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Escondrijo
- Style
- Modern Moorish
- Setting
- Cobbled Vejer
An intimated and beautifully decorated boutique hotel in whitewashed Vejer, Escondrijo feels more like a private home with five rooms set aside for paying guests. Book well in advance in high season to avoid disappointment.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Five.
- Rates
- Low season, €120; high season €140, including breakfast; excludes seven per cent tax.
- Check-out
- Midday; flexible if the room is not booked that day
- Facilities
- Free WiFi; CD players; a selection of music and books. No swimming pool.
- Children
- Welcome; extra beds cost €35 a night.
- Hotel closed
- From November until 12 February.
- Also
- You will need to park in Plaza España or the main carpark, because you can’t drive to the door of the hotel. Call from Plaza España when you arrive and someone will come to meet you.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Room 1 is a spacious duplex with large verandah on the upper level. Room 4 may be smaller, but it does have a bigger terrace.
- Packing tips
- Don't worry about bringing your laptop – Excondrijo has a plunderable stash for you to borrow.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- There isn’t a restaurant but jamon and eggs, fresh fruit salad, coffee and more is served anywhere in the hotel you like – including in your room.
- Dress code
- As you like.
- Top table
- On the terrace, with a sea view.
- Room service
- None, but rooms have facilities to make drinks and snacks.
- Hotel bar
- There’s an honesty bar, and if the owners are around they will mix the drinks for you.
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Local restaurants
In Vejer,
Café Bar Arriate, on Corredera, is a perfect tapas pitstop if you arrive on the late flight. For a more refined meal, walk just around the corner from Escondrijo to French restaurant
La Vera Cruz on Calle Eduardo Shelly (+34 956 451 683).
El Jardín del Califa on Plaza de España (+34 956 451 706) is part of La Califa hotel, and is a wonderfully romantic spot in which to enjoy Moroccan cuisine.
La Brasa de Sancho on Calle Sancho IV (+34 615 591 919) is a great brasserie, and
La Castillería (+34 956 451 497; only open in summer), in the neighbouring village of Santa Lucia, is renowned for its succulent steaks.
Local bars
For an after-hours drink, head to
Janis Joplin and
Bodeguita, which are side by side on Marqués de Tamarón. Everybody in Vejer tends to chat and drink outside these bars, so there is always a buzzing atmosphere at night.
Worth getting out of bed for
Netty and Nigel will help you with anything you need to know from going surfing to riding to the best walks in the area. The nearest beach is the long, wide beautiful stretch of El Palmar.
Diary
Semana Santa (Easter week) features candlelit processions and culminates in a bull-run on Easter Sunday. A week later, the men show off their horsemanship and the ladies their Sevillana dresses at the Feria de Primavera (spring fair). The summer fair (10–24 August) is busy and noisy and not for the faint-hearted.
