This hotel is 20 minutes outside of Sevilla and though there is a municipal bus that stops close by catching the return bus in the late evenings is tricky. We had booked a prepaid reservation long in advance and had few choices because it was during the annual Feria de Abril, a very popular holiday in Sevilla. We arrived in the afternoon and they had no record of our reservation though I had the confirmation in my hand. I guess we were lucky that they still had a room during such a busy holiday but the room was cold and dank and smelled musty. About on the level of a 1 or 2 star place. We could have overlooked all of that for the opportunity to be in beautiful Sevilla but when we returned home we found that we had paid twice for the lodging. They had double billed us and at 1.5 times the listed rate. It is taking quite an effort to reverse this extra charge.
So my advice is to avoid this Hacienda and the Feria de Abril. It was interesting in all the girls dressed in flamenco dresses and the Andalucian horses in their beautiful trappings but the Feria is basically a huge family reunion held in caseta (tents) in the fairgrounds and there is little opportunity for tourists who are not part of someone's family to take part.
Sevilla is wonderful in and of itself; no need to go at the most busy week of the year.
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