy residential location surrounded by restaurants and bars …
Las Alpujarras
For basic roadside digs in the village, this welcoming family-owned hostal does the job nicely. It's a fairly modest affair but there's a relaxed…
The Catalan Pyrenees
This peach-hued 1875 building has a more refreshing feel than its competition, with a garden, terrace and smart restaurant (three-course set menu €25)…
Hotel Rural Casa de los Camellos
Gran Canaria
This lovely place is tucked away down a narrow pedestrian street in the historic centre. Rooms are charming, elegant yet rustic, with antiques and wooden…
Santiago de Compostela
This 127-room establishment offers the experience of staying inside part of a centuries-old monastery, now converted to a hotel. Rooms are small and…
The Catalan Pyrenees
Barely 1km south of central La Seu, across the Riu Segre, you reach a protected, bucolic world in this stone country house on a working family-run farm …
Barcelona
A fun, international hang-out, the Mambo Tango has basic dorms (sleeping four to nine) and a welcoming, somewhat chaotic atmosphere. The beds are a touch…
Santillana del Mar
About 100m into Santillana, this is a charmingly restored medieval house offering six smallish but tastefully styled doubles with creaking timber floors,…
Asturias
Clean-cut, unfussy modern rooms styled in creams and browns make the long-standing Báltico’s new three-star block a solid choice. Rooms 102 and 202 are…
Tarragona
The reception decor screams 1970s, but this popular hotel, 2.5km northeast of central Tarragona by appealing Platja de la Savinosa, has spotless,…
Santander
A welcoming, well-kept and well-run 38-room hostal (budget hotel) on a mostly traffic-free shopping street in central Santander. Rooms have a solid old…
Huelva
A good, modern youth hostel, with 53 rooms around a pleasant bright courtyard. Rooms have two to six beds, and private bathrooms; towel and bike rentals…
San Sebastián
This well-organised, tree-shaded camping ground, 5km west of San Sebastián, offers bungalows and campsites with free wi-fi, a swimming pool (new in 2016),…
