Andalucian boutique hotel
from cntraveller.com
source: Conde Nast Traveller
CORRAL DEL REY, SEVILLE
With its iPod docks, organic snacks, contemporary art collection and excellent modern European cuisine, Corral del Rey is setting new standards of luxury in Seville’s hotel scene. With just six rooms, the converted 17th-century casa palacio feels more like a private house than a hotel, albeit a very plush one, and it is superbly located on a quiet, cobbled side street close to bars, shops and the attractive Barrio Santa Cruz.The owners, two charming, savvy Anglo-Spanish brothers (one of whom previously worked at London’s Groucho Club), have restored the building with enormous skill, keeping the original wooden beams as well as some doors and windows, and creating an intimate roof terrace with a tiled plunge pool and views of the Giralda. There is also a cosy, vaulted cellar bar with two original wells discovered during the restoration. Rooms – decorated by the owners’ Spanish mother – have eclectic, elegant furniture, soft beds, big bathrooms, and plasma TVs with touch-screen entertainment systems. The hotel is hard to fault on any front.
Corral del Rey: Calle Corral del Rey 12, Seville.
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CASA SACRISTIA SANTA ANA SEVILLE, SPAIN 2.
CORRAL DEL REY SEVILLE, SPAIN 3.
EL REY MORO SEVILLE, SPAIN
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EME FUSION SEVILLE, SPAIN 5.
POSADA DEL LUCERO SEVILLE, SPAIN
