Hotel Real Posada De La Mesta — Hotel in Molinos de Duero

Real Posada de la Mesta is a well rated manor house in a small Spanish village, Molinos de Duero, which is just about the source of the River Duero.||||It has been under previous owners, one of the top 5 Posadas in Spain. The new (they have owned it for 2 years) French owners are charming, but perhaps have not quite captured the zizz that it must have had before.||||Lovely bedrooms with stone walls, and a wealth of public rooms downstairs. However they lacked warmth both in real and perceived sense. The wood fires were not lit while we were there for 2 nights, and the heating in the rooms only operated for a brief period each night. They were not the sort of places one wanted to loiter after dinner.||||Dinner was strange too. There is a multi-course degustation menu (45€ a head). All the plates were cold, so the food was too. A particularly good foie gras was followed by a particularly bad lamb dish (3 paper thin cutlets with more fat then meat). All was served at lightening speed. The waitress did not seem too concerned about our problems with the meal or the speed of service. ||||We went on a fascinating wild mushroom trip that they organised (20€ a head). It was in Spanish as all the guests were Spanish, which we appreciated, but an English speaking monoglot may not have appreciated it.||||Another odd thing was that we could not book on the web. They insisted we phoned, again one could have the language problem with phoning. An when we did phone, were told they were busy dealing with another client, and could we phone back in 10 minutes.||||So a strange mix of pluses and minuses. And it was expensive in terms of "value for money". We did quite like it, because of the character of the building. If we did return, we would probably skip their restaurant and try eating out in the only other place in the village, apart from that there is no local...

We arrived at an empty hotel with no one there. Check in said from 15.00... we arrived at 16.30. A note on door gave a number to ring. After speaking with person and told be there in 5 min an hour later we were still stood outside. It did give us chance to look around the exterior... we were sat on garden tables in an unkempt front area, and a look around the rear of hotel showed it to be quite overgrown. |When owner turned up, ghey weren't overly helpful and handed us a key with no assistance to where room was or what services were on offer. We found our room...11... and let ourselves in... Nice room, dusty but ok with weird bathroom layout..quirky maybe...and terrible water pressure, water temp was just about ok.|Decided to walk around village, very pretty, and have food in a local hostel which was nice enough. Next day we went out exploring local area and found no one around downstairs, unlocked front door and let ourselves out. We got back to property at 17.30 that evening and found 2x new guests also waiting in garden for someone to turn up.... when woman arrived we again asked if an evening meal was a possibility but told card machine was down and would need to pre pay food with cash...not an option in my book!! As village was seemingly totally closed ,we drove to nearest next village Aberjar to eat at a petrol station cafe. We left the next day and knew it would be somewhere we would never want to visit again. Pity as the hotel was a beautiful building with amazing potential to be lovely. It was at best a poor B&B ,mind no breakfast was available either... so it was a poor backpackers hostel...

DESVENTURAS DE UN BUEN RESTAURANTE VENIDO A MENOS Comí excelentemente en el puente de todos los santos de hace dos años en este sitio. He vuelto en este mismo puente de este año 2021 y me sentido maltratado y estafado. En síntesis, a mi y a mi familia (7 personas), nos han dado de comer muy mal por una cuenta de casi 300 euros (280, 40 persona). Todo comenzó cuando la camarera que nos atendió confesó que se le había caído una croqueta por el camino, pero nos plantó sin más la ración incompleta en la mesa. Pedimos cada uno un primero y luego un segundo. Primero comenzaron comiendo tres personas tres revueltos que llegaron fríos mientras los otros cuatro miraban. A dos de los que miraban les pusieron los segundos antes que los primeros. Después les llegaron los primeros a otros dos y los dos que faltaban, quienes habían pedido unas simples alcachofas tuvieron que esperar casi una hora para ver el primer plato de alcachofas y otra media hora para ver el siguiente. Casi dos horas después de empezar a comer le llegó el segundo a uno de los comensales y dos horas y cuarto desde el inicio les llegaron dos platos finales de bacalao y merluza que la camarera también confundió. A mayores, recogiendo los tardíos platos, le tiró el caldo de unos espárragos encima a una de las comensales. Recogidos los platos, la camarera y todo el personal, escasísimo, desapareció, por lo que no pudimos ni siquiera plantearnos pedir un postre o cafés. Tuvimos que ir a la recepción del Hotel para pedir, rogar, que nos cobrarán, después de haber incluso entrado en la cocina para buscar a alguien. Tras unos veinte minutos adicionales sin noticias, nos vino la camarera con una cuenta de 280 euros. He comido muchas veces mal y me han atendido muy mal en algunos sitios, pero la Real Posada de la Mesta indudablemente no está a la altura de lo que merece Soria, una maravilla oculta en pleno centro de España. Menos mal que el maravilloso día de caminata por el cañón del Río Lobos lo compensa todo...o casi todo. No volveremos jamás y desde luego siento lástima por los seis huéspedes que entraban cuando nosotros salíamos: no sé si dormirán, pero desde luego...