CoolRooms Palacio de Luces

CoolRooms Palacio de Luces

Palacio de Luces sits inside its own forest, a 16th-century Asturian palace ringed by yew, cherry, pine and holly, four kilometres outside Colunga and close enough to the coast that Lastres Beach and the Port of Tazones are easy day trips, along with the Jurassic Museum of Asturias further down the road. Relais & Chateaux runs it, which shows in the scale: forty-three rooms across two floors, small enough that the 24-hour reception and concierge actually know who's staying. Inside, the pace is set by an indoor and outdoor heated pool, a spa with sauna, steam room and massage, a gym, and a library for the evenings when the forest outside makes going anywhere else feel unnecessary. There's a restaurant and bar on site, a mini-golf course, hiking routes leading straight from the grounds, and a chapel still used for weddings, a detail most luxury hotels on this stretch of coast simply don't have. Families are looked after too, with a playroom and babysitting on request, though anyone chasing a lively town centre or late-night options should look elsewhere; Colunga itself is a short drive, and the point here is the palace and its trees, not the street outside. Multilingual staff, including English, Spanish, Italian and French, and an airport transfer service make arrival simple, and access by road is straightforward too, with the A-8 motorway connecting to Santander in about ninety minutes. It reads less like a hotel and more like a private estate a village happened to grow up around. A 16th-century Asturian palace inside its own forest, four kilometres from Colunga, with a heated indoor-outdoor pool, spa and a working chapel most luxury neighbours lack. Relais & Chateaux runs it at a small scale, forty-three rooms only, so it suits quiet coastal breaks and celebrations more than nightlife seekers.