Hotel Casa 1800 Granada

Hotel Casa 1800 Granada

Enter through the door on a quiet street near Plaza Nueva and the first thing that registers is water: a fountain in the central patio, ringed by orange and lemon trees, with the manor's old galleries opening onto it on three sides. Hotel Casa 1800 Granada occupies a 17th-century manor house built around a typical Andalusian patio, fully renovated without erasing what made it worth keeping: the carved wooden ceilings, the hand-carved bedside tables, the marble-and-tile bathrooms unique to the city. Twenty-five rooms sit across three floors, two of them suites and one tucked into a tower, and depending on which you book, the view runs to the inner courtyard, the surrounding area, or the Alhambra itself. The cathedral is just as close, and Sacromonte lies about 1.5 kilometres further, La Cartuja roughly 3. This suits travellers who'd rather be inside the old city than looking at it from a taxi window, people fine with a small, older building in exchange for carved wood ceilings and hand-carved furniture in the room. It won't suit those chasing a large-scale hotel with facilities to match; this is a 25-room house on three floors, where the same staff who arrange your excursion also speak to you in English, Spanish or French. What's here: a tour desk that books excursions, a concierge, laundry and dry cleaning, a lift reaching every floor, and a safe-deposit box at reception. Breakfast is included each morning. That is not something every hotel in central Granada can promise: a room whose window frames the Alhambra itself, less than 500 metres from the door it opens onto. A 17th-century house in central Granada, built around a fountain courtyard, with rooms that look onto the Alhambra less than 500 metres away. Twenty-five rooms, three floors, and a staff that switches between English, Spanish and French without fuss.