Favourite Cities and Hotels in Northern Spain - Post 3 Remarkable Resotel, at Villares de la Reina, Salamanca, and Hotel Imperial, Valladolid

 Two contrasting hotels.\

Resotel Bedroom, Salamanca, Spain. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

My favourite, the Resotel, in the Resotel Garage, outside bustling Salamanca. 

Every room is different. The hotel bedrooms are hidden up a flight of stairs behind the prominent corner of the road garage. The garage is worth visiting. 

Books behind the bar are about hotels and vehicles around the world.

Stop for a coffee and a bit to eat in the area on the left with seating. The walls are full of pictures of bikes, cars, races, rock stars, Harleys, you name it.

The toilets are a surprise. The basin features tap water gushing horizontally like a tiny waterfall.

If you have the foresight to book a bedroom, the glass sided lift has a line of motorised vehicles half way up the glass. 

If you walk up the stairs, the walls are festooned with memorabilia. Upstairs, the  bedrooms are all different, with motor themes and vivid colours.

Our room had cushions on the bed with red, white and blue Union Jack flags. The coat stand was in the shape of a tree. In the bathroom, tiles were in vertical rainbow stripes. So was the drinking glass.

The box of tissues were in different colours, red tissues, orange tissues, yellow, white. 

Taxi To Salamanca

You are quite a way out of Salamanca. We took a taxi into town, both ways. Quite expensive, but we

 wanted to avoid the nuisance of looking for a parking place, being fined, towed away, car damage, car broken into, loss of contents. 

Taxi Trouble

The taxi back cost less than the pre-booked taxi called by the garage. Maybe there was a booking fee, or a charge for coming out to collect us. 

We had a worrying wait about ten minutes to go back to the hotel from empty the taxi stand in the centre of the city of Salamanca. When the taxi passed us to a second taxi stand sign, my husband raced down the road to jump in ahead of people who stood politely and passively by because they had seen us waiting at the other stand before them. We were in a hurry to check out on time, at lunch time.

We reckoned the cost of the taxi both ways was balanced by the budget price of the room only hotel.

Resotel Bedroom

Every bedroom is different. 

A complete contrast was the Hotel Imperial.

Hotel Imperial, big and old, right next to the main square in Valladolid. All old, elegant, austere, understated, unobtrusive.

The receptionist gave us a map marking all the main sites to see within walking distance of Hotel Imperial. 

Angela Lansbury, author, admiring the statue of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, in Valladolid. Photo from Sharot family. Copyright.

Useful websites

RESOTELVaillares de la Reina, Salamanca, Espana SPAIN

tfno:+34 923 287 739

reservations resotel@resotel.es

tel: +34 649 41 43 24

www.resotel.es

Resotel style decorations

I found a rainbow items online including a

rainbow bathroom mug online

Rainbow and unicorn toilet tissue

https://www.amazon.co.uk/getDigital-Unicorn-Rainbow-Bathroom-included/dp/B074TGSJH3

Rainbow ceramic bathroom mug

https://www.glow.co.uk/rainbow-ceramics-bathroom.html

Rainbow shower curtain

Several sets of rainbow bathrmats, sets of two, or three including a toilet seat cover

Renova brand two colour facial tissues, in green and pink. Also all red, all blue and all yellow.

Confusingly, all colours are brand red label, although the colours might be all yellow or all blue.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Renova-Facial-Scarves-Label-Yellow/

Reusable rainbow colours of toilet paper - actually flannels

webpage picture to click on.

HOTEL IMPERIAL

www.hotelimpreial.es

E-mail: recepcion@himperial.com

Peso, 4

47001 Valladolid Espana 

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Top Tapas Experience In Spain

Tapas

 If you don't have the time, money and appetite for a three course, leisurely dinner, Spain has tapas bars. Two per person is probably enough. You can finish with another, sweet one. But if you go late they might run out!

Valladolid

We had wonderful tapas in Valladolid on our last stop on the way back to Bilbao to catch our ferry.

Imperial Hotel

We were only there one night, so we stayed at a central and therefore expensive hotel, the Imperial. It was old fashioned, and closed for Sunday evening. So we had to eat out which proved to be a blessing.

Map & Walking Tour

The hotel had a nine plus rating from Booking.com  The man on reception gives you a map and circles the places you can see by walking. So we set off for a one hour walk, first down the alley to the main square. Then down the road to see the magnificent giant old buildings and museums and statues. 

We could not see the museums, which were closed Sunday evening and all day Monday. However, I was delighted to get a picture of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.

Tapas & Temptation

Back to the hotel, we asked for a recommendation for a restaurant or tapas bar. We were near the end of our holiday so it was time to try tapas. 

We went to Jero tapas bar. A tapas bar was a bit like a British pub. You fight for a seat at a table. go to the gar to give your order order at the bar. Maybe get called to collect it. 

Jero Tapas bar, Valladoid. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Noisy, rushed, fun.

On the outward journey, we had some swell over the Bay of Biscay. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Useful Websites

tapas

Jero