La Seguiriya

  Elin H. on 29 September 2011 

Cosy place, nice room, warm and friendly staff, great view of the gorge.

  Customer Review on 29 September 2011 

Cosy place, nice room, friendly staff, fantastic view of the gorge.

  Customer Review on 12 August 2011 

Great hotel with a lot of rural character. Excellent location to explore the area. We arrived within the middle of summer and found the room cool and confortable (no air-con) - However, as with rural hotels in mountainous locations it could possibly be cold within the middle of winter. Rooms were really clean and confortable. Free parking on the street. The food was fantastic as properly as the scenery form the restaurant incredible! The owner is really warm and friendly and knowledgeable he recommended us the finest Flamenco show at the Alhambra (Granada) with Eva Yerbabuena! We will go back to this hotel.

  Nestor V. on 12 August 2011 

Great hotel with a lot of rural character. Outstanding location to discover the area. We arrived inside the middle of summer and found the room cool and confortable (no air-con) - However, as with rural hotels in mountainous locations it could possibly be cold inside the middle of winter. Rooms were very clean and confortable. No cost parking on the street. The food was fantastic and also the views form the restaurant incredible! The property owner is very warm and friendly and knowledgeable he recommended us the most effective Flamenco show at the Alhambra (Granada) with Eva Yerbabuena! We will go back to this hotel.

  Stuart S. on 13 June 2011 

Fantastic position overlooking the gorge. Paco, the owner, couldn't be more friendly and welcoming. If it's a typical Spanish hospederia you are looking for, rather than an impersonal hotel, this is the place for you! Also Alhama is a lovely place - will definitely want to return here.

  Carol L. on 19 March 2010 

It took a little while to find but actually it 's quite easy when you know where to go! Make for the town square and find the tourist information bureau/policia. Imagine coming out of that office and bearing left. Take your first left up a cobbled street then turn right -and there it is on your left. In Summer you can sit on the verandah overlooking the gorge but we couldnt do that as the owner was carrying out improvements to the verandah. Paco is a lovely man and not as silly as Basil Fawlty but at times we thought of Fawlty Towers! Even when we were the only ones for breakfast he seemd to pace from one kitchen to another (there seemed to be 2 places where food was kept and walked past us about 4 times before he would bring us the next course! Don't expect an English style breakfast! Or any choice! We got fruit juice and a nice pot of tea but no cereal. It was boiled egg plus a mixture of cheese, ham, toast and yoghurt. It was ample though. We also ate there for dinner (it seemed to be the only place open anyway in March) and that was very good. I did ask if he had some nice red wine and he proudly brought some of his own "brew" which was like sherry so not really what I wanted -but great if you like sherry! As we were having breakfast the builders were working on the terrace and as there was only one access to the house they were having to walk through the diningroom with cement and long pieces of piping etc so we were almost having to duck as they passed - but all added to the amusement! Paco's wife Lola didnt spend much time with us but she seemed nice. When we arrived we were greeted by their charming daughter and led upstairs. Much to my delight there were 2 cats on the settees on the landing but don't worry if you don't like cats -they were soon banished to other quarters! It was a bit of a culture shock in Alhama as they don't seem to have heeded the smoking ban anywhere and Lola was smoking upstairs on the landing whilst on her computer -but luckily there was no smell of smoke in our room. The bars also stilll allowed smoking and there were a couple that we avoided because they were too smoky. For anyone not that interested in an evening meal and more interested in just having a drink then we found that every time we had a drink (and the drinks were very cheap) we were served large tapas helpings, which actually were quite filling. We had 2 lovely walks along the gorge, which is just a few yards away from the hotel. One day we turned right after the church which is in a beautiful location overlooking the gorge and ended up after 30 minutes at El Chorro. Next day we decided to walk to the Thermal Springs -about an hours walk at the most -but it took 3 attempts to get on the right track! So you need to get a map from the tourist office and take the Camino de Granada which starts 5 minutes from the office where there is a big carpark. See the old bricked up church on your left high up and keep walking. I think you can get to it by turning left at the gorge but because of all this Winter's rain the river was too high in one place and we couldnt cross it to get past. But because the river was full it made the gorge walks more beautiful. We stayed 2 nights and because we were the only tourists in the town that was enough. But I would STRONGLY recommend this town and also this hotel to anyone wanting to do a little tour of Andalucia. From there we drove to our favourite resort of Nerja, the end of a lovely weeks break.

  Customer Review on 4 January 2010 

The location is properly designed, clean and really pleasing

  Alan S. on 19 November 2009 

Like staying at home. Only slight downside was that Lola who is the cook in the outstanding restaurant was away for all but one evening of our stay so there were no restaurant meals.

  Jonathan M. on 12 July 2009 

Amazing room with own balcony and a fantastic view. Food within the restaurant was excellent. Pretty environment and the property owner was most helpful. Wished we had stayed longer! Bicycle friendly!