Catalonia, Spain

La Bionda Hotel Begur

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR297.64), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Flirty Thirties splendour

Setting

Begur and better

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A renovated 17th-century townhouse with the playful elegance of a 1930s artist’s residence, La Bionda Hotel Begur is a which-will-you-pick assortment of individually dressed rooms, united by left-alone period details and Thirties glamour throughout. Its welcome is laidback and homely; its service, attentive and well versed. Should you be able to resist the sanctuary offered by the hotel’s courtyard garden and sun terrace, the delights of the Costa Brava are a mere saunter away.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Eight.

Check–Out

Noon. Earliest check-in, 3pm, with a place to leave luggage securely if you arrive earlier.

More details

Rates include à la carte breakfast.

Also

Unfortunately, La Bionda Hotel Begur is not suitable if you have mobility issues.

Hotel closed

La Bionda Hotel Begur closes annually from 30 December until 10 February.

At the hotel

Upper terrace with sofas and parasols; (ground-floor) dining terrace, conservatory, lounge, honesty bar. In rooms: free WiFi, smart TV with Netflix, Marshall Bluetooth speaker, beach bag and towels, minibar, free tea, Nespresso coffee machine (suites only) and Zenology bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Carmen is a covetable corner room with an outdoor shower on its private terrace; top-of-the-hotel Joséphine has top-notch views. Bathing belles should make a beeline for Valentina, where the ensuite is artfully arranged for a long soak in a copper bath tub that looks onto the private terrace. Of the smaller rooms, Emilie endears itself with a vaulted ceiling and private balcony and top-floor Grete has a beamed ceiling and cheery orange ensuite.

Spa

There’s no spa but in-room massages can be arranged at extra cost.

Packing tips

Bring as many books as your baggage allowance can cater for: not only will you crave a good read for lazy days at the beach, but the hotel over-delivers on quiet, stone-cooled nooks where you’ll want to lose yourself in a page-turner with a glass of chilled white.

Also

The hotel is staffed until 9pm, after which time there’s key entry and a number to call if you need assistance.

Pet‐friendly

Four-legged friends are welcome in the bigger rooms, Joséphine, Carmen and Valentina, but you’ll need to let the hotel know in advance and you must not leave your dog unattended in your room. See more pet-friendly hotels in Catalonia.

Children

It’s adults only at this boutique hotel.

Sustainability efforts

La Bionda Hotel Begur works hard to limit its environmental impact by using biodegradable cleaning products, and stocking bath products that are organic, biodegradable and cruelty free. The hotel’s electricity is generated by solar panels, and its water is heated using a planet-friendly aerothermal system. Plastic is out in favour of glassware and ceramics, and filtered water is available in place of bottled. All fruit and veg come from the neighbouring greengrocer.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Breakfast on the plant-dotted terrace in the walled garden is an idyllic start to the day.

Dress Code

When dinner time comes around, leave your beach attire in your room in favour of the kind of casual threads you’d pack for a summer city break on the Continent: La Bionda’s vibe is more town than coastal.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant at La Bionda Hotel Begur, but breakfast, which is à la carte and cooked to order, is served on ceramics handmade by the owner’s family at a communal table in the hotel’s conservatory dining room or at bench-lined tables on the garden terrace in summer.

Hotel bar

The brick-ceilinged bar lies just off the living room and offers a selection of Spanish wines, spirits, mixers and soft drinks. The counter is staffed, 9am–9pm, after which it operates as an honesty bar and you can help yourself.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 8.30am; the bar is staffed until 9pm, and serves as an honesty bar after this time.

Room service

From 8.30am, breakfast in bed is on the cards at La Bionda Hotel Begur. And until 9pm you can order any drinks or snacks from the hotel’s bar menu.

Location

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Address
La Bionda Hotel Begur
Carrer de Francesc Forgas 1
Begur
17255
Spain

On the Costa Brava, the hotel is in the castle-topped town of Begur, which lies east of Girona in Catalonia.

Planes

Girona Airport, with direct flights to the UK and the Netherlands, is a 50-minute drive away. The hotel can arrange private transfers from €70 each way. Both Perpignan and Barcelona international airports are 90 minutes from the hotel by road.

Trains

Flaça is the nearest train station, 35 minutes from the hotel; private transfers are available from €50 each way.

Automobiles

You’ll need wheels to take in the beaches and beauty spots of this rural region. The hotel has free valet parking and two parking spaces in a covered car park, from €15 a day, so book well ahead to secure a spot.

Other

You can make beach days a breeze by hiring a motorbike or scooter as your local transport, as there’s less competition for two-wheeler parking spots.

Worth getting out of bed for

In Begur, there’s a mediaeval castle to explore, and sumptuously appointed townhouses, called ‘Indies’ — the legacy of locals who returned rich from the colonies. You’re less than ten minutes away from eight of Costa Brava’s finest beaches, including the quiet cove of Platja Fonda, the wilds of unspoilt Illa Roja and the turquoise-shallow sandy bay of Aiguablava. Access remote coves with a hike along one of the area’s coastal paths or explore them from the sea, kayaking or with a day’s yacht charter. Rent a scooter to explore coves and beaches further afield.

Local restaurants

The region’s coastal larder is celebrated in refined, rustic plates at Casa Juanita, where the catch of the day is baked in a wood-fired oven, salads are flecked in peppery dressings, and the lamb and steak are smoky and rare. In an elegant, vaulted dining room of candlelit, linened tables at Turandot, you can dine on Modern European dishes celebrating Empordà ingredients such as textures of beetroot or bloody mary ice-cream to start, followed by duck magret with apple compote, or Girona veal with aubergine. Colourfully striped terrace tables and a simple white-and-wood dining room give seafront restaurant Toc Al Mar on Platja d’Aiguabrava a beach-shack feel that belies the quality of its seafood rice and line-caught fish such as snapper, sardines and sea bream, grilled over oak. 

Local bars

Gintònics, mojitos and caipirinhas are the speciality of courtyard cocktail den C-Roack in Begur, open day and night.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

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 Catalonian hotel on the Costa Brava and unpacked their carquinyolis and cava, a full account of their coastal break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside La Bionda Hotel Begur…

In homage to Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, a scarlet-painted cabinet of scarlet-tasselled keys announces La Bionda Hotel Begur’s modest reception, off which lies a series of brick-ceilinged salons, dressed with colourful art, fringed lamps and shapely furniture. Every room is different — some balconied, some with bath tubs — but all with a retro elegance that is owner Carla’s celebration of the building in the 1930s, when it housed a handful of accomplished women taken in by a benevolent female owner. Its 21st-century appeal lies very much in its home-from-home set-up. As well as a happy excess of places to lounge, La Bionda has a bench-lined courtyard garden and a sofa-dotted terrace. There’s a low-key but lovely honesty bar (tended until 9pm) and a conservatory dining room, where breakfast — cooked to order and served in ceramics handmade by one of Carla’s relatives — feels familial, especially when taken at the communal long table. To call La Bionda Hotel Begur a base to stay would do a disservice to such a polished hotel, yet its Costa Brava co-ordinates are undeniably handy: this is the loveliest of launchpads for exploring the Catalonian coastline.

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