Hotel Villa de Ábalos

I don't like writing reviews like these. The owener and staff were very nice. Facilities were great with 2 fatal flaws: 1) Not enough hot water capacity (I had cool to cold showers 2 out of 3 days). I mentioned it to the owner and was told there were too many guests. Thats a capacity proplem not a guest problem. 2) the rooms heat could not be controlled so if you wanted to relax in your room you had to crawl under the blankets or wrap them around you (it was a cold wet week - again, not the guests fault). Being a hotel owner is a hard business and hard decisions about resources can be difficult but excepting your guests to shower at 5am (which my wife got up to do) or in the evening is a deal breaker for me. Any guest, no matter how beautiful the hotel is or how nice the owner/staff are should not be expected to shoulder this deficiency. My strong suggestion is #1increase the hot water capacity and become the 5 star hotel you could and should be. I hope this issue is resolved.

AS with all of our stays at the Hotel Villa de Abalos we were just overwhelmed with the property. location, surrounds and fabulous views from our bedroom windows. With the windows wide open you could easily looking at wonderful panoramic paintings. The bedrooms are large, very clean and comfortable, feel very rustic and Spanish with large comfortable beds and great bathrooms. The creation of the beautiful stone building was a labour of love by the current owners who rebuilt from a shell of a very old state building. The hamlet of Abalos is filled with small streets and squares with beautiful stone buildings as well as an enormous ancient church. The are surrounded with Rioja grape vines for as far as the eye can see. The service and food at the hotel are superb, wind is inexpensive, a pre dinner Gin & Tonic is skilfully prepared and presented. Sitting on the patio in the garden at the back of the hotel under to shade of grape vines is bliss. My wife and I have stayed several times and always agree that the Hotel Abalos is probably our most favourite hotel in the world. This time we were touring Northern Spain including the Picos and decided to finish our trip together with one of our Sons and his wife here, they too were hugely impressed with the whole experience.

Feels like coming home, this is our third time stay at this amazing family hotel for the past one year. Fabolous place, very tasty food cooked by the wife and excellent welcome by the man, the two owner of the hotel. We can warmly recommend this family like hotel.

Access to the property is a bit difficult, but staff and restaurant are great! Amazing Breakfast!! Would highly recommend this property!!!