Hotel Terbaik dengan Gimnasium di Cuenca

We love EXE hotels and have stayed in them all over Spain. This one is another excellent example. Modern, nicely designed rooms with everything you need for a comfortable stay. Minibar, air-conditioning, toiletries, et cetera (but no safe in this case). Ultra quiet rooms thanks to great window insulation. Breakfast is exemplary offering a wide range of foods on the buffet. My husband adores the apple cake offered by many EXE hotels. It is quite a hike to the historic old city, 50 minutes on foot uphill. Luckily, there is a bus stop just down the street with buses heading towards the old town (numbers 1 or 2) every half hour and every half hour (number 1) in the other direction to the Fernando Zobel AVE train station which is about three kms out of town. The last bus from town is 10pm. Not the prettiest part of town but it is well located for getting to where you want to go. Ideal if you have a car.

You will not be disappointed with a stay at this Parador. Everything is top dollar with little to find fault with; from cleanliness, restaurant, grounds and staff. Nothing was too much trouble & always with a smile.

This hotel is in the new part of the town in one of the suburbs. There is plenty of free car parking outside on the road together with a bus stop for the bus into town. I am in a wheelchair and we could get into the shopping area in 15 minutes. The old town is about 10 minutes away by taxi or a good walk up a very steep hill. The hotel public rooms and bedrooms are light and airy. The view out is better than that looking at the hotel! The reception staff are really helpful and the other staff good as well. We stayed at a weekend so the hotel was very empty and the evening meal was served in the bar but was excellent. One of the best meals we had on this visit to Spain. Breakfasts are served in the dining room and the buffet is excellent with a wide range of cold meats, cheeses, fruit and pastries. If you ask the waiter hot food will be cooked off for you which much more appetising than the standard trays of cooked food stewing on the side. I think the hotel is more of a business hotel during the week but it was great for us. The only ****** was that if you are wheelchair user there is only one bed in the large accessible room. This cannot be split into two single beds. My legs kick at night so my wife needs a seperate bed so once again I had to book a seperate room for her. Seems rather unfair. The room was well fitted out with easy wheelchair access and a sliding door into the wet room, which is large. The shower area has very limited grab rails and my wife had to follow mne into the shower to put the stool behind me. There is no fixed seat in the shower which is a shame. In all a very nice hotel with lots of bars and restaurants nearby and even more in the town centre.

I stayed here for two nights in the sole Suite room they have, right up at the top. It is accessed from the third floor, with a staircase inside the bedroom to take you up to the floor above where everything is located (so it is not accessible for those with reduced mobility). The room was quite old fashioned but very large, and really nothing else matters once you take in the view from the private terrace. There’s a variety of chairs and loungers out there, so if you’re visiting in warmer weather than I was then it would be a fantastic place to sunbathe in absolute privacy (it’s literally the only terrace up there, with no-one overlooking it). The gorge is directly in front, with the old town continuing to snake further up the hill to the left, as well as down to the right towards the newer urban sprawl on the plain below. The Parador and its footbridge are all the way down below on the floor of the gorge. The hotel staff were friendly and helpful, and the Raff San Pedro restaurant in the ba*****t is one of the best in town. This is not a hotel for those who cannot manage hills, but then again Cuenca generally probably isn’t the place to go if you’re in that condition! Lovely, peaceful, relaxing stay. Very glad I followed the recommendation in the Rough Guide and chose this hotel.