Hotel del Teatre
Style Converted Catalan farmhouses
Setting Rural Regencos’ oaks and fields
Take two 18th-century Catalan farmhouses in a mediaeval village, merge and renovate the result, add in soft lighting, fresh flowers, countryside views and a restaurant built in an old theatre and, congratulations, you’ve conjured up Hotel del Teatre. This boutique hotel in Empordà is a romantic rural retreat, its seven whitewashed rooms kitted out with timber furniture and styled with simple sophistication.
Need to know
- Rooms Seven, including five suites.
- Rates Double rooms from $158.34 (€120), excluding tax at 8 per cent.
- More details Rates exclude breakfast, from €14.
- Facilities Gardens, DVD and CD library, mountain bikes available free, free parking. In rooms: Bang & Olufsen TV, DVD player and phone and minibar.
- Poolside Adjacent to the restaurant, there’s a lawn dotted with sun loungers leading up to the outdoor pool. There’s a phone close by, so you can call the hotel and order poolside sips.
- Check-out 12pm. Check-in, 2pm.
- Children Mini-Smiths are welcome, with free cots available for babies, extra beds for older ones are €48 a night. There’s a children’s menu in the restaurant and babysitting can be booked four days beforehand, for €15 an hour. More...
- Also The hotel is a no-pets and no-smoking zone.
Food and drink at Hotel del Teatre
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Hotel restaurant
The hotel cannily snapped up the village’s 19th-century theatre and turned it into an eatery, La Cuina del Teatre. The original layout has been retained and, as guests feast, old films are projected onto a screen at the back of the stage. Ingredients are sourced from the local markets, with fresh fish and meat the stars of the show. Dishes include duck confit with caramelised figs, watermelon soup with basil sorbet and potato parmentier with prawns and asparagus. The restaurant also boasts a modern glass addition, built onto the side of the theatre and equipped with tall sliding doors to let in the summer sun. There’s a separate cosy seating area, perfect for post-prandials. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
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Dress code
Channel glam am dram: wear a flowing dress or ruffled shirt. -
Top table
Sit beneath the vaulted ceiling in the original section by the stage and pretend you’re two star-crossed lovers. -
Last orders
Feast between 8.30am–11am for breakfast; 1.30–3.30pm for lunch and dinner at a typically Mediterranean 8pm–11pm. -
Room service
Breakfast can be brought up to your room and there’s a menu of snacks and meals available until 10pm. -
Hotel bar
There's no bar as such but you can sip aperitifs or digestifs in the cosy lounge-style reception, on the squashy couches. If it’s a balmy night, sit out on the little terrace overlooking the garden.
Hotel del Teatre Hotel Del Teatre Plaça Major s/n, Empordà, E-17214
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Smith extra at Hotel del Teatre
A bottle of local Catalan cava, chilling in an ice-bucket in your room upon arrival.
In the know
Our favourite rooms
For a dazzling view of the green-and-gold countryside, book up the Suite Senior. The arched windows in the lounge area (separated from the bedroom by five steps and a doorway) look out over the terracotta-tiled roof and rolling fields below. The bedroom is a soothing expanse of space, with pitched ceilings, exposed beams and tiny shutters adding rustic allure. Decor and furnishings (a timber shelf, cupboard, armchair and sofa bed) are decidedly fuss- and frill-free, letting the views do the talking. Suites Junior have large windows looking out over verdant vistas. They have a separate seating area and a laptop (whether you’ll pay this any attention, with Girona’s charms outside your window, is doubtful).
Packing tips
Snorkeling gear for undersea sightseeing; golf clubs for the nearby courses; an appetite for seafood.
Also
The hotel provides umbrellas and pool towels, which you can take to the beach.
