La Casa del Cofrade — Hotel in Albelda de Iregua

This hotel in and of itself is very nice, and the staff did their very best to help under difficult circumstances but the location is frightful, on the outskirts of a ghastly modern town full of the ugliest buildings you can imagine. The hotel proudly announces that it has a restaurant which it will open for groups of ten or more by appointment, but what it does not tell you is that the town has a couple of awful tapas bars which on the night we were there offered a couple of plates of the most lacklustre food you could imagine, and a restaurant (which looked pretty grim) which is only open at weekends. We narrowly caught the only food shop which was still open and had to sit in our hotel room eating cold cheese and meat, and bitterly regretting having booked ourselves into such a hole. The hotel's attitude is extraordinary, though - every other hotel in which we have stayed in out-of-the-way locations has served really nice meals. This place could do so too, but simply cannot be bothered. I think their attitude was simply to take our money for the room and just shrug at the thought of their guests going hungry for the night. Awful,...

This hotel in and of itself is very nice, and the staff did their very best to help under difficult circumstances but the location is frightful, on the outskirts of a ghastly modern town full of the ugliest buildings you can imagine. The hotel proudly announces that it has a restaurant which it will open for groups of ten or more by appointment, but what it does not tell you is that the town has a couple of awful tapas bars which on the night we were there offered a couple of plates of the most lacklustre food you could imagine, and a restaurant (which looked pretty grim) which is only open at weekends. We narrowly caught the only food shop which was still open and had to sit in our hotel room eating cold cheese and meat, and bitterly regretting having booked ourselves into such a hole. The hotel's attitude is extraordinary, though - every other hotel in which we have stayed in out-of-the-way locations has served really nice meals. This place could do so too, but simply cannot be bothered. I think their attitude was simply to take our money for the room and just shrug at the thought of their guests going hungry for the night. Awful,...

Our stay at Hotel-Bodega La Casa del Cofrade was originally a simple one night stay on our journey From Denia to Santander where we would board the ferry to Portsmouth. It turned out to be the highlight of our holiday. From the time we walked through the front door to the time we left we felt as though the staff were doing all they could to really look after us. I fully intend to return to this hotel and stay longer at some time in the future. We were fortunate to have arrived on a day when the hotel was hosting a 'Frank Sinatra theme night' There was an evening meal provided in the wine cellar and later in the grounds of the hotel a singer performed many Sinatra classics. He was quite brilliant. The food and wine was excellent and the atmosphere was relaxed and thoroughly enjoyable. It was an evening my wife and I will remember for a long time. Normally, visitors to the hotel can have a tour of the bodega. Unfortunately, our schedule was a little tight and that was not possible for us. We were still able to purchase a case of the excellent wine we had sampled...