Convento de la Magdalena

From the moment we arrived at 11pm until the morning we left three days later the staff could not have been more helpful or friendly. Offered a glass of Cava on arrival to welcome us. The barman guided us skilfully through the Restaurant menu to ensure we had an amazing meal. The kind lady who cleaned our room helped us access the room when our key failed and provided extra clean towels. People make the hotel experience.|The building is majestic and peaceful. The spa clean and spacious. This is an oasis and a great place to chill out and unwind in peace, surrounded by stunning scenery. Thank you.

This was such an authentic experience! |The staff is very helpful, friendly and speaks English. We had more service than we wished for. |The location is an old monastery, make sure to read the history info provided and take a tour through the church and crypts. It makes the stay more special! |The rooms are luxuriously big and have their own vegetable garden. The spa is a nice extra tough and was never really busy. |The breakfast is a la carte with very friendly staff and choose of local products. Make sure to take your time to enjoy this first meal of the day. Also, at least go for one night to the restaurant! Very gastronomic choices on the menu! ||Most of all we liked the friendliness of the staff. We really felt like we made friends along the way. What a perfect way to start of our holiday in Spain!|

Lovely hotel “in the middle of nowhere” as one might say as it is located in the old convent building. If not for the road signs I would have turned around thinking I am lost in the mountains… No idea why the hotel is ranked 5*… Rooms are big but have no robes and even when I asked for one at the reception I was told I could not get any as I am not staying in their junior-suite. They do have a spa but it is very small and very outdated. The sauna looked so bad that I had to put a towel in the bench. It then got so duty that I had to look for a spare towel but unfortunately they only proved you with one towel per day… Our room (#205) had a terrible canalization smell in it. I could actually only sleep with the toilet door shut and the windows wide open… Breakfast was good though and the lady that serves is it charming and inviting. All in all would probably be decent for just an overnight stay but not for the price they charge. We paid €522 for 3 nights for two people (rate with breakfast) Btw we also had dinner there as the hotel is so far from the town you do not dance to go anywhere. Food was beautifully presented but really mediocre tasting to say the least and the service extremely slow… I am not coming back for sure!

We booked a 2 night package at the La Magdalena and we we were very happy we did. Its a beautiful, well maintained historic building with comfortable rooms and good beds overlooking the olive gardens and mountains. The food (we had the menu) was tasteful, the service impeccable and very friendly. The Spa with the pool, sauna and steam room are lovely, the only thing we would add is a gym. What was really nice is that we could bring our dog. They provide a doggy bed and doggy snacks. THANK YOU

Fantastic luxury castle with good facilities like restaurant, swimming pool and gardens. The restaurant had good food and the view to outside was verry nice. Located in a quiet environment with a lot of nature and a golf resort. Breakfast served with attention for quality. Friendly staff. We were lucky to get an upgrade to a suite, this was a big and nice suite. Almost everything was perfect, except some possibilities to have a drink with a small bite in the bar.

We came here for a new years celebration and were really upset to see that the hotel has really gotten worse since the last year. |1. New year’s dinner. The meal was nice but the atmosphere was boring - really cold in the chapel, no music and no entertainment, but the cherry on top was an absolutely disastrous Dj - he did everything he could NOT TO LET people dance when they wanted to by putting awful tracks and sooooo loud. |2. Poor breakfast - no vegetables, no omelettes, we had to take our own food at the breakfast… 5 star hotel as they claim it…|3. Spa zone is a mess. Banks in the sauna are so worn out that it leaves stains on your bikinis and towels… children damaged their feet in a tub because of broken parts in it…|Definitely it was the last time we came here. Such a pity…

At first we loved this hotel. The setting in the hills outside Antequera is splendid, the conversion from convent to hotel has been well done, although it’s looking a bit shabby - leaking gutter in the inner courtyard, torn fabric in dining room blinds, faded worktop round sink. Great restaurant with views of limestone crags and good food (though lots of meat, not much vegetables). |But on our last full day a party of 40 Spanish electricians arrived for lunch then supper. In between they packed the bar, shouting and singing, unmasked despite Covid. We retreated to the restaurant at 8 pm to find the staff starting to set tables for the group for their supper. One table was set for us. The staff thought we’d be happy to eat with them working round us! We complained. It took 30 minutes of explaining by us for them to find a solution - supper in a quiet alcove in the basement. We asked to see the Manager. He/she didn’t come. The staff were apologetic and gave us free drinks that night but our stay was spoilt. They had been polite throughout but seemed to have no idea what a 5 star, or even a 3 star experience should be. The Hotel should have cancelled our booking for that night or sent us to another hotel to eat.

We are a group of eight golfers who go away twice a year and over the years have stayed in many hotels across Spain and Portugal.|Our five nights at the Convento La Magdalena was amazing and it is definitely one of the best places we have stayed.|It's a little way out of Antequera ( 10 min drive) but because of this it's an incredibly peaceful, quiet area with beautiful scenery everywhere you look.|I used to go for a walk each morning and the surrounding area is so peaceful and breathtaking I had to drag myself back for breakfast :-)|The breakfast was excellent (with plenty of options) and all the staff I encountered were really lovely, friendly and helpful.|We only tried the bar food but this was really tasty and reasonably priced.|Thanks Convento La Magdalena. We will be back!||