This is rated in guidebooks as 4 star hotel. Not like any 4 star I've ever seen. In fact we enjoyed our stay, but there is no "hotel". There's an office/reception with an extremely helpful receptionist, then 2 rooms (one in the loft upstairs from the office reached by steep stone stairs, no handrail, and the other a converted barn) and apart from that there are 3 houses dotted about the vast estate. Breakfast was served in the room or on the patio, your choice, - there is no restaurant. I didn't see any of the pigs which Fodor's mentions, but the receptionist has the biggest dog I have ever seen. Lala is very gentle but truly enormous - bigger than an Irish wolfhound. At night when the staff leave, you are alone in the middle of nowhere. The nearest restaurant is about 8 km and there are others slightly further afield., all good, but you have to drive. Fodor also mentions a kitchenette in rooms - certainly not in ours which was furnished in old Andalucian style and very attractive. There is a pretty little plunge pool, and a larger, but still quite small, pool near one of the houses, but in fact it is almost a mile uphill from the office (and our room). We actually took the car to the pool! Lovely view from up there though. If you want something different and definitely away from civilisation, then this is the place for you.
