Galicia, Spain

Casa Beatnik Hotel

Price per night from$162.28

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (including tax) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR150.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

In the pink

Setting

Grape escape in Galicia

Don’t be fooled by its name; there’s nothing anti-materialist about Casa Beatnik, a hot-pink palazzo surrounded by vineyards in Galicia’s sun-dappled terroir where a medley of patterns and textures take centre stage. There is, however, plenty of beat spirit to be found in the hotel’s non-conformist design, which lands somewhere between Italian maximalism and Moroccan bohème. Look up for Murano-glass chandeliers, down for colour-popping tiles topped with splendid shags, and out for a dash of mountainous drama framing the fire-red pool.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

13 suites and six luxury yurts.

Check–Out

12 noon, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

Prices

Double rooms from £141.39 (€165), including tax at 10 per cent.

More details

Rates include breakfast.

Also

Talk about ageing gracefully; with over 400 years under its belt, the hotel’s Cascon vine is the oldest in Galicia and still produces over 300 kilos of grapes each year. You can taste the fruits of its centuries-strong labour at Tribu restaurant, where its rare strain of red stuff is served by pipette.

At the hotel

Spa, vineyards and wine cellar. Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Minibar filled with bottled water, wine and snacks; Casa Beatnik branded hats and bags; Valérie Barkowski bathrobes, towels and linens; Claus Porto bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Suite 4 is a delightful pick ‘n’ mix of antique and contemporary features with Jordi Mollà originals lining the walls. But those looking to push the boat out should opt to lay their weary heads in the hotel’s Chapel; set away from the main manor, this particularly private paradise features a dome-roofed bedroom and a sultry, stone-walled annex with toasty heated floors.

Poolside

Overlooking the vineyard, the show-stopping saltwater pool is an instant favourite of the Instagram-inclined, lined with handcrafted zellige tiles which give it a photogenic firehouse-red glow. Its wine-red waters are best observed from one of the surrounding day-beds, margarita-goggles optional.

Spa

Casa Beatnik’s spa consists of two curved Iglusaunas (a traditional Estonian cabin shaped like an igloo) handcrafted in Estonia using centuries-old shingling techniques. Both electric and wood-burning, that latter doubles as a treatment room where the hotel’s therapists dish out a range of full-body and specialised massages. Outside, you’ll also find a rainfall shower powered by fresh mountain spring water to refresh between sessions.

Packing tips

Ordinarily, we’d say pack your straw staples – wide-brim hats and bottomless beach bags – as it stands, the Casa has it covered, handmade in Morocco nonetheless.

Also

There’s an accessible ground-floor suite for guests with mobility issues.

Children

Leave the little ones behind, this beatnik boutique is one for the grown-ups.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

For dinner with a view, shack up at one of the candy-striped poolside spots overlooking the vineyard and the mountains beyond.

Dress Code

Rules? Forget about ‘em; the more patterns the better.

Hotel restaurant

Guiding guests gleefully around the globe, Chef Marcos Campos’ Beatnik Country House menu is a gastronomic journey along the eastern run of the Mediterranean over to Africa and across the Atlantic to Mexico and South America. The Moroccan cinnamon roll with ras el hanout and Galician cream-cheese espuma is a must. The second restaurant, Tribu, is an intimate six-table space where guests can observe the team slicing and dicing their way through the evening from behind the counter at the open kitchen. Cooking exclusively with charcoal and wood, you’ll find local Rubia Gallega beef, home-grown vegetables and straight-from-the-bay seafood.

Hotel bar

There are two. At the fiery Pool House bar, poolside pick-me-ups are rolled out to a soundtrack of laidback beats. Come weekends, ask for a Chicago-style dirty martini and hit the dance floor where DJs will be manning the decks into the wee hours. Over at Terraza, meanwhile, the art of cocktail-making is alive, and frankly, thriving with homemade purées, syrups and juices making it Galicia’s go-to spot for cutting-edge concoctions. Opt for the Gold Dust Girl, a heady mix of bourbon, smoked scotch, Szechuan honey and lemon or go for a virgin Angelito (passion fruit puree, salted coconut cordial, lemon and Aleppo pepper) because who said spirit-free had to be boring? 

Last orders

It’s all-day dining at Beatnik Country House, where you can grab a bite any time between 8am to 11pm. Tribu opens Friday and Saturday between 8pm to 9.30pm.

Room service

Beatnik Country House runs a reduced menu for in-room dining; order anytime from 8am to 11pm, 1pm to 5pm or 8pm to 11pm.

Location

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Address
Casa Beatnik Hotel
Lugar de Galegos 6
Vedra
15885
Spain

Perched just outside of Santiago de Compostela, you’ll find Casa Beatnik lapping up the Spanish sun among seven acres of ancient vineyards and lush gardens of indigenous and tropical plants.

Planes

Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport is closest, just a 25-minute drive from the hotel. Taxis at the airport are between €30–40 each way. For more discerning travellers, a black car service will set you back around €100-120. Alternatively, guests can fly into A Coruña or Vigo airports, with a journey time of just under an hour.

Trains

Santiago de Compostela train station is a 20-minute drive from the hotel, from here, taxis are available.

Automobiles

Largely composed of countryside, small towns and villages, cars come in handy in the Galician wilds, though if you’re vineyard-hopping, take a cue from the passing Camino de Santiago crowd and ramble your way home; or better still, ask the concierge to arrange a taxi. There’s a secure, private car park available for guests.

Worth getting out of bed for

Guests of Casa Beatnik may find themselves beset with the perfect conundrum; stay and soak up the hotel’s design-led details or hit the road and explore all of Galicia’s ripe-for-the-picking plains. The solution? Let the concierge craft you a canny itinerary that allows for plenty of time for both. Ask for a walking tour of the neighbouring Santiago de Compostela, where the story of a past spent at the crossroads of power is best told through its architecture. Destroyed by Almanzor in the year 997, the old town was completely rebuilt over the 11th century, starting with the Cathedral Santiago de Compostela, a gothic symbol of the region’s dawn of Christianity with imposing Roman colonnades and 53kg Botafumeiro (‘smoke expeller’ in Galician), which wafts incense among the congregation from above. For those with more contemporary tastes, the City of Galician Culture complex on the outskirts of the city was built by Peter Eisenman as a tribute to fellow architect John Hejduk showcasing a modernist flow of concave and convex structures that organically rise and fall. Known for its vineyards and country houses, Galicia has its fair share of rural romps to enjoy, too. Head to Combarro for excellent seafood, traditional hórreos and colourful coastal houses or O Cebreiro for mountain-top views, quaint cobbled streets, sacred monasteries and not-so-sacred tipples courtesy of Ribeira Sacra grape enthusiasts. And if you fancy a hike you’re in the right place, the camino crowd should be rambling past any time now – lace up and join them.

Local restaurants

Housed in an aristocratic 18-century stone building, Ponte Ulla’s Villa Verde is all about tradition. In the cellar, stacks of Galician Lagar wine make the perfect accompaniment to the restaurant’s seasonal, home-style cooking. Nab a table in front of the rustic lareira fireplace and tuck into dishes like baked hake with sea urchin or wild mushrooms and veal. Further north, you’ll find blink-and-you'll-miss-it O Balado tucked away in the village of Boqueixón, where owners Marta and Roberto’s take a ‘mi casa es su casa’ approach to their zero-kilometre cuisine.

Local cafés

Head to neighbouring Santiago de Compostela for top-notch café culture. Caffeine cultists should make a beeline for Coffee Mori, a fair-trade operation where sky-high quality is top of the agenda; or see and be seen at hipster hotspot La Flor, where mix ‘n’ match furniture and quirky antiques set the scene for stylish sipping.

Local bars

While there’s not much in the way of nightlife, there are plenty of vineyards in the area to keep you merry throughout your trip. At Forjas del Salnes in Rias Baixas, ancient vines and native Galician grapes are nurtured by the expertise of Rodrigo Méndez. The result? Fresh, floral reds (somewhat of a rarity in the region) and complex Albariño whites that aim to redefine Galicia’s best-known vino. A little further out in Bierzo, German Blanco’s Casa Aurora you’ll find eight different small-batch cuvées to keep you busy all afternoon.

Reviews

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Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this perfectly patterned hotel outside Santiago de Compostela and unpacked their branded beach bag and bottles of light-n-local Albariño, a full account of their maximalist break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Casa beatnik in Galicia

When Galician novelist and theologian Antonio Lopez Ferreiro moved into this country manor at the end of the 19th-century, you can bet it wasn’t a fraction as funky as its modern-day iteration, Casa Beatnik, where the owners have maxed out their penchant for all things pink and patterned with a keen and contemporary eye. Surrounded by seven acres of vineyards and densely populated gardens, its fuschia façade takes inspiration from the region’s native camellia trees and sets the tone for all manner of colourful confections to be found inside; hand-blown Murano glass chandeliers, a mash-up of Moroccan rugs and locally-inspired paintings from native artist Jordi Mollà to name a few. Outside, a cherry-red pool awaits all those partial to a splash-happy selfie and an Estonian-style spa will have you oohing-and-ahhing your way into the evening, by which time, the hotel’s duet of bars and restaurants will be on hand to reframe your ideas of wellness with the help of home-spun, wood-cooked fare and some gorgeously Galician grapes…

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Price per night from $162.28