Hotel Villa de Setenil

Sleeping inside the town

The Hotel Villa de Setenil is on Calle Callejón, in the upper part of Setenil de las Bodegas, close to the tower and the Church of the Encarnación. It is a small country hotel, registered in the Andalusian tourism register as H/CA/01327. Sleeping here gives you what day-trippers don’t get: the cave streets empty first thing in the morning and at dusk, once the coach tours from the coast have left.

The rooms

There are double rooms of 25 m², with a double bed or two beds, and single rooms of 15 m², all with views of the cave houses; some have a private terrace. Each one is decorated differently. Check-in is at 15:00 and check-out at 12:00. Breakfast is a buffet, and there is room service and wifi throughout the hotel. Pets are not allowed.

Eating in-house

In the same building is the El Mirador restaurant, with glass walls over the town’s rooftops and cooking from the Sierra de Cádiz using local produce. It is convenient to have dinner without leaving the hotel, but book a table, because it fills up.

Getting there

By car, along the Ronda road, about 20 minutes away, or from Málaga airport, a little over an hour and a quarter. The hotel offers an airport transfer: ask for it when you book. Inside the town the streets are narrow and steep; ask the hotel where to leave your car before you go up. Reception answers the phone from 9:00 to 20:00 every day.