Pleasures of a Spanish Parador

 Fuente De parador hotel, Picos de Europa, Spain. Forecourt for sociaising and drinking coffee and reading. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

We did a round trip of Spanish Paradores and Portuguese pousadas in previous years so we knew we loved the historic or rural decor and regional cuisine. 

This year, 2024, we stayed at a Spanish parador, Fuente De, chosen by a hiking group leader who needed a hotel near the mountains for a week of hiking. The venue for our group had to have enough rooms, about twenty rooms, which we could book in advance for thirty people.

We had a rainy, cloudy day or two. So we scheduled a tour to a winery/distillery at Potes.

Paradores and Plurals

\In the website, look at the word Paradores. 

However, the letters es elsewhere are not the plural, paradores, but the abbreviation for paraador Es, short for Espana (with an accent n the n) which is Spanish for Spain.

English language sites will spell the plural the Brtish way, paradors.

Booking Direct or Booking.com?

 We booked through booking.com. When just two of us book, we use booking.com because we get special rates and cancellation choices if we pay a little extra, because we use the agency such a lot.  If you are a group, sometimes you can do better by neotiating, or booking direct with the hotel.  The hotel did not offer a lower price than booking through the agency.

Useful Websites

www.parador.es

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