Hacienda de San Rafael
- Style
- Spanish stately home
- Setting
- Wild southern ranchland
Set in the peaceful countryside between Seville and Jerez, Hacienda de San Rafael blends the languorous sensuality of Spanish bullfighting country with Europhile sophistication. Book well in advance in high season to avoid disappointment.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 14, including three casitas.
- Rates
- €240–€514, including breakfast. Excludes tax at seven per cent.
- Check-out
- Midday, but ask for flexibility. There is a shower room for use by guests after check-out.
- Facilities
- Wireless Internet access, CD player. Massage and yoga on request.
- Poolside
- There are three outdoor pools. Lunch is usually served by the garden pool.
- Children
- The hotel welcomes children only if the property is booked in its entirety.
- Hotel closed
- From mid-November until 15 March.
- Also
- A picnic can be arranged for €25. The hotel has a paddle-tennis court and boules set.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Rooms 7, 9 and 10 have bedrooms in the eaves and bathrooms. The three separate casitas have living rooms and shaded daybeds, and share their own garden and pool.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The indoor dining room is used in cooler weather; otherwise, dinner is served outside. Mediterranean set menu for dinner is €55 a person, including wine. The fish kebabs and the creamy blue cheese and spinach soufflé are delicious.
- Dress code
- Relaxed and informal.
- Top table
- Outside in the gardens.
- Room service
- 08h30–midnight. There are phones for room service in the casitas.
- Hotel bar
- Luna Bar is outdoors, with music and white comfy cushions to lounge on. The Sunset Bar is next to the pool.
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