Barceló Aracena

We visited this lovely hotel for our 35th wedding anniversary and the staff made our stay very enjoyable. The hotel sits in a great location, looking down on the pretty old town of Aracena and across to the old castle; very atmospheric. The hotel itself has great facilities; an outdoor swimming pool with plenty of loungers, an adjacent bar with casual seating, a bistro restaurant with a large terrace, a very generous breakfast and a full health spa. Would highly recommend : )

Great view, very friendly staff, lovely room, just a couple of small niggles The hotel is outside the town across a very busy main road. To get to the town, you have to walk across the busy road. There is no bus or taxi in the town. There really needs to be a shuttle bus or arrangement. Water pressure not great in the shower. Otherwise lovely stay and would recommend

Great views of the lovely extremadura region and the Aracena castle. Modern and spacious rooms. Good food at Jamar. Did not use the pool and it is not heated. Did use the gym. Quite a large gyms for weight lifting. There is a spa, but was closed when I arrived (arrived late).

This was a very clean and modern hotel with great views over the town of Aracena. On the night we stayed the restaurant didn’t open so the dinner choice was limited. We opted to walk into town for a meal. The walk to town is quite steep, downhill there and uphill on return.

Four nights in this gorgeous hotel located next to a very nice town. Loved the reception area and the view (A 'wow' moment!!) Beautifully furnished and decorated and an amazing aroma! :) Breakfasts were good. Rooms had amazing views. Pool area also very nice. We had two rooms with a view over the town. One of them was 'panoramic' which meant it had an undercover balcony. Loved our stay. Very nice hotel and great to be right by the town which had lots of places to eat and sight see including the amazing caves and a fun trip up to the castle on a train. Gorgeous well maintained pool area and very good cocktails particularly the mojitos (!). Very nice and helpful staff at reception. Spa was amazing! Best I've ever been in (despite the jacuzzi being closed and part of the walk through part not working) Handy having an underground car park. (keeping car cooler) A few little gripes Would have been good to have a chef with the option of freshly made omelettes for example. (perhaps we were spoiled by having this in our first hotel on this holiday!) It felt like they were short staffed at breakfast. There was just one member of staff by herself who didn't seem very happy! The member of staff would not let us move the tables so we could all sit together for breakfast (we were a group of five) We ate just one evening in the hotel. Didn't think there was that much on the menu to be honest. We ordered burgers that were very very undercooked. (didn't realise till I had had a couple of bites!)They did take them away and cook them more but there wasn't much of an apology and they just cooked them up some more and returned them. I was surprised they didn't give us a new burger. I think that the manager was there at the time but he didn't bother to come and apologise to us. One time the pool ran out of towels but it wasn't too much of a problem for us as we had brought our own beach towels on holiday. Its such a shame the hotel don't have a shuttle service to and from the town. Apparently it was fine to walk down but not to walk up so every time we went into town we had to drive. There was plenty of free parking luckily but lack of shuttle did mean that we didn't eat out in the town in the evening. I asked reception about ordering a taxi but it seemed that wasn't an option. We had two rooms and one was 'panoramic' with a balcony. It was great to have the extra space of the balcony but to be honest the room without the balcony was much brighter so I think next tie we would opt for two rooms without the balcony. The bathrooms I think were a bit 'tired' and in need of refurbishment. There was no plug to the bath. The showers were not easy to use. We probably will be back..... particularly if there is a shuttle bus!

Stayed here for one night in one of the villas. Really nice. Would highly recommend. Clean and comfy. We are in the hotel and used the pool area to lie out. Very clean. Outdoor bar area for snacks etc. Overall a really nice hotel. Would stay again.